Zachary Jackson

Zac Jackson is the Project Coordinator for the USFWS Arizona Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office (AZFWCO) in Whiteriver, Arizona. He has worked for USFWS since 2007, first in California working on Chinook Salmon habitat restoration and White Sturgeon research and monitoring designed to inform habitat restoration and population management decisions. Zac has worked for AZFWCO since 2017 and focuses his time working with tribes in Arizona on native fish conservation and sportfish management projects.

Before coming to work for USFWS, Zac worked for North Dakota Game and Fish Department as a seasonal fisheries aid during the summers while pursuing B.S. degrees in Zoology–Fish and Wildlife Management and Natural Resources Management from North Dakota State University (GO BIZON!). After graduating, he worked for Iowa Department of Natural Resources as a natural resources aid before pursuing his M.S. degree in Fisheries Biology at Iowa State University (go Cyclones!) His thesis focused on assessment of the interrelationships between fish population dynamics and limnological characteristics of Iowa lakes. Zac has coauthored 16 peer-reviewed journal publications and a book chapter (with six publications in review or significantly developed).

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Blackburn, S. E., Z. J. Jackson, and M. C. Quist. In preparation. Growth of White Sturgeon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River System, California. Submitting to North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

Dauwalter, D. C., R. Gonzalez, T. Gatewood, Z. S. Beard, Z. J. Jackson, and J. Ward. In preparation. Resiliency of Apache Trout habitats in a warmer and drier climate future. Submitting to Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.

Ulaski, M. E., K. Manuell, Z. J. Jackson, T. Gatewood, and M. C. Quist. In preparation. Precision of structures to estimate age and growth of Apache Trout in the White Mountains of Arizona. Submitting to Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management.

Dauwalter, D. C., Z. J. Jackson, J. Barney, Z. S. Beard and T. Gatewood. In preparation. Digital hydrography underestimates stream length and streamwide estimates of abundance for trout populations. Submitting to North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

Ulaski, M. E., J. L. McCormick, M. C. Quist, and Z. J. Jackson. In review. Old-school technique for a new-school problem: using Lincoln’s estimator to estimate abundance of White Sturgeon. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Ulaski, M. E., S. E. Blackburn, Z. J. Jackson, and M. C. Quist. In review. Management goals for conserving White Sturgeon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River basin. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management.

Jackson, Z. J., G. Selby, W. D. Wilson, and T. A. Diver. 2020. The first record of Bigscale Logperch and range expansions of Smallmouth Buffalo, White Crappie, and Gizzard Shad in Arizona. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 11(2):542–549.

Blackburn, S. E., M. L. Gingras, J. DuBois, Z. J. Jackson, and M. C. Quist. 2019. Population dynamics and evaluation of management scenarios for White Sturgeon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Basin. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 39:896–912.

Kirsch, J. E., R. F. Feeney, A. Goodbla, C. Hart, Z. J. Jackson, A. Schreier, and R. Smith. 2018. First record of the Large-Scale Loach Paramisgurnus dabryanus (Cobitidae) in the United States. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 9:246–254.

Blankenship, S. M., G. Schumer, J. P. Van Eenennaam, and Z. J. Jackson. 2017. Estimating number of spawning White Sturgeon adults from embryo relatedness. Fisheries Management and Ecology 24:163–172.

Gundersen, D. T., S. C. Zeug, R. B. Bringolf, J. Merz, Z. Jackson, and M. A. H. Webb. 2017. Tissue contaminant burdens in San Francisco Estuary White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus): implications for population recovery. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 73:334–347.

Nguyen, P. L., Z. J. Jackson, and D. B. Peterson. 2017. Effects of pectoral fin ray removal on Siberian Sturgeon Acipenser baerii swimming performance. Fisheries Science 83:785–793.

Phelps, Q. E., S. J. Tripp, M. J. Hamel, R. P. Koenigs, and Z. J. Jackson. 2017. Choice of structure structure
Something temporarily or permanently constructed, built, or placed; and constructed of natural or manufactured parts including, but not limited to, a building, shed, cabin, porch, bridge, walkway, stair steps, sign, landing, platform, dock, rack, fence, telecommunication device, antennae, fish cleaning table, satellite dish/mount, or well head.

Learn more about structure for estimating fish age and growth. Pages 81–105 in M. C. Quist and D. A. Isermann, editors. Age and growth of fishes: principles and techniques. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.

Sellheim, K., M. Willmes, J. A. Hobbs, J. J. G. Glessner, Z. J. Jackson, and J. E. Merz. 2017. Validating fin ray microchemistry as a tool to reconstruct the migratory history of White Sturgeon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 146:844–857.

Jackson, Z. J., J. J. Gruber., and J. P. Van Eenennaam. 2016. White Sturgeon spawning in the San Joaquin River, California, and effects of water management. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 7:171–180.

Nguyen, P. L., Z. J. Jackson, and D. B. Peterson. 2016. Comparison of fin ray sampling methods on White Sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus growth and swimming performance. Journal of Fish Biology 88:655–667.

Klimley, A. P., E. D. Chapman, J. J. Cech Jr., D. E. Cocherell, N. A Fangue, M. Gingras, Z. Jackson, E. A. Miller, E. A. Mora, J. B. Poletto, A. M. Schreier, A. Seesholtz, K. J. Sulak, M. J. Thomas, D. Woodbury, and M. T. Wyman. 2015. Sturgeon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin watershed: new insights to support conservation and management. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 13(4):1–19.

Vilizzi, L., F. G. Ekmekci, A. S. Tarkan, and Z. J. Jackson. 2014. Growth of Common Carp Cyprinus carpio in Anatolia (Turkey), with a comparison to native and invasive areas worldwide. Ecology of Freshwater Fish DOI:10.111/eff.12141.

Jackson, Z. J., M. C. Quist, J. A. Downing, and J. G. Larscheid. 2010. Common carp (Cyprinus carpio), sport fishes, and water quality: ecological thresholds in agriculturally eutrophic lakes. Lake and Reservoir Management 26:14–22.

Jackson, Z. J., M. C. Quist and J. G. Larscheid. 2008. Growth standards for nine North American fish species. Fisheries Management and Ecology 15:107–118.

Schultz, R. D., Z. J. Jackson, and M. C. Quist. 2008. Relating impoundment morphometry and water quality to black crappie, bluegill, and largemouth bass populations in Iowa. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 62:479–491.

Jackson, Z. J., M. C. Quist, J. G. Larscheid, E. C. Thelen, and M. J. Hawkins. 2007. Precision of scales and dorsal spines for estimating age of common carp. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 22:231–239.

Quist, M. C., Z. J. Jackson, M. R. Bower, and W. A. Hubert. 2007. Precision of hard structures used to estimate age of riverine catostomids and cyprinids in the upper Colorado River basin. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 27:643–649.