About Kelly

Kelly Crispen is a master’s student at FLBS studying the physical bottlenecks of the declining salmon runs in The Umpqua River in Oregon. She is very excited to start her first field season as a grad student this summer and catch her first Steelhead!  Kelly was introduced to FLBS as an undergraduate when she took Dr. Stanford’s Field Ecology course.  After completing the course she knew she wanted to come back to the station for her graduate degree.

In the summer of 2005, after graduating with a B.S. in Aquatic Wildlife Biology from UM, Kelly took an internship with the FLBS affiliated Salmonid Rivers Observatory Network in northern British Columbia doing salmonid and river field ecology. She fell in love with the rivers and grew to enjoy smelling like a fish and patching leaky waders. After B.C. she worked at The University of Montana’s Center for Environmental Health Sciences as a research specialist for an environmental chemist. She loved her work but knew she wanted to get back out to the river, so when a graduate opportunity with Dr. Stanford came up she jumped at the chance to come back to the Bio Station. Her future goal is to do river and salmon restoration.

When Kelly isn’t taking classes or working on her research project she enjoys baking, hiking, camping, fly fishing, floating, cross country skiing and trail running with her boyfriend Jason and their dogs Thor and Roary.