Pete has focused most of his career on studies of salmon biology and life history, helping to advance conservation and fisheries management. He served on the faculty at North Carolina State University, and was the Conservation Biologist at the Wild Salmon Center in Portland, Oregon. At the Prince William Sound Science Center, Pete leads studies of interactions between wild and hatchery Pacific salmon.

Rob is a biological oceanographer, and came to PWSSC via the University of Hamburg following a doctorate at the University of Victoria. His current research focuses on how the regional oceanography structures the biogeochemistry and plankton ecosystem of the northern Gulf of Alaska.

Kristen is an evolutionary ecologist with has worked on diverse wildlife systems, from waterfowl of western Alaska to Antarctic seabirds. At the PWSSC, Kristen is leading the stream component of the Hatchery-Wild Salmon Interactions Program and the juvenile herring energetics component of the Herring Research and Monitoring Program.