Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member

Steven Whitlock

Steve Whitlock
PhD
Email: whitlost@onid.oregonstate.edu

Biography

I received a BS in biology from Northland College (northern Wisconsin) in 2010. While in school I interned for three years at the USGS Lake Superior Biological Station where I assisted with trawling, hydroacoustics, and analysis of historical fisheries data. After graduating, I worked as a technician for the BLM in Oregon assessing stream habitat condition and mapping channel morphology. My master's research involves characterizing kokanee reproductive ecology in Lake Pend Oreille, ID and determining the effects of water level manipulation on the availability spawning habitat.

Research Publications Publication Date
Whitlock, S.L., T.M. Lewis, and J.T. Peterson. 2020. Using a Bayesian Multistate Occupancy Model to Assess Seabird and Shorebird Status in Glacier Bay, Alaska. Wildlife Society Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.1100 October 2020
Whitlock, S.L, J.N. Womble, and J.T. Peterson. Modelling Pinniped Abundance and Distribution Using Counts at Terrestrial Sites and In-Water Sightings. Ecological Modelling March 2020
Duarte, A., S.L. Whitlock, and J.T. Peterson. 2019. Species Distribution Modeling. Volume 2, Pages 189-198 in B. Fath editor. Encyclopedia of Ecology, Second Edition. Elsevier, Amsterdam October 2018
Project Completion Date
The development and evaluation of monitoring protocols to inform water resource decision making December 2022
Presentations Presentation Date
Whitlock, S., J. Womble, C. Gabriel, and J. Peterson.2017. Modeling pinniped abundance and distribution using haulout counts and in-water sightings. 2017 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, August 6-11, Portland Oregon. August 2017
Whitlock, S., C. Baker, and J.T. Peterson. 2019. The value of model-based estimators for enumerating fish at passage barriers: an example involving Pacific lamprey at Willamette Falls, Oregon. Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Reno NV. September 2019
Technical Publications Publication Date
Peterson, J.T., S. Whitlock, and A. Duarte. 2018. Evaluation of California Central Valley Project and State Water Project Fish Salvage Estimators. Draft task Completion Report to Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, August 2018, 23 pp. August 2018