Martin Liermann has worked at the National Marine Fisheries in Seattle as a quantitative ecologist since 1997 and is affiliate faculty in the University of Washington’s Statistics department. He received a BA in mathematics, and an MS in mathematics and environmental sciences at Humboldt State University (Arcata California) in 1989 and 1991. He completed his Ph.D. in quantitative ecology and resource management at the University of Washington (Seattle Washington) in 1999.

Martin is interested in the application of quantitative tools to ecological problems especially as they apply to questions that arise in habitat and fisheries management. Recent topics he has worked on include salmon population dynamics, temporal dynamics of wood loading in small streams, juvenile salmon bioenergetics and movement, and evaluating different estimators for returning adults and out-migrating juvenile salmonids.