Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Ph.D.
Fish Research Ecologist
USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station
3200 Jefferson Way, SW Corvallis, OR 97331
(541) 750-7346
rflitcroft@fs.fed.us
Educational background
2008 Ph.D., Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
Major: Fisheries Science
1998 M.S. Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
Major: Natural Resource Geography
1994 B.S., Willamette University, Salem, OR.
Double Major: Economics and Environmental Science.
Professional experience
2007-present. Fish Research Ecologist. USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station, Corvallis, OR.
2002-2007. Research Ecologist Trainee. USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station, Corvallis, OR.
2001-2002. Assistant Project Leader Aquatic Inventories Project - Oregon Plan Habitat Monitoring
Program. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Corvallis Oregon
1999-2001. Geographic Information Systems Analyst. Oregon Divison of State Lands, Salem, Oregon.
1997-1999. Project Biologist and Natural Resource Specialist. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife,
Corvallis, Oregon.
Teaching
 Integrated Watershed Management FW 326. A distance education class for Oregon State
University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Taught in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010.
 Workshop titled: GIS applications of in-stream habitat survey information in research and
analysis. Sponsored by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife at the H.J. Andrews
Experimental Forest, Blue River, Oregon. 2003.
Selected publications
Flitcroft, R.L., D.C. Dedrick, C.L. Smith, C.A. Thieman, and J.P. Bolte. 2009. Social Infrastructure to
Integrate Science and Practice; the Experience of the Long Tom Watershed Council. Ecology and
Society 14 (2):36. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art36/
Flitcroft, Rebecca L. 2007. Regions to Streams: Spatial and Temporal Variation in Stream Occupancy
Patterns of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) on the Oregon Coast. Doctoral Dissertation,
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
Jones, K.K., J.M. Dambacher and R.L. Flitcroft. 2007. Effectiveness and applicability of EMAP survey
design in status review of Great Basin redband trout. Extended Abstract published as part of 2007
Redband Workshop.
Flitcroft, R.L., K.K. Jones, K.E.M. Reis, and B.A. Thom. 2002. Year 2000 stream habitat conditions in
western Oregon. Monitoring Program Report Number OPSW-ODFW-2001-05, Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife, Portland.
Jones, K.K. Rebecca L. Flitcroft, and Barry A. Thom. 2001. Spatial Patterns of Aquatic Habitat in
Oregon. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on GIS in Fishery Science. Fishery GIS
Research Group Saitama, Japan.
Thom, B.A. , K.K. Jones and R.L. Flitcroft. 1999. Stream Habitat Conditions in Western Oregon.
Monitoring Program Report 1999-1 to the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds, Governor’s
Natural Resources Office, Salem Oregon.
Flitcroft, Rebecca L. 1998 The Impact of Land Management Decisions on Dune Processes on the
Clatsop Plains: A Case Study of Camp Rilea, Oregon. Masters Thesis, Oregon State University,
Geosciences Department, Corvallis, Oregon.