In addition to internal university service, I devote a great deal of my professional time to water
management and aquatic resource conservation issues in the
intermountain west. I am active in the
American Fisheries Society and its
Idaho Chapter, and when not engaged in water-related or other
“fishy” activities, I promote and direct a variety of bicycling events
in the Pocatello area.Originally from Arcata, California, I first visited eastern Idaho as a teenager and began working in the fly fishing business at Mike Lawson’s Henry’s Fork Anglers in 1981. I have stayed more or less in the vicinity ever since, finishing my Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Utah in 1995. From 1994 to 1998, I was Research Director for the Henry’s Fork Foundation in Ashton, Idaho, where I established a watershed research program that led to many of my current areas of research. Since 1999, I have continued watershed research as a member of the ISU faculty. My wife Sheryl Hill, an aquatic biologist, and our two dogs, Bella and Baylor, live “in eastern Idaho,” splitting our time between residences in Ashton and Pocatello. Zoe, our golden retriever, died of cancer last fall.