IMS Project Scientists
The institute appoints individuals who make significant and creative contributions to research projects. These individuals are either ongoing members of a research team or are employed for a limited period to contribute high-level skills to a specific research program. Project Scientist may obtain PI status upon approved ETP.
Joe Bizzarro, Associate Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: Evaluate prey as a component of essential fish habitat (EFH) for Pacific Groundfishes, and Review and update biological and ecological information in the NMFS Habitat Use Database (HUD) in support of groundfish EFH.
Anthony Clemento, Associate Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: Identification of the genes responsible for life-history variation in salmon and trout. Application of modern genetic methods to endangered species management and conservation.
Allison Cluett, Assistant Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program:
Flora Cordoleani, Associate Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: The study of marine biological systems through the use of mathematical models and statistical tools.
Jeff Davis, Project Scientist, CDFW-OSPR: Aerial Survey Team Leader, organizing all flights, reviewing all trip reports, and participating in surveys.
Alyssa Fitzgerald, Assistant Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: Combining population genetics and next-generation sequencing with broad-scale ecological niche modeling and fine-scale habitat associations to resolve how closely related species diverged; Resolving how niches and ranges evolve and shift over time; Examining the evolution of boreal species complexes during the Pleistocene; Defining the evolutionary and ecological relationships of species complexes Determining management criteria for the conservation of boreal forest species.
James Gilbert, Associate Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: Running, interpreting and analyzing varoius water budget simulation models.
Mike Jacox, Assistant Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program:
Neosha Kashef, Assistant Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: Fisheries ecology, reproductive biology, aquaculture and natural history of northeast Pacific Coast groundfishes. Early life history with an emphasis on larval fish biology, recruitment mechanisms and factors affecting survival. Effects of environmental change on behavior, physiology, reproduction and embryonic development in rockfishes with a focus on ocean acidification and hypoxia.
Cynthia Kern, Associate Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program:
Nerea Lezama Ochoa, Assistant Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program:
Pelayo Menendez Fernandez, Assistant Project Scientist: Wave Energy Conservsion feasibility in California and coastal risk in other regions.
Cyril Michel, Associate Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: The survival and migrations of imperiled juvenile salmon in California.
Rebecca Miller, Associate Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program:
Benjamin Norris, Assistant Project Scientist: The development of "green infrastructure" or nature-based solutions mitigating coastal hazards such as flooding and erosion.
Jeremy Notch, Assistant Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: Acoustic telemetry, surgical tagging of fish.
Ann-Marie Osterback, Associate Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: Synergistic effects of climate, hydrology, and habitat on life-history expression by coho salmon and steelhead trout in coastal California watersheds.
Maria Mercedes Pozo Buil, Assistant Project Scientist:/Fisheries Collaborative Program: Investigating the variability, long term change, and predictability of the California Current System.
Antonella Preti: Assistant Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: Trophic ecology, stomach content and stable isotope analysis of large predators (thresher, blue, mako sharks, swordfish and marine mammals), parasitology, educational outreach and conservation.
Isaac Schroeder, Associate Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: Emphasis is to improve the interpretation of pre-recruit indices and biodiversity indices of commercially and recreationally important groundfish stock assessments by linking spatial and temporal dynamics to environmental forcing. Also, nderstand how environmental variability influences forage fish abundances and distributions that can influence sea lion reproductive success.
Jillian Sills, Associate Project Scientist: Auditory sense of arctic seals.
David Stafford, Assistant Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: Effects of climate change on reproduction, behavior and physiology in larval rockfishes.
Desiree Tommasi, Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: Development of a robust management strategy evaluation (MSE) framework to enable the identification of effective management approaches for migratory species in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and California Current Ecosystem.
Heather Welch, Assistant Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program:
Malte Wilmes, Assistant Project Scientist/Fisheries Collaborative Program: Development and application of novel geochemical tracers and quantitative statistical methods to answer fundamental questions in fish ecology. Current focus is on reconstructing the life history of modern and historic Chinook Salmon populations in California and contrasting their responses to long-term climatic and landscape scale changes.
