Lyman Thorsteinson, Center Director

Email: Lyman Thorsteinson

MSc. Fishery Science, University of Alaska. BS Fishery Biology, University of Washington. BS Wildlife Biology and Management, Washington State University. Currently, Center Director, USGS Western Fisheries Research Center, Seattle. Past positions include: Biologist, USGS Western Regional Office, Seattle; Research Ecologist, NBS and NPS, Anchorage; Fishery Biologist, NOAA's Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program, Juneau and Anchorage; Fellow, Alaska Sea Grant Program, Fairbanks; and Biotechnician, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Juneau.

Mr. Thorsteinson's professional career began with the ADFG in studies of stream life history of chum and pink salmon in Katlian Bay, near Sitka. With NOAA, he managed and conducted research on the fishery oceanography of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas. His research focused early life history stages of fish and crabs, delineation of important habitats, fish movements and migrations, and assessment of possible biological effects of oil and gas development on Alaska's continental shelf. With the NBS and NPS, his research involved experimental design and long-term monitoring protocols for watersheds in Denali National Park and Preserve. More recently, in the Western Regional Office, he managed a variety of marine research and monitoring projects involving the ecology of natural and artificial reefs, seabirds and mammals, and contaminants in subsistence resources in Alaska.

Representative Publications:

Love, M.S., M. Yoklavich, and L. Thorsteinson. 2002. The rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific. University of California Press. 405 pp.

C.W. Mecklenburg, T. A. Mecklenburg, and L.K.Thorsteinson. 2002. Fishes of Alaska. American Fisheries Society. 1037 pp.

L.E. Jarvela and L.K. Thorsteinson. 1999. The epipelagic fish community of Beaufort Sea coastal waters, Alaska. Arctic 52 (1): 80-94.

L.K. Thorsteinson and D.L. Taylor. 1997. A watershed approach to ecosystem monitoring in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 33(4): 795-810.

L.E. Jarvela and L.K. Thorsteinson. 1997. Movements and temperature occupancy of sonically-tagged Dolly Varden and Arctic Ciscoes in Camden Bay, Alaska. Pages 165-174 in J. Reynolds, editor, Fish ecology in Arctic North America. American Fisheries Society Symposium 19, Bethesda, Maryland.

Mailing Address:

U.S. Geological Survey
Western Fisheries Research Center
6505 NE 65th St.
Seattle, WA 98115

Phone: 206-526-6282
Fax: 206-526-6654