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The Trinity County RCD: KRIS System Operator for the Klamath-Trinity

The Trinity County Resource Conservation District has assumed responsibility for updating the contents of  KRIS Klamath-Trinity on behalf of the Trinity River Restoration Program. Funding is provided by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. If you have information that you wish to contribute, want KRIS CDs or have questions about the KRIS Version 3.0 project please contact:

Salmon River Restoration Council: KRIS Klamath Content Coordinators

The Salmon River Restoration Council has not only updated KRIS content for the Salmon River, but helped coordinate new data from the Middle Klamath and other Klamath-side information in Version 3.0. Jim Villeponteaux (jvptx@srrc.org) is the lead technical person for SRRC and a long time KRIS practitioner, but Lyra Cressey (lyracressey@hotmail.com) was responsible for updating contents for the Salmon Basin itself.

The  Kier Associates KRIS Version 3.0 Support Team

Bill Kier is a certified fisheries scientist with four decades of experience in natural resources planning, management and policy analysis. Bill has led watershed assessment and fisheries restoration planning projects throughout coastal California and the Central Valley.

Jan Derksen (PhD) is KRIS'  designer and technical developer. A former member of the Humboldt State University computer science faculty, Jan has provided GIS, data management, and modeling services to fish and wildlife conservation agencies, state and federal water quality regulators, and private land managers.

Patrick Higgins is a consulting fisheries biologist with a specialty in salmon and steelhead restoration. He has been a major participant in the design and implementation of  KRIS and serves as Field Coordinator for KRIS projects. Pat has worked in the field throughout California and has written fisheries elements for numerous watershed restoration plans, including three chapters in the Klamath Long Range Plan (Kier Assoc., 1991), and none chapters in the SF Trinity Watershed Restoration Action Plan (PWA, 1994). 

Diane Higgins is an educator and writer who specializes in developing classroom and community materials that explain watershed functions and fish habitat needs. She holds a B.A. in Physical Sciences from U.C. Berkeley and a M.A. in Education from Humboldt State University. Diane is the keeper of the KRIS web site. 

Mary Claire Kier has conducted fish population and aquatic habitat assessments for state and federal government agencies. She holds a B.S. in Fisheries from Humboldt State University. Mary Claire identifies and obtains key fisheries, water quality and watershed documents from state and federal agencies, private companies and not-for-profit organizations and integrates them into KRIS' bibliographic resource. 

Gary Reedy is a watershed scientist (M.S. in Fisheries from Humboldt State University) with eight years of field experience studying salmon and their habitat, including work in Oregon and Idaho. He offers strong technical and communication skills to the gathering and use of information in KRIS applications. Gary has a keen interest in education and restoration, and is an instructor at College of the Redwoods, where he teaches Watershed Restoration and Watershed Assessment. 

Paul Trichilo received his doctorate in Entomology from U.C. Davis, and served as a Research Scientist at Texas A&M for eight years, where he used GIS and Remote Sensing in integrated pest management application. Today, his main interests are fisheries and watershed management, and he is involved in developing spatial databases, GIS analyses, and maps for KRIS Projects.

Brian Woolsey is a hydrologist and geomorphologist specializing in fluvial and hillslope processes. Brian has received a B.S. from Humboldt State University in Environmental Resources Engineering with an emphasis in water resources and is currently a California State Registered Engineer-in-Training.

Eli Asarian is a fisheries biologist and GIS analyst with a B.A. in Biology and Environmental Studies from U.C. Santa Cruz. Before joining the KRIS team, he did field surveys of fish and amphibians for U.C. Santa Barbara and the California Department of Fish and Game. Eli specializes in working with spatial data and he constructs map projects in the KRIS Map Viewer.

KRIS Website Questions

Question or comments about www.krisweb.com, or about the KRIS system, may be directed to the KRIS webmaster. Please send your E-Mail to dhiggins at northcoast dot com.