Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team

Members

How Members of IMST are Appointed

Members of IMST are jointly appointed by Oregon's Governor, Senate President, and Speaker of the House to serve for a specified period of time, usually a four-year term. For more detail, download the IMST Charter in PDF.

Current Members

  • Michael J. Harte
    College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
    Term: 2/15/2006 - 2/14/2010
  • Robert M. Hughes
    Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
    Term: 1/1/2004 - 6/30/2008
  • Nancy Molina, Co-Chair
    Cascadia Ecosystems, Gresham, OR
    Term: 7/1/2004 - 6/30/2008
  • Victor Kaczynski
    Consulting Fisheries Scientist, Parkdale, OR
    Term: 2/15/2006 - 2/14/2010
  • Carl Schreck, Co-Chair
    Oregon Cooperative Research Unit, USGS, Corvallis, OR
    Term: 1/1/2002 - 6/30/2006; 7/1/2006 - 6/1/2010
  • Clinton C. Shock
    Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University
    Malheur Experiment Station, Ontario, OR
    Term: 8/1/2008 -

 

Former Members

  • John Buckhouse
    Department of Rangeland Resources, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
    Terms: 10/10/1997 - 12/31/2001; 1/1/2002 - 6/30/2003
  • Neil W. Christensen
    Department of Crop and Soil Science (emeritus), Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
    Term: 4/1/2005 - 6/30/2008
  • Wayne Elmore
    USDI Bureau of Land Management, Prineville, OR (Retired)
    Terms: 10/10/1997 - 12/31/2001; 1/1/2002 - 12/31/2004
  • Stan Gregory
    Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
    Terms: 10/10/1997 - 12/31/2001; 1/1/2002 - 6/30/2005
  • Katy Kavanagh
    Forest Resources Department, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
    Terms: 10/10/1997 - 12/31/2001; 1/1/2002 - 6/30/2003
  • Jim Lichatowich
    Alder Fork Consulting, Columiba City, OR
    Term: 10/10/1997 - 12/31/2001
  • Logan Norris
    Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
    Term: 10/10/1997 - 12/31/2001
  • William Pearcy
    College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
    Terms: 10/10/1997 - 12/31/2001; 12/1/2002 - 6/30/2004
  • Rich Shepard
    Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc., Troutdale, OR
    Term: 1/1/2004 - 9/2/2005
  • Carl Yee
    Yee Forestry Associates, Bend, OR
    Term: 1/1/2004 - 11/30/2007; 12/1/2007 - 7/31/2008

Member Biographies

 

Michael J. Harte, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of the Marine Resource Management Program at Oregon State University, Corvallis, and an Oregon Sea Grant Extension Specialist. He joined the IMST in February 2006. He holds a Bachelors degree in geography and economics and Masters degree in geography from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He received his PhD in geography in 1994 from the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He specializes in the management of coastal and marine resources with a particular emphasis on fisheries issues. He has worked for the public and the private sectors in New Zealand, Canada and the Falkland Islands. Over the last decade Dr. Harte has chaired and served on many advisory boards, committees, working groups and provided scientific and other advice to a wide range of stakeholders at local, national and international levels.

Robert M. Hughes, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis joined the IMST in February 2004. Dr. Hughes received a B.A. in Psychology/Biology and an M.S. in Resource Planning and Conservation from the University of Michigan. In 1979, he received his Ph.D. in Fisheries and Wildlife from Oregon State University. Dr Hughes has over 25 years of experience in sampling and analyzing data for fish assemblages in various parts of the US, including previously serving as the indicator coordinator for the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) - - Surface Waters. He developed monitoring techniques and indicators for bird, fish, macrobenthos, and algae assemblages in northeastern US lakes, Appalachian streams and rivers, and western US streams and rivers. He has also developed fish assemblage indicators for Indian, French, and Brazilian rivers. Dr. Hughes has published 99 peer-reviewed manuscripts, co-edited three books, and has served as associate editor for two professional journals. He is president of the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (AFS), and was president of the AFS Water Quality Section in 1999-2001, and the AFS Oregon Chapter in 1994-1995.

Victor W. Kaczynski, Ph.D. a consulting fisheries scientist, Parkdale, OR joined the IMST February 2006. Dr. Kaczynski has been working with Pacific salmon since 1970 while an Assistant Professor of Biological Oceanography at the University of Washington. He received his B.S. in Biology from SUNY College at Buffalo, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Limnology from Cornell University. He was the Environmental Technical Director for Texas Instruments, Vice President of Beak Consultants Ltd. (western Canada), President of Beak Consultants Inc. (U.S.), and Director of Environmental Sciences for CH2M-Hill. He founded his own firm in 1989. He consults on fishery and water quality issues. His clients have included federal and state natural resource agencies, municipalities, watershed councils, petroleum exploration, geothermal, nuclear, thermal, hydroelectric, petrochemical, forestry, grazing, and irrigation sectors. He was an advisor to the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and College of Forestry at Oregon State University and to the environmental science program at Mt. Hood Community College. He has published on pink and chum salmon early marine life history, parasite effects on bluefish, ecology of Anostracan shrimp, fishery effects of treated pulp mill effluent, use of wetlands for alternative wastewater treatment, environmental standards for the Mexican pulp and paper industry, stream habitat surveys and enhancement, wildfire impacts on stream habitats and salmonids, marine survival of coastal coho salmon, and has authored numerous technical reports.

Nancy Molina, M.S. has worked at the interface of science and natural resource management since 1972. After completing an undergraduate degree in Geography at Portland State University in the early 1970's, she joined one of the USDA Forest Service's first multidiscipline land use planning teams, located on the Mt. Hood National Forest. Subsequently Ms. Molina earned a graduate degree in Botany/Ecology from Washington State University, then returned to the Forest Service where she spent 20 years working as a field ecologist in NW Oregon/SW Washington. During that time she conducted ecological studies for four National Forests, and authored and co-authored a variety of ecological guides and other publications, including "Forest Landscape Analysis and Design", a widely-used guide to landscape-scale ecological planning. She has presented numerous talks and workshops on topics related to ecosystem management and landscape ecology, and has assisted with landscape planning projects in Taiwan, Great Britain, and Canada.

Beginning in 1998, Ms. Molina managed a research program for the PNW Research Station that provided science support to public agencies within the Northwest Forest Plan area. In 2002 she became Chief of the Physical Sciences Branch of the USDI Oregon/Washington Bureau of Land Management, and in 2005 accepted a special assignment to coordinate the initial efforts of the NWFP agencies to respond to the 10-Year Monitoring Reports and Science Synthesis. Ms. Molina retired from federal service in 2005, and currently co-chairs the IMST.

Carl Schreck, Ph.D., Leader, Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Biological Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, Corvallis, Oregon. Dr. Schreck has been researching the biology of fishes for nearly 30 years. He has an A.B. in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley, a M.S. in Fisheries Science and a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics and Fisheries Science from Colorado State University. He currently serves as Leader of the Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and is senior scientist in the Biological Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey and as a Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at OSU. His research has focused primarily on salmonids. He applies environmental physiology to address environmentally relevant questions; this research has lead to over 200 published papers. Dr. Schreck is a member of several scientific and management teams, organizations and committees. He is currently serving a four-year term as President of the International Federation of Fish Endocrinologists. He has won numerous national teaching, research, and publication awards.