James J. Anderson

Position

Research Professor

School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington

Interdisciplinary graduate program in Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management

Director Columbia Basin Research

Current Research Projects

Research and computer models for management of Columbia River fisheries

Studying mortality processes of juvenile salmon.

Address

Columbia Basin Research

1325 - 4th Ave., Suite 1820

Seattle, WA 98101

Phone: 206-543-4772; Fax: 206-616-7452

Email: jjand@u.washington.edu

Profile

Dr. Anderson is a Research Professor in the School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences at the University of Washington.  He is the Co-Director of Columbia Basin Research, a group in the School that focuses on salmon issues in the Columbia Basin.  His research group has developed models to evaluate the impacts of the Columbia River hydrosystem and fisheries on salmon.  These include the CRiSP juvenile and adult salmon passage models and the Coast harvest model.  In addition, he heads the Internet database (DART), which contains real-time and historical environmental and fisheries data from the Columbia River.  His other interests include biodemography, toxicology, fish behavior, and ecosystem analyses.  He has served on a number of national review panels and currently serves on the CALFED Bay-Delta Environmental Water Account Review Committee and the California Central Valley Salmon Technical Recovery Team. His fisheries research spans twenty-five years and has been funded by the Army Corps of Engineers, National Marine Fisheries Service, Bonneville Power Administration, Washington State and private industry.  He has over 100 publications on a variety of topics including salmon migration, fish passage at hydroelectric dams, toxicology, fisheries oceanography, fisheries ecology, and decision science.  He has given over 70 invited lectures and seminars and has testified numerous times before Congress and state legislatures on salmon issues. 

Recent publications:

Some Publications available online

Nestler, J. M., Goodwin, R. A., Smith, D. L., and Anderson, J. J. (in press). “Mathematical & Conceptual Framework for the New Discipline of Ecohydraulics.” Hydroecology and Ecohydrology: Past, Present and Future, John Wiley & Sons.

Weber, L.J., R.A. Goodwin, S. Li, J.M. Nestler, J.J. Anderson. (2006). Application of an Eulerian–Lagrangian–Agent method (ELAM) to rank alternative designs of a juvenile fish passage facility. J. Hydroinformatics 8:271-295.

Lindley, S. T., R. S. Schick, A. Agrawal, M. Goslin, T. E. Pearson, E. Mora, J. J. Anderson, B. May, S. Greene, C. Hanson, A. Low, D. McEwan, R. B. MacFarlane, C. Swanson, and J. G. Williams. (2006). Historical population structure of Central Valley steelhead and its alteration by dams. S. Francisco Estuary Watershed Sci. 4(1): article 3.21 p.

Salinger, D. H, and J.J. Anderson (2006) Effects of Water Temperature and Flow on Migration Rate of Adult Salmon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.135:188-199.

Goodwin, R. A., J. M. Nestler, J. J. Anderson, L. J. Weber, and D. P. Loucks, (2006) Decoding Movement Patterns of Fish for Forecast Simulation Using Individual-based Modeling, Ecological Modelling. 192:197-223.

Hyun, S., R. W. Hilborn, J. J. Anderson, and B. Ernst (2005) A statistical model for in-season forecasts of sockeye salmon returns to the Bristol Bay districts, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 62:1665-1680.

Springman, K. R., G. Kurath, J. J. Anderson, J. Emlen. (2005) Contaminants Viral Cofactors: Assessing Indirect Population Effects with the Vitality Model. Aquatic Toxicology 71, 13-23.

Anderson J.J. E. Gurarie and R. W. Zabel (2005). Mean free-path length theory of predator-prey interactions: application to juvenile salmon migration. Ecological Modelling 186:196-211.

Salinger, D. H, and J.J. Anderson and O. Hamel (2003) A parameter fitting routine for the vitality based survival model. Ecological Modeling 166(3): 287-294.

Hamel, O.S. and J.J. Anderson, (2002). The relationship of antigen density to bacterial load in spawning female pacific salmon infected with bacterial kidney disease. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 51:85-92.

Anderson, J. J. (2002). An event based event drive foraging model. Natural Resource Modeling. Volume 15, Number 1, p 55-82

Beer, W. N. and Anderson, J. J. (2001).  Effects of spawning behavior and temperature profiles on salmon emergence: Interpretations of a growth model for Methow river chinook.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.  58(5):943-949

Steel, E. A., P. Guttorp, J.J. Anderson and D.C. Caccia.  (2001). Modeling juvenile migration using a simple Markov chain.  Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental statistics.  Volume 6, Number 1 pages 80-88.

Norris, J. S. Hyun, J.J. Anderson (2000).  Ocean Distribution of Columbia River Upriver Bright Fall Chinook Salmon Stocks.  Pages 221-232 in Recent Changes in Ocean Production of the Pacific Ocean, Edited by J.H. Hella, Y. Ishida, D. Noakes and V. Radchenko. North Pacific Anadromous fish Commission Bulletin # 2. Vancouver Canada.

Anderson, J.J. (2000).  A vitality based model relating stressors and environmental properties to organism survival.  Ecological Monographs 70(3) 117-142.

Anderson, J.J. (2000).  Decadal climate cycles and declining Columbia River salmon.  In Sustainable Fisheries Management: Pacific Salmon.  Ed. E. Knudsen.  CRC Press, Boca Raton. P. 467-484.

Helu, S.L., J.J. Anderson, D.B. Sampson. (1999). An individual-based boat fishery model can generate fishery stability. Natural Resource Modeling. 12(2) 231-247.

Zabel, R.W., J.J. Anderson, and P.A. Shaw. (1998). A multiple reach model describing the migratory behavior of Snake River yearling chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences: 55:658-667.

Beer, W. N. and Anderson, J. J. (1997). Modelling the growth of salmonid embryos. J. theor. Biol. 189, 297-306.

Zabel, R. and J.J. Anderson. (1997). A model of the travel time of migrating juvenile salmon, with an application to Snake River spring chinook salmon. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 17:93-100.

Current Students

Eli Gurarie – Ph.D. Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management – 2002

Dissertation topic: modeling interactions of migratory prey with their predators

Edward Zapel – Ph.D. Aquatic and Fishery Sciences – 2004

Dissertation topic: Predator prey interaction in a hydroelectric dam tailrace.

Ting Li – M.S. Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management – 2005

Jennifer Tran – Ph.D. Aquatic and Fishery Sciences – 2006

Aditya Khanna – M.S. Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management – 2006

Former Students

Brett R. Dumbauld 1985. MS. School of Fisheries

"The distributional ecology of zooplankton in east passage and the main basin of Puget Sound"

Richard Nemeth 1989. MS. School of Fisheries

"The photobehavioral responses of juvenile chinook and coho salmon to strobe and mercury lights"

Blake E. Feist. 1991. MS. School of Fisheries

Potential impacts of pile driving on juvenile pink (Onchorhynchus gorbuscha and chum (O. keta) salmon behavior and distribution)

Richard Hinrichsen 1994 PH. D. in Qualitative Ecology and Resource Management

"Optimization models for understanding migration patterns of juvenile chinook salmon"

Richard Zabel 1994 Ph.D. in Qualitative Ecology and Resource Management

"Spatial and Temporal models of migrating juvenile salmon with applications"

Nick Beer Ms. 1996 M.S.

A growth model for larval salmon with application to field and laboratory observations of chinook salmon ( Oncorhuynchus tshawaytscha )

Saang-Yoon Hyun 1996. M.S. School of Fisheries

"Ocean distributions of the Columbia river Handord Reach and Snake River fall chinook salmon ( Oncorhuynchus tshawaytscha ) stocks and the effect of interannual ocean conditions on their survival."

Susan Crane Lubetkin 1997. M.S. Qualitative Ecology and Resource Management

"Multi-source mixing models: food web determination using stable isotope tracers"

Ashley Steel, Ph.D. 1999, Ph.D. in Qualitative Ecology and Resource Management

"In-stream factors affecting juvenile chinook salmon migration"

Owen Hamel,2001 Ph.D , in Qualitative Ecology and Resource Management

The Dynamics and Effects of Disease in Columbia and Snake River Salmon Populations

Saang-Yoon Hyun,2002 Ph.D in Qualitative Ecology and Resource Management

Inseason forecaswts of sockeye salmon run returns to Bristol Bay districts of Alaska.

Kevin Brinck 2002 M.S. in Qualitative Ecology and Resource Management ,

Comparing method for inferring site biological condition from a sample of site biota.

Molly Cobliegh 2003 M.S in School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences,

Stress, Growth and Survival of Juvenile Chinook Salmon

Nathan Zorich 2004 M.S in School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences,

Foraging behavior and swimming speed of northern pikeminnow

(Ptychocheilus oregonensis) in the Columbia River.

Abran Steel-Feldman 2006 in M.S. Qualitative Ecology and Resource Management

Learning models and animal behavior: exploring the dynamics of simple models

Current members of my CBR group

STAFF	PHONE	EMAIL	Position
Anderson, Jim	543-4772	jjand at u.washington.edu	Principal Investigator director
Beer, Nick	221-3708	nbeer at cbr.washington.edu	Research Scientist
Iltis, Susannah	685-2182	camel at cbr.washington.edu	Webmaster
Muongchanh, Christine	543-7848	cket at u.washington.edu	Administrator
Potter, Jimmy			Student Programmer
Van Holmes, Chris		cvh at u.washington.edu	Database Manager

updated: October 2006