Professor Emeritus

Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University

Kurt Fausch is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University, where he taught for 35 years. His research collaborations in stream fish ecology and conservation have taken him throughout Colorado and the West, and worldwide, including Hokkaido in northern Japan. His experiences were chronicled in the PBS documentary RiverWebs, the 2015 book For the Love of Rivers: A Scientist’s Journey, which won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, and his 2025 book A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters. He received lifetime achievement awards from the American Fisheries Society and World Council of Fisheries Societies, and the Leopold Conservation Award from Fly Fishers International.