Matthew J Young, PhD
Matthew Young is a research fish biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and has been with the California Water Science Center since 2016.
He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Davis. His work research is focused on interactions of native and non-native fishes with their environment, including novel ecosystem elements such as altered hydrology and proliferating non-native habitat engineers such as submersed aquatic vegetation. Currently he works in a variety of systems exploring relationships between native fishes and changes to their environment. This includes the spread of non-native species and potential displacement/competition, habitat alteration and the loss of underlying ecosystem processes, and the potential for habitat restoration to provide key mechanistic benefits to native fishes and other aquatic organisms.
Science and Products
Physical and Biological Drivers of Fish Populations in the Sacramento Deep Water Shipping Channel, California, 2016-2018
Abundance and Distribution of Clear Lake Hitch in Clear Lake, Lake County, California, 2017-2022 (ver. 4.0, December 2022)
Fishes of Ryer Island, Suisun Bay, California, 2016-2017
Disentangling stationary and dynamic estuarine fish habitat to inform conservation: Species-specific responses to physical habitat and water quality in San Francisco Estuary
Eye lenses reveal ontogenetic trophic and habitat shifts in an imperiled fish, Clear Lake hitch (Lavinia exilicauda chi)
Use of the smeltCam as an efficient fish sampling alternative within the San Francisco Estuary
Estuarine habitat use by White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)
Recruitment dynamics of non-native largemouth bass within the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta
Hydrodynamics drive pelagic communities and food web structure in a tidal environment
Sacramento pikeminnow migration record
Food web fuel differs across habitats and seasons of a tidal freshwater estuary
Cryptic lives of conspicuous animals: Otolith chemistry chronicles life histories of coastal lagoon fishes
First record of pughead deformity in the threatened Clear Lake Hitch
Dissolved oxygen controls summer habitat of Clear Lake Hitch (Lavinia exilicauda chi), an imperilled potamodromous cyprinid
Strontium isotopes reveal ephemeral streams used for spawning and rearing by an imperiled potamodromous cyprinid--Clear Lake hitch Lavinia exilicauda chi
Non-USGS Publications**
Sommer T. Understanding imperfect detection in a San
Francisco Estuary long-term larval and juvenile fish monitoring
programme. Fish Manag Ecol. 2017;24:488–503.
https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12257
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Physical and Biological Drivers of Fish Populations in the Sacramento Deep Water Shipping Channel, California, 2016-2018
Abundance and Distribution of Clear Lake Hitch in Clear Lake, Lake County, California, 2017-2022 (ver. 4.0, December 2022)
Fishes of Ryer Island, Suisun Bay, California, 2016-2017
Disentangling stationary and dynamic estuarine fish habitat to inform conservation: Species-specific responses to physical habitat and water quality in San Francisco Estuary
Eye lenses reveal ontogenetic trophic and habitat shifts in an imperiled fish, Clear Lake hitch (Lavinia exilicauda chi)
Use of the smeltCam as an efficient fish sampling alternative within the San Francisco Estuary
Estuarine habitat use by White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)
Recruitment dynamics of non-native largemouth bass within the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta
Hydrodynamics drive pelagic communities and food web structure in a tidal environment
Sacramento pikeminnow migration record
Food web fuel differs across habitats and seasons of a tidal freshwater estuary
Cryptic lives of conspicuous animals: Otolith chemistry chronicles life histories of coastal lagoon fishes
First record of pughead deformity in the threatened Clear Lake Hitch
Dissolved oxygen controls summer habitat of Clear Lake Hitch (Lavinia exilicauda chi), an imperilled potamodromous cyprinid
Strontium isotopes reveal ephemeral streams used for spawning and rearing by an imperiled potamodromous cyprinid--Clear Lake hitch Lavinia exilicauda chi
Non-USGS Publications**
Sommer T. Understanding imperfect detection in a San
Francisco Estuary long-term larval and juvenile fish monitoring
programme. Fish Manag Ecol. 2017;24:488–503.
https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12257
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.