Wolf Water Resources

Meet our staff: Twenty-five years into his career, Glen Leverich, PG, is as passionate as ever about Pacific NW geology. The history of it is MORE than just cool (so much more!)—understanding rocks and sediment is in fact the foundational step when starting any watershed study or planning effort. As W2r’s Watershed Sciences Director and Senior Geomorphologist, Glen leads many of W2r’s watershed studies, as well as reach-scale restoration design projects, ensuring all of our staff recognize the importance of physical science and systems thinking. Contact Glen if you'd like to pick his brain on the fascinating topics of geology and geomorphology.

Outdoorsman and design engineer Allen Dysart, PE will be sharing his interest in using beaver dam analogues (BDAs) to rehabilitate impaired ecosystems at BeaverCON next week (Boulder, CO). As their use increases in #floodplainrestoration, their benefits have become widely understood by practitioners, yet at many sites the results do not meet our expectations. Check out Allen’s presentation at BeaverCON to hear what he has to say on having realistic expectations and understanding timelines for the success of BDAs. He’ll share site evaluation methods and how to use BDAs as part of a hybrid restoration approach.

Meet our staff: Certified Fisheries Scientist, Lauren Zatkos is most at home tucked away into mountain streams performing fish and habitat assessments. In her freshwater food web research she gained an appreciation for and understanding of the complexities of stream and #riverecosystems, and uses this knowledge to inform #aquaticrestoration projects at W2r. Lauren also develops monitoring methods specific to juvenile coho and macroinvertebrates, including backpack electrofishing, seine and fyke netting, and macroinvertebrate collecting methods. Most recently Lauren has assisted in the salvage electrofishing of the South Fork Toutle River-Brownell reach (WA) and will lead a salvage electrofishing effort next summer in Salmon Creek in Fairview, OR. #salmonhabitat #fisheriesscience #riverrestoration Lauren is the co-author of the following papers:  [1] Zatkos, L., Arismendi, I., Johnson, S.L., Penaluna, B.E., 2021, Geophysical templates modulate the structure of stream food webs dominated by omnivory: Ecosphere, publication 12(3)e03444. [2] Zatkos, L., Arismendi, I., Gerth, W., 2021, Diet of Octogomphus specularis (Hagen in Selys, 1859) (Odonata: Gomphidae) nymphs in western Oregon, U.S.A. with incidental information on the diet of Cordulegaster dorsalis Hagen in Selys, 1858 (Odonata: Cordulegastridae) nymphs: The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, publication 97(2); DOI: 10.3956/2021-97.2.75  [3] Arismendi, I., Burg, G., Zatkos, L., Snyder, J., Lindley, D., 2021, A method to evaluate body length of live aquatic vertebrates using digital images: Ecology and Evolution, publication 11(10), pp 5497-5502; DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7444 [4] Zatkos, L., Murphy, C.A., Pollock, A., Penaluna, B.E., Olivos, J.A., Mowlds, E., Moffitt, C., Manning, M., Linkem, C., Holst, L., Cárdenas, B.A., and Arismendi, I., 2020, AFS Roots: Emmeline Moore, All Things to All Fishes: Fisheries, publication 45.8, pp 435-43. [5] Murphy, C.A., Zatkos, L., Antonelli, K., Cardenas, B.A., Linkem, C., Manning, M., Olivos, J.A., Penaluna, B.E., Pollock, A.M., Arismendi, I., 2020, AFS Roots: Mothers of Fishes: Fisheries, publication 45(7), pp 369-376, DOI 10.1002/fsh.10485.

We are hiring! Check out this attachment for our Hydraulic/Hydrologic Modeling Specialist position.

Especially looking for skills in CADD, H&H modeling, and survey