Month: August 2024

Biological Technician II

B.S. Microbiology

West Sacramento, California

Emma is a biological technician II with experience in fish monitoring and surveying across the Pacific Northwest, southern California, and the Central Valley, including PIT tagging, and installation and operation of rotary screw traps, fyke traps, and PIT tag antenna arrays. She also has experience with seining, electrofishing, and snorkel surveys. She recently served as the lead technician to monitor remote populations of O. mykiss in Piru Creek, CA utilizing mark-and-recapture techniques. She led the day-to-day operations of a rotary screw trap, fyke trap, and PIT tag antenna arrays to monitor emigrating O. mykiss on Piru Creek as well as surveying for California red-legged frogs, arroyo toads, and southwestern willow flycatchers. Emma also has experience monitoring fisheries populations using various technologies such as, analyzing ARIS and reviewing videos from the Sampling Platform. She has experience with laboratory methods, like scale mounting and macroinvertebrate identification. Before joining CFS, she performed lab testing on water samples during her internship at the Bozeman Water Treatment Plant and conducted sportfishing surveys and performed PIT tag retrieval to assist in the monitoring and management of salmonid populations of the Puget Sound.

Biological Technician

B.S. Environmental Biology

Portland, Oregon

John is a Biological Technician with a broad range of field experience. He has experience in fish monitoring techniques and population dynamic analyses, including PIT tagging, gill net sampling, mark-and-recapture studies, line-transect distance sampling, and acoustic telemetry. With over a decade of boating experience on oceans, lakes, and rivers throughout the Pacific Northwest, John has honed his skills in identifying Oregon’s diverse fish populations. John has experience collaborating with a diverse array of partners, some of which include private landowners, watershed councils, federal agencies, and tribes. John graduated from Pacific University in Forest Grove, OR, with a B.S. in Environmental Biology. Most recently, John worked at Cramer Fish Sciences as a field lead, focusing on capturing the behavior and survival of emigrating juvenile spring chinook salmon from the Hood River into the Columbia River using acoustic telemetry. He is now pursuing an M.S. in Fisheries Science at Oregon State University, starting in the fall of 2024.