Peter Moyle: Resume

PETER B. MOYLE
Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
Center for Watershed Sciences 
University of California, Davis
425 LaRue Avenue, Davis CA 95616
pbmoyle@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 530-574-6695


EDUCATION
1964 University of Minnesota B.A. Zoology
1966 Cornell University M.S. Conservation
1969 University of Minnesota Ph.D. Zoology


UNIVERSITY POSITIONS
1969 - 1972 Assistant Professor, Biology, California State University, Fresno, California
1972 - 2015 Assistant to Full Professor, University of California, Davis, California 
1982 - 1987 Chair, Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Biology, University of California, Davis, California
2002 - present, Associate Director, Center for Watershed Sciences UCD
2013 - 2015 Distinguished Professor
2015 - present Distinguished Professor, Emeritus


PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES/ORGANIZATIONS
American Fisheries Society (national & local chapters)
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Ecological Society of America; Desert Fishes Council
Society for Conservation Biology; AAAS; AIBS


SELECT AWARDS
Peter B. Moyle and California Trout Endowed Chair in Coldwater Fishes (2015).
President’s Chair in Undergraduate Education, UCD (2003-2006, with J. Mount).
Outstanding Achievement Award, Association of Fisheries Research Biologists (2007).
Award of Excellence, highest award of American Fisheries Society (2007).
Brown-Nichols Award, Delta Science (2010).
Award of Distinction, College of AES, UCD (2012).
Fellow, American Fisheries Society (2015).
Fellow, Ecological Society of America (2016).
Fellow, AAAS (2016).
Leopold Conservation Award, Fly Fishers International (2019).
Conservationist of the Year (2020), Fly Fishing Magazine.


SERVICE
Editorial Boards Environmental Biology of Fishes(1995-2022), Bioscience (2012-2022).
Head, Delta Native Fishes Recovery Team (1993-1995).
Member, Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project Team (1994-1996).
Member, Independent Science Board, CALFED Ecosystem Restoration Program.
Board Member, The Natural Heritage Institute (1980-present).
Member, National Research Council Committee on Endangered Fishes in the Klamath Basin (2002-2003).
Member, Editorial Committee, University of California Press (2006-2010).
Member, San Joaquin River Restoration Technical Advisory Committee (2007-2011).
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee PRBO (2011-2017).
Board member, Western Rivers Conservancy (2012-2022).
Independent Scientific Review Board, Northwest Power Council (2016-2022).
Technical Review Panel, Central California Coast Steelhead Regional Temperature Study (2021-2023).


Fish Advisor/Expert Witness, Water Audit California (2021- present).
Expert Witness: San Luis Obispo Coastkeeper, and Los Padres Forestwatch, Plaintiffs v. Santa Maria Valley Water Conservation District, United States Department of Interior, US Bureau of Reclamation. 2021-2023. Santa Maria R steelhead.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Author or co-author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications, including 11 books/monographs. For a full list of publications, click here.

  • Moyle, P. B. 2002. Inland Fishes of California. Revised and Expanded. Berkeley: University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520227545/inland-fishes-of-california. 502 pages.
  • Moyle, P. B. and J. J. Cech, Jr. 1982-2004. Fishes: an Introduction to Ichthyology. 3rd Edition. Prentice-Hall: Upper Saddle River, N. J. 590 pages. (5th edition, 2004).
  • Lund, J., E. Hanak, W. Fleenor, W. Bennett, R. Howitt, J. Mount, and P. B. Moyle. 2010. Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Berkeley: University of California Press. https://www.ppic.org/publication/comparing-futures-for-the-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta/. 230 pages.
  • Marchetti, M. P. and P. B. Moyle. 2010. Protecting Life on Earth: an Introduction to Conservation Science. Berkeley: University of California Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnv8s. 232 pages.
  • Hanak, E., J. Lund, A. Dinar, B. Gray, R. Howitt, J. Mount, Moyle, P. B., and B. Thompson. 2011. Managing California's Water from Conflict to Reconciliation. San Francisco, PPIC. 482 pp.
  • Moyle, P. B., A. D. Manfree, and P. L. Fiedler. 2014. Suisun Marsh: Ecological History and Possible Futures. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Moyle, P. B., R. M. Quiñones, J. V. E. Katz, and J. Weaver. 2015. Fish Species of Special Concern in California. 3rd edition. Sacramento: California Department of Fish and Wildlife. https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Fishes/Special-Concern.
  • Opperman, J. J., P. B. Moyle, E. W. Larsen, J. L. Florsheim, and A. D. Manfree. 2017. Floodplains: Processes, Ecosystems, and Services in Temperate Regions. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Williams, J. G., P. B. Moyle, M. Kondolf, and A. Webb. 2019. Environmental Flow Assessment: Methods and Applications. Oxford, United Kingdom.: Wiley.
  • Mosepele, K., P. B. Moyle, G. S. Merron, D. Purkey, and B. Mosepele. 2009. Fish, floods, and ecosystem engineers: aquatic conservation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. BioScience 59: 53-64. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2009.59.1.9.
  • Moyle, P. B., J. V. E. Katz and R. M. Quiñones. 2011. Rapid decline of California’s native inland fishes: a status assessment. Biological Conservation 144: 2414-2423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2011.06.002.
  • Moyle, P. B., W. Bennett, J. Durand, W. Fleenor, B. Gray, E. Hanak, J. Lund, J. Mount. 2012. Where the wild things aren’t: making the Delta a better place for native species. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California. 53 pages. https://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_612PMR.pdf.
  • Kiernan, J.D., P. B. Moyle, and P. K. Crain. 2012. Restoring native fish assemblages to a regulated California stream using the natural flow regime concept.  Ecological Applications 22: 1472-1482. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-0480.1.
  • Kiernan, J. D., and P. B. Moyle. 2012. Flows, droughts, and aliens: factors affecting the fish assemblage in a Sierra Nevada, California, stream. Ecological Applications 22: 1146-1161. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-1047.1.
  • Börk, K. S., J. F. Krovoza, J. V. Katz, and P. B. Moyle. 2012. The rebirth of California Fish & Game Code 5937: water for fish. University of California Davis Law Review 45: 809-913. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3169409.
  • Moyle, P. B., J. D. Kiernan, P. K. Crain, and R. M. Quiñones. 2013. Climate change vulnerability of native and alien freshwater fishes of California: a systematic assessment approach. PLoS One. http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063883.
  • Baumsteiger, J. and P. B. Moyle. 2017. Assessing extinction. Bioscience 67: 357-366. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix001.
  • Baumsteiger, J. and P. B. Moyle. 2019. A reappraisal of the California Roach/Hitch (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae, Hesperoleucus/Lavinia) species complex. Zootaxa 4543(2): 2221-240. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4543.2.3.
  • Moyle, P. B. 2020.  Living with aliens: nonnative fishes in the American Southwest. Pages 69-78 in D.L. Propst, J.E. Williams, K.R. Bestgen, and C.W. Hoagstrom, eds., Standing Between Life and Extinction: Ethics and Ecology of Conserving Aquatic Species in North American Deserts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Leidy, R. A. and P. B. Moyle. 2021. Keeping up with the status of freshwater fishes: a California (USA) perspective.  Conservation Science and Practice 3(8), e474. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.474. 10 pages.
  • Moyle, P. B. and D. Stompe. 2023. Non-native fishes in estuaries. In Whitfield, A., M. Elliott, S. Blaber, and K. Able, eds., Fish and Fisheries in Estuaries: a Global Perspective. Wiley.
  • Moyle, P. B. and R. L. Leidy. 2023. Freshwater fishes: threatened species and threatened waters on a global scale. Pages 177-206 in N. MaClean, ed. The Living Planet: The Present State of the World’s Wildlife. Cambridge University Press.
  • Stompe, D. K., P. B.  Moyle, K. Oken, and J. R. Durand. 2023. A spatiotemporal history of key pelagic fish species in the San Francisco Estuary, California. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01189-8.
  • Moyle, P. B., N. Buckmaster, and Y. Su. 2023. Taxonomy of the Speckled Dace species complex (Cypriniformes: Leuciscidae, Rhinichthys) in California, USA. Zootaxa 5249(5): 501-539.  https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5249.5.1.