Cramer Fish Sciences

Cramer Fish Sciences (CFS) is an employee-owned scientific consulting firm that helps clients across the western United States solve fisheries and natural-resource challenges. According to its official website, the firm has been "solving fisheries and natural resource challenges with science for more than 30 years." Its stated mission is "to provide quality, expert science which supports wise policy decisions and advances the field of natural resource management." The company works with clients in California, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Alaska, and focuses on fisheries, riparian and aquatic ecology, with particular emphasis on salmon and trout populations along the entire West Coast. The firm is built around a core group of senior scientists with distinguished careers in fisheries and aquatic ecology, forestry, genetics, fluvial geomorphology, biostatistics and population modeling, combined with early-career scientists trained in leading-edge methods and technologies. Field research, laboratory analysis and population monitoring are delivered by teams of full-time and seasonal technical and field staff. Each office functions as a flexible research lab of interdisciplinary scientists. CFS offers specialized services including genetics — described on its website as "cutting edge molecular biology and genetic analyses for the natural resources community" — alongside riparian and aquatic ecology, biostatistics and population modeling. The company states that it regularly publishes in scientific journals, teaches university and professional courses, and mentors others. Cramer Fish Sciences is 100% employee owned. Its leadership team includes Joseph E. Merz, Ph.D., President, Principal Scientist and Adjunct Professor at UCSC; Gregg Schumer, Vice President, Director of Lab Services and Senior Molecular Biologist; Kyle Burdick, M.S., Vice President of Operations; and Philip Roni, Ph.D., Vice President, Principal Scientist and Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington. The firm maintains offices in multiple western states, with leadership based in West Sacramento, California; Portland, Oregon; and Issaquah, Washington.

Cramer Fish Sciences has been solving fisheries and natural-resource challenges with science for more than 30 years, according to its official website. Over that period the firm has grown into an employee-owned consultancy serving clients across the western United States, with a focus on salmon and trout populations along the entire West Coast. The company was built around a core group of senior scientists with distinguished careers in fisheries and aquatic ecology, forestry, genetics, fluvial geomorphology, biostatistics and population modeling. This core has been mixed with upcoming scientists who have outstanding scholastic achievement and training in leading-edge methods and technologies. Field research, lab analysis and population monitoring are provided by teams of well-rounded full-time and seasonal technical and field staff. CFS has developed specialized capabilities in genetics, including molecular biology and genetic analyses for the natural-resource community, and in the detection of cryptic aquatic species by environmental DNA (eDNA). Gregg Schumer, Vice President and Director of Lab Services, has two decades of experience applying molecular biological techniques in fields including human pathogens, vaccine production, molecular ecology, fisheries genetics and eDNA detection, and has led the effort within CFS to transfer relevant molecular and genetics technologies into the firm's work. The firm maintains offices in multiple western states, each functioning as a flexible research lab of interdisciplinary scientists. Leadership is distributed across West Sacramento, California; Portland, Oregon; and Issaquah, Washington. CFS states that it takes its science seriously and regularly publishes in scientific journals, teaches university and professional courses, and mentors others. The company is 100% employee owned.

• Cramer Fish Sciences has been solving fisheries and natural-resource challenges with science for more than 30 years, per its official website.

• The firm becomes 100% employee owned.

• CFS develops genetics and eDNA laboratory capabilities led by Gregg Schumer.

Expert, employee-owned scientific consultancy delivering practical, innovative solutions for fisheries and natural-resource management in the western United States.

• Genetics and molecular biology analyses

  Cutting edge molecular biology and genetic analyses for the natural resources community.

• Environmental DNA (eDNA) detection

  Detection of cryptic aquatic species by environmental DNA.

• Fisheries and aquatic ecology consulting

  Innovative and practical solutions to challenges with fisheries, riparian and aquatic ecology.

• Biostatistics and population modeling

  Population modeling and biostatistical analysis for natural-resource management.

• Field research and population monitoring

  Field research, lab analysis and population monitoring by full-time and seasonal technical and field staff.

1. 1Cramer Fish Sciences – official website homepagefishsciences.net
2. 2Who We Are – Cramer Fish Sciencesfishsciences.net
3. 3Cramer Fish Sciences (United States) – Wikidatawikidata.org