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Si Simenstad
Principal Fisheries Biologist
- School of Fishery Sciences
- University of Washington
- Research Interests:
- Having conducted research
on estuarine and coastal marine ecosystems troughout Puget Sound,
the Washington coast, and Alaska for over twenty-three years, most
of my studies have focused on the functional role of estuarine and
coastal habitats to support fish (especially juvenile Pacific salmon)
and wildlife, and the associated ecological interactions that are
responsible for enancing populations of economically and ecologically-important
fisheries resources. Primary interest is on natural (e.g., basic)
ecosystem-, community- and habitat-level interactions, with emphasis
on predator-prey relationships and the sources, organizaiton and flow
of organic matter through food webs, and interactions between estuarine
circulation and ecological processes. Particular habitats of interest
include kelp and eelgrass beds, emergent marshes and mudflats. Recent
research emphasis has stressed integration of such basic interactions
to applied issues such as restoration, creation and enhancement of
estuarine and costal wetlands and estuarine ecosystems, and ecological
approaches to evaluating the success of antrhopogenic stressors and
alterations.
- Consortium Interests:
- Primary research focus
relates to the association between habitat landscape structure and
fundamental ecological processes that support both directly (e.g.,
foraging or rearing habitats) and indirectly (e.g., detritus sources)
production of important organisms in the estuary. This involves characterizing
the role of natural variability in the structure of watershed-estuary
gradients, understanding the effect of changing habitat structure
on processes such as juvenile salmon and crab rearing, and investigating
the effects of anthropogenic changes and inputs in the watershed and
estuary upon habitat patterns and processes.
- Phone: 206-543-7185
- FAX: 206-685-7471
- Email: csimenstad@LTERnet.edu
Address:
- Wetland Ecosystems Team
- School of Fisheries
- University of Washington,
Box 357980
- Seattle, Washington 98195
Educational Background:
- M.S. - Fisheries, University
of Washington, 1971
- B.S. - Fisheries, University
of Washington, 1969
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