Madisyn Pyorre is a fisheries biologist with extensive field experience and a strong understanding of California freshwater ecology. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in Environmental Studies, which sparked her career in fisheries science and conservation.
Prior to her time at FISHBIO, Madisyn held fisheries technician positions with the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission and interned with the US Forest Service, where she gathered extensive experience in fish population monitoring techniques and learned the ecology of salmonids and other freshwater species. She routinely conducted surveys such as backpack electrofishing, snorkeling, seining, and spawning-ground surveys. She also has extensive experience assembling and maintaining fish monitoring and tracking equipment, including rotary screw traps, resistance board weirs, and PIT tag arrays in a variety of stream types from central California to southern Oregon.
Currently, Madisyn leads benthic macroinvertebrate (BMI) monitoring efforts at FISHBIO, coordinating and participating in field efforts of long-term projects throughout California. She also leads field efforts to evaluate environmental and biological conditions in the Big Chico Creek watershed for a large-scale restoration project using a variety of tools and methods, including backpack environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling and HOBO data-logging technologies.