Smolt Estimation and Analytics Workshop

November 6-7, 2019 at Walla Walla Community College

Smolt Estimation and Analytics Workshop Notes

A workshop to share, discuss, and recommend best practices for smolt abundance estimation and related analyses.

Who should attend?  Researchers and data analysts who generate smolt estimates or create analytical models for smolt data. Goals are to share information, compare and discuss statistical practices, and recommend further collaboration to develop interoperable data outputs and common analytical tools for smolt data. Representative sessions:

Plenary Session
An overview of the uses of data from smolt trapping and a history of smolt trapping in the Pacific Northwest.

Nuts and Bolts of Smolt Trapping
Data collection, protocols and methods as they relate to use of the data for analysis.
A synthesis of the results of a region-wide survey.

Estimation and Analytics
Presentations by peers and statistical experts to address best practices for conducting analyses of smolt abundance, with consideration of statistical assumptions, population representation, gaps in data, environmental covariates, impacts of life history variations, and estimating abundance at points downstream.

Data Management for Juvenile Out-migrants and Connections to Coordinated Assessments
Ensuring comparability for smolt abundance estimates across the Columbia Basin and understanding terminology and scale of various estimates being presented and used in the region.

For more information please contact Jen Bayer jbayer@usgs.gov