**Michael J. Ford**

Curriculum Vitae -- November 2007

**Contact I**nformation

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  Northwest Fisheries Science Center  phone: 206 860-5612

  Conservation Biology Division       fax: 206 860-3335

  2725 Montlake Blvd E                email: mike.ford@noaa.gov

  Seattle, WA 98112                   
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**Degrees**

Ph.D. \-- Population Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York,
1995

B.S. \-- Biological Sciences, with Honors and Distinction, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California, 1991

**Employment**

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  2003-present   Director, Conservation Biology Division, Northwest
                 Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC)

  2000-2003      Program Manager, Genetics & Evolution, Conservation
                 Biology Division, NWFSC

  1997-2000      Research Geneticist, Conservation Biology Division, NWFSC

  1995-1997      National Research Council Research Associate, NWFSC
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**Research Interests --** using science to inform applied conservation;
population genetics; local adaptation; genetics effects of captive
propagation; molecular ecology

**Honors and Awards**

\- NOAA Administrator's Award, May 2005

\- Stevan Phelps Memorial Award for best AFS genetics paper, 2003

\- Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for Superior Federal Service, Oct
2000

\- Howard Hughes Medial Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow 1991 - 1995

\- Graduated w/ Honors and Distinction, Stanford University, 1991

**Status reviews and applied conservation science (examples)**

*Upper Columbia Habitat Conservation Plan, Hatchery workgroup, 1996-1998
--* Primary NOAA science participant on multi-agency workgroup to
develop hatchery production strategies for Upper Columbia River salmon
and steelhead.

*Hatchery risk assessments (1999) --* Was the primary NOAA science
participant on federal/state/tribal working group to develop hatchery
risk/benefit assessment tools for Puget Sound Chinook and coho salmon
management plans. The resulting tools and concepts have been influenced
other hatchery reform efforts throughout the region.

*Viable Salmonid Population (VSP) Report (McElhany et al. 2000) --*
Member of the team that developed the basic approaches NOAA Fisheries
would use to develop ESA conservation goals for listed Pacific salmon
species.

*Upper Columbia River Steelhead and Spring Chinook Salmon Biological
Requirements Committee --* Co-chaired this multi-agency committee, which
used the VSP (above) principles to develop interim recovery goals for
ESA-listed Upper Columbia Chinook and steelhead (Ford et al. 2001).

*ESA status review teams participation \--* "Southern Resident" Killer
whale (2004), Cherry Point herring (2005), Puget Sound steelhead (2005).

*Lower Columbia River tule Chinook harvest analysis report (2006) --*
Participated in federal/state working group to analyze harvest of LCR
tule Chinook with respect to the jeopardy standard of the ESA. Ford et
al. (2007).

*Independent Science Advisory Board (2004-present) --* NOAA Fisheries
*ex officio* member of science panel advising on Columbia River
conservation issues.

**Grants**

*Differences in natural production between hatchery and wild coho salmon
in Minter Creek, Washington, 2000-2005, co-PI with Howard Fuss, WDFW and
Jeff Hard, NWFSC.* Hatchery Science Review Group. \$290,748 (NMFS
portion)

*Monitor the reproductive success of naturally spawning hatchery Chinook
salmon in the Wenatchee River, 2004-present, co-PI with Todd Pearsons,
WDFW.* Bonneville Power Administration. \$2,657,099 (NMFS portion
\$777,375).

*Addressing DPS and extinction risk uncertainties for Puget Sound
Pacific hake: genetic differentiation and age structure, co-PI with
Richard Gustafson, NWFSC, 2000.* Office of Protected Resources, NOAA
Fisheries. \$70,000.

**Reviews**

Provided peer reviews for the following journals: Animal Conservation,
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Conservation
Biology, Conservation Genetics, Ecological Applications, Evolution,
Genetics, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Fish Biology, Molecular
Biology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Public Library of Science.

Peer reviewer for NSF, USDA; AK and CA Sea Grant.

**Scientific Publications**

Ford, M. J., H. Fuss, B. Boelts, E. LaHood, J. J. Hard, and J. Miller.
2008. Estimates of natural selection in a salmon population in captive
and natural environments. Conservation Biology, in press.

LaHood, E.S., J. Miller, C. Apland, Ford M.J. 2008. A Rapid Ethanol-Free
Fish Tissue Collection Method for Molecular Genetic Analyses.
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, in press.

Araki, H., B. A. Berejikian, M. J. Ford, and M. S. Blouin. 2008. Fitness
of hatchery-reared salmonids in the wild. Evolutionary Applications
**1**:342-355.

Waples, R. S., M. J. Ford, D. Schmitt. 2007. Empirical results of salmon
supplementation in the Northeast Pacific: A preliminary assessment.
Pages 383-403 in Bert, T. (Ed.) Ecological and Genetic Implications of
Aquaculture Activities. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Schwenke, P. L., J. G. Rhydderch, M. J. Ford, A. R. Marshall, L. K.
Park. 2006. Forensic identification of endangered Chinook Salmon
(Onchorhynchus tshawytscha ) using a multilocus SNP assay. Conservation
Genetics, 7(6):983-989.

Ford, M. J., H. Fuss, B. Boelts, E. LaHood, J. J. Hard, J. M. Miller.
2006. Changes in run timing and natural smolt production in a naturally
spawning coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) stream after 60 years of
intensive hatchery supplementation. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and
Aquatic Sciences, 63:2343-2355.

Kuligawski DR, Ford MJ, Berejikian B. 2005. Patterns of genetic
relatedness in a population of steelhead (*Oncorhynchus mykiss*).
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134:1202-1212.

Ford MJ, Teel D, VanDoornik D, Kuligowski D and Lawson P. 2004. Genetic
population structure of central Oregon coastal coho salmon (Oncorhynchus
kisutch). Conservation Genetics, 5:797-812

Ford, M.J. 2004. Conservation units and preserving diversity. In,
*Salmonid Perspectives on Evolution*. A. Hendry and S. Stearns, eds.
Oxford University Press.

Iwamoto, E., M.J. Ford, and R.G. Gustafson. 2004. Genetic population
structure of Pacific hake, Merluccius productus, in the Pacific
Northwest. Environ. Biol. Fish. 69: 187-199.

Van Doornik D.M., Ford M.J., and Teel D.J. 2002. Patterns of temporal
genetic variation in coho salmon: estimates of the effective proportion
of 2-year-olds in natural and hatchery populations. Trans Am Fish Soc
1007-1019.

Ford, M.J. 2002. Applications of selective neutrality tests to molecular
ecology, invited review. Molecular Ecology 11:1245-1262.

Ruckelshaus M., McElhany P., Ford M.J. 2002. Recovering species of
conservation concern: Are populations expendable? In: S. Levin and P.
Kareiva (eds.). *Expendable Species*. Princeton University Press.

Ford, M.J. 2002. Selection in captivity during supportive breeding may
reduce fitness in the wild. Conservation Biology 16:815-825.

Ford M.J. 2001. Molecular evolution of transferrin: evidence for
positive selection in salmonids. Mol. Biol. Evol. 18:639-647

Ford M.J. 2000. Effects of natural selection on patterns of DNA sequence
variation at the transferrin, somatolactin, and p53 genes within and
among chinook salmon (*Oncorhynchus tshawytscha*) populations. Mol.
Ecol. 9:843-855.

Ford M.J., Thornton P.J., and Park L.K. 1999. Natural selection promotes
divergence of transferrin among salmonid species. Mol. Ecol.
8:1055-1061.

Ford M.J. 1998. Testing models of migration and isolation among
populations of chinook salmon (*Oncorhynchus tshawytscha*). Evolution
52:539-557.

Willett C.S., Ford M.J. and Harrison R.G. 1997 Inferences about the
origin of a field cricket hybrid zone from a mitochondrial DNA
phylogeny. Heredity 79:484-494.

Ford M.J. and Aquadro C.F. 1996. Selection on X-linked genes during
speciation in the *Drosophila athabasca* complex. Genetics 144:689-703.

Ford M.J., Yoon C.K., and Aquadro C.F. 1994. Molecular evolution of the
*period* locus in *Drosophila athabasca*. Mol. Biol. Evol.
11(2):169-182.

Ford M.J., and Mitton J.B. 1993. Population structure of the pink
barnacle, *Tetraclita squamosa rubescens*, along the California coast.
Mol. Mar. Biol. Biotech. 2(3):147-153.

**Selected Reports and ESA Status Reviews**

Ford MJ, Sands N, McElhany P, Kope R, Simmons D, and Dygert P. 2007.
Analyses to Support a Review of an ESA Jeopardy Consultation on
Fisheries Impacting Lower Columbia River Tule Chinook Salmon. NMFS
Northwest Fisheries Science Center and Northwest Region. October 5,
2007.

Hard, J. J., J. M. Myers, M. J. Ford, R. G. Kope, G. R. Pess, R. S.
Waples, G. A. Winans, B. A. Berejikian, F. W. Waknitz, P. B. Adams, P.
A. Bisson, D. E. Campton, R. Reisenbichler. 2007. Status review of Puget
Sound steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA
Tech. Memo., NMFS-NWFSC-81, 117 p.

Gustafson, R. G., J. Drake, M. J. Ford, J. M. Myers, E. E. Holmes, R. S.
Waples. 2006. Status review of Cherry Point Pacific herring (Clupea
pallasii) and updated status review of the Georgia Basin Pacific herring
distinct population segment under the Endangered Species Act. U.S. Dept.
of Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memo., NMFS-NWFSC-76, 182 p.

Ford, M. J., P. Budy, C. Busack, e. al. 2001. Upper Columbia River
Steelhead and Spring Chinook Salmon: Population Structure and Biological
Requirements. Final Report, March 2001.

Berejikian, B. A., M. J. Ford. 2004. Review of relative fitness of
hatchery and natural salmon. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memo.,
NMFS-NWFSC-61, 28 p.

Krahn, M. M., M. J. Ford, W. F. Perrin, P. R. Wade, R. P. Angliss, M. B.
Hanson, B. L. Taylor, G. M. Ylitalo, M. E. Dahlheim, J. E. Stein, R. S.
Waples. 2004. 2004 Status Review of Southern Resident Killer Whales
(Orcinus orca) under the Endangered Species Act. U.S. Dept. of Commerce,
NOAA Tech. Memo., NMFS-NWFSC-62, 73 p.

McElhany, P., M. H. Ruckelshaus, M. J. Ford, T. C. Wainwright, E. P.
Bjorkstedt. 2000. Viable salmon populations and the recovery of
evolutionarily significant units. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Tech.
Memo., NMFS-NWFSC-42, 156 p.