Kathryn Boyer

I was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1950. I went to college at the University of Arizona in Tucson where I studied Marine Ecology and Ichthyology and worked in the UA Fish Museum under the supervision of Donald A. Thomson and Lloyd T. Findley. I received a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 1972. My first job out of college was in the Department of Ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, where I was a curatorial assistant under the direction of William Eschmeyer. I moved to Vancouver, British Columbia where I worked for Dr. Basil Ho Yuen in the Faculty of Medicine. In 1977 I travelled from Vancouver to the southern tip of Peru over a 3 month period before returning to the US. I then worked as a Water Quality Specialist in Boise, Idaho until 1980 when I decided to attend Graduate School at Oregon State University. I received a Master of Science from the OSU Department of Zoology under the direction of Dr. Richard Ewing. After grad school, I worked for Dr. W. Linn Montgomery at Northern Arizona University as a Research Assistant, and then took a few years off to have two children. I went back to work in 1980, joining the US Forest Service as a Fish Biologist on the Cle Elum Ranger District of the Wenatchee National Forest. After a couple of years I was promoted to Forest Fish Biologist on the White Mountain National Forest in Laconia, NH where I worked for 3 years. In 1983 I accepted a position with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Wildlife Habitat Management Institute, in cooperation with the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at OSU. I was very pleased to move back to Corvallis and join the faculty at the Department. With funding from USDA, I supported graduate student research in cooperation with other departmental scientists including Stan Gregory, Guillermo Giannico, J. Boone Kauffman, and others.