Research Teams

Sherry Wollrab, Fisheries Biologist
email: sherrywollrab[at]fs.fed.us  

Education

• B.S., Wildlife Management, University of New Hampshire
• Masters of Natural Resources, University of Idaho

Research Interests/Background

• Effects of climate change on stream temperature
• Aquatic ecological responses to stream and river thermal regimes
• Development of applied science tools and procedures for managers
• Wildfire and fuel reduction treatment effects on riparian zones

Projects

NorWeST - Stream Temperature Regional Database and Model

Stream Temperature Modeling and Monitoring

Publications

Isaak, D. J.; Wollrab, S.; Horan, D.; Chandler, G. 2011. Climate change effects on stream and river temperatures across the northwest U.S. from 1980-2009 and implications for salmonid fishes. Climatic Change. 113: 499-524.

Isaak, D. J.; D. Horan, and S. Wollrab. 2011. A visual guide to permanently installing temperature sensors in streams using underwater epoxy. Updated 04/15/2013 (http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/boise/AWAE/projects/stream_temperature.shtml/)

Stone, K., Pilliod, D.S., Dwire, K.A., Rhoades, C.C., Wollrab, S.P., Young, M.K., 2010, Fuel reduction management practices in riparian areas of the western USA: Environmental Management, v. 46, p. 91-100.

Peterson, James T., S. P. Wollrab.  1999.  An analysis of potential stream fish and fish habitat monitoring procedures for the Inland Northwest, Annual Report 1999 to Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, OR, Contract No. 92AI25866, Project No. 92-032-00, 61 electronic pages (BPA Report DOE/BP-25866-1).

Wollrab, S.P. 1999.  User’s guide to FBASE: Relational database software for managing R1/R4 (Northern/Intermountain Regions) fish habitat inventory data.  Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-34WWW.  Ogden, UT:  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.  109 p.

Overton, C.K. and S.P. Wollrab, B.C. Roberts [and others]. 1997. R1/R4 (Northern/Intermountain Regions) fish and fish habitat standard inventory procedures handbook. INT-GTR-346. Ogden, Utah: USDA Forest Service: 1-72.