Month: November 2022

Senior Biological Technician

B.S. Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

 

Portland, Oregon

Bret is a Senior Biological Technician with experience in fish population monitoring and surveying, with a focus on salmonids. In his most recent position he has served as a fisheries technician and field crew leader for the US Fish and Wild Service in Red Bluff California.  As a fisheries technician he has specialized in video technologies to monitor threatened and endangered species on the tributaries of the Sacramento River. He has extensive experience with the installation, maintenance, and data processing of various monitoring technologies. These include, Vaki Riverwatchers, Didson and Aris Sonars, and surveillance style video monitoring systems. Bret has played a leading role in the surveying and video monitoring of reintroduction efforts of Sacramento River Winter-Run Chinook Salmon into Battle Creek near Anderson, CA.  He has led field crews on salmonid carcass and redd surveys, long-term rotary screw trapping efforts, electrofishing projects, and benthic macroinvertebrate surveys. Bret is also proficient in managing Access Databases and GIS data in ArcGIS.