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Robert T. Lackey

Robert T. Lackey
Born Kamloops, British Columbia
Residence Corvallis, Oregon
Nationality Flag of the United States.svg American, Flag of Canada.svg Canadian
Alma mater Colorado State University
University of Maine
Humboldt State University
Known for natural resource science and management, interface of science and policy, use and misuse of science in the political process
Scientific career
Fields fisheries science, ecology, natural resources
Doctoral advisor W. Harry Everhart

Robert T. Lackey (born 1944) is a Canadian born fisheries scientist and political scientist living in the United States. He is best known for his work involving the interplay between science and policy, natural resource management, and assessments of the future of salmon runs. Lackey is a professor of fisheries and wildlife and adjunct professor of political science at Oregon State University. From 1981-2008, he held senior leadership posts at the United States Environmental Protection Agency research laboratory in Corvallis, Oregon.

Robert Thomas Lackey received a B.S. (fisheries) from Humboldt State University (California) in 1967. He then entered the Zoology graduate program at the University of Maine to study “Seasonal abundance and availability of forage fishes and their utilization by landlocked Atlantic salmon and brook trout in Echo Lake, Mount Desert Island, Maine“ under the advisement of Professor W. Harry Everhart. After obtaining an M.S. (Zoology) in 1968, Lackey enrolled in the graduate program at Colorado State University to pursue a doctorate. His research on the “Effects of artificial destratification on a lake ecosystem“ was also supervised by Professor Everhart who had recently left the University of Maine to become head of the fisheries program at Colorado State University. In 1971, Lackey was awarded a PhD (Fisheries and Wildlife) and was hired immediately by Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia) as an assistant professor of fisheries. In 1973, he was promoted to Associate Professor at Virginia Tech. In 1976-77, he spent a sabbatical year in Washington, D.C., working with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service Environment Program as the national program coordinator. In 1977, he returned to Virginia Tech and resumed teaching and research. He left Virginia Tech in 1979 to assume leadership of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Water Resources Analysis Group located in Leetown, West Virginia. In 1981, he accepted a job as senior biologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency research laboratory in Corvallis, Oregon. In 1982, he became Courtesy Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University, a position that he continues to hold. Lackey’s career with the EPA laboratory in Corvallis included a variety of senior leadership posts, including Deputy Director, a position he held from 1989 to 2000. In 1999, Lackey was awarded a senior Fulbright Fellowship and spend his tenure at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. Lackey retired from the Environmental Protection Agency in 2008 to work at Oregon State University.


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