Jonathan B. Armstrong
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EDUCATION
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
PhD (December 2012 expected)
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
B.A. in Biology w/ honors (2005)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011 Research Associate, University of Washington, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.
Project: Time-series analysis of portfolio effects in Pacific Rim salmon stocks. Principle
Investigator: Daniel Schindler.
2011 Scientific collaborator, National Geographic Society Waitt Research Project.
Project: Deciphering the energetic base for the world’s largest freshwater fishery. Lake Tonle Sap,
Cambodia. Principle Investigator: Gordon Holtgrieve.
2006-present Graduate Research Assistant, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of
Washington.
2006 Research technician, Alaska Salmon Program, Aleknagik, AK. Project: Long-term monitoring
of factors affecting sockeye salmon production.
2005 Research technician, National Parks Service, Crater Lake National Park, OR. Project: Snorkel
surveys to estimate the abundance of Sun Creek bull trout.
2004 Research assistant, Dr. Liz Safran. Lewis and Clark College. Project: Mathematical simulation
of landscape evolution in the Laramide region, U.S. Rocky Mountains.
2003 Research assistant, Dr. Ken Clifton, Lewis and Clark College. Project: The phenology of
tropical green seaweeds, San Blas, Panama.
2002 Research technician, Bureau of Land Management, Medford, OR. Project: Implementing
selective thinning forestry management.
TEACHING
2012
Lecturer, Summer teachers institute, Nisqually Education Center
2007-2012 Instructor: freshwater ecology, BBEDC Salmon Camp Aleknagik, AK
2011
Guest lecturer: Limnology, Univ. of Washington
2008,2010 Guest lecturer, Aquatic Ecological Research in Alaska, Univ. of Washington
2009
Guest Lecturer, Ecological Scaling, Univ. of Washington
2008
Guest Lecturer, Seattle Girls School (grades 5-8), Seattle, WA
2007
Teaching Assistant, Fisheries Ecology, University of Washington
2005
Teaching Assistant, Geology, Lewis and Clark College
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PUBLICATIONS
Armstrong, J.B. et al. Going with the flow: spatial distributions of juvenile coho salmon track
a shifting mosaic of water temperature. In prep. for Ecosystems
Schindler, D.E., J.B. Armstrong, et al. Riding the crimson tide: mobile terrestrial consumers
track phenological variation in spawning of an anadromous fish. In review: Biology Letters
Armstrong, J.B. and M.H. Bond. Phenotype flexibility in wild fish: Dolly Varden upregulate
digestive organs to capitalize on annual pulsed subsidies. In Press: Journal of Animal
Ecology
Bentley, K.E., D.E. Schindler, J.B. Armstrong, C.P. Ruff, and P.J. Lisi. 2012. Inter-annual
variation in
a pulsed resource subsidy mediates the foraging and growth response of
stream-dwelling salmonids. Ecosphere 3(12)
Armstrong, J.B., D.E Schindler, C.P. Ruff, G.T. Brooks, and C.E. Torgersen. Juvenile fish
exploit heterogeneity in thermal and trophic resources through diel horizontal migrations in
streams. In review: Ecology
Schindler, D.E., J.B. Armstrong, and T.E. Reed. Portfolio effects in ecology and evolution. In
prep. Article proposal accepted by Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Armstrong, J.B, and D.E. Schindler. 2011. Excess digestive capacity in predators reflects a life
of feast and famine. Nature. 476: 84-87
Ruff, C.P., D.E. Schindler, J.B. Armstrong, K.T. Bentley, G.T. Brooks, G.W. Holtgrieve, M.T.
McGlauflin, C.E. Torgersen, and J.E. Seeb. 2011 Temperature-associated population
diversity in salmon confers benefits to mobile consumers. Ecology. 92: 2073-2084.
Armstrong, J.B., D.E. Schindler, K.L. Omori, C.P. Ruff, and T.P. Quinn. 2010. Thermal
heterogeneity mediates the effects of pulsed subsidies across a landscape. Ecology. 91:
1445-1454
Armstrong, J.B. 2010. Comment on “Egg consumption in mature Pacific Salmon
(Oncorhynchus spp.)”. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 67: 2052-2054.
PRESENTATIONS
-Armstrong, J.B. (Scheduled March 2013). How bears, trout, and gulls capitalize on pulsed
salmon subsidies in heterogeneous landscapes: integrating physiology, behavior, and
landscape ecology. Invited talk: Scaling up the impacts of resource pulses from individuals to
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ecosystems: toward theoretical advances of temporally-dynamic community ecology. Ecological
Society of Japan Annual Meeting, Shiga, Japan.
-Armstrong, J.B. 2012. Physiological adaptation to ecological heterogeneity: how animals
survive in a world of feast and famine. Invited seminar: Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR.
-Armstrong, J.B., D.E. Schindler, P.J. Lisi. 2012.Thermal heterogeneity in streams: animals
exploit it, models ignore it. Invited talk: Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in
Western Mountains MTCLIM meeting, Estes Park, CO.
-Armstrong, J.B. 2012. Diel horizontal migration: juvenile coho salmon exploit trade-offs
between trophic and thermal resources in streams. Invited talk: Diel Vertical Migration: Scaling
Down from Populations to Individuals, American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. St. Paul,
MN.
-Schindler, D.E, J.B. Armstrong (speaker), and R. Hilborn. 2012. Ecosystem Complexity
Mitigates Climate Risk to Fishing Communities. Invited talk: Climate and Fisheries: Responses
of a Socio-Ecological System to Global Change, American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. St.
Paul, MN.
-Armstrong, J.B. 2012. Dine and dash: Juvenile coho salmon eliminate trade-offs between
thermal and trophic resources during a pulsed subsidy. Ecological Society of America Annual
Meeting. Portland, OR.
-Armstrong, J.B. 2012. Dine and dash: Juvenile coho salmon foraging behavior in thermally
heterogeneous streams. Invited public seminar: U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research
Station, Olympia, WA.
-Armstrong, J.B. 2012. The incredible resilience of Pacific salmon and the human activities
that threaten it. Invited lecture: Summer Teachers Institute, Nisqually River Education Project.
-Armstrong, J.B. 2012. Juvenile coho salmon “dine and dash” to exploit thermal
heterogeneity in streams. Invited talk: University of Washington Water Symposium. Seattle,
WA.
-Armstrong, J.B. and D.E. Schindler. 2011. How does landscape heterogeneity mediate the
effects of climate change? Invited talk and panel discussion member: Adapting wildlife and
habitat management to climate change, The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Kona, HI.
-Armstrong, J.B. 2011. Why do fish haul around huge guts? Alaska Salmon Program Science
Symposium. Seattle, WA.
-Ruff, C.P., D.E. Schindler, J.B. Armstrong, K.T. Bentley, , G.W. Holtgrieve, and M.T.
McGlauflin, 2011. Temperature-associated population diversity in salmon confers benefits to
mobile consumers. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA.
-Schindler, D.E., J.B. Armstrong, and C.P. Ruff, 2010. The importance of landscape- and
population diversity for ecosystem services associated with fishes. Plenary talk: Annual General
Meeting MT American Fisheries Society, Bozeman, MT
-Armstrong, J.B. 2010. Shifting mosaics of water temperature in streams. Alaska Salmon
Program Science Symposium. Seattle, WA.
-Armstrong, J.B., D.E. Schindler, C.P. Ruff, and G. Brooks. 2009. Exploiting Trophic and
temperature resources in heterogeneous landscapes: juvenile coho salmon in Alaska coastal
streams. Annual General Meeting WA/BC American Fisheries Society, Shelton, WA
-Armstrong, J.B. 2009. Eat cold, rest warm: post-feeding thermotaxis in juvenile coho
salmon. Alaska Salmon Program Science Symposium, Seattle, WA.
-Armstrong, J.B. 2009. Diel movements by juvenile coho salmon couple thermal and trophic
habitat in Alaska streams. SAFS Graduate Student Symposium, Seattle, WA.
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-Armstrong, J.B. 2008. Gape limits mediate the potential for juvenile coho salmon to exploit
sockeye salmon eggs. Alaska Salmon Program Science Symposium, Seattle, WA.
-Armstrong, J.B. 2008. Pulsed subsidies in size-structured populations. SAFS Graduate
Student Symposium, Seattle, WA.
-Armstrong, J.B. 2007. Post-zygotic mechanisms of reproductive isolation in sockeye salmon:
effects of local thermal regime on egg-to-fry survival. SAFS Graduate Student Symposium,
Seattle, WA.
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2013
2011
2011
2010
2009
2006
2005
2005
2005
2004
2001
David H. Smith post-doc fellowship
SAFS travel award
Roy Jensen Fellowship, University of Washington
Vincent Liguori Endowment Scholarship, University of Washington
Best PhD talk, SAFS Graduate Student Symposium
H. Mason Keeler Endowment for Excellence Scholarship, University of Washington
Summa Cum-Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Lewis and Clark College
David Martensen Award in Biology, Lewis and Clark College
Student Academic Affairs Board Grant, Lewis and Clark College
Fredrick S. Frank Scholarship, Lewis and Clark College
Dean Scholarship, Lewis and Clark College
SERVICE & OUTREACH
2012
2007-2012
2011-2012
Volunteer lecturer, Summer Teachers Institute, Nisqually River Education Project
Volunteer lecturer and field instructor, BBEDC Salmon Camp, Aleknagik, AK
Contributor, Freshwaters Illustrated non-profit images archive
STUDENTS MENTORED
2012
2012
2010-2012
2009
2008
Bianca Santos, undergraduate research
Adrianne Smitts, post-undergraduate research (co-author of research in prep.)
Hannah Stapleton, undergraduate research (co-author of research in prep.)
Kristen Omori, undergraduate research. (co-author on Ecology paper)
Wendy Scholl, undergraduate research
RESEARCH IN THE MEDIA
2013 (forthcoming) National Geographic “Monster Salmon in Alaska”
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2011
2011
2011
2011
Science online news “Why do fish haul around extra guts”
COSMOS Online “Predatory fish were built to binge”
OregonLive.com: featured in Oregon Environmental news.
NWT Magazine “Fish are built for feast and famine”
PHOTOGRAPHY OUTREACH
Selected photo credits and contributions
2013 Cover photo, Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 280 (1751)
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1751.cover-expansion
2012 Deutsche Welle: "Alaska’s endangered paradise”
2012 Univ. of Washington press release: “bears, scavengers count on all-you-can-eat salmon
buffet lasting for months”
2012 National Science Foundation news from the field
2012 American Fisheries Society Univ. Washington website
2011 Univ. of Washington press release: "Salmon and other fish predators rely on 'no guts, no
glory' survival tactic"
2011 Nature press release: “Greedy guts”
2010 Image contribution, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve of Canada
2010 Image contribution, Bay Nature