State of the Salmon Staff
Jon Bonkoski, GIS Analyst
Matthew Goslin, GIS Analyst
Ray Hollander, Accounts Manager
Cathy Kellon, Research Coordinator
Rich Lincoln, Director
Stephen Lloyd, GIS and Database Technician
Naomi Molstrom, Program Assistant
Pete Rand, Ph.D., Conservation Biologist
Jon Bonkoski is a GIS Analyst with a wide array of analytical skills and six years of professional experience. Jon has a B.S. in Biology from Principia College. Before he relocated to Portland, OR, from Boulder, CO, in 2003, Jon worked in environmental consulting, where he was part of a team that developed a 24,000 square mile Groundwater Availability Model (GAM) for the Texas Water Development Board. Prior to joining the State of the Salmon team, Jon worked with NOAA Fisheries on Endangered Species Act critical habitat designations for the listed Evolutionary Significant Units in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Currently, Jon is developing the State of the Salmon North Pacific Salmon Hatchery database. This project will highlight the impact hatchery fish have on their wild counterparts and be the first spatially explicit pan-Pacific hatchery dataset.
Matthew Goslin is a GIS Analyst and ecologist who migrates back and forth between forest and fisheries research. He finished a M.S. in Forest Ecology at Oregon State University specializing in fire ecology and succession. He followed this with work modeling forest stand development for OSU's Coastal Landscape Analysis and Modeling study (CLAMS). Matthew began his migration toward the salmon world with work at NOAA Fisheries Lab in Santa Cruz, CA, where he was part of the support team for the Technical Recovery Teams (TRTs) for California salmon listed under the Endangered Species Act. He participated in the adaptation of stream-based salmon intrinsic potential models for California. Matthew began working for Ecotrust in 2004, first on forestry modeling projects, then for the State of the Salmon program. Matthew has developed an integrated, North Pacific-wide database on dams for use in network analyses of dam impacts on salmon distribution. He has also contributed to the Pacific Salmon Conservation Assessment and the IUCN Sockeye assessment. Outside of work, Matthew enjoys hiking, canoeing, cooking, and salsa as well as Irish Ceili dancing.
Accounts Manager Ray Hollander arrived in Portland with his wife six years ago after about 25 years with various non-profits in Hartford, Connecticut. He also served as volunteer president for Sheldon Oak Central, a prominent non-profit builder of low to moderate income housing in Hartford. He earned a B.S. in Accounting from Villanova University and an MBA from Babson College. Ray's team responsibilities include the accurate collection of project costs and creation of the program's financial reports for staff, partners and funders.
Cathy Kellon joined State of the Salmon in 2003 as Research Coordinator, relocating from Corvallis, where she earned her Master's degree in Geography with a minor in Integrated Water Resources Studies from Oregon State University. Prior to joining State of the Salmon, Cathy worked with NOAA Fisheries on Endangered Species Act critical habitat designations in the Upper Willamette and with Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, assisting with Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds activities. She currently helps oversee the State of the Salmon program and leads several projects, many of which emphasize the important role of salmon monitoring and data transparency in helping achieve conservation goals. When not at the office, she is happily teaching her son, well, everything and she is proud to say that some of his first words were "fish" and "water."
Director Rich Lincoln has 33 years of varied experience in fisheries research, management and policy in the Pacific Northwest as well as working on global fisheries sustainability. His professional interests have focused largely on salmon population conservation and its implications for managing harvests and hatchery programs, including the design of associated monitoring and evaluation programs. He recently returned to the U.S. after working as the International Policy Director for the Marine Stewardship Council in London, UK. Prior to that, he had a long association with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, starting as a field biologist working on salmon fishery and freshwater production evaluation studies, and then moving onto various research, management and policy leadership roles in the department. These roles included serving as bi-lateral chair of the Pacific Salmon Commission's Fraser Panel under the U.S.-Canada Salmon Treaty, leading development of Washington State's Wild Salmonid Policy and Wild Stock Initiative, and developing cooperative management arrangements with Northwest treaty Indian tribes. Rich brings strong dedication and collaborative innovation to ensuring that best available science is used to underpin and improve fishery resource policy and management.
Stephen Lloyd joined State of the Salmon as the GIS and Database Technician. He relocated to Portland in 2005 from the Boston area, where he graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in Mathematics and Environmental Studies. After taking two advanced GIS courses through Tufts' Urban & Environmental Policy and Planning Department, Stephen went on to work for the Oregon Natural Heritage Program and Portland Transportation as a GIS/Database Assistant, further solidifying his technical background and interest in ecology and sustainability issues. With State of the Salmon, Stephen has been key in improving and developing databases related to the Pacific Rim Monitoring Inventory. His other tasks range from map production to web maintenance. Stephen enjoys climbing and sporting the outdoors in his free time. He has topped three peaks over 20,000 feet, including Denali in Alaska.
Naomi Molstrom joined the Wild Salmon Center and State of the Salmon as the Program Assistant. In 2005 she worked with the program as a volunteer and intern translating Japanese salmon data and updating the State of the Salmon literature database. Originally from Japan, Naomi brings her experience as a coordinator and plays a role in communications with our growing network of Japanese colleagues. Naomi helps organize State of the Salmon workshops and meetings as well as the international conference to be held in Vancouver, B.C., in 2009. She earned a B.S. degree in Biochemistry at Portland State University. Naomi has traveled the world extensively, mostly for scuba diving, which opened her eyes toward environmentalism. Other interests include cooking, swimming, skiing, hiking, and exploring Oregon with her husband and energetic dog, Sango (meaning "coral" in Japanese).
Conservation Biologist Peter Rand, Ph.D. brings to the program 20 years of experience in basic and applied aquatic ecology, with a focus on fisheries science, management, and conservation. Peter is a graduate of Colgate University and received his master's and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Peter was a postdoc at the University of British Columbia from 1995-1997 and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology at North Carolina State University from 1997 to 2003. Peter has authored over 25 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters, and numerous other publications. He has conducted work in a wide variety of ecosystems, including the Laurentian Great Lakes, the Caribbean Sea, and coastal and montane river systems in the southeastern United States. In recent years he as focused his attention on Pacific salmon river ecosystems in British Columbia, Alaska, Russia and Japan. Peter currently holds the position as the Red List Authority Focal Point for the IUCN Salmonid Specialist Group.
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