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Water chemistry - Thornton Creek Restoration Project Effectiveness Monitoring
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
NOAA has designed and is currently implementing a hyporheic monitoring plan for the Thornton Creek watershed in North Seattle. This work is being conducted for... -
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Methow River Steelhead - Methow River Steelhead hatchery reform research
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Steelhead in Pacific Northwest hatcheries are typically reared for release as 1-year-old smolts, rather than the 2¬and 3-year-old smolt life history patterns found... -
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SRKW seasonal occurence - Population structure and viability of SRKW and other top marine predators
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The Southern Resident killer whale (SRKW) population is threatened by a number of identified risk factors including prey availability, contaminants, vessel noise and... -
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Mukilteo water sensor time series - Field work coupling measurements of carbon chemistry and distribution of free-living organisms
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
To estimate the carbon chemistry conditions experienced by free-living organisms, we will conduct coupled biological/carbon chemistry sampling for key zooplankton... -
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POPs and stable isotopes in bird and forage fish tissues - Persistent organic pollutant levels in juvenile salmonids, forage fish and their avian predators from Puget Sound and the outer WA coast
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project is examining contaminant loads of fish prey species of a resident marine bird (Rhinoceros Auklet) breeding in inland waters (Puget Sound) and in the... -
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Juvenile Salmonid Metrics - Juvenile Salmon & Ocean Ecosystem Survey
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
FY20 will mark the 23nd year of sampling, making the Juvenile Salmon and Ocean Ecosystem Survey (JSOES) the longest running salmon survey on the west coast. JSOES has... -
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Fish abundance, composition, distribution - Recolonization of the Cedar River, WA by Pacific salmon
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The objective of this study is to quantify population, community, and ecosystem level changes as a result of salmon recolonization of the Cedar River, WA above... -
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Social Cultural Data - Social Impacts of Fishery Managementin the West Coast Groundfish Fishery
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project measures social and cultural impacts of fishery management on the fishing industry and fishing communities. One key focus of this project is the catch... -
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Killer whale morphology - Variation in morphology of killer whale ecotypes
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
We are using elliptic Fourier analysis to determine the patterns of variation in morphology of dorsal fin shape, saddle patch shape, and eye patch shape of resident,... -
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DTAGs SRKW - Using DTAGs to study vessel sound exposure & effects on behavior in southern resident killer whales
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Drs. Marla Holt, Brad Hanson, and Candice Emmons of the NWFSC, along with collaborators from Cascadia Research Collective and UC Davis, are currently conducting a... -
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DIDSON ultrasonic video data - Untrawlable Habitat Strategic Initiative
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The NWFSC FRAM Marine Habitat Ecology Team is involved in many aspects of the UHSI program but has focused on the application of DIDSON imaging sonars to aid in... -
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Hood Canal Steelhead - Hood Canal Steelhead Supplementation Experiment
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The Hood Canal Steelhead Project is a 17-year before-after-control-impact experiment that tests the effects of supplementation on natural steelhead populations in... -
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Salmon habitat use, tidal-fluvial estuary - Columbia River Estuary Tidal Habitats
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The goal of the tidal-fluvial estuary study is to determine the estuary's contribution to the spatial structure and life history diversity of Columbia River salmon... -
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Skagit IMW - Skagit River Estuary Intensively Monitored Watershed Project
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This study evaluates system-level effects of several estuary restoration projects on juvenile Chinook salmon production in the Skagit River estuary. The monitoring... -
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Fall transport - A study to compare smolt-to-adult return rates (SARs) of Snake River fall Chinook salmon under alternative transport and dam operational strategies
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)-funded study that began in 2005 compares the SARs of PIT tagged juvenile hatchery Snake River fall Chinook that are split... -
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Qwuloolt hydrology - Monitoring the Qwuloolt Estuarine Levee Breach Restoration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Comprehensive planning and monitoring of abiotic (hydrology, land forms, energy and nutrients, and chemistry) and biotic (plants, fish, invertebrates, birds, mammals)... -
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Laboratory data on Snake River steelhead - Evaluation of methods to reduce straying rates of barged juvenile steelhead
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The goals of this study are to develop methods to reduce wandering and straying of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) that are collected and barged from the Snake River... -
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Central Puget Sound Ecopath/Ecosim model outputs - Developing food web models for ecosystem-based management applications in Puget Sound
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project is developing food web models for ecosystem-based management applications in Puget Sound. It is primarily being done by NMFS FTEs and contractors, in... -
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Predicted channel types - Potential for Habitat Improvement in the Columbia River Basin
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Basin-wide analysis of potential to improve tributary habitats in the Columbia River basin through restoration of habitat-forming processes. Identification of... -
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Coho Use of Beaver Ponds in California - Movers and stayers: seasonal growth of alternative behavioral strategies of juvenile coho in natural and constructed habitats of mid-Klamath tributaries
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) once ranged across the western part of the North America from Alaska to California. Due to habitat destruction, over fishing,...