Matt Peterson

Matt Peterson is a fisheries biologist with extensive experience in acoustic telemetry, life-history variation of steelhead, and statistics. He has a wide variety of experience in field and laboratory settings, including the installation, operation, and maintenance of stream-width PIT tag antennas; PIT tagging; ARIS sonar camera operation; acoustic telemetry; spawning surveys; diet analyses; population genetics; and age-and-growth studies. Matt assists in study design, statistical analysis, and technical reporting for a variety of complex research projects, and is skilled in the programming language of R as well as numerous statistical techniques.

Matt’s recent professional research has focused on fine-scale run timing of adult Chinook salmon and steelhead, evaluating factors associated with spatial distribution and densities of Oncorhynchus mykiss in the Central Valley, and providing statistical support for numerous research projects. Matt holds a master’s degree in fisheries biology from Humboldt State University, where he studied the inter-annual variation of complex life-history traits among Trinity River steelhead. He has worked previously as a staff research assistant at UC Davis, a watershed coordinator with the Western Shasta Resource Conservation District, and a fisheries technician at Green Diamond Resource Company.