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Education:

Honors B.A. Biological Sciences and English, 1992, University of Delaware

Ph.D. Biological Sciences, 1998, Stanford University

 

Current Research Interests:

* Fisheries oceanography

* Ecological and physical processes affecting recruitment and population structure of marine fishes and invertebrates

* Population and metapopulation dynamics of anadromous and marine fishes

* Life history evolution and behavioral ecology of marine and anadromous fishes, particularly early life history stages

* Application of remote sensing and GIS in ecological study of marine systems

* Theoretical and statistical ecology

 

Memberships:

American Geophysical Union

American Fisheries Society

 

Awards:

U. S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal (2000, 2003)
National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateship (1997)
Norman K. Wessels Award for Outstanding Performance as a Teaching Assistant (1994)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (1993)
Phi Beta Kappa (1991)

 

Selected Publications:

Bjorkstedt, E. P., B. C. Spence, J. C. Garza, D. G. Hankin, D. Fuller, W. E. Jones, J. J. Smith, and R. Macedo (2005) An analysis of historical population structure for evolutionarily significant units of Chinook salmon, coho salmon, and steelhead in the North-Central California Coast Recovery Domain. U. S. Dept. Commer., NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-382. 210 pp.

Bjorkstedt E. P. (2005) DARR 2.0: updated software for estimating abundance from stratified mark-recapture data. U.S. Depart. Commer., NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-368, 13 p.

Bjorkstedt E. P., L. K. Rosenfeld, B. A. Grantham, Y. Shkedy, and J. Roughgarden (2002) Distributions of larval rockfish (Sebastes spp.) across nearshore fronts in a coastal upwelling region. Marine Ecology Progress Series 242: 215-228.

Bjorkstedt E. P. (2000) Stock-recruitment relationships for life cycles that exhibit concurrent density dependence. Canadian Journal of Fishery and Aquatic Sciences 57(2): 459-467.

McElhany P., Ruckelshaus M., Ford M. J., Wainwright T., Bjorkstedt E. P. (2000) Viable Salmonid Populations and the Recovery of Evolutionarily Significant Units. U.S. Depart. Commer., NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-42, 156 p.