Jody Brown

Fisheries Biologist (360) 547-2686, email Jody

I am originally from the Great Lake State of Michigan, where I received by Bachelors of Science in Conservation Biology at Central Michigan University. I enrolled into the College of Graduate Studies for Aquatic Biology at CMU and am still in the process of writing my thesis. In Michigan, I worked as a graduate teaching assistant and as a fisheries technician for a consulting firm. My work for the consulting firm involved the creation and monitoring of gravel bars for salmon and steelhead in the Big South Branch of the Pere Marquette River. My wife, Skaidre, son, Eion, daughter, Grace, and I moved out to the dark side of the Evergreen State (Kennewick, Wa) in April 2001, where I worked at McNary Dam on the Columbia River as a Smolt Monitoring Biologist.

I was hired with the Stillaguamish Tribe in September 2001 as a fisheries biologist. My duties here at the tribe are several fold. My main duties are in collecting and analyzing water quality data throughout the watershed, monitoring fecal coliform levels over shellfish beds in Port Susan, setting minimum instream flows for the Stillaguamish Basin, reviewing and mapping water rights, monitoring recently completed habitat restoration projects, and reviewing timber company's Road Maintenance and Abandonment Plans (RMAPs). Also, like everyone else in our department I fill in on projects as needed.

In my spare time I enjoy taking my family hiking, camping, canoeing, and fly-fishing.