Staff
PRC's team of professional staff is comprised of decades of expertise in aquatic science, policy, law and nonprofit management.
Kalei Augustine
Rebecca Daniels
Rebecca Daniels joined PRC in 1997, and has worn a number of hats along the way. She now serves as PRC's finance manager. Rebecca grew up in California but felt like she had come home when she moved to Oregon in 1987. Rebecca studied music in college, but has always had a strong interest in conservation issues. When she isn't crunching numbers for PRC, favorite pastimes include playing on or in rivers, hiking, playing classical piano, and introducing her children to the wonder and beauty of the natural world.
Christopher Frissell
Christopher Frissell, Ph.D., joined Pacific Rivers Council in November 2000, and is PRC's senior scientist. Dr. Frissell has held research faculty positions at Oregon State University and The University of Montana, Flathead Lake Biological Station for 7 years since graduating from Oregon State University with a doctorate in Fisheries Science. His research has been extensively published in journals such as Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, and Conservation Biology, on whose editorial board he has served. He has contributed chapters for a variety of books on stream ecology and watershed restoration. Chris is a long-time associate of PRC. His prior efforts for PRC included preparing and developing scientific community support for the petition for federal listing of the coho salmon as a threatened species, and building the scientific rationale for our protect the best, restore the rest approach to aquatic conservation back in 1993.
Kate Geller
Kate Geller is PRC’s Director of Communications & Development and has more than eight years of experience developing and implementing outreach strategies for environmental organizations across the country. Prior to joining PRC she served as Media Director for the League of Conservation Voters and previously worked in the press shops of the National Environmental Trust and Environmental Defense Fund, as well as on Capitol Hill in the press office of then-Minority Whip Steny Hoyer. Kate also spent three years as a Senior Account Executive on the environmental team at Fenton Communications. She is thrilled to have relocated to Portland from Washington, DC and looks forward to residing amongst the rivers and watersheds PRC works to protect.
Greg Haller
Greg Haller is PRC's conservation director and has over ten years experience working in collaborative processes focused on complex river basin management issues, including the development of the Nez Perce water rights settlement, hydropower operations in the Columbia River Basin, relicensing of the Hells Canyon Complex, the development of Total Maximum Daily Loads and other provisions of the Clean Water Act. Greg has a law degree from the University of Idaho College of Law, with emphases in water law and Native American law and a Master’s degree in environmental management and natural resource economics from Cornell University. A native of Ithaca, New York, Greg grew up surrounded by streams, waterfalls and lakes and developed his passion for river conservation through fly fishing these waters with his father.
John Kober
John Kober is the executive director of Pacific Rivers Council. He has spent much of his life advocating for the protection and restoration of native fish, wildlife and their habitats. Over the last 15 years his professional passion has focused on the protecting native fish and wild rivers. Prior to joining PRC he worked for the National Wildlife Federation and was chair of the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition board of directors. John's passion for river and watershed protection emanates from his lifelong experience as an angler. For over 15 years he worked as a fly fishing guide and outfitter in his home state of Montana. John has worked for the Montana State Legislature and has worked on a number of political campaigns and initiatives. In 1997 he went to work for the Montana Wildlife Federation, retired his outfitting business and has dedicated his career to protecting the environment.
John Persell
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