State of the Salmon Staff
Randy Ericksen, Salmon Management Specialist
Ray Hollander, Accounts Manager
Cathy Kellon, Project Manager
Rich Lincoln, Director
Pete Rand, Ph.D., Conservation Biologist
Randy Ericksen brings over 25 years of experience working in the areas of salmon stock assessment, monitoring, escapement goal evaluation and run forecasting. He worked for Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Sport Fish Division in its Southeast Region gaining strong, applied experience – finishing his tenure at ADFG with oversight for management and research activities in the Haines/Skagway area. One specific example of his work was leading a study and recommendations to reduce Chinook bycatch in high profile sockeye and chum drift gillnet fisheries in the area. More recently, Randy worked for an Oregon consulting firm as a senior fisheries scientist where he evaluated salmon habitat and habitat development projects, including using salmon life cycle analysis in the Klamath River basin to assess water diversion activities on listed coho salmon. Randy’s work with the Wild Salmon Center provides scientific and technical support to develop new salmon conservation policies and management practices around the Pacific Rim.
Accounts Manager Ray Hollander arrived in Portland with his wife six years ago after about 25 years with various non-profits in Hartford, Connecticut. He also served as volunteer president for Sheldon Oak Central, a prominent non-profit builder of low to moderate income housing in Hartford. He earned a B.S. in Accounting from Villanova University and an MBA from Babson College. Ray's team responsibilities include the accurate collection of project costs and creation of the program's financial reports for staff, partners and funders.
Cathy Kellon joined State of the Salmon in 2003 as Project Manager, relocating from Corvallis, where she earned her Master's degree in Geography with a minor in Integrated Water Resources Studies from Oregon State University. Prior to joining State of the Salmon, Cathy worked with NOAA Fisheries on Endangered Species Act critical habitat designations in the Upper Willamette and with Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, assisting with Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds activities. She currently helps oversee the State of the Salmon program and leads several projects, many of which emphasize the important role of salmon monitoring and data transparency in helping achieve conservation goals. When not at the office, she is happily teaching her son, well, everything and she is proud to say that some of his first words were "fish" and "water."
Director Rich Lincoln has 33 years of varied experience in fisheries research, management and policy in the Pacific Northwest as well as working on global fisheries sustainability. His professional interests have focused largely on salmon population conservation and its implications for managing harvests and hatchery programs, including the design of associated monitoring and evaluation programs. He recently returned to the U.S. after working as the International Policy Director for the Marine Stewardship Council in London, UK. Prior to that, he had a long association with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, starting as a field biologist working on salmon fishery and freshwater production evaluation studies, and then moving onto various research, management and policy leadership roles in the department. These roles included serving as bi-lateral chair of the Pacific Salmon Commission's Fraser Panel under the U.S.-Canada Salmon Treaty, leading development of Washington State's Wild Salmonid Policy and Wild Stock Initiative, and developing cooperative management arrangements with Northwest treaty Indian tribes. Rich brings strong dedication and collaborative innovation to ensuring that best available science is used to underpin and improve fishery resource policy and management.
Conservation Biologist Peter Rand, Ph.D. brings to the program 20 years of experience in basic and applied aquatic ecology, with a focus on fisheries science, management, and conservation. Peter is a graduate of Colgate University and received his master's and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Peter was a postdoc at the University of British Columbia from 1995-1997 and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology at North Carolina State University from 1997 to 2003. Peter has authored over 25 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters, and numerous other publications. He has conducted work in a wide variety of ecosystems, including the Laurentian Great Lakes, the Caribbean Sea, and coastal and montane river systems in the southeastern United States. In recent years he as focused his attention on Pacific salmon river ecosystems in British Columbia, Alaska, Russia and Japan. Peter currently holds the position as the Red List Authority Focal Point for the IUCN Salmonid Specialist Group.
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