Marrowstone Marine Field Station
Staff
| Elder, Nancy | Fishery Biologist Western Fisheries Research Center Marrowstone Marine Field Station 616 Marrowstone Point Rd. Nordland, WA 98358-9633 Office: 360-385-1007 222 Email: nelder@usgs.gov |
| Gregg, Jacob | Fishery Biologist Western Fisheries Research Center Marrowstone Marine Field Station 616 Marrowstone Point Rd. Nordland, WA 98358-9633 Office: 360-385-1007 223 Email: jgregg@usgs.gov |
| Hershberger, Paul | Field Station Leader Western Fisheries Research Center Marrowstone Marine Field Station 616 Marrowstone Point Rd. Nordland, WA 98358-9633 Office: 360-385-1007 225 Email: phershberger@usgs.gov |
Extended Research Family
Jeff Cordell
Jeff Cordell is a Principal Research Biologist at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, where his research interests include biology and ecology of copepods, exotic invertebrates, biological functions of restored wetlands, and taxonomy of small crustaceans.
Diane Elliott
Dr. Diane Elliott is a Research Microbiologist at the Western Fisheries Research Center, where her research interests include understanding of the epizootiology and pathogenic mechanisms of important fish pathogens, particularly bacterial diseases of salmonid fishes.
Evi Emmenegger
Evi Emmenegger is a Research Microbiologist at the Western Fisheries Research Center, where her research interests include molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of fish viral pathogens, focusing on infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV).
Chris Grue
Dr. Chris Grue is an Associate Professor at the School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences and Unit Leader of the Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. His research interests include understanding the effects of contaminants of fish and wildlife
John Hansen
Dr. John Hansen is a research Immunologist at the Western Fisheries Research Center, where his research interests include development of cellular and molecular reagents for fish leukocytes.
Russ Herwig
Dr. Russ Herwig is a Research Associate Professor at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, where his research interests include ballast water treatment technologies and aquatic microbiology.
Dick Kocan
Dr. Richard Kocan is a Professor Emeritus at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, where his research interests included infectious and non-infectious diseases of fishes.
Gael Kurath
Dr. Gael Kurath is a Research Microbiologist at the Western Fisheries Research Center where her research interests include genetic diversity, evolution, and control of fish RNA viruses.
Scott LaPatra
Dr. Scott LaPatra is the Director of Research and Development at Clear Springs Foods, the world’s largest producer of rainbow trout. His research interests focus on rainbow trout and include innate and acquired immune defense mechanisms, the genetics of disease resistance and/or stress response, orally delivered biological response modifiers, and the effect of subclinical infections on fish performance.
John Piatt
Dr. John Piatt is a Research Wildlife Biologist, specializing in breeding biology and feeding ecology of seabirds. He is a visiting researcher from the USGS Alaska Science Center and currently works out of the MMFS.
Scott Smith
Scott Smith is a Supervisory Research Biologist at the Western Fisheries Research Center (http://wfrc.usgs.gov/), where his research interests include developing ballast water treatment technologies.
Garth Traxler
Garth Traxler is a Research Biologist at the Pacific Biological Station, where his research interests include understanding the epizootiology, pathogenicity, and control of viral pathogens causing disease in cultured and wild salmonids.
Jim Winton
Dr. Jim Winton is a Supervisory Research Microbiologist at the Western Fisheries Research Center, where his research team consists of more than 25 scientists, technicians, graduate students and visiting researchers working on the most important infectious diseases of Pacific salmon and trout including infectious hematopoietic necrosis, viral hemorrhagic septicemia, bacterial kidney disease, and whirling disease.
