Daniel E. Schindler

Daniel Schindler is a Professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, where he has served on the faculty since 1997. Schindler’s primary areas of inquiry involve conservation biology, ecology, and evolution and systematics. He has done especially meaningful work on how climate change, urbanization and land use affect freshwater ecosystems and fisheries in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. 

Schindler is a Principal Investigator of the UW Alaska Salmon Program, one of the world’s longest running ecological research programs, which has studied the ecology of salmon and their watersheds in western Alaska since 1946. Schindler’s research addresses scientific questions in ecology and evolution as well as applied challenges related to climate change, watershed development, and fisheries management. His work seeks to inform strategies for sustainable fisheries and responsible water resource stewardship.

He has a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.