Area of Expertise:
Mary Thiess is a Research Biologist at the DFO’s Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo. She provides analytic and field program support to fisheries research programs on Canada’s Pacific coast. For example:
- For the Salish Sea Marine Survival Program (a collaboration with Pacific Salmon Foundation) she provided data management & analysis, field research coordination & project management.
- For the Southern BC Chinook Strategic Planning Initiative she provided technical working group coordination and data coordination & analysis.
- For the Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat – Pacific Region she acted as Chair and Rapporteur.
Select Presentation(s) / Publication(s):
Mahony, AM & Johnson, Stewart & Neville, Chrys & Thiess, Mary & Jones, Simon. (2017). Myxobolus arcticus and Parvicapsula minibicornis infections in sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka following migration to the ocean in British Columbia, Canada. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 126. 10.3354/dao03158.
Neville, Chrys M; Thiess, Mary E; Preikshot, Dave, Dr; Sweeting, Ruston M, Dr.; Trudel, Marc, Dr., “Variability in diet of juvenile Coho and Chinook salmon in the Strait of Georgia during their early marine residence” (2016). Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference.26. https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec/2016ssec/species_food_webs/26/