Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Provide innovative solutions to clients' information management, translation, and communication needs. Help clients transform their complex data and information into printed and electronic materials that inform biologists, decision makers, and the public about their efforts to conserve, restore, and manage natural resources. Assist clients with strategic communications planning and implementation, with particular emphasis on communicating and promoting the roles, values, and accomplishments of their natural resource programs through practical and cost-effective solutions. Services provided include: - Mine, compile, manage, and translate data to create interpretive graphics that simplify complex issues - Communicate technical information for biologists, decision makers, and the public - Prepare and edit technical reports - Produce printed materials for outreach and education, including content for websites, social media sites, newsletters, fact sheets, presses releases, event proceedings, and products for use at regional and annual conferences - Strategic communications planning and implementation with particular emphasis on promoting awareness of natural resources program accomplishments Provide coordination and facilitation services to tribal, state, and federal natural resource representatives and hydro-power industry partners to develop solutions for complex natural resource problems. Provide policy advice and technical support for all activities related to the conservation, recovery, and management of fish, wildlife, and their habitats in the Columbia River Basin. Services provided include: - Organize, coordinate, and facilitate focus groups, workshops, meetings, and conferences - Synthesize workshop, meeting, and conference results - Coordinate environmental and natural resources projects - Provide reviews of proposed activities, policies, and regulations
Served as the organization’s liaison among tribal, state, and federal natural resource representatives and hydropower industry partners to create collaborative partnerships to develop consensus solutions for complex natural resource problems. Provided policy advice and technical support for all activities related to the conservation, recovery, and management of resident fish and their habitats in the Columbia River Basin through the implementation of tribal and state management plans, Federal Power Act, Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Fish and Wildlife Program, and the Endangered Species Act. Acted as the project lead coordinating the development of a broad-scale information system pertaining to habitat restoration, fish and wildlife management and conservation programs in the Columbia River Basin. Using project planning, coordination, and consensus-building skills, collaborated with tribal, state, and federal fish and wildlife agencies, as well as hydro-power industry representatives, on the development of information technology tools and processes for reporting fish and wildlife population and habitat performance.
Developed and supervised a fish genetics, health, and water quality laboratory, and planned, organized, directed, and performed research for fisheries management purposes. Planned, organized, promoted, and implemented the daily operations of a nationally acclaimed outreach program to support the agency’s mission. Credited by management, the general public, and media for resurrecting the program’s image among scientists, media, and the public.
Planned, organized, coordinated and conducted genetic and morphological research on wild and hatchery fish populations in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.