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Steve Haeseker

Steve joined the Columbia River Fishery Program Office in March 2003 as a Fish Biologist within the Water Management and Evaluation Team.

His professional interests and expertise include fisheries management, stock assessment, population dynamics, modeling, statistics, and decision analysis.

Education

• Ph.D. in Fisheries, Michigan State University (2001). Dissertation title: Incorporating Uncertainty into St. Marys River Sea Lamprey Management Through Decision Analysis.

• M.S. in Statistics, Michigan State University(2001).

• M.S. in Zoology, minor in Statistics, North Carolina State University (1995). Thesis title: Summer Distribution and Condition of Striped Bass in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina.

• B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, cum laude, University of California, Davis (1992).

Professional Positions
2003- : Fishery Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Vancouver, Washington.
2001-2003: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1997-2001: Distinguished Ph.D. Fellow, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
2000-2001: Statistician, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Lansing, Michigan.
1995-1997: Inland Fisheries Biologist, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, Onamia, Minnesota.
1993-1995: Graduate Research Assistant, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.
1994: Graduate Teaching Assistant, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Dorner, B., R.M. Peterman, and S.L. Haeseker. 2008. Historical trends in productivity of 120 Pacific pink, chum, and sockeye salmon stocks reconstructed by using a Kalman filter. In press in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (accepted 16 April 2008).

• Haeseker, S.L., R.M. Peterman, Z. Su, and C.C. Wood. 2008. Retrospective evaluation of pre-season forecasting models for sockeye and chum salmon. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 28(1):12-29 plus Appendixes 1 and 2 available online.

• Haeseker, S.L., M.L. Jones, R.M. Peterman, J.R. Bence, W. Dai, and G.C. Christie. 2007. Explicit consideration of uncertainty in Great Lakes fisheries management: decision analysis of sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) control in the St. Marys River. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64(10):1456-1468.

• Haeseker, S.L., B. Dorner, R.M. Peterman, and Z. Su. 2007. An improved sibling model for forecasting chum and sockeye salmon abundance. N. Amer. J. Fish. Management 27(2):634-642.

• Haeseker, S.L., Peterman, R.M., Su, Z., and C.C. Wood. 2005. Retrospective evaluation of pre-season forecasting models for pink salmon. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25(3):897-918.

• Su, Z., R.M. Peterman, and S.L. Haeseker. 2004. Spatial hierarchical Bayesian models for stock-recruitment analysis of pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61(12):2471-2486.

• Haeseker S.L., M.L. Jones, and J.R. Bence. 2003. Estimating uncertainty in the stock-recruitment relationship for St. Marys River sea lampreys. Journal of Great Lakes Research 29:728-741 Suppl. 1.

• Carmichael, J.T., S.L. Haeseker, and J.E. Hightower. 1998. Spawning migration of telemetered striped bass in the Roanoke River, North Carolina. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 127(2):286-297.

• Haeseker, S.L., J.T. Carmichael, and J.E. Hightower. 1996. Summer distribution and condition of striped bass within Albemarle Sound, North Carolina. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 125(5):690-704.

Refereed Papers in Conference Proceedings

• Peterman, R.M., B.J. Pyper, F.J. Mueter, S.L. Haeseker, Z. Su, and B. Dorner. 2007. Statistical models of Pacific salmon that include environmental variables. In press in Knudsen, E., H. Michael, and C. Steward (eds.), "Pacific Salmon Environment and Life History Models: Advancing Science for Sustainable Salmon in the Future", American Fisheries Society Symposium (accepted 23 August 2007).

• Peterman, R.M., Z. Su, S.L. Haeseker, B.J. Pyper, B.W. MacGregor, J.A. Grout, and B. Dorner. 2007. Evaluation of methods to reliably track changes in productivity of fish populations that arise from climatic change. Proceedings of the Fourth World Fisheries Congress, Vancouver, B.C.

Published Technical Reports

• Haeseker, S.L., and D. Wills. 2008. Evaluation of two release operations at Bonneville Dam on the smolt-to-adult survival of Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery fall Chinook salmon.

• Schaller, H., P. Wilson, S. Haeseker, C. Petrosky, E. Tinus, T. Dalton, R. Woodin, E. Weber, N. Bouwes, T. Berggren, J. McCann, S. Rassk, H. Franzoni, P. McHugh, and M. DeHart. 2007. Comparative Survival Study (CSS) of PIT-Tagged Spring/Summer Chinook and Steelhead in the Columbia River Basin: Ten-year Retrospective Summary Report.
  Main Report (pdf 4.9mb)
  Comments and Responses Appendices G and H (pdf 2.9mb)

• Anglin, D.R., S.L. Haeseker, J.J. Skalicky, H. Schaller, K.F. Tiffan, J.R. Hatten, P. Hoffarth, J. Nugent, D. Benner, and M. Yoshinaka. 2006. Effects of Hydropower Operations on Spawning Habitat, Rearing Habitat, and Stranding/Entrapment Mortality of Fall Chinook Salmon in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River.

To contact Steve, please call 360.604.2500 or email steve_haeseker@fws.gov.