Hello! My name is Allison Oliver and I am an aquatic ecologist and biogeochemist. I live in beautiful northern British Columbia and work for the Skeena Fisheries Commission on a wide variety of topics including limnology, watershed ecology, glaciers and salmon, coastal biogeochemistry, water quality monitoring, and wild fish conservation.
My experience includes research on projects involving limnology, water quality, hydrologic processes, watershed disturbances and effects on aquatic ecosystems, organic matter dynamics, coastal biogeochemistry, nitrogen cycling, ecological stoichiometry, and benthic macroinvertebrate ecology. I am also interested in practical applications of water quality monitoring and use of biological organisms as indicators of ecosystem health, as well as the structure and function of alpine freshwater ecosystems. I strive to produce good science that can be used to properly inform management and conservation issues.
I was born in Northern California, and I have spent most of my life exploring the rivers and mountains of Western North America. I earned a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Ecology at the University of California, Davis, where I studied the effects of disturbances, such as wildfires, dams, and algal blooms on freshwater biogeochemistry and aquatic communities, and the implications for water quality and ecosystem structure and function. I recently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the Hakai Institute and University of Alberta, working with Dr. Suzanne Tank. As a postdoc, I studied the origin and fate of freshwater constituents in coastal ecosystems of the central British Columbia coast by examining land-freshwater-coastal interactions and processes occurring at the soil-freshwater and freshwater-ocean interface.
In my spare time, I can be found on a river or roaming around in the woods with my dog.
Please feel free to contact me – aaoliver at gmail dot com – with any science-related questions and thanks for visiting my page!
– Allison
Allison Oliver, PhD 
Hey Allison, I have a USFS report on Angora (2012) that I’d like to pass on but I don;t have a current email.
Hope all is well.
J
Hi John! Emailing you from my new account now. Hope all is well with you, too! Thanks for the updated report. Look forward to reading it.
– Allison
I’m a highschool student doing a research paper on the effects of wildfires environmentally and I found your journal on the Angora Fire on EBSCO host and I just wanted to say thank you for your work!
Hi Maddie! Thank you so much for the comment! I’m very flattered that you are using my manuscript on the Angora Fire for your research paper. Please let me know if you have any other questions! 🙂
Hello, my name is Melissa and my 3rd grade daughter is working on a “Women in stem research project”. She chose you for her project because she learned that you job has to deal with the water and and the environment. It would be such an honor if she could interview you for her project sometime soon?
Hi Melissa. Sure. Where do you guys live?
We are in Philadelphia Pa. I was thinking we can set up a google meet.
Hi, We are in Philadelphia Pa. Would it be possible to set up a google meet or Zoom with you? She has a few background questions she would like to ask you.
Sure. Send me your email and I’ll connect with you.
Great! It is Mmaldonado@mast2.org