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url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/micah-kieffer | |||
timestamp: '2024-01-30T16:14:39.258847' | |||
status_code: 200 | status_code: 200 | ||
profile: | profile: | ||
name: Micah Kieffer | |||
name_qualifier: null | |||
titles: | |||
- | - Research Fishery Biologist | ||
organizations: | |||
- !!python/tuple | |||
- Eastern Ecological Science Center | |||
- https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eesc | |||
email: mkieffer@usgs.gov | email: mkieffer@usgs.gov | ||
orcid: 0000-0001-9310-018X | |||
intro_statements: | |||
- Micah Kieffer is a Research Fishery Biologist at the USGS S.O. Conte Research | |||
Laboratory at Turners Falls, Massachusetts since 1991. | |||
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- shortnose sturgeon | - shortnose sturgeon | ||
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- Gulf of Maine | - Gulf of Maine | ||
- Connecticut River | - Connecticut River | ||
professional_experience: | |||
- Participant in Gulf of Maine-wide investigation of coastal movements of shortnose | |||
and Atlantic sturgeons. | |||
- Recent noteworthy achievements include the identification of annual coastal | |||
spawning migrations of shortnose sturgeon living in the Merrimack River and | |||
spawning in the Kennebec River and the identification of critical life history | |||
elements of the Atlantic sturgeon, recently listed as a federally protected | |||
species. | |||
- Leader in determining scope of sturgeon presence within the Piscataqua/Great | |||
Bay System of New Hampshire and Maine, and their interactions with the Portsmouth | |||
Naval Shipyard and proposed dredging/construction activities. | |||
- Participant in the evaluation of migrant shortnose sturgeon lifted upstream | |||
of the Holyoke Dam through newly modified up- and downstream passage modifications. | |||
- Leader in the development of inter-agency investigations of shortnose sturgeon | |||
possibly inhabiting previously unknown Connecticut River reaches. | |||
- Co-investigator in proposed studies involving sturgeon ageing, population genetics, | |||
and eDNA. | |||
education: | |||
- MS in Fisheries Biology - Uhniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA | |||
- BS in Marine and Environmental Science - East Stroudsburg State University, | |||
East Stroudsburg, PA | |||
affiliations: [] | |||
honors: [] | honors: [] | ||
abstracts: [] | |||
personal_statement: "Micah Kieffer\u2019s research activities have always focused\ | personal_statement: "Micah Kieffer\u2019s research activities have always focused\ | ||
\ on movements and ecology of wild New England sturgeons. Of significance is\ | \ on movements and ecology of wild New England sturgeons. Of significance is\ | ||
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\ Fisheries Observer, deployed in the Gulf of Alaska/Bering Sea and North Atlantic\ | \ Fisheries Observer, deployed in the Gulf of Alaska/Bering Sea and North Atlantic\ | ||
\ Ocean on commercial fishing vessels from six nations." | \ Ocean on commercial fishing vessels from six nations." | ||