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Jennifer L. Nielsen Title: Research Fishery Biologist Address: 4210 University Dr., Anchorage, AK 99508-4626 Phone: (907) 786-7062 Fax: (907) 786-7021 Email: jlnielsen@usgs.gov Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D.	1994	University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA	Molecular Population Genetics
M.S.	1990	University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA	Fisheries Biology & Ethology
B.S.	1987	Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA	Environmental Studies

Molecular genetics, stock identification, conservation and management of Pacific salmonids; evolution and biogeography in fishes; marine and freshwater fish behavior and habitat use; impacts of sport and recreational fishing on resource management; climate change and ocean carrying capacity for Pacific salmon.

1999 - Present	Supervisor, Fisheries Research USGS, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska
1990 - 1999	Fisheries Research Scientist, USDA - Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany, California
1994 - 1999	Visiting Scientist, Hopkins Marine Station, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
1989 - 1999	Adjunct Professor, University of California - Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology, Berkeley, California
1996 - 1999	Research Associate, Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, California State University, Moss Landing, California
1995 - 1997	Research Associate, Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
1991 - 1994	Research Assistant, Molecular Genetics, The Allan C. Wilson Lab, Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California
1989 - 1991	Fisheries Consultant, California Department of Fish & Game, Anadromous Fisheries Div., Sacramento, California
1990 - 1990	Fisheries Consultant, EIP Consultants, San Francisco, California
1989 - 1991	Teaching Assistant, Environmental Science & Policy, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California
1988 - 1989	Fisheries Consultant, D. Smith Consulting, Oakland, California
1988 - 1988	Research Assistant, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California
1979 - 1988	Research Fish Biologist, The Weyerhaeuser Company, Federal Way, Washington

American Fisheries Society, Immediate Past-President (2007-2008)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
American Society of Naturalists
Desert Fishes Council
Ecological & Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes
Society for Conservation Biology
Society for the Study of Evolution
The American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists Fellow
Bering Sea Ecosystem Interagency Advisory Group
USGS Western Region Representative Southern and South-Central Steelhead Technical Recovery Team
Scientific Advisory committee Sitka Tribe
Affiliate Associate Professor, School of Fisheries and Ocean Science, University of Alaska Fairbank
Affiliate Assistant Professor of Marine Science, School of Fisheries and Ocean Science, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Professor Graduate Faculty of Oregon State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

2000 Distinguished Service Award - American Fisheries Society
2000 On-the-Spot Award, USGS, BRD, ICEBIRG Program, Reston, VA
2000 Star Award USGS BRD, Alaska Biological Science Center
1999-2000 Marquis Who’s Who in the World
1999 Letter of Recognition & Book Award - California Coastal Commission
1998 Letter of Recognition Government of Canada – Networks of Centers of Excellence
1997-2000 Marquis Who’s Who in America
1997 Award of Special Recognition - Western Division of the American Fisheries Society
1997 Distinguished Professional Achievement Award - California-Nevada Chapter American Fisheries Society
1996 Award of Merit - Western Division of the American Fisheries Society
1996 Special Contributions Award - California-Nevada Chapter American Fisheries Society

Ruggerone, G. T. and J. L. Nielsen. 2008. Growth and survival of salmon at sea in response to competition and climate change. (accepted) Sea Grant Publication AYK Sustainable Salmon Initiative.

Nielsen, J. L., A. Byrne, S. L. Graziano and C. C. Kozfay. 2008. Steelhead genetic diversity at multiple scales in a managed basin – Snake River, Idaho. (Accepted with revision) North American Journal Fisheries Management.

Nielsen, J. L., C. E. Zimmerman, R. Phillips, D. Noakes, J. Holmes and S. Crawford. Biology, life history and systematics of salmonid and osmerid fishes. In R. Mayden (ed.) Freshwater Fishes of North America. Academic Press (in press).

Nielsen, J. L., J. Dodson, K. Friedland, T. Hammon J. Musick, and E. Verspoor, (Eds.) 2008. Reconciling Fisheries with Conservation: Proceedings of the Fourth World Fisheries Congress. American Fisheries Society. Volumes I and II. 1946pp.

Nielsen, J. L. and G. Ruggerone. 2008. Climate change and a dynamic ocean carrying capacity: Growth and survival of Pacific salmon at sea. Proceedings Pacific Salmon Environment and Life History Models: Advancing Science for Sustainable Salmon. AFS Symposium Publication (in press).

Nielsen, J. L. 2007. AFS President’s Hook. The Last Hook. Fisheries 32(8):368.

Nielsen, J. L. 2007. AFS President’s Hook. Talent du jour: what’s in a name? Fisheries 32(7): 316 & 352.

Ruggerone, G. T., J. L. Nielsen and J. Bumgarner. 2007. Linkages between climate, growth at sea, and sockeye abundance in Bristol Bay, Alaska 1955-2002. Deep Sea Research II 54:2776-2793; doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.08.016.

Ramey, A., S. L. Graziano, and J. L. Nielsen. 2007. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci from the Arctic cisco Coregonus autumnalis. Molecular Ecology Notes doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.1955. Nielsen, J. L. 2007. AFS President’s Hook. Member-centric IT at AFS. Fisheries 32(6):264 & 304.

Nielsen, J. L. 2007. AFS President’s Hook. Savoring the Concept. Fisheries 32(5):212 & 250.

Pavey, S. A., T. R. Hamon and J. L. Nielsen. 2007. Revisiting the “evolutionary dead-end” hypothesis in sockeye salmon life history. Canadian Journal Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64:1199-1208.

Nielsen, J. L. 2007. AFS President’s Hook. Exploitation and conservation of nourishing males – Project Seahorse. Fisheries 32(4):160 & 196.

Nielsen, J. L. 2007. AFS President’s Hook. On the changing art of science. Fisheries 32(3):108 & 147.

Verspoor, E., L. Stradmeyer and J. Nielsen (Eds.) 2007. The Atlantic Salmon: Genetics, Conservation and Management. Blackwell Publishing pp 514.

Farley, E. V., J. M. Murphy, M. D. Adkison, J. J. Helle, J. H. Moss and J. L. Nielsen. 2007. Early marine growth in relation to marine-stage survival rates for Alaska sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). Fisheries Bulletin 105: 121-130.

Williams, I., G. H. Reeves, S. Graziano and J. L. Nielsen. 2007. Genetic investigation of natural hybridization between rainbow and coastal cutthroat trout in the Copper River Delta, Alaska. Transactions AFS 136:926-942.

Nielsen, J. L. 2007. AFS President’s Hook. Fish Ecology and Economics: Complementary or transdisciplinary? Fisheries 32(2):56 & 95.

Nielsen, J. L. 2007. AFS President’s Hook. Sharing the Table and the Source. Fisheries 32(1): 4 & 46.

Nielsen, J. L. 2007. Atlantic Salmon Genetics: Past, Present and What’s in the Future? Chapter 15. In E. Vespoor, J. Nielsen, and L. Stradmeyer (eds.) The Atlantic Salmon: Genetics, Conservation and Management. Blackwell Scientific pp 483-494.

Hendrickson, D., D. Neely, R. Mayden, K. Anderson, J. Brooks, F. Camarena-Rosales, R. Cutted, L. Cutter, A. de Los Santos, G. Ernsting, H. Espinosa-Perez, L. Findley, F. Garcia de Leon, A. George, J. Hatch, B. Kuhajda, K. Mayden, K. McNyset, J. L. Nielsen, F. Pfeiffer, D. Propst, G. Ruiz-Campos, E. St. Clair, J. Tomelleri and A. Varela-Romero. 2006. Conservation of Mexican native trout and the discovery, status, protection and recovery of the Conchos trout, the first native Oncorhynchus of the Atlantic drainage in Mexico. Pages 162-201 in M. De Lourdes Lozano-Vilano and A. Contreras-Balderas (eds.) Studies of North American Desert Fishes. In Honor of E. P. (Phil) Pister, Conservationist. Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo, Leon, Mexico.

Nielsen, J. L. 2006. AFS President’s Hook. The nuances of grey and open access publishing at AFS. Fisheries 31(12):584.

Nielsen, J. L. 2006. AFS President’s Hook. Fair and Good Governance in AFS. Fisheries 31(11): 532.

Nielsen, J. L. 2006. AFS President’s Hook. Thoughts from Kansas. Fisheries 31(10): 480-514.

Nielsen, J. L. 2006. AFS President’s Hook. Looking downstream and downcurrent: Addressing complexity and unintended consequences in fish and fisheries. Fisheries 31(9):428-429.

Seitz, A. C., B. L. Norcross, D. Wilson and J. L. Nielsen. 2006. An evaluation of light-based geolocation for Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) in the northern Gulf of Alaska. Fisheries Research 104:571-578.

Graziano, S. L., K. Brown and J. L. Nielsen. 2005. Comment: Nomenclature of mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in Oncorhynchus mykiss. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 14:1271-1273.

Nielsen, J. L., S. A. Pavey, T. Wiacek and I. Williams. 2005. Genetic analyses of Central Valley O. mykiss populations: Drainage and watershed scale analyses. San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science.

Ruggerone, G. T., E. Farley, J. L. Nielsen and P. Hagen. 2005. Seasonal marine growth of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in relation to competition with Asian pink salmon (O. gorbuscha) and the 1997 ocean regime shift. Fisheries Bulletin 103:355-370.

Ruggerone G. and J. L. Nielsen. 2005. Evidence for competitive dominance of pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) over other salmonids in the North Pacific Ocean. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.

Seitz, A. C., B. L. Norcross, D. Wilson and J. L. Nielsen. 2005. Identifying spawning behavior in Pacific halibut, Hippogolssus stenolepis, using electronic tags. Environmental Biology of Fishes.

Nielsen, J. L. and G. Ruggerone. 2005. Non-linearity in Bristol Bay sockeye salmon growth: implication of Asian hatchery pink salmon production. In Burkett, V., D. A. Wilcox, R. Stottlemyer, W. Barrow, D. Fagre, J. Barton, J. Price, J. L. Nielsen, C. Allen, D. L. Peterson, G. Ruggerone, and T. Doyle. Nonlinear Dynamics in Ecosystem Response to Climatic Change: Case Studies and Policy Implications. Ecological Complexity.

Zimmerman, C. E. and J. L. Nielsen. 2005. Introduction to Special Issue: Interactions of Hatchery and Wild Salmonids in Marine and Estuarine Environments. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 14:301-303.

Nielsen, J. L. and H. Regier. 2004. Sustaining salmonid populations: a caring understanding of the naturalness of taxa. In D. MacDonald and E. Knudsen (eds.) Fish in Our Future? Perspectives on Fisheries Sustainability. American Fisheries Society Symposium 43: 203-211.

Thrower, F., C. Guthrie III, J. L. Nielsen, and J. Joyce. 2004. A comparison of genetic variation between an anadromous steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) population and seven derived populations sequestered in freshwater for 70 years. Environmental Biology of Fishes 69: 111-125.

Nielsen, J. L., I. Williams, G. K. Sage and C. E. Zimmerman. 2003. The importance of genetic verification of identification of Atlantic salmon in Pacific waters. Journal of Fish Biology 62: 871-878.

Ruggerone, G. T., M. Zimmermann, K. W. Meyers, J. L. Nielsen and D. E. Rogers. 2003. Competition between Asian pink salmon and North American sockeye salmon in the North Pacific Ocean. Fisheries and Oceanography 12(3): 209-219.

Nielsen, J. L. and G. K. Sage. 2002. Population genetic structure in Lahontan cutthroat trout. Transactions American Fisheries Society. 131: 376-388.

Nielsen, J. L. and K. Sage. 2001. Microsatellite analyses of the trout of Northwest Mexico. Genetica 111(No.1-3): 269-278.

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