Environmental Scientist, Ph.D. (San Ramon, CA)

• INSTITUTION AND LOCATION, DEGREE, YEAR, FIELD OF STUDY
• National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico, D.F. B.S. 1983, Biology
• Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. M.S. 1990, Limnology (Benthos)
• Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Ph.D. 1996, Fisheries (Univariate Time Series Modelling)
• University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. Post-Doc 2003, Multivariate Time Series Modelling
• University of California Berkeley Extension, Berkeley, CA, Certificate Program in Project Management, 2006, Project Management

• Fisheries Assessment and Management
• Fish Population Dynamics and Modelling
• Fish Ecological Studies
• Limnology (Benthos Ecology)
• Time series modelling

Oct 2005 – ? Environmental Technology Specialist- Technical and Ecological. Services, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Ramon, CA

• CE-QUAL-W2 WATER QUALITY Modelling (DeSabla-Centerville)

Oct 2003 – June 2005. Associate Environmental Scientist - Surface Water Resources, Inc., Sacramento, CA

• Provided consultation and advice in quantitative, statistical, experimental design, and data management issues in support of technical report development. Produced SAS programming, statistical analyses and summaries.
• Sacramento River Water Reliability Study, NOAA Fisheries Biological Assessment, Analysis of Steelhead and Green Sturgeon, Winter-Run and Spring-Run Chinook salmon.
• Evaluation of the 2004 Yuba River Water Transfers. SAS programmer (Stationarity tests and PROC STATESPACE procedure): Multivariate Time Series Analysis of upstream migration rates along with attractor River flows and water temperatures.
• Identify fish habitat in the Feather River from the Thermalito Diversion Dam to the Sacramento River Confluence, as it pertains to species-specific habitat requirements.
• Evaluate the timing, magnitude and frequency of water temperatures and their effects on Chinook salmon egg and alevin survival in the lower Feather River, California.
• Identification and characterization of adult spring-run Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) holding habitat in the Feather River below the Thermalito Diversion Dam, California.
• Flow-fluctuation effects on Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) redd dewatering in the lower Feather River, California.

Previous Jobs:

• 2003 (May-Sep) SAS programmer (Stationarity tests and PROC STATESPACE procedure): Multivariate Time Series Analysis. State-Space Modelling of fallback rates and dam passage times of Chinook and Steelhead salmon in the Columbia and Lower Snake Rivers. Post-Doctoral Fellow. University of Idaho. Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Moscow, ID.
• 1997 – 2002. Spatial distribution and ARIMA Time Series Modelling of indices of abundance of atherinopsids (Chirostoma spp.) (silversides and whitefish) from Lake Chapala, Mexico. Head of the Fisheries Research Program. CIIDIR-IPN-MICH. National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico). Designer of the first systematic sampling program and fishery survey of the largest lake in Mexico.
• (Apr-Dec) 1996. Professor of Fisheries Management (Universidad del Mar) April-July 1996 and Introductory Marine Biology (Universidad del Mar) August-September 1996, Puerto Angel. Oaxaca, Mexico.
• 1991 – 1996(March) Graduate Assistant, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University. SAS programmer (Stationarity tests and PROC ARIMA procedure): Univariate Time Series Modelling of fish CPUE series from the NW Atlantic Ocean, East Lansing, MI.
• 1990 – 1991. Limnology of the Guaracha Reservoir. Identification and enumeration of zooplankton, CIIDIR-IPN-MICH. National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico), Jiquilpan, Michoacan, Mexico.
• 1987 – 1990. Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Range, Wildlife and Fisheries, Texas Tech University. Identification and enumeration of benthic and epiphytic invertebrates from 10 Playa Lakes, Hart Co., Texas. SAS programmer (PROC General Linear Model procedure). Designer of complex field experimental design: Split plot-Factorial with SAS programming language, Lubbock, TX.
• 1986 – 1987. Head of the Department of Research Assistance. Library, water quality and microbiology laboratories. CIIDIR-IPN-MICH, National Polytechnic Institute, Jiquilpan, Michoacan, Mexico.
• 1983 – 1987. Limnology of the Guaracha Reservoir. Water quality studies. Identification and enumeration of benthic and water hyacinth epiphytic invertebrates. CIIDIR-IPN-MICH. National Polytechnic Institute, Jiquilpan, Michoacan, Mexico.

Intern supervision:

Year (number of students supervised): 1985(3), 1986 (14), 1987 (4), 1990 (1), 1998 (8)

Field and Laboratory Experience:

• Planning, design, and management of limnological and fisheries field studies in reservoirs and lakes.
• Data analysis and interpretation of results

• Water quality studies and ion chromatography at the Environmental Sciences Laboratory of the Department of Civil Engineering and the Water Resources Center at Texas Tech University.
• Zooplankton, benthic and epiphytic invertebrate studies. Sampling procedures. Aquatic invertebrate taxonomy skills.
• Fish community studies. Team Leader, Fisheries Research Team. Sampling techniques: electro-fishing, seining, gillnetting, pelagic trawl nets and cove rotenone sampling.

• AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY

• National Council of Science and Technology – Institute of International Education Fulbright-Garcia Scholarship Award for Ph.D. studies at Michigan State University (1991-1996).
• Lazaro Cardenas Awards in 1980 and 1981 for BEST GPA in the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico.
• Scholarship Award from the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico for studies in Biology (1977-1982).

• Michigan State University: Stream Ecology, Ichthyology, Fishery Biology and Management, Limnology, Comparative Limnology, Fish Communities and Aquatic Ecosystems, Fish Population Dynamics, Quantitative Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Multivariate Statistics, Statistical Methods for Biologists I and II, Population and Community Ecology, Community and Ecosystem Ecology, Ecological and Evolutionary Mechanisms-Aquatic, Analysis of Wildlife Populations, Time Series Analysis, System Science I and II and Regression Analysis.
• Texas Tech University: Biometry, Experimental Design and Analysis, Advanced Population Biology, Population Estimation and Dynamics, Advanced Fish Ecology and Management, Fisheries Management, Synecology, Aquatic Entomology and Special Studies-Sanitary Engineering (Introductory Limnology).
• National Polytechnic Institute: Differential and Integral Calculus, Statistics and Probability, Physics, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry I & II, Physical-Chemistry, Biochemistry, Cell biology, Histology, Embryology, Physiology, Animal Physiology, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, Genetics, Evolution, General Ecology, Invertebrate Zoology (Protozoa to Ctenophora) & (Plathelmyntha to Echinodermata), Entomology, Arthropod Zoology, Chordate Zoology, Microbiology, Mycology, Vegetal Morphology, Algae and Bryophyte, Vascular Plants, Climatology, Vegetal Ecology, Fisheries Biology, Ichthyology and Aquaculture.

• Spanish (mother language)
• English
• French: Michigan State University: Elementary French I & II, Second Year French I
• German: Michigan State University: Elementary German I & II, Second Year German I

• CE-QUAL-W2 and Hydrodynamic Modelling Workshop, Portland State University, Portland, OR. (June 19-23, 2006). 40 hours.
• Lake morphometry (Nov 11, 1998). 8 hours.
• Spatial distribution and sampling in ecology (11 July - 11 August 1998). 216 hours.
• Planktonic aquaculture and its use in the assessment of ecosystem health (11 July-13 August 1997). 216 hours.
• Environmental impact of contamination of aquifers (7-9 May 1997). 24 hours.
• Communication and education-class plan. July 20-24, 1987; 20 hours.
• Management and conservation of Lakes (Centro de Estudios Limnologicos: S.A.R.H.). Dr. Vollenweider et al. Dec 5 9, 1983; 30 Hours.

• Universidad del Mar: Professor of Fisheries management and Introductory Marine Biology (1996)
• Michigan State University: Population Analysis (Teaching Assistant 1992).

Implementation and maintenance of the fish collection (Goodeidae, Poecilidae, Cyprinidae, Atherinopsidae) and freshwater invertebrates, Lake Chapala and Guaracha Reservoir, Michoacan, Mexico.

Technical reports:

• http://orovillerelicensing.water.ca.gov/wg-reports_envir.html
• SP-F3.2 Task 1,4,5 Final Report: Comparison of Fish Distribution to Fish Habitat in the Lower Feather River (08-01-04). Part 1 (2054Kb). Part 2 (1844Kb). Part 3 (2228Kb)
• SP-F10 Task 1D & 1E Revised Final Report: Evaluation of Oroville Facilities Operations on Water Temperature-Related Effects on Pre-Spawning Adult Chinook Salmon and Characterization of Holding Habitat (07-23-04) (1656Kb)
• SP-F10 Task 2C Revised Final Report: Evaluation of the Timing, Magnitude and Frequency of Water Temperatures and Their Effects on Chinook Salmon Egg and Alevin Survival. (07-23-04) (749KB)
• SP-F10 Task 2D Revised Final Report: Evaluation of Flow Fluctuation Effects on Chinook Salmon Redd Dewatering in the Lower Feather River. (07-23-04) (824KB
• Becerra-Munoz, S., H.R. Buelna-Osben and J.M. Catalan-Romero. 1998. Spatial distribution and abundance of the Chirostoma genus (silversides and whitefish) in Lake Chapala, Mexico. Technical report. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigacion para el Desarrollo Integral Regional. Unidad Michoacan (CIIDIR-IPN-MICH.). National Polytechnic Institute.
• Becerra-Munoz, S. 1991. The limnological study of the Guaracha Reservoir (1983-1987), Mpio. Villamar, Michoacan, Mexico. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigacion para el Desarrollo Integral Regional. Unidad Michoacan (CIIDIR-IPN-MICH.). National Polytechnic Institute.

• Becerra-Munoz, S. and C. Peery. 2004. State-space Modelling of dam passage time and fallback rates of adult Chinook salmon and steelhead in the Columbia and Lower Snake Rivers (2000-2002). American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, August 21-26, 2004. Madison, WI.
• Becerra-Munoz, S., H.R. Buelna-Osben, J.M. Catalan-Romero and E. Martinez-Bravo. 2001. The importance of sestonic bacteria as the food supply of atherinids from Lake Chapala, Mexico. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, August 19-23, 2001. Phoenix, AZ.
• Becerra-Munoz, S., H.R. Buelna-Osben, J.M. Catalan-Romero and A. Mejia-Muratalla. 1999. Spatial distribution and indices of atherinidae and goodeidae abundance from Lake Chapala, Mexico. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, 30 Aug - 2 Sept, 1999. Charlotte, NC.
• Becerra-Munoz, S., H.R. Buelna-Osben, J.M. Catalan-Romero and A. Mejia-Muratalla. 1998. Spatial and temporal distribution of silversides and whitefish of Lake Chapala, Mexico. First National Congress of Limnology. Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. November 11-14, 1998.
• Becerra-Munoz, S., H.R. Buelna-Osben and J.M. Catalan-Romero. 1998. The impact of the goodeid fish Chapalichthys encaustus (Jordan & Snyder Pisces: goodeidae), in the atherinid fishery of Lake Chapala, Mexico. First National Congress of Limnology. Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. November 11-14, 1998.
• Becerra-Munoz, S., H.R. Buelna-Osben, J.M. Catalan-Romero, N.A. Aguilera-Ceja and S. Lopez-Diaz. 1998. Water quality and zooplanktonic volume of Lake Chapala, Mexico. First National Congress of Limnology. Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. November 11-14, 1998.
• Becerra-Munoz, S., H.R. Buelna-Osben, J.M. Catalan-Romero and A. Mejia-Muratalla. 1997. The atherinidae and goodeidae fish community of Lake Chapala as an indicator of ecosystem health. Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society. 5th International Conference on Aquatic Ecosystem Health. Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico. 26-29 October 1997.
• Becerra-Munoz, S. 1990. Limnological study of the Guaracha Reservoir. First Bilateral Workshop between the University of Guadalajara and CIIDIR-IPN-Mich. Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico. May 17, 1990.
• Becerra-Munoz, S. and Escalera-Gallardo, C. 1986. Quantitative study of the waterhyacinth phytomacrofauna (Isopoda-Oligochaeta) in the Guaracha Reservoir, Villamar, Michoacan. First National Symposium of Aquaculture, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. December 8-12, 1986.
• Becerra-Munoz, S. and Escalera-Gallardo, C. 1985. Advances of the limnological study of the Guaracha Reservoir. Aquaculture Workshop. CIIDIR-IPN-MICH. Jiquilpan, Michoacan, Mexico. February 25- March 3, 1985.
• Becerra-Munoz, S. 1985. Limnological study of the Guaracha Reservoir. Second National Meeting of Research Projects sponsored by the “Consejo Nacional del Sistema Nacional de Educacion Tecnologica: Subsecretaria de Educacion e Investigacion Tecnologica”. Roque, Guanajuato, Mexico. December 1985.
• Becerra-Munoz, S. 1984. Limnological study of the Guaracha Reservoir. First National Meeting of Research Projects sponsored by the “Consejo Nacional del Sistema Nacional de Educacion Tecnologica: Subsecretaria de Educacion e Investigacion Tecnologica”. Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. November 1984.

• The Limnological study of the Guaracha Reservoir, Villamar, Michoacan, Mexico.

• Becerra-Munoz, S. and H.L. Schramm, Jr. 2007. On the influence of substrate morphology and surface area on phytofauna. Hydrobiologia 575:117-128.
• Becerra-Munoz, S., and C.A. Peery. 2007. State-space Modelling of dam passage time and fallback rates of adult Chinook salmon and steelhead in the Columbia and Lower Snake Rivers (2000-2002). Ecological Modelling (submitted).
• Becerra-Munoz, S., H.R. Buelna-Osben and J.M. Catalan-Romero. 2007. State-space Modelling of atherinopsid density/biomass in relation to zooplankton volume and environmental variables in Lake Chapala, Mexico (June 1997 to February 1999). Ecological Modelling (submitted).
• Becerra-Munoz, S., H.R. Buelna-Osben and J.M. Catalan-Romero. 2003. Spatial patterns of ARIMA modeled rates of change of atherinids (Chirostoma spp.) and goodeid Chapalichthys encaustus from Lake Chapala, Mexico. Ecological Modelling 165 (2-3): 237-250.
• Becerra-Munoz, S., D.B. Hayes and W.W. Taylor. 1999. Stationarity and rate of dampening of modeled indices of fish abundance in relation to their exploitation status in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Ecological M

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