Ron Kegerries
Technical Lead Aquatic Biologist
Originally from Missouri, Ron earned his B.S. and M.S. in aquatic biology from Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, KS. His graduate research focused on nutrient mixing in a southeast Kansas reservoir to increase fish habitat. Ron’s professional career began with Kansas Wildlife and Parks working in public land management, fisheries biology, and stream surveys. Before EcoAnalysts he worked as a fisheries biologist and aquatic ecologist for a consulting firm in Utah primarily focused on Colorado River basin native, threatened, and endangered species.
Mr. Kegerries is skilled at sampling, surveying, monitoring, and analyzing ecological relationships among aquatic organisms. He serves as a fisheries biologist and an aquatic ecologist for various projects, some of which he manages and leads. His past efforts have helped establish research needs for various endangered fish species (such as the Razorback Sucker Xyrauchen texanus, June Sucker Chasmistes liorus, Virgin River Chub Gila seminuda, Humpback Chub Gila cypha, Bonytail Gila elegans, Colorado Pikeminnow Ptychocheilus lucius, Virgin Spinedace Lepidomeda mollispinis, and Woundfin Plagopterus argentissimus). Specifically, he has provided expertise on Razorback Sucker recruitment and monitoring in Lake Mead, Nevada, and Arizona, including the lower Grand Canyon; evaluated backwater habitats on the lower Colorado River in an effort to create habitat for native fish species, such as Razorback Sucker and Bonytail Chub G. elegans; and assisted with field collection, analysis, and reporting for a multi-year monitoring and research effort on the lower Virgin River fish community, as well as annual monitoring and reporting on the Muddy River fish community in Nevada.
Mr. Kegerries has provided comprehensive reviews of and updated species profiling for several native and special status species; assisted in the development and tested methods for prioritizing restoration sites along the lower Colorado River; lead field collections, analysis, and reporting for multiyear monitoring of and research on many fish communities throughout the West and Midwest; helped lead monitoring of and research efforts on macroinvertebrate communities; and provided technical expertise for describing and monitoring complex habitats for endangered and threatened fish recovery efforts. He has also developed multi-method fish community sampling used to target different all fish life stages. A large portion of his experience is in stream functional assessment and T&E sampling and monitoring.
Mr. Kegerries is experienced with developing protocols for and conducting surveys, long-term monitoring, impact assessment, Section 7 and Section 10 (endangered species act) consultation, and regulatory agency coordination. Additionally, Mr. Kegerries is skilled at compiling, analyzing, and reporting data in written and oral forms, having performed several literature and species-status reviews based on historical data, as well as organized material, to provide species management recommendations. He is an expert with nonlethal aging, sonic- and radio-telemetry implantation techniques, and data analysis.
Education
Master of Science, Biology, 2007
Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS
Bachelor of Science, Biology: Pre-fisheries and Wildlife Management, 2003
Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS
