State Trust Lands Habitat Conservation Plan
Science Advisory Panel for the Headwaters Stream Conservation Strategy
The science advisory panel was assembled for the purposes of providing a scientific foundation for planning forest management along headwater streams. The panel was assembled with several goals: to ensure that the headwaters stream conservation strategy uses sound science; to build a process that incorporates the best available science; and to ensure that DNR has a defendable process for evaluating possible alternative conservation measures for meeting conservation objectives.
External Science Strategy Team
Internal Science Strategy Team| Forest Ecology and Management | Dr. Richard Bigley | WA Department of Natural Resources |
| GIS Analysis and Modeling | Jeff Ricklefs | WA Department of Natural Resources |
| Geology and Unstable Slopes | Jeff Grizzel | WA Department of Natural Resources |
Science Advisory Panel Biographies
Dr. Peter Kiffney
Stream Ecologist
NOAA Fisheries Service Northwest Fisheries Science Center
10 Park Avenue Building B
Mukilteo, WA 98275
Peter has been with the Watershed Program since June 1998. He holds a B.S. in Geology (University of North Carolina), an M.S. in Aquatic Ecology (University of California-Davis), and a Ph.D. in Fishery Biology and Ecology (Colorado State University). His Ph.D. research focused on the effects of heavy metals on alpine stream ecosystems. He held a National Institute of Environmental Health Post-Doctoral fellowship at Colorado State studying the effects of UV-B radiation on stream communities and a Post-Doctoral fellowship in the Department of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Canada where he studied the effects of riparian logging on headwater stream ecosystems. He holds an affiliate faculty position in the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington.
Dr. Greg Stewart
Geomorphologist
Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
6730 Martin Way E
Olympia, WA 98516
Dr. Marc Hayes
Herpetologist
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
1111 Washington St.
Olympia, WA 98504
Marc, a research scientist with the Habitat Program since 2000, brings 29 years of herpetological research experience to the science division and directs biotic aspects of forest and fish adaptive management research, largely amphibian focused, in headwater streams. Dr. Hayes has engaged varied field herpetological research in California, Costa Rica, Florida, Mexico, and Oregon. Prior to joining WDFW, Marc's research focused on the life histories of western North American ranid frogs and dynamics of their stillwater habitats.
Dr. Peter Bisson
Fish Biologist
USFS Forestry Sciences Lab
3625 93rd AVE SW
Olympia, WA 98512
Dr. Michael M. Pollock
Riparian Ecosystems Analysis
NOAA Fisheries Service Northwest Fisheries Science Center
2725 Montlake Blvd. East
Seattle, WA 98112-2097
As an Ecosystems Analyst, Michael has been studying forest, stream and wetland ecosystems for the past 12 years. During this time he has engaged in a diverse suite of scientific studies including: the influence of disturbance and productivity on biodiversity patterns in riparian corridors, the influence of beaver habitat on coho smolt production and ecosystem function, the historical patterns of riparian forest conditions in the Pacific Northwest, and the importance of riparian forests to maintaining stream habitat. Dr. Pollock also provides policy analyses to parties interested in understanding the potential effects of proposed or existing laws, policies, and regulations on our environment. Past analyses include the environmental impact of habitat conservation plans, the likely effect of proposed state legislation concerning the protection of salmonid habitat, and the probable environmental impacts of various specific land use proposals. Michael holds a B.S. in Biochemistry (California State University, Humboldt, Cum Laude) and a Ph.D. in Ecosystems Analysis (University of Washington, College of Forest Resources). Prior to joining the Watershed Program in 1999, he was a partner in a local consulting firm and director of a small, non-profit scientific research institute.
Dr. Chris Konrad
Hydrologist
USGS Washington Water Science Center
Tacoma, WA 98402
Dr. Richard Bigley
HCP Research and Adaptive Management Team Leader
WA Department of Natural Resources
1111 Washington St. SE
Olympia, WA 98504
An 18 year DNR veteran, Richard is the Habitat Conservation Plan research and adaptive management team leader. Richard was one of the architects for the department's effectiveness and validation monitoring system and has also served as team leader for both the forest ecology and wildlife science teams. In 2004, Richard was a member of the northern spotted owl "5-year review" panel. The panel was charged with the first comprehensive evaluation of scientific information on the northern spotted owl since it was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Richard earned a Ph.D. in Forest Ecology and Silviculture from the University of British Columbia in 1988. Before joining DNR, Richard worked as an ecologist for Weyerhaeuser and the Forest Service PNW Experiment Station. Since 1994 he has been an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington College of Forest Resources. Richard's current work focuses research to support adaptive management of the department's riparian and marbled murrelet conservation strategies. His team is active in the headwater stream research community in the Pacific Northwest.
Jeff Ricklefs
Natural Resource Scientist
WA Department of Natural Resources
1111 Washington St. SE
Olympia, WA 98504
Jeff joined DNR in 2004 to oversee the implementation of several headwater research projects. He currently serves the team as a natural resource scientist. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 1989 and a B.S in Environmental Studies from the Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA in 1999. Jeff brings more than a decade of professional experience in resource management at the federal, state, and county level. His current projects include: 1) an analysis of pre and post harvest data collected for the Riparian Ecosystem Management Study (REMS), an experimental study to examine the effects of various buffer configurations along headwater streams and 2) an analysis of data collected as part of a retrospective study of the HCP interim Type 5 conservation strategy, a study to quantify the implementation of interim protection guidelines for headwater streams while a long-term conservation strategy is being developed. As part of this retrospective study, Jeff has made use of LIDAR-based flow accumulation models to more accurately predict the location and extent of the headwater system. He is also working on refining automatic terrain extraction (ATE) techniques to build elevation models from stereo imagery for use in a multitude of research areas, including automated edge detection and a chronological analysis of windthrow in stream buffers. His research interests include grid-based spatial analysis, flow accumulation modeling, LIDAR, GPS, photogrammetry, and multivariate statistical analysis of ecological communities.
Jeff Grizzel
WA Department of Natural Resources
1111 Washington St. SE
Olympia, WA 98504
Florian Deisenhofer
WA Department of Natural Resources
601 Bond Road
Castle Rock, WA 98611