Kathryn B. Staley is the fishery biologist for the Wildlife Habitat Management Institute of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. She is also a member of the faculty in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University. Kathryn's responsibilities for the Institute include development of conservation standards for NRCS that protect, improve, or restore aquatic and riparian habitats on non-federal lands. She is also overseeing the development of a National Biological Resources Handbook for NRCS. She collaborates in research on the role of agricultural drainage systems on aquatic species in the Willamette Valley and the effects of floodplain and riparian restoration actions on fish populations and habitat in large rivers. She is currently co-editing a book on the Ecology and Management of Wood in World Rivers, to be published by AFS this year. Prior to joining the Institute at OSU, Kathryn worked as a fish biologist for the US Forest Service for 7 years. From 1984 to 1990, she was a research assistant at Northern Arizona University where she studied the spawning behavior of Atlantic salmon in Newfoundland, and feeding ecology of Lee's Ferry rainbow trout in the Colorado River.
Kathryn is a member of the Oregon Chapter of AFS where she chaired the Education and Outreach Committee from 1997 to 2000. She is currently the Chair of national AFS's Endangered Species Committee.
She received her graduate degree at Oregon State University in 1984 from the Department of Zoology where she studied smolt physiology of coho salmon.