Brooke Penaluna

Treesearch Publications

• Brooke Penaluna, Ashley A. Coble, Arif Jan, Richard Cronn, Laura Hauck, Ivan Arismendi, Jessica Homyack. 2026. Forest age influences freshwater biodiversity in temperate watersheds
• Laura Hauck, Brooke Penaluna, Ashley A. Coble, Allison G. Swartz, Jessica A. Homyack. 2026. Whispers of wildfire: using eDNA metabarcoding to decipher effects of megafires on watershed biodiversity
• Andres J. Olivos, Ivan Arismendi, Seth White, Thomas P. Quinn, Eva B. Thorstad, Brooke Penaluna, Doris Soto. 2026. Unmarked escapees undermine policy and public trust in Chilean salmon aquaculture
• Allison G. Swartz, Ashley A. Coble, Brooke Penaluna, Rebecca Flitcroft, Joseph L. Ebersole, Meg A. Krawchuk. 2025. Following megafires fishes thrive and amphibians persist even in severely burned watersheds
• Nicolò Anselmetto, Matteo Garbarino, Matthew J. Weldy, David M. Bell, Christopher Daly, Clinton W. Epps, Nina Ferrari, Hankyu Kim, Joseph A. LaManna, Damon B. Lesmeister, Brooke Penaluna, Mark Schulze, Madison Sutton, Marie I. Tosa, Matthew G. Betts. 2025. Leveraging long‐term data to improve biodiversity monitoring with species distribution models
• Brooke Penaluna, Sherri Johnson, Amanda M. M. Pollock, Ivan Arismendi, Dana R. Warren. 2025. Biotic interactions and stream network position affect body size of aquatic vertebrates across watersheds
• Lindsey L. Thurman, Christopher Cousins, Tiffany S. Garcia, Deanna H. Olson, Brooke Penaluna. 2025. Mapping habitat suitability rangewide for headwater stream‐associated torrent salamanders
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Brooke Penaluna, Laura Hauck, Jay Munyon, James M. Capurso. 2025. Multi-species eDNA as a screening tool to facilitate early detection and eradication of aquatic invasive species in large water bodies
• John Kirkland, Brooke Penaluna. 2025. Where the fish end: Predicting the upper reaches of fish habitat
• John Kirkland, Rebecca Flitcroft, Brooke Penaluna. 2024. Living water: Mapping aquatic biodiversity
• Stanley Gregory, Linda Ashkenas, Randall Wildman, George Lienkaemper, Ivan Arismendi, Gary A. Lamberti, Mark Meleason, Brooke Penaluna, Daniel Sobota. 2024. Long‐term dynamics of large wood in old‐growth and second‐growth stream reaches in the Cascade Range of Oregon
• Ivan Arismendi, Stanley V Gregory, Douglas S. Bateman, Brooke Penaluna. 2024. Shrinking sizes of trout and salamanders are unexplained by climate warming alone
• Ivan Arismendi, Brooke Penaluna, Stanley V Gregory. 2024. Trout under drought: A long-term study of annual growth and condition of stream-living Coastal Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii)
• James S. White, Tobias J. Kock, Brooke Penaluna, Stan Gregory, Josh Williams, Randy Wildman. 2024. Expansion of smallmouth bass distribution and habitat overlap with juvenile Chinook salmon in the Willamette River, Oregon
• Nabin Baral, Lee K. Cerveny, Brooke Penaluna, Brett B. Roper, Daniel Shively, Shelly Witt. 2024. Variations in mentorship across grade levels and career stages among public management professionals
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Robin Abell, Ian Harrison, Ivan Arismendi, Brooke Penaluna. 2023. Making global targets local for freshwater protection
• Natasha Vizcarra, Brooke Penaluna. 2023. Examining diversity and inclusion in fisheries and aquatic sciences
• Emily Dziedzic, Brian Sidlauskas, Richard Cronn, James Anthony, Trevan Cornwell, Thomas A. Friesen, Peter Konstantinidis, Brooke Penaluna, Staci Stein, Taal Levi. 2023. Creating, curating and evaluating a mitogenomic reference database to improve regional species identification using environmental DNA
• Ashley A. Coble, Brooke Penaluna, Laura J. Six, Jake Verschuyl. 2023. Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds
• Lee K. Cerveny, Nabin Baral, Brooke Penaluna, Brett Roper, Daniel Shively, Shelly Witt. 2023. Mentoring in the USDA Forest Service: A survey of aquatic professionals
• Brooke Penaluna, Richard Cronn, Laura Hauck, Kevin A. Weitemier, Tiffany S. Garcia. 2023. Uncovering the hidden biodiversity of streams at the upper distribution limit of fish
• Laura Hauck, Carla L. Atkinson, Jessica A. Homyack, Brooke Penaluna, Clay Mangum, Ashley A. Coble, Jami Nettles, Jamie E. Thornton-Frost, Miranda J. Fix. 2023. Molecular identity crisis: environmental DNA metabarcoding meets traditional taxonomy—assessing biodiversity and freshwater mussel populations (Unionidae) in Alabama
• Joseph R. Benjamin, Jason B. Dunham, Sherri Johnson, Linda Ashkenas, Brooke Penaluna, Robert E. Bilby, Douglas Bateman, David Leer, J. Ryan Bellmore. 2022. Pathways of productivity and influences on top consumers in forested streams
• Brooke Penaluna, Jonathan Burnett, Kelly Christiansen, Ivan Arismendi, Sherri Johnson, Kitty Griswold, Brett Holycross, Sonja Kolstoe. 2022. UPRLIMET: UPstream Regional LiDAR Model for Extent of Trout in stream networks
• Brooke Penaluna, Ivan Arismendi. 2022. The gender gap: Women as authors and leaders in international publications in fisheries science
• John Campbell, Charles Driscoll, Julia Jones, Emery Boose, Hilary Dugan, Peter Groffman, C Rhett Jackson, Jeremy Jones, Glenn Juday, Noah Lottig, Brooke Penaluna, Roger Ruess, Katharine Suding, Jonathan Thompson, Jess K. Zimmerman. 2022. Forest and Freshwater Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change and Variability at US LTER Sites
• Rebecca Flitcroft, William R. Brignon, Brian Staab, J. Ryan Bellmore, Jonathan Burnett, Paul Burns, Brian Cluer, Guillermo Giannico, Joseph M. Helstab, Jeremy Jennings, Christopher Mayes, Celeste Mazzacano, Lauren Mork, Kate Meyer, Jay Munyon, Brooke Penaluna, Paul Powers, Daniel N. Scott, Steve Wondzell. 2022. Rehabilitating valley floors to a Stage 0 condition: A synthesis of opening outcomes.
• John Kirkland, Brooke Penaluna, Richard Cronn. 2022. The promise of environmental DNA: Life in Northwest streams revealed through a bottle of water
• Kevin Weitemier, Brooke Penaluna, Laura Hauck, Lucas J. Longway, Tiffany Garcia, Richard Cronn. 2021. Estimating the genetic diversity of Pacific salmon and trout using multigene eDNA metabarcoding
• Lauren Zatkos, Ivan Arismendi, Sherri Johnson, Brooke Penaluna. 2021. Geophysical templates modulate the structure of stream food webs dominated by omnivory
• Ivan Arismendi, Katherine R. McLaughlin, Brooke Penaluna. 2021. The U.S. academic fisheries co‐authorship network under the lens of diversity and inclusion
• Jonathan B. Armstrong, Aimee H. Fullerton, Chris E. Jordan, Joseph L. Ebersole, J. Ryan Bellmore, Ivan Arismendi, Brooke Penaluna, Gordon Reeves. 2021. The importance of warm habitat to the growth regime of cold-water fishes
• Brooke Penaluna, Jason B. Dunham, Heidi V Andersen. 2021. Nowhere to hide: The importance of instream cover for stream‐living Coastal Cutthroat Trout during seasonal low flow
• Brooke Penaluna, Jennifer M. Allen, Ivan Arismendi, Taal Levi, Tiffany S. Garcia, Jason K. Walter. 2021. Better boundaries: identifying the upper extent of fish distributions in forested streams using eDNA and electrofishing
• Brooke Penaluna, Dan Shively, Brett B. Roper, Lee K. Cerveny, Shelly Witt, John Rothlisberger. 2020. Mentoring relates to job satisfaction for fish biologists: a longitudinal study of the USDA Forest Service
• Christina A. Murphy, Lauren Zatkos, Kelsi Antonelli, A. Brent Cárdenas, Christina Linkem, Michael Manning, Juan Andres Olivos, Brooke Penaluna, Amanda Pollock, Ivan Arismendi. 2020. AFS Roots: Mothers of Fishes
• Lauren Zatkos, Christina A. Murphy, Amanda Pollock, Brooke Penaluna, J. Andres Olivos, Emilee Mowlds, Christine Moffitt, Michael Manning, Christina Linkem, Lisa Holst, A. Brent Cárdenas, Ivan Arismendi. 2020. AFS roots: Emmeline Moore, all things to all fishes
• Ivan Arismendi, Brooke Penaluna, Carlos G. Jara. 2020. Introduced beaver improve growth of non‐native trout in Tierra del Fuego, South America
• Erin F. Abernethy, Ivan Arismendi, Anna G. Boegehold, Checo Colón-Gaud, Matthew R. Cover, Erin I Larson, Eric K. Moody, Brooke Penaluna, Arial J. Shogren, Alex J. Webster, M. Megan. Woller-Skar. 2020. Diverse, equitable, and inclusive scientific societies: Progress and opportunities in the Society for Freshwater Science
• Holly Barnard, Enhao Du, Sherri Johnson, Julia Jones, Elizabeth Keppeler, Hyojung Kwon, Ashley A. Coble, Timothy E. Link, Brooke Penaluna, Maryanne Reiter, Mark River, Klaus Puettmann, Joseph Wagenbrenner. 2020. Long-term hydrological response to forest harvest during seasonal low flow: Potential implications for current forest practices
• Chelsea Batavia, Brooke Penaluna, Thea Rose Lemberger, Michael Paul. Nelson. 2020. Considering the case for diversity in natural resources
• Brooke Penaluna, Loretta Ellenburg. 2019. Reoccurrence of the Umpqua Chub (Oregonichthys kalawatseti) in the North Umpqua after almost a century
• Laura Hauck, Kevin A. Weitemier, Brooke Penaluna, Tiffany S. Garcia, Richard Cronn. 2019. Casting a broader net: Using microfluidic metagenomics to capture aquatic biodiversity data from diverse taxonomic targets
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Sarah A. Lewis, Ivan Arismendi, Chante Davis, Guillermo Giannico, Brooke Penaluna, Mary Santelmann, Mohammad Safeeq, Jeff Snyder. 2019. Using expressed behaviour of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) to evaluate the vulnerability of upriver migrants under future hydrological regimes: Management implications and conservation planning
• Ashley A. Coble, Camille A. Flinders, Jessica A. Homyack, Brooke Penaluna, Richard Cronn, Kevin Weitemier. 2019. eDNA as a tool for identifying freshwater species in sustainable forestry: A critical review and potential future applications
• Brooke Penaluna, Ivan Arismendi. 2018. Unraveling the hidden lives of warm-water fish communities
• Brooke Penaluna, Gordon Reeves, Zanethia C. Barnett, Pete Bisson, John M. Buffington, Andy Dolloff, Rebecca Flitcroft, Charlie H. Luce, Keith Nislow, John Rothlisberger, Mel Warren. 2018. Using natural disturbance and portfolio concepts to guide aquatic-riparian ecosystem management
• Brooke Penaluna, Deanna H. Olson, Rebecca Flitcroft, Matthew A. Weber, J. Ryan Bellmore, Steve Wondzell, Jason B. Dunham, Sherri Johnson, Gordon Reeves. 2017. Aquatic biodiversity in forests: a weak link in ecosystem services resilience
• Michael K. Schwartz, Brooke Penaluna, Taylor Wilcox. 2017. eDNA sampling: Not just for fisheries biologists anymore
• Brooke Penaluna, Ivan Arismendi, Christine M. Moffitt, Zachary L. Penney. 2017. Nine proposed action areas to enhance diversity and inclusion in the American Fisheries Society
• Brooke Penaluna. 2016. Conservacion de truchas del Pacifico
• Brooke Penaluna. 2016. The histories and destinies of Chile and California
• Andrea Watts, Brooke Penaluna, Jason Dunham. 2016. The idiosyncrasies of streams: local variability mitigates vulnerability of trout to changing conditions
• Ivan Arismendi, Brooke Penaluna. 2016. Examining diversity inequities in fisheries science: a call to action
• Brooke Penaluna, Leo R. Bodensteiner. 2015. North Pacific Spiny Dogfish (Squalus suckleyi) presence in Eelgrass habitat in the Salish Sea, Washington
• Brooke Penaluna, Jason B. Dunham, Steve F. Railsback, Ivan Arismendi, Sherri Johnson, Robert E. Bilby, Mohammad Safeeq, Arne E. Skaugset, James P. Meador. 2015. Local variability mediates vulnerability of trout populations to land use and climate change
• Brooke Penaluna, Jason B. Dunham, David L. G. Noakes. 2015. Instream cover and shade mediate avian predation on trout in semi-natural streams
• Brooke Penaluna, David L. G. Noakes. 2015. Instream cover and shade mediate avian predation on trout in semi-natural streams
• Brooke Penaluna, Steve F. Railsback, Jason B. Dunham, Sherri Johnson, Robert E. Bilby, Arne E. Skaugset, Michael Bradford. 2015. The role of the geophysical template and environmental regimes in controlling stream-living trout populations
• Ivan Arismendi, Brooke Penaluna, Jason B. Dunham, Carlos Garcia de Leaniz, Doris Soto, Ian A. Fleming, Daniel Gomez-Uchida, Gonzalo Gajardo, Pamela V. Varga, Jorge León-Muñoz. 2014. Differential invasion success of salmonids in southern Chile: patterns and hypotheses

Data and Tools

• Model
  

  The Upper Limit of Fish: Mapping the Upper Extent of Fish in Streams Through Modeling

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/products/dataandtools/upper-limit-fish-mapping-upper-extent-fish-streams-through-modeling
• Dashboard
  

  Upstream Regional LiDAR Model of Trout (UPRLIMET) Dashboard

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/products/dataandtools/upstream-regional-lidar-model-trout-uprlimet-dashboard

• Center or Group
  

  Northwest Water Research Initiative

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/centers/nwri
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Experimental Forest or Range
  

  H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/forestsandranges/locations/hjandrews
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Diversity of Pacific Trout

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/diversity-pacific-trout
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Instream Habitat Refugia for Trout

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/instreamhabitatrefugiafortrout
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  West-Side Fire and Climate Adaptation Research Initiative

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/centers/wsfcari
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Exploring Freshwater Biodiversity Using eDNA

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/exploringfreshwaterbiodiversityedna
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Connectivity of Aquatic Habitats in Space and Time

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/connectivity-aquatic-habitats-space-and-time
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Using Experimental Forests to provide insight to the Wildfire Crisis Strategy landscapes

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bil-using-experimental-forests-provide-insight-wildfire-crisis-strategy-landscapes
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  UPRLIMET: Upstream regional LiDAR model for extent of trout

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/uprlimet
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Program
  

  Watershed and Aquatic Sciences

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/programs/was
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Aquatic Biodiversity

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/aquatic-biodiversity
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Upper Extent of Fish

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/upper-extent-fish
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Assessing wildfire risk to municipal drinking water sources

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/wildfireriskmunicpaldrinkingwater
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Linking Fish, Forests, Fire, and Stream Function

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/linking-fish-forests-fire-stream-function
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station

Other Publications

• Understory
  

  Upper Extent of Fish in Pacific Northwest Streams

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/understory/upper-extent-fish-pacific-northwest-streams

Multimedia

• Webinars

  PNW SciCast Webinar: Ecology and Management at the Upper Extent of Fish

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/products/multimedia/webinars/pnw-scicast-webinar-ecology-and-management-upper-extent-fish
• Webinars

  SCIENCEx Genetics: Wildlife and Fish

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/sciencex-genetics-wildlife-and-fish
• Webinars

  SCIENCEx Experimental Forests and Ranges Week: Fire

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/sciencex-experimental-forests-and-ranges-week-fire
• Webinars

  PNW SciCast Webinar: The Promise of Environmental DNA (eDNA)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/products/multimedia/webinars/pnw-scicast-webinar-promise-environmental-dna-edna

• Oregon State University, PhD, Fisheries Science, 2012
• Western Washington University, MS, Environmental Science with a minor in Marine and Estuarine Science, 2006
• University of St. Thomas, BA, Environmental Studies with an emphasis in Biology, 2000