Dr. Jeffrey Fisher is an aquatic ecologist and ecotoxicologist with 25 years of post-doctoral experience evaluating physical, chemical, and biological impacts on aquatic animals and ecosystem function.  He has conducted aquatic habitat evaluations, biodiversity surveys, ecological and invasive species risk assessments, environmental remediation, fish health assessments, and habitat restoration projects in marine, freshwater, and wetland environments in many regions of the country.  He joined Seattle City Light a little over a year ago, returning to the U.S. from directing the Marine Environmental Services division for Ireland’s Marine Institute. 

Prior to this work, he served the National Marine Fisheries Service from 2011 to 2016 as Branch Chief of the Lower Columbia salmon recovery domain, after earlier positions in research, tribal, and private sector organizations, and the foreign service. These broad experiences have afforded Dr.  Fisher objectivity in evaluating natural resource management issues in aquatic environments in particular.  He is drawing from his past experience and research to address challenges of aquatic invasive species for natural resource management in the upper Skagit system, and the actions being implemented by City Light to address aquatic invasive species concerns.