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BOB FUERSTENBURG PROFILE
has been a senior ecologist for the King County Department of Natural Resources since 1986. During that time, Bob have collaborated with other scientists in a long-term study of the effects of urbanization on the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems. This work has focused on the changes in river and stream ecology wrought by changes in land use and management. At present, Bob's work is driven mainly by endangered species listings that have occurred in the Northwest and is concerned with developing and refining an ecological approach to the conservation of salmon and their ecosystems in King County and central Puget Sound.

Address
King County Department of Natural Resources
201 S Jackson St, Suite 600
Seattle, WA 98104

Education

• 1973 B.A., Physics and Biology, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL
• 1976 M.A., Aquatic Ecology/Physiology, Minnesota State University. Mankato, Minnesota. Thesis: Trophic Dynamics of a Northern River Margin Ecosystem
• 1977 M.A., Marine Ecology/Biochemistry, University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon. Thesis: Biochemical Correlates of Temperature and Salinity Adaptation in the Harpacticoid Copepod Tigriopus californicus from Hypersaline Rockpools.

Recent Publications and Presentations

• Fuerstenberg, R., 1998. Needs of Salmon in the City: Habitat in the Urban Landscape. P.7-10 In: Salmon in the City: Can Habitat in the Path of Development be Saved? May 20-21, 1998. American Public Works Association, Washington Chapter.
• Fuerstenberg, R., 1997. The Impacts of Urbanization on Streams in King County, Washington. In: Proceedings of a Workshop: Urban Stream Protection, Restoration and Stewardship in the Pacific Northwest. Urban Initiative Series #08, Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Fuerstenberg, R., 1995. Landscape Ecology and Wetland Restoration: Integrating Structure, Function and Process. Annual Meeting of the Society for Ecological Restoration. September 1995. Seattle, Washington.
• Fuerstenberg, R. and G. Lucchetti, 1995. Fisheries Management and Local Government in Washington State: The Example from King County. Annual Meeting of the North Pacific International Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, April, 1995. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Fuerstenberg, R. and D. Booth, 1993. Wetland Management in Urbanizing Landscapes of King County, Washington. Joint Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and The Society of Wetland Scientists. May 30-June 3, 1993. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• Lucchetti, G. and Fuerstenberg, R., 1992. Management of Coho Slamon Habitat in Urbanizing Landscapes of King County, Washington, USA. Pages 308-317 In: L. Berg and P. Delaney, Eds. Proceedings of the 1992 Coho Workshop, Nanaimo, BC, Canada.