Marci Koski
Prior to working with the Service, some of Marci’s more interesting positions included being a tour-guide for the overnight camping program at the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park, and being a weekly cartoonist for a Philadelphia newspaper. Marci now lives in Portland with her cat Jesse and can often be found prowling the dimly-lit aisles of Powell’s book store.
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Marci started her career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2006 in the Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office where she worked as a biologist on Section 7 consultations and Section 10 habitat conservation plans under the Endangered Species Act. She worked with a variety of listed upland, riparian, and aquatic species including coastal California gnatcatcher, least Bell’s vireo, light-footed clapper rail, thread-leaved brodiaea, tidewater goby, southern California steelhead, arroyo toad, and the Laguna Mountains skipper. Marci’s research background includes examining the interactive effects of changing environmental conditions (i.e., climate change and eutrophication) on the growth, behavior, and predation risk of kokanee salmon, as well as salmonid bioenergetics and foraging ecology. Additionally, Marci worked on several projects involving the use of aquatic invertebrates to assess water quality and aquatic ecosystem health. In joining the Recovery Assessment Program at CRFPO as a fish biologist, Marci returns to her aquatic roots to examine issues affecting the recovery of listed and sensitive fish (e.g., bull trout, coastal cutthroat trout, and Pacific lamprey) in the Pacific Northwest. 