Christian Smith

Christian is the Regional Geneticist and Program Lead for the Conservation Genetics Program. The program works with state and local governmental, tribal, academic, and private sector partners to meet the need for genetic information. Results are commonly used to support management of NFHs in the Pacific and Pacific Southwest Regions and for rapid analysis of genetic samples to support conservation management actions by the FWS and our partners. Results may also be used to infer population structure structure
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Learn more about structure as required for status reviews and recovery planning under the Endangered Species Act.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D. - 2002. Biology. University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

B.S. - 1996. Biology. University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Smith, C.T., J. Von Bargen, P. W. DeHaan, P. Scheerer, and M.H. Meeuwig. 2019. Genetic structure and the history of chub in the Alvord Basin. Conservation Genetics 20(3):489-501.

Silver, B.P., J. M. Hudson, C.T. Smith, K. Lujan, M. Brown, and T.A. Whitesel. 2018. An urban stream can support a healthy population of coastal cutthroat trout. Urban Ecosystems 21 (2):291-304.

Lesica, P., B. Adams, and C. T. Smith. 2016. Can physiographic regions substitute for genetically-determined conservation units? A case study with the threatened plant, Silene spaldingii. Conservation Genetics 17:1041-1054.

Smith, C.T., J. Baumsteiger, W. R. Argren, Y. Dettlaff, D. Hawkins, and D. M. Van Doornik, 20015. Eliminating variation in age-at-spawning leads to genetic divergence within a single coho salmon population. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management6 (1): 4-18.

Sutherland, B.J.G., K.C. Hanson, J.R. Jantzen, B.F. Koop, and C.T. Smith. 2014. Divergent immunity and energetic programs in the gills of migratory and resident Onchorhynchus mykiss. Molecular Ecology 23 (8): 1952-1964.