Jason Romine

Jason attended The College of William & Mary for undergrad (Bachelors of Science 1997) and then attained a M.S. (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) in Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.  His Masters and Doctoral work involved stock assessment, age and growth, and fisheries interactions with large coastal shark species, Dusky Shark and Sandbar Shark.  After completing his graduate work he worked at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida conducting acoustic telemetry on juvenile Bull Sharks, various species of rays, and Smalltooth Sawfish.  In addition, he ran the GulfSPAN survey in the Cedar Key region of Florida to monitor near shore abundance of juvenile sharks.  In 2009, he joined the USGS Cook lab and worked on telemetry of Green Sturgeon in the lower Columbia.  This work transitioned into data analysis and modelling of routing and survival of out-migrating steelhead and Chinook in the Sacramento/San Joaquin River delta.  While at the Cook lab he focused on using acoustic telemetry to address management questions.  This work included but is not limited to Silver Carp in the Mid-west, Lake Trout in Yellowstone Lake, juvenile Chinook in the Sacramento River.  In 2016, he joined USFWS working as a GIS Biologist for the  Mid-Columbia NWR Complex.  In 2018, he pursued a position with the MCFWCO in the Yakima sub-office and began working on Bull Trout and steelhead and has remained with the MCFWCO since.

Publications:

  Peer Reviewed Publications (All USGS reports are peer reviewed):
1. Romine, J.G., Perry, R.W., Burau, J.R., Stumpner, P., and Blake, A.R. 2021. Effects of tidally varying flow on entrainment of juvenile salmon into Sutter and Steamboat Sloughs. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 19:1-17. [Link]
 

2. Rowe, J.C., Wilson-Romine, L.M., and Romine, J.G. 2021. Congruency in microhabitat use by telemetered Oregon spotted frogs (Rana pretiosa) and American bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbianus) at Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Northwest Naturalist 102:55-75. [Link]
 

3. Gutwosky, L.F.G., Romine, J.G., Heredia, N.A., Bigelow, P.E., Parsley, M.J., Sandstrom, P.T., Suski, C.D., Danylchuk, A.J., Cooke, S.J., and Gresswell, R.E. 2020. Revealing migration and reproductive habitat of invasive fish under an active population suppression program. Conservation Science and Practice. [Link] 

4. Perry, R.W., Romine, J.G., Pope, A.C., and Evans, S.D., 2018, Effects of the proposed California WaterFix North Delta Diversion on flow reversals and entrainment of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) into Georgiana Slough and the Delta Cross Channel, northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2018-1028, 46 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181028.
 

5. Perry, R.W., Pope, A.C., Romine, J.G., Brandes, P.L., Burau, J.R., Blake. A.R., Amman, A.J. and Michel, C.J. 2018. Flow-mediated effects on travel time and survival of juvenile Chinook salmon vary spatially in a complex tidally forced river delta. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. [Link]

6. Hansel, H.C., Romine, J.G., and Perry, R.W., 2017, Acoustic tag detections of green sturgeon in the Columbia River and Coos Bay estuaries, Washington and Oregon, 2010–11: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1144, 30 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171144.
 

7. Romine, J.G., Perry, R.W., Pope, A.C., Stumpner, P., Liedtke, T.L., Kumagai, K.K., Reeves, R.L. 2016. Evaluation of a floating fish guidance structure structure
Something temporarily or permanently constructed, built, or placed; and constructed of natural or manufactured parts including, but not limited to, a building, shed, cabin, porch, bridge, walkway, stair steps, sign, landing, platform, dock, rack, fence, telecommunication device, antennae, fish cleaning table, satellite dish/mount, or well head.

Learn more about structure at a hydrodynamically complex divergence in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, California, U.S. Marine and Freshwater Research.
 

8. Donaldson, M. Amberg, J., Adhikari, S., Cupp, A., Romine, J., Wright, A., Gaikowski, M., Suski, C. 2016. A mesocosm study examining the efficacy of a carbon dioxide barrier on Asian Carp movement and behavior. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. [Link]
 

9. Grubbs, R.D. Carlson, J.K., Romine, J.G., Curtis, T.H., McElroy, W.D., McCandless, C.T., Cotton, C.F., Musick, J.A. 2016. The consequences of spurious trophic cascades-the save the bay, eat a ray fishery. Scientific Reports. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep20970
 

10. Plumb, J. M., Adams, N.S., Perry, R.W., Holbrook, C.M., Romine, J.G., Blake, A.R., Burau, J.R. 2015. Diel activity patterns of juvenile late-fall Chinook Salmon with implications for operation of a gated water diversion in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. River Research and Applications. DOI: 10.1002/rra.2885 [Link]
 

11. Romine, J.G., Jensen, N.R., Parsley, M.J., Gaugush, R.F., Severson, T.J., Adams, R.F., Gaikowski, M.P. 2015. Response of Bighead Carp and Silver Carp to repeated water gun operation in an enclosed shallow pond. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 35:440-453.[Link]
 

12. Romine, J. G., Perry, R.W., Johnston, S.V., Fitzer, C.W., Pagliughi, S.W., and Blake, A.R. 2014. Identifying when tagged fishes have been consumed by piscivorous predators: application of multivariate mixture models to movement parameters of telemetered fishes. Animal Biotelemetry 2:3.[Link]
 

13. California Department of Water Resources. 2014. 2012 Georgiana Slough Non-Physical Barrier Performance Evaluation Project Report. State of California, Natural Resources Agency, Department of Water Resources, Bay-Delta Office, Sacramento, CA. (Key Contributor)
 

14. Perry, R.W., J.G. Romine, N.S. Adams, A.R. Blake, J.R. Burau, S.V. Johnston & T.L. Liedtke. 2014. Using a non-physical behavioral barrier to alter migration routing of juvenile Chinook salmon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. River Research and Applications 30:192-203.
 

15. Romine, J, J. Musick, R, Johnson. 2013. Compensatory growth of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in the western North Atlantic including the Gulf of Mexico. Marine and Coastal Fisheries. 5:189-199.
 

16. Romine, J.G., Perry, R.W., and Connolly, P.J. 2013. Using broad landscape level features to predict redd densities of Steelhead Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the Methow River watershed, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1232, 22 p.
 

17. Carlson, J., Gulak,S., Simpfendorfer,C., Grubbs, D., Romine, J., Burgess, G. 2013. Movement patterns and habitat use of smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata, determined using pop-up satellite archival tags. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.
 

18. Romine, J.G., Benjamin, J.R., Perry, R.W., Casal, L., Connolly, P.J., and Sauter, S.S., 2013, Theoretical life history responses of juvenile Oncorhynchus mykiss to changes in food
availability using a dynamic state-dependent approach: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1154, 20 p.
 

19. Romine, J.G., Perry, R.W., Brewer, S.J., Adams, N.S., Liedtke, T.L., Blake, A.R., and Burau, J.R., 2013, The Regional Salmon Outmigration Study—Survival and migration routing of juvenile Chinook salmon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta during the winter of 2008–09: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1142, 36 p.
 

20. Benjamin, J.R., Connolly, P.J., Romine, J.G., Perry, R.W., 2013. Potential effects of changes in temperature and food resources on life history trajectories of juvenile Oncorhynchus mykiss. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 142(1):208-220.
 

21. California Department of Water Resources. 2012. 2011 Georgiana Slough Non-Physical Barrier Performance Evaluation Project Report. State of California, Natural Resources Agency, Department of Water Resources, Bay-Delta Office, Sacramento, CA. (Key Contributor)
 

22. Perry, Russell W., Romine, Jason G., Brewer, Scott J., LaCivita, Peter E., Brostoff, William N., Chapman, Eric D., 2012. Survival and migration route probabilities of juvenile Chinook salmon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta during the winter of 2009-10. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1200, iv, 30 p.
 

23. Parsley, M.J., N.D. Popoff & J.G. Romine. 2011. Short-Term Response of Subadult White Sturgeon to Hopper Dredge Disposal Operations. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 31: 1 - 11.
 

24. Romine, J., Musick, J., and Burgess, G. 2009. Demographic analyses of the dusky shark, Carcharhinus obscurus, in the Northwest Atlantic incorporating hooking mortality estimates and revised reproductive parameters. Environmental Biology of Fishes 84(3): 277-289.
 

25. Bethea, D.M., Hollensead, L.D., Carlson, J.K., Ajemian, M.J., Grubbs, R.D., Hoffmayer, E.R., Del Rio, R., Peterson, G.W., Baltz, D.M., and Romine, J.G.2009. Shark nursery grounds and essential fish habitat studies, GULFSPAN Gulf of Mexico-FY08 Cooperative Gulf of Mexico States
 

26. Grubbs, R.D., Musick, J.A., Conrath, C.L., and Romine, J.G. 2007. Long-term movements, migration, and temporal delineation of summer nurseries for juvenile sandbar sharks in the Chesapeake Bay region. In: C.T. McCandless, N.E. Kohler and H.L. Pratt, Jr. (editors). Shark nursery grounds of the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast waters of the United States. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, MD.
 

27. Romine, J.G., Grubbs, R.D., and Musick, J.A. 2006. Age and growth of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in Hawaiian waters through vertebral analysis. Environmental Biology of Fishes 77: 229-239.