Biological Technician

B.S. Marine Science

Auburn, CA

Jamie is a biological technician working out of the West Sacramento and Auburn offices. She has gained experience working in the field, lab, and office on projects throughout California, especially the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and the wider Central Valley. Her field experience includes rotary screw trap maintenance, beach seines, macroinvertebrate collection, electrofishing surveys, and fish identification, tagging, and sample collection. She has gained laboratory experience analyzing ARIS videos as well as processing invertebrate and zooplankton samples. Throughout her time with CFS, she has worked on motorized and unmotorized watercraft and in a variety of environments and conditions. Prior to joining CFS, she conducted creel surveys, drafted reports, worked in a hatchery, and conducted carcass surveys in the North Central region of California. In addition to fisheries work, she has also surveyed aquatic invasive species and amphibians, and used drones to research marine landscape ecology and intertidal community dynamics.