Month: October 2023

Biometrician

B.S. BioEngineering; M.S. Ecology; Ph.D. Environmental and Forest Sciences

Phone: (360) 456-4621

 

Issaquah, Washington

Apryle is a quantitative ecologist, with a focus on assessing changes to vegetation and fish communities before and after an impact. Her work focuses on applications of mixed models, machine learning, multivariate analyses, and data visualization to address a wide range of ecological questions. Apryle excels at study design, data collection, and data management, having led field data collection and data analysis teams for multi-year riparian restoration projects at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.  

Biological Technician

B.S. Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

Phone: (503) 491-9577

 

Portland, Oregon

Stephan is a biological technician with experience in both laboratory and field settings within the Willamette valley of Oregon. His experience includes salmonid necropsy, spawning surveys, fish identification, PIT tagging, fish husbandry, boat operation, as well as gill netting and lake trap fishing. His fisheries career started with a C Ceratonova shasta monitoring effort in the Klamath River basin for Oregon State University. In this position, Stephan gained experience in microscope analysis of fish parasites, DNA extraction, water filtration methods, necropsy of various salmonid species, and coordinated husbandry for a variety of experimental aquatic species. Most recently, Stephan has served as lead field technician on both Green Peter and Look Out Point reservoirs to help better understand juvenile Chinook Salmon longitudinal out migration within these reservoirs. He also previously completed a carcass and redd survey on Quartzville Creek, navigating turbulent water on foot in a variety of inclement weather conditions.

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