After spending ten outstanding years in Juneau, Chris Sergeant moved back to his hometown of Seattle, Washington with his family in late 2021. He has a B.S. and M.S. in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences from the University of Washington. Since 2000, Chris has held fisheries biologist positions in government, private, and non-profit sectors. From May 2011 through August 2018, he served as the ecologist for the National Park Service’s Southeast Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network. After working with NPS, Chris accepted a research scientist appointment with the University of Montana’s Flathead Lake Biological Station focusing on large transboundary watersheds crossing the Alaska-British Columbia border. He began pursuing a PhD in the Freshwater Fish Ecology Lab in fall 2017 and plans to finish in 2022. Chris’ research has become increasingly interdisciplinary and integrates subjects such as freshwater ecology, water quality, hydrology, ecotoxicology, bioenergetics, and salmon biology. As a PhD student, Chris is exploring how shifting thermal and streamflow regimes will impact Pacific salmon living in the watersheds bordering the Gulf of Alaska. His three chapters are preliminarily titled:
1) A classification of streamflow patterns across the coastal Gulf of Alaska
2) Hypoxia risk in southeastern Alaska rivers and implications for Pacific salmon
3) Using salmon life-cycle modeling to identify limiting factors on freshwater survival in Southeast Alaska
You can follow Chris’ progress on ResearchGate and Twitter.
In his spare time, Chris likes camping, fishing, backpacking, discovering new music, reading, watching Steph Curry highlights, and spending time with his family (especially cooking and eating pizza together).
1) A classification of streamflow patterns across the coastal Gulf of Alaska
2) Hypoxia risk in southeastern Alaska rivers and implications for Pacific salmon
3) Using salmon life-cycle modeling to identify limiting factors on freshwater survival in Southeast Alaska
You can follow Chris’ progress on ResearchGate and Twitter.
In his spare time, Chris likes camping, fishing, backpacking, discovering new music, reading, watching Steph Curry highlights, and spending time with his family (especially cooking and eating pizza together).