Jennifer A. Hoeting, ISAC Co-Chair

Areas of expertise for the PRRIP: ecological statistics

Professor
Department of Statistics
Colorado State University

Professor Jennifer Hoeting received her PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington and has been on the faculty at Colorado State University since 1994. She specializes in Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics, and model selection and uncertainty. Much of her research is focused on developing new statistical methods to address problems in ecology. She has developed new models and statistical methodology to address a diverse set of problems including disease dynamics (chronic wasting disease, deer to dengue fever), animal abundance (from prairie dogs to whales), stream and wetland ecology, and natural gas pipe leaks. Hoeting is the founding editor of the journal Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography (ASCMO). She has been advisor to more than 30 PhD and MS students. Hoeting's book, Computational Statistics (co-authored by Geof Givens), has been adopted as a textbook at more than 120 universities in US and in over 30 other countries. Hoeting is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and received the Distinguished Achievement Medal from the ASA’s Section on Statistics and the Environment. In 2015 she was named Professor Laureate of the College of Natural Sciences at Colorado State University.

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Dave Marmorek, ISAC Co-Chair

Areas of Expertise for the PRRIP: adaptive management, decision analysis, modeling

David Marmorek is an aquatic ecologist with 40 years of experience in predicting and assessing the potential impacts of human activities on ecosystems, and in designing strategies to rehabilitate damaged ecosystems and recover threatened biota. Over the last two decades, his primary focus has been on fish and wildlife species affected by dams and flow management, including river basins in California (Clear Creek, Trinity River, Russian River, Sacramento River, Klamath River), the Pacific Northwest (Columbia and Snake Rivers), the American Southwest (Rio Grande), the U.S. Midwest (Platte River, Missouri River) and British Columbia (Cheakamus, Okanagan, Canadian Columbia Basin, Peace). He has contributed to the development and implementation of effective approaches for maintaining and recovering fish and wildlife populations, combining his group leadership and facilitation skills with his knowledge of scientific methods (aquatic ecology, data analysis, modelling, experimental design, monitoring, adaptive management, decision analysis). His academic background includes an Honours B.E.S. (Environmental Studies and Mathematics) from the University of Waterloo, and an M.Sc. in Zoology from the University of British Columbia. David is the author of over 40 peer-reviewed publications and is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. He has served on eight science advisory panels, including the Independent Science Advisory Committee (ISAC) for the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program from 2009 to present. He currently chairs the Fish Technical Team for the Missouri River Recovery Program. For his work on designing regional scale surveys of surface waters sensitive to acidification, he received the Bronze Medal for Commendable Service from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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David Galat

Areas of Expertise for the PRRIP: large river ecology, fish ecology, river restoration and management, adaptive management

David Galat (MSc, PhD) is a large river ecologist with over 45 years’ experience on a diversity of river restoration and endangered species recovery programs. He has served on the faculties of the University of Nevada-Reno, Arizona State University, and the University of Missouri where he remains a Cooperative Associate Professor, Retired, in the School of Natural Resources. He spent 22 years as a Fisheries Scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s, Cooperative Research Units until 2010 and thereafter was Science Adviser to The Nature Conservancy’s Great Rivers Partnership until mid-2013. His interests include ecology and restoration of large river-floodplain ecosystems, ecology and conservation of native riverine biota, the role of science in informing natural resource policy, and application of collaborative adaptive management to ecosystem rehabilitation. Dr. Galat is an author of over 100 publications and advisor to over 20 graduate students. His relevant science policy activities include National Research Council panels on Missouri and Mississippi River Planning, White House Interagency Floodplain Management Review Team, National Science Foundation’s National River Restoration Science Synthesis, and briefings to the President’s Council on Environmental Quality. He’s served on science advisory committees for the San Juan Recovery Implementation Program, Upper Mississippi Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program, Missouri River Recovery Program and the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program.

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Edmund (Ned) Andrews

Areas of Expertise for the PRRIP: geomorphology, sediment transport

Edmund (Ned) Andrews received a B.S. and M.S. degree in Geophysics from Stanford University and a Ph.D. degree in Geology from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the USGS in 1975 and served as Chief of the River Mechanics Project within the Water Resources Division’s National Research Program until his retirement in July of 2009. Subsequently, joined the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado as a Research Professor, and, currently, is an Emeritus Faculty of INSTAAR. His research has focused primarily on the adjustment of river channels to an altered streamflow regime and sediment supply. This research has concerned a wide variety of rivers affected by various natural and anthropogenic impacts. The goal of this research has been to develop the analytical methods and approaches needed to maintain and restore the important geomorphic and ecological features of river channels. Ned was a principal investigator of the 1996 experimental flood released into the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park. Since 1988, Ned has served as an expert witness in court proceedings to support the establishment instream flow water rights for National Forests and National Parks in several Western States. This work has included Rocky Mountain and Zion National Parks, which were the first National Parks to be granted Federal Reserved Water Rights to protect recreational and aquatic resources. In addition, Ned has represented the Republic of India and Nicaragua on issues of river management before the International Court of Justice, The Hague. Currently, Ned is a scientific advisor to the State Prosecutor, Minas Gerais, Brazil concerning efforts to recover two long river reaches damaged by the release of 10’s of millions of tons of tailings from iron mining. Ned has been a member of the Independent Science Advisory Committee since 2013

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Aaron Pearse

Areas of Expertise for the PRRIP: ecology and management of migratory birds; whooping cranes

Aaron Pearse is a Research Wildlife Biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, stationed at Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center in Jamestown, North Dakota. For over 15 years, he has conducted research on migratory birds, natural resource survey design, and landscape studies of upland and wetland ecosystems in the midcontinent of North America. His work addresses the needs of natural resource managers by providing answers that support science-based management of wildlife species and ecosystems in which they depend at regional, national, and international extents. Aaron has served as the lead USGS scientist on a long-term study of whooping cranes using remote tracking devices to provide a better understanding of the ecology and management of this endangered species during migration. Through this and other projects, Aaron aims to assist conservation planners and managers in their efforts improve, prioritize, and target conservation actions. He has advised and served as a liaison to Central Flyway Technical Committees and Council, the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture, and the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture. Since 2017, he has served as a member of the International Whooping crane Recovery Team, which provides scientific guidance, review, and interpretation to co-coordinators of species recovery in the United States and Canada. Aaron received a B.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife Biology from Kansas State University, M.S. in Wildlife Resources from the University of Idaho, and Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries from Mississippi State University. Aaron has been a member of the Independent Science Advisory Committee of the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program since 2022.

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Michal Tal

Areas of Expertise for the PRRIP: fluvial geomorphology; interactions amongst riparian vegetation, hydrology, and channel morphology; morphodynamics of braided rivers.

Michal Tal is a fluvial geomorphologist. Her experience and interests are in understanding river trajectories in response to natural and anthropogenic forcings. Her experimental studies at the Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory in Minneapolis on the interactions of riparian vegetation and channel dynamics have contributed to our understanding of how the opportunistic colonization of braid plain by riparian vegetation during low flows can lead braided rivers to evolve to single-thread channels. In her studies of alpine gravel bed rivers, Michal has examined how sediment flux varies along braided rivers and how well existing empirical and numerical formulations predict sediment flux. On the Rhone River, Michal has worked on quantifying the impacts of channel narrowing due to embankments and flow diversions for hydroelectricity and gravel mining. Michal has used 1D morphodynamic modeling to study the impacts of dams and gravel augmentation to mitigate the effects of sediment deficits below them. Michal’s work has always been carried out within the framework of partnerships between scientists and river managers and collaborations amongst different disciplines (Earth Science, Geography, Engineering, Ecology, etc.). These experiences have served to reinforce her strong belief in the need for cross-disciplinary and multi-institute platforms to ensure the success of large-scale restoration projects.

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