R&D Program Manager

B.S. Ecology and Systematic Biology

Phone: (209) 353-2225

Ripon, California

Jesse has over 20 years of fisheries experience in the Central Valley and leads the CFS Research and Development Lab. He is responsible for coordinating field efforts and projects throughout the region. Jesse has over 16 years of experience designing, constructing, operating, and monitoring resistance board weirs in a wide variety of river environments throughout the world. He has extensive experience with a wide variety of field research techniques, environmental permitting, stormwater monitoring, and habitat restoration. Jesse is also an FAA certified commercial sUAS (drone) pilot.

Selected Publications

Anderson, J. T., G. Schumer, P. J. Anders, K. Horvath, and J. E. Merz. 2018. Confirmed observation: a North American green sturgeon Acipenser medirostris recorded in the Stanislaus River, California. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 9(2):624-630.

Anderson, J. T., J. E. Merz, C. B. Watry, and M. K. Saiki. 2015. Comparison of selected population characteristics of adult Chinook salmon during upstream passage through a resistance board weir and during carcass surveys. California Fish and Game 101(1):24-39.

Anderson, J. T., D. Olsen, K. Sellheim, T. Hinkelman, and J. E. Merz. 2014. Juvenile salmonid out-migration monitoring at Caswell Memorial State Park in the Stanislaus River, California. Biannual Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Comprehensive Assessment and Monitoring Program.

Anderson, J. T., C. B. Watry, and A. Gray. 2007. Upstream fish passage at a resistance board weir using infrared and digital technology in the lower Stanislaus River, California. Annual Report to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anadromous Fish Restoration Program, Grant No. 813326G004, Stockton, California.

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