Item talk:Q50223

usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:37:39.895062'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/mark-wildhaber
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations:
   - 2017-presesent, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Sturgeon Specialty
     Group Commission Member
   - 2009-present Member, World Sturgeon Conservation Society
   - 2002-present Fellow, American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists
   - 1993-present Member, North Central Division of the American Fisheries Society
   - 1993-1994 Continuing Education Coordinator, North Central Division of the American
     Fisheries Society
   - 1993-present Member, Missouri Chapter of the American Fisheries Society
   - 1993-1995 Continuing Education Coordinator, Missouri Chapter of the American
     Fisheries Society
   - 1990-present Member, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
   - 1988-present Member, Animal Behavior Society
   - 2004-present Member,  Conservation Committee, Animal Behavior Society
   - 1984-present, Member, American Fisheries Society
   - 1994-1995 Member Publications Award Committee, American Fisheries Society
   - 1994-1998 Associate Editor, The Progressive Fish Culturist, American Fisheries
     Society
   education:
   - Ph.D. Zoology and Biomathematics, Southeast Missouri State University 1989
   - M.S. Wildlife and Fisheries Science, Southeast Missouri State University 1985
   - B.S. Zoology and Mathematics, Minor in Chemistry, Southeast Missouri State University
     1981
   email: mwildhaber@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - Ecology
   - Threatened & Endangered Species
   - Quantitative Ecology
   - Fisheries Biology
   - Ecological Modeling
   - Habitat Modeling
   - Community Modeling
   - Aquatic Ecology
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Dr. Mark Wildhaber is a Research Ecologist at the Columbia Environmental Research
     Center.
   name: Mark Wildhaber, PhD
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0002-6538-9083
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/columbia-environmental-research-center
   organization_name: Columbia Environmental Research Center
   personal_statement: 'Mark has worked at USGS, Columbia Environment Research Center
     since 1991. His major responsibilities include research in all areas of aquatic
     ecology, fish biology, behavioral ecology, ecological modeling, and climate
     change in understanding for and support of conservation and recovery efforts.
     His expertise includes: at-risk, threatened, and endangered fishes, reproductive
     ecology, bioenergetics and population, community, and ecosystem modeling and
     forecasting, population monitoring and experiment designs, and Bayesian and
     non-Bayesian approaches to analyzing fisheries data. Marks research includes
     reproductive behavior and physiology and abiotic and biotic requirements for
     reproductive success of commercially valuable and/or federally-listed as threatened
     or endangered fishes; effects of heavy metals and acidic contamination on riverine
     ecosystems; effects of water management on the benthic fish community of riverine
     ecosystems; effects of organic and inorganic contamination on aquatic benthic
     invertebrate communities; and spatial and temporal hierarchical fish population
     modeling using spatially-explicit individual-based models that incorporate bioenergetics,
     foraging theory, and other models of habitat choice under varying environmental
     conditions in the context of global climate to guide conservation and recovery
     efforts.'
   professional_experience:
   - 1997-present Research Ecologist/Quantitative Ecology Section Leader, USGS Columbia
     Environmental Research Center
   - 1991-1997 Statistician, USFWS/NBS National Fisheries Contaminant Research Center
   - 1989-1991 Research Associate and Tutor, Department of Zoology, North Carolina
     State University
   - 1983-1989 Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Zoology, North Carolina
     State University
   - 1981-1983 Teaching Assistant, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Texas A&M
     University
   - 1979 Laboratory Assistant, Department of Biology, Southeast Missouri State University
   title: Research Ecologist