MonitoringResources.org Tutorial for CORs
2024-07-31 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | Virtual
An overview and quick tutorial of the MonitoringResources.org metadata documentation tool for BPA CORs and any other contractors interested in attending.
BPA Workflow Navigation and Guidance

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Washington Salmon Recovery Funding Board Meeting (August 2024)
2024-08-07 13:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Room 175, Natural Resources Building, 1111 Washington Street, SE, Olympia, WA, 98501, United States
For meeting details, visit Meetings – RCO (wa.gov)
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Phone Option: (669)900-6833 – Meeting ID: 871 9671 5409
Physical Location: Room 175, Natural Resources Building, 1111 Washington Street, SE, Olympia, WA 98501

Salmon Recovery Funding Board Meeting
2024-09-24 08:00 - 2024-09-25 17:00 (America/Denver) | Room 172, First Floor, Natural Resources Building, 1111 Washington Street, Olympia, WA, United States
This hybrid event will take place September 24-25, 2024
Location In-Person: Room 172, First Floor, Natural Resources Building, 1111 Washington Street, SE,
Olympia, WA. This public meeting location will allow for the public to provide comment and listen to
the meeting as required by the Open Public Meeting Act. This requirement can be waived via HB 1329
if there is declaration of emergency or if an agency determines that a public meeting cannot safely be
held. If an emergency occurs, remote technology will be used instead.
Location Virtually: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mtmdUTKcSNeb1yWr6AIY4A#/registration
Phone Option: (669) 900-6833 – Webinar ID: 823 76308 7848
*Additionally, RCO will record this meeting and would be happy to assist you after the meeting to access the
recording.
Order of Presentation: In general, each agenda item will include a staff presentation, followed by
board discussion. The board only makes decisions following the public comment portion of the
agenda decision item. AGENDA
Public Comment: General public comment is encouraged to be submitted in advance to the meeting
in written form. Public comment on agenda items is also permitted. If you wish to comment, you may
e-mail your request or written comments to Julia.McNamara@rco.wa.gov. Comment for these items
will be limited to three minutes per person.

CRBRP Toxics Monitoring Subgroup Meeting
2024-10-01 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Denver) | Virtual
Agenda
5 min, Welcome and Introductions
60 min, Lightning Talks

Clearwater River Watershed Baseline Monitoring and Toxics Assessment, Sierra Higheagle (Nez Perce Tribe Water Resource Division)
Oregon PFAS Wastewater Monitoring in Small and Mid-Size Cities within the Columbia Basin, Kevin Masterson (Oregon Association of Clean Water Agencies, Contractor)
Montana’s PFAS Response, Abbie Ebert (MT DEQ)
CTUIR Toxics Strategic Plan: Aligning Chemicals Management Towards Tribal Knowledge and Values, Negonnekodoqua Blair (Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation)

10 min, Updates

Brief update by Patrick Moran (USGS) on progress and next steps for identifying screening values for the CRBRP
Brief update by Bryson Finch (WA Ecology) on Washington State Department of Ecology’s recently adopted revised aquatic life criteria for 16 toxic parameters, including 14 new substances

15 min, June Meeting Follow Up

The June TMS meeting featured three talks intended to stimulate discussion of ways to collaborate, coordinate, and share information and move towards a more integrated monitoring approach in the Columbia River Basin (review the notes here). At this meeting we will have a short recap of the June presentations followed by discussion and feedback on next steps.

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Fish Monitoring Work Group Meeting (October 2024)
2024-10-17 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Denver) | Virtual
Join us at 10:00 am (Pacific) on October 17th for the next meeting of the PNAMP Fish Monitoring Work Group (FMWG). During the meeting, we will update participants on current tasks, hear a presentation about innovative fish monitoring, and provide you with opportunities to engage regional managers and experts. These meetings are an opportune time to discuss tasks and get input from members on where they see importance or could use facilitated support.
Tech Talk: WATCH RECORDING
Flowing Forward: Key Insights from the Middle Fork John Day River Intensively Monitored Watershed 2024 Summary Report
The Middle Fork John Day River Intensively Monitored Watershed (Middle Fork IMW) Working Group (comprised of multiple agencies and entities, with funding from PSMFC, NOAA and OWEB) dedicated 2023 to completing a summary report that builds off the Middle Fork IMW’s 2017 10-Year Summary Report. The 2024 report represents additional years of work and voluntary reporting by numerous agencies and individuals, conducting restoration, research, and monitoring activities in the upper Middle Fork John Day River. On a voluntary basis, principal investigators and their co-authors wrote eight individual chapters, describing their recent research and findings. The 2024 Summary Report also provides key insights into the intensity and types of restoration actions completed on the landscape, an assessment of the application of previous recommendations provided in 2017, a compilation of new lessons learned and recommendations, and recommendations for future restoration to target limiting factor(s) and achieve the goals of the Middle Fork IMW. The 2024 Middle Fork John Day IMW Summary Report can be found at this link: 2024 Middle Fork John Day River IMW Summary Report. Kasey Bliesner (ODFW and the Middle Fork IMW co-coordinator) and other members of the Middle Fork IMW Working Group will present key insights from the 2024 Summary Report.
Agenda

10:00 – Welcome and Introductions
10:05 – Task Updates
10:20 – Tech Talk
11:10 – Q&A
11:30 – Adjourn

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Never been to a FMWG meeting? This meeting is a perfect time to learn about the project, join in, and help guide future work.
Missed a previous FMWG meeting? Check out our YouTube page for presentations or task meetings.

The PNAMP Fish Monitoring Work Group (FMWG), meets quarterly to discuss task progress, share expertise through guest presentations, and support collaboration, communication, and coordination among fish monitoring practitioners for effective monitoring and efficient data sharing. The FMWG is also interested in your work; if you would like to present your innovative fish monitoring ideas or any recent publications at a future meeting please contact Meg Dethloff, mdethloff@usgs.gov

2024 GEO Sessions (free and virtual)
2024-10-22 06:00 - 2024-10-24 14:00 (America/Denver) | Virtual
OCTOBER 22-24, 2024
Geo Sessions is an online thought leadership event focused on the trends, benefits, techniques, and applications of geospatial data and analysis. Attend this event to gain insights from spectral, SAR, and LiDAR experts from public organizations, academia, and commercial industries and see what the present and future of geospatial data looks like from their perspectives.
There will be a dedicated 2-hour session for each of the three data modalities (spectral, SAR, LiDAR) over consecutive days, view the agenda in the link below for details. All registrants will receive on-demand recordings of each day after the event concludes.
This event will benefit anyone who is using or considering using spectral, SAR, and LiDAR data.
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Not sure if you can attend the entire event? Register anyway to make sure that you receive access to the recordings.

Society for Freshwater Science: Pacific Northwest Chapter Annual Meeting 2024
2024-10-23 08:00 - 2024-10-24 17:00 (America/Denver) | Red Lion Governor Hotel, Olympia, WA, United States
2024 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Chapter — October 23-24, 2024, Olympia, Washington, at the Red Lion Inn (Governor Hotel).
Please register through Eventbrite by October 9th. We encourage everyone to pay via card through Eventbrite, however, if you need to pay via check, please contact Oliver Miler (omiler@nwifc.org). Hotel rooms have been blocked out at the Red Lion Governor Hotel until October 9th under group code “PNW SFS”. Please call the hotel (360-352-7700) to reserve your room, or book here: Red Lion Inn & Suites Olympia, Governor Hotel – Reservations – Room Availability (synxis.com)
View the flyer for more details, including program, presentation, and award information.

SER North American Conference 2024
2024-10-28 08:00 - 2024-11-01 17:00 (America/Denver) | Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) North American 2024 Conference will provide an interactive forum to learn and share about the science and practice of ecological restoration across ecosystems and disciplines to better connect a diverse and engaged restoration community.
The SER 2024 North American Conference Planning Committee is excited to invite you to participate in the first full SER North American Conference, which will be held from 10/28/2024 to 11/1/2024 at the Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel. We anticipate that approximately 750 attendees, speakers, and exhibitors from across North America will gather for this inaugural event for restoration ecology professionals across the continent.
We invite SER business members, as well as those who are not yet members, to consider sponsoring our event or exhibiting their goods or services. Exhibitors and sponsors will enjoy a lively atmosphere to increase their company profile and inform ecological restoration professionals about quality services, new and innovative products, and leading-edge technology that can be used to further the science, practice, and policy of restoration.
For more information visit the conference website: https://sernac.org/

Columbia River Basin Restoration Working Group Virtual Fall Meeting
2024-10-31 09:00 - 14:00 (America/Denver) | Virtual
October 31st, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm MT (9:00 am – 2:00 PM Pacific)
Please send Robin Parker, CRBRP Coordinator, any suggestions or requests you have for topics to share about or learn about as a part of this virtual meeting. Some ideas so far:

Science and Monitoring Awards update
Engagement with “non-typical” partners, like property owners, food growers, corporations, railroads, etc.
Communication for and with others in the WG to ask for advice, find partners, etc.

2024 Joint Session of StreamNet Executive Committee and PNAMP Steering Committee
2024-11-06 09:00 - 2024-11-07 11:00 (America/Denver) | Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, 700 NE Multnomah St, Portland, OR, 97232, United States
PNAMP Steering Committee and StreamNet Executive Committee Joint Session Meeting Notes for November 6-7, 2024.
Join us on Wednesday, November 6th and Thursday, November 7th for the 2024 joint session between the StreamNet Executive Committee and PNAMP Steering Committee. The overlapping work of StreamNet and PNAMP makes this meeting format beneficial for both communities and creates efficiency in participants’ time and travel.
Everyone is welcome to attend all sessions in Portland or virtually. In person will be held at the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission 700 NE Multnomah St, Portland, OR 97232 in the 5th floor Commission/conference room.
Timelines for Day 1 and Day 2.

DAY 1, Wednesday, November 6th
8:30 am – Breakfast Social – Join us for PNAMP’s 20-year Celebration with coffee, donuts, and apples (in-person only)
9:00 am – PNAMP Steering Committee
10:30 am – Joint Session of StreamNet Executive Committee and PNAMP Steering Committee
Lunch break around 11:45 am
1:00-4:30 – reconvene both committees
Day 2, Thursday, November 7th
9:00 am -11:00 am – StreamNet Executive Committee

PNAMP is an open forum, but these meetings are specifically focused on gathering feedback from our Steering Committee and courtesy partners. All others are welcomed to come, learn, and listen, but please contain your comments to the in-meeting chat or a follow up email. We will reach out one to one to discuss your thoughts and questions after the meeting.
Contact Meg Dethloff, mdethloff@usgs.gov, if you have any questions or suggestions.

Willamette Waters Symposium 2024
2024-11-12 08:00 - 2024-11-13 14:00 (America/Denver) | Corvallis, Oregon
Willamette Waters Symposium 2024
Our Willamette Waters: Science in Service of Policy, Management and Restoration
November 12-13, 2024
La Sells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
For more detailed information, visit: Our Willamette 2024 | College of Agricultural Sciences (oregonstate.edu)

What are key river policy and management issues, and how can science best inform these issues?
What is the state of the science for aquatic species, water temperature and other river conditions across the stream network?
This 2-day conference will begin to address these and other topics. Events include all-attendee presentations and workshop-style interactive sessions focusing on biological and geophysical trends, policy issues, and river management.
Conference topics include:

Where have we been and where are we going in the Willamette River basin?
Relationships with river restoration
Current river fish distributions and trends over time
Insights into spring Chinook fish passage
Water law
Stream temperature conditions and considerations for management and policy
Wildfire regimes
Indigenous wildfire and land management

Register Soon! There is an attendance cap of 200!
Registration includes Lunch both days, and appetizers for the Poster Session on November 12.

Early Bird registration (September 1 – October 12): $180
Late registration (October 13 – November 11): $300

Restoring Watershed Resilience Virtual Workshop
2024-11-14 09:00 - 15:30 (America/Denver) | Virtual
Restoring Watershed Resilience
November 14th, 2024
9:00am – 3:30pm PST on Zoom
As climate change and land-use practices alter the disturbance regime of river corridors, there is growing awareness of the need to increase watershed resilience as part of Pacific salmon recovery efforts. This virtual workshop will bring together experts in watershed science to discuss habitat restoration approaches to increasing watershed resilience. Strategies for increasing the absorbing capacity of the watershed, restoring connectivity, project planning and implementation, and bridging project-scale actions to a watershed-scale response will all be discussed through practical case study examples and the most current science. Morning and afternoon panel discussions will invite participants to raise questions and discuss this important topic. We hope you will join us!​
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VEaOB9zXQ9eEsqsHJsZRMg
Past workshop recordings: https://psf.ca/knowledge-exchange-workshop-series/
For more information: laura.weatherly@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

100th Meridian Columbia River Basin Aquatic Invasive Species Team Meeting
2024-12-10 10:00 - 2024-12-11 16:00 (America/Denver) | Northern Quest Resort and Casino, Spokane, WA
Registration Open for the 100th Meridian Columbia River Basin Aquatic Invasive Species Team Meeting!
Sign up now for the next meeting of the 100th Meridian CRB AIS Team; scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, December 10 & 11, 2024 at the Northern Quest Resort & Casino in Spokane, WA.
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They anticipate starting at 10am on 10/10 and ending ~ 3pm on 10/11.
HOTEL: Call 1-877-871-6772 to make reservations by November 7. Please request the 100th Meridian CRB AIS Team Meeting rate ($127/night) or you may use the booking ID number 31709 to receive the rate.
Cancellations prior to 72 hours before arrival are required for a refund or credit for future stay. Guest room rates are subject to 0% State Sales Tax, a $2.00 per room night Tourism Promotion Assessment (TPA), and 9% lodging fee.
LUNCH: Please note we are canceling lunch orders due to resort minimum order requirements. Refunds will go out today for those that have already ordered. There are quite a few on-property restaurants, which you can preview here. Northern Quest Restaurants
AGENDA: A draft agenda is on the registration website here and on Westernais.org. Please contact Leah Elwell for agenda questions at: leah@conservationcollaborations.com.
LOGISTICS: This will be a hybrid meeting. Meeting materials such as minutes and presentations will be made available post-meeting.
QUESTIONS: You may contact Amy Stark at (astark@psmfc.org) or call her at (503) 595-3112.

RDA Salmon Research and Monitoring Interest Group Kick-Off Meeting
2024-12-12 08:30 - 09:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
A Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group dedicated to the salmon research and monitoring community which will aim to accelerate the uptake of interoperable methods and data from research, management, and monitoring, so as to empower the community to further develop the mechanistic understanding of what drives salmon declines, and importantly develop methods to counter the declines. We will focus on these factors through the development of Working Groups aligned with the RDA methodology, 12 – 18 month focused efforts to tackle specific challenges in adherence to FAIR principles in line with the RDA mission.
The kick-off meeting is now scheduled for 1630GMT to 1730GMT on the 12th December 2024
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The meeting will be recorded and shared here after the meeting. This will be the first of many regular meetings across convenient time slots for everyone, so if you cannot make it this time don’t worry we’ll follow up with another soon after.

Salmon Recovery Funding Board Meeting
2024-12-18 08:00 - 2024-12-19 17:00 (America/Denver) | Room 175, Natural Resources Building, 1111 Washington Street, SE, Olympia, WA, 98501, United States
Physical Location: Room 175, Natural Resources Building, 1111 Washington Street, SE, Olympia, WA 98501
Online Zoom Registration Phone Option: (669)900-6833 – Meeting ID: 820 7291 7965
More meeting details and an agenda to come. Check the Salmon Recovery Funding Board website for updates: Meetings – RCO (wa.gov)

Modeling and Analysis Session - ETIS 2025 Webinar Series
2025-01-08 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Modeling and Analysis Session: Watch the Recording

(Slide Deck) An Overview of GitHub for Data Analysis Projects – Ben Staton; Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
(Slide Deck) Utilizing R Shiny Within the Likely Suspects Framework – Graeme Diack, Jon Emery, Colin Bull; Missing Salmon Alliance
(Slide Deck) Models facilitate comparison of the social-ecological tradeoffs among Puget Sound management alternatives – Caitlin Magel; University of Washington Puget Sound Institute

See the ETIS 2025 Webinar Program for presentation abstracts.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Session - ETIS 2025 Webinar Series
2025-01-15 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Session: Watch the Recording

AI for capture recapture data: individual instance pattern recognition tools and the GrouperSpotter platform – Brice Semmens; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
(Slide Deck) Exploring monitoring methods using text clustering and LLMs – Tomas Bird and Minh Doan; Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada
Improving Hydroelectric Dam Operations Through AI-Powered Fish Monitoring – Aaron Legge; Innovasea

See the ETIS 2025 Webinar Program for presentation abstracts.

Fish Monitoring Work Group Meeting (January 2025)
2025-01-16 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Denver) | Virtual
Join us at 10:00 am (Pacific) on January 16th for the next meeting of the PNAMP Fish Monitoring Work Group (FMWG). During the meeting, we will update participants on current tasks, hear a presentation about innovative fish monitoring, and provide you with opportunities to engage regional managers and experts. These meetings are an opportune time to discuss tasks and get input from members on where they see importance or could use facilitated support.
Tech Talk: RECORDING AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST, send email to mdethloff@psmfc.org
Putting Time Back into Space-for-Time Mark-Recapture Models
Authors: Russell W. Perry, Dalton J. Hance, and Adam C. Pope (U.S. Geological Survey)
Summary:
Russell Perry, a Research Fish Biologist in the Quantitative Ecology Section at the US Geological Survey with the Western Fisheries Research Center will present Putting Time Back into Space-for-Time Mark-Recapture Models. Mark-recapture models such as the Cormack-Jolly-Seber and multi-state models are widely used to estimate survival of PIT- and acoustic-tagged fish migrating through stream and river networks. Although mark-recapture models were designed to estimate survival over time between discrete sampling occasions, when applied to migratory animals space can be swapped for time by using the discrete sampling locations to form detection “gates” along the migratory corridor. However, space-for-time models pose significant challenges when interest centers on understanding the effect of time-varying covariates on survival. This is because the environmental conditions that fish experienced upon passing a detection gate is unknown when individuals are not detected. In this presentation, we describe Time-Integrated Migration and Survival (TIMS) models that overcome this limitation of space-for-time mark-recapture models. TIMS models combine a migration model with a mark-recapture model to explicitly model travel times between detection gates and to account for probable arrival times and environmental conditions experienced by undetected fish. We provide example applications of these models to both acoustic- and PIT-tagged juvenile salmon to illustrate how the TIMS modeling framework allows for estimating effects of daily covariates such as flow and temperature on migration and survival.
Agenda

10:00 – Welcome and Introductions
10:05 – Task Updates
10:20 – Tech Talk
11:10 – Q&A
11:30 – Adjourn

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Never been to a FMWG meeting? This meeting is a perfect time to learn about the project, join in, and help guide future work.
Missed a previous FMWG meeting? Check out our YouTube page for presentations or task meetings.

The PNAMP Fish Monitoring Work Group (FMWG), meets quarterly to discuss task progress, share expertise through guest presentations, and support collaboration, communication, and coordination among fish monitoring practitioners for effective monitoring and efficient data sharing. The FMWG is also interested in your work; if you would like to present your innovative fish monitoring ideas or any recent publications at a future meeting please contact Meg Dethloff, mdethloff@usgs.gov

Data QA/QC Session – ETIS 2025 Webinar Series
2025-01-22 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Data QA/QC Session – Watch the Recording

(Slide Deck) Enabling Real Time Data Collection, Quality Control, Reporting, and Visualization to Enhance Field Data Collection Across the West – Justin Welty; U.S. Geological Survey
(Slide Deck) Data QA/QC for Spawning Ground Surveys Using Survey 123 and ArcGIS Enterprise – Brock Lipple; Idaho Department of Fish and Game
(Slide Deck) UI Design for Getting Better Quality Data – Chris Harrington; Idaho Department of Fish and Game

See the ETIS 2025 Webinar Program for presentation abstracts.

Genetics Session - ETIS 2025 Webinar Series
2025-01-29 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Genetics Session – Watch the Recording

Updating Genus Classification and Species Diversity in the OG Fish – Kellie Carim; U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
How Might Restoration Efforts Help Bring a Bumper Return of Pacific Lamprey to the Columbia River? – Jon Hess; Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
Integrating Genetics into Crayfish Conservation – Zanethia Barnett; USDA Forest Service
Sharing Biological Information Across Generations: Parallels Between Indigenous Knowledge and Genetics for Fisheries Recovery in the Columbia River Basin – Jeremy FiveCrows; Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

See the ETIS 2025 Webinar Program for presentation abstracts.

River Restoration Northwest 2025
2025-02-03 08:00 - 2025-02-07 17:00 (America/Denver) | Skamania, Washington, Skamania, WA, United States
River Restoration Northwest 2025
For more information: Symposium Information – River Restoration NW
Symposium Dates

Monday February 3, 2025: Short Courses
Tues-Thurs February 4-6, 2025: Symposium
Friday February 7, 2025: Field Trip

2025 Symposium Registration Fees

3-Day Member Registration: $680
3-Day Non-Member Registration: $710
3-Day Student Registration: $340
1-Day Registration: $330
Friday Field Trip: $60

Symposium Lodging

RRNW works with Skamania Lodge, Carson Hot Springs, and the Best Western to provide lodging and shuttles to the event. More information on lodging can be found here

For up-to-date information on symposium details, Abstract Submissions, and the Klingeman Scholarship Application; visit the River Restoration NW symposium logistics page: Symposium Logistics and FAQs (rrnw.org)

Remote Sensing Session - ETIS 2025 Webinar Series
2025-02-05 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Remote Sensing Session – Watch the Recording

Developing Autonomous eDNA Detection – Edgar Rudberg, Ph.D.; Nucleic Sensing Systems
Early Predication Method for Native Migratory Fish Presence at Small Culverts – Courtney Zambory; Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Why on Earth Would We Put Ocean Color Sensors on a Geostationary Weather Satellite? – Ryan Vandermeulen; NOAA Fisheries

See the ETIS 2025 Webinar Program for presentation abstracts.

CRBRP Toxics Monitoring Subgroup Meeting
2025-02-11 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Agenda
5 min, Welcome and Introductions
30 min, What is Data Management, and Why is it Important? Edyth Hermosillo (Aquatic Biologist, EPA Region 10 – Seattle)
30 min, Environmental Data Management at WA Ecology – 25 Years of Insight and Tips, Chris Neumiller (WA Ecology, EIM Data Manager)
20 min, Round Robin

Meeting participants are invited to share 1-2 minute updates about new monitoring on the horizon.

5 min, TMS Updates

News about TMS Core Team tasks and the 2025 TMS Workshop

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2025 Knowledge Exchange Workshop - Large Wood Applications in River Restoration
2025-02-13 09:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Large Wood Applications in River Restoration – Virtual Workshop #7 in the Salmon Habitat Restoration Knowledge Exchange Series
The Knowledge Exchange Workshop Series is co-presented by Fisheries & Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF).
DFO and PSF are pleased to provide an opportunity to share knowledge on some of the latest restoration practices and research from researchers, scientists, and field professionals working in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
DFO, PSF and Washington’s GSRO are pleased to bring together leading experts to present the latest science on wood dynamics and processes in rivers, as well as effective strategies for designing and implementing restoration projects using large wood in both streams and large rivers. Through informational talks and case studies, speakers will present technical details and monitoring results from large wood projects, provide the most current guidance on large wood restoration, and share valuable lessons learned.
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Oregon Chapter: American Fisheries Society 2025 Meeting
2025-02-25 08:00 - 2025-02-28 17:00 (America/Denver) | Riverhouse Bend, Oregon, Bend, OR, United States
Oregon Chapter American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting 2025
For more information: 2025 Annual Meeting – Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society
When: Tuesday, February 25 – Friday, February 28
Where: Riverhouse Bend, OR
The annual meeting will showcase Oregon Chapter’s communication through passionate, thought-provoking plenary speakers, workshops that will hone your biological and technical skills, technical sessions and posters that will entice the mind, trade show vendors that provide you with the latest tools to answer the hard questions of today, student-mentor events to inspire the next generation, and of course the legendary networking social events that tie everyone all together.

Technical Sessions:

Fish Passage
Thirty-mile Cr steelhead recovery
Klamath Basin fish monitoring
Marine fishes
Bull Trout
eDNA
Fire and disturbance recovery
Low Tech Process Based Restoration
Beaver restoration

Workshops:

Get your Feet Wet with ArcGIS Pro
Navigating Your Career Path: Essential Tips for Your Next Step

WA-BC AFS Workshop - Fishing for Clarity: Knowledge Modeling to Support Cross-Organizational Collaboration and Data Sharing About Salmon Escapement
2025-03-10 09:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront, 1133 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 3T3, Canada
UPDATED March 5, 2025
Fishing for Clarity: Knowledge Modeling to Support Cross-Organizational Collaboration and
Data Sharing About Salmon Escapement
AFS Washington-British Columbia Chapter Meeting Vancouver BC March 10, 2025 9:00 am – 2:30 pm
In person attendees will be in the hotel Salon C (Cordova Level)
Workshop Description
In this workshop (sponsored by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, NCEAS, PSMFC StreamNet, and PNAMP),
participants will learn about using a knowledge modeling approach to integrate data across multiple
organizations engaged in monitoring salmon spawner abundance. Focusing on the challenge of being able to
integrate salmon escapement observations across diverse entities, workshop attendees learn about processes
to develop a shared ontology, starting with mapping of concepts that underlie salmon escapement
observations. The workshop will introduce participants to the skills needed to build scalable, interoperable
data models, an important component of enabling integrated data across organizations for better analysis and
decision-making. Workshop participants will be invited to a future workshop where we share practical tools
and conduct further hands-on exercises to enable a roadmap for advancing data sharing and collaboration in
salmon management.
Workshop Objectives
● Shared Understanding of Challenges: Identify and address challenges in integrating heterogeneous data
from different systems and organizations.
● Strategies for Standardizing Terms: Understand the key principles and methodologies of knowledge
modeling.
● Best Practices for Salmon Data Stewardship: Invite critical review of best practices outlined in
manuscript, identify missing best-practices, coordinate authorship.
● Next Steps for Continued Collaboration: Discuss strategies for ensuring the scalability and sustainability
of data models in collaborative environments.
Workshop Flow:
The workshop will begin with brief roundtable introductions for in-person attendees and chat
introductions for virtual participants, following a welcome from the hosts. The objectives and informal,
discussion-based format for the workshop will be outlined.
Matt Jones (NCEAS) will set the stage by showcasing innovative data science and knowledge
engineering solutions used to improve salmon data integration and discoverability in Alaska. Their
work will serve as a springboard for exploring how similar approaches could address inter-agency and
transboundary data-sharing challenges.
Invited speakers will present their salmon data integration projects, focusing on the challenges of
defining and standardizing terms and how they overcame them to integrate data from disparate
sources.
We will also discuss an in-progress paper on salmon data stewardship principles, inviting new
co-authors to contribute ideas and continue collaboration beyond the workshop.
The hands-on session (1 hour) will be conducted in three breakout groups, each working with a
different dataset. Two in-person groups will focus on NuSEDS and SALHub, while the online breakout
group will work with Streamnet CAX-NOSA. The session will consist of two 30 minute activities: 1)
Decomposing dataset concepts – identifying core concepts and relationships within each dataset’s
vocabulary; 2) Clustering identified concepts – organizing them into broader conceptual categories.
Participants will use Google Sheets and Mural for these activities. Each dataset will have a designated
Google Sheet in the working drive here, containing its vocabulary and definitions. Breakout group
members will use these Sheets to guide their discussions, while the Group Leader and Scribe will
document key insights and results on the Mural Board.
The session will conclude with a discussion on next steps, identifying potential tools, processes, and
venues for formal collaboration toward more interoperable international salmon data.

WA-BC AFS Workshop-Tracking Hatchery Data from Eggs to Spawners Across Regions
2025-03-10 12:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront, 1133 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 3T3, Canada
Tracking Hatchery Data from Eggs to Spawners Across Regions
We hope you are planning to attend the Washington-British (WA-BC) AFS Chapter meeting this year because PNAMP is co-hosting two workshops with partners. While each workshop has a different goal, both workshops are related to sharing important data needed for salmon recovery work.
Visit the conference website for more information.
If you are in the need for hatchery data specifically, join us for our half-day workshop Tracking Hatchery Data From Eggs to Spawners Across Regions (sponsored by PSMFC StreamNet and PNAMP). In this session, you will learn about the Coordinated Assessments data exchange (CAX), a data-sharing network supported by the Coordinated Assessments Partnership (CAP). CAX provides a system for sharing important hatchery data, including hatchery program details, SARs for hatchery runs, and hatchery releases. The CAX was initially created to share high level indicator data, like Natural Origin Spawner Abundance (NOSA), Recruits per Spawner (R/S) and Smolt to Adult Returns (SAR). Recently, the system has been expanded to include hatchery data, building on its original foundation.

In this workshop, you will gain an understanding of the development process and key elements of data standards, using CAP’s Hatchery Coordinated Assessment (HCA) to explore technical specifications for data storage and exchange. You will also learn about hatchery data availability, how to access data via CAX, and how to use the metadata within records for proper data citation and attribution. This workshop will also provide the opportunity to actively inform the collaborative development of CAX to meet the needs of data providers and users throughout our region.

You could join us in the morning for the first half of the Fishing for Clarity: Knowledge Modeling to Support Cross-Organizational Collaboration and Data Sharing About Salmon Escapement workshop and then jump over to the Hatchery Data workshop! See link above to register for the conference and workshops.

Washington - British Columbia Chapter: American Fisheries Society 2025 Meeting
2025-03-10 13:00 - 2025-03-13 17:00 (America/Denver) | Pinnacle Hotel Vancouver, BC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Beyond Borders: Connecting Communities, People and Fish, to be held March 10-13 in Vancouver, BC at the Pinnacle Hotel.
The Pinnacle Hotel is offering 45% of our room block at US GOVERNMENT PER DIEM RATES. Please make your reservation as soon as possible in order to secure this special rate by clicking “Book Lodging”.
AFS-Washington British Columbia Chapter – WA-BC Chapter of the American Fisheries Society
Registration for the WA-BC AFS Chapter Meeting is open!

Idaho Chapter: American Fisheries Society 2025 Meeting
2025-04-01 08:00 - 2025-04-04 17:00 (America/Denver)
The 2025 ICAFS meeting will be held in Boise on April 1st – 4th. Details forthcoming; check the Idaho Chapter website, under Annual Meetings for the most up to date information: Home | Idaho Chapter of the American Fisheries Society

Fish Monitoring Work Group Meeting (April 2025)
2025-04-17 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Join us at 10:00 am (Pacific) on April 17th for the next meeting of the PNAMP Fish Monitoring Work Group (FMWG). During the meeting, we will update participants on current tasks, hear a presentation about innovative fish monitoring, and provide you with opportunities to engage regional managers and experts. These meetings are an opportune time to discuss tasks and get input from members on where they see importance or could use facilitated support.
Tech Talk: WATCH RECORDING
Development of a Mid-Sized River Habitat Sampling Protocol
Tyler Hessler (PhD student in the Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in Columbia, MO)
The use of technology is increasing in natural resources field and there is a need to determine how these technologies can be utilized to advance our respective fields. In this study, we propose the use of several advanced technologies (acoustic doppler current profilers, ADCPs; unmanned aerial systems, UASs; side scan sonar; 360 cameras) to better standardize and streamline the collection of fish-relevant habitat data in non-wadeable rivers. UASs and 360 cameras allow for efficient capture of important habitat metrics (canopy cover, riparian land use, etc.) with greater accuracy than traditional observational methods that often include a great deal of subjectivity. ADCPs and side scan sonar have seen use in fisheries but are not used as often as they could be to quickly assess habitat. Although the amount of data these technologies collect can be daunting, the use of AI and other software may streamline the implementation of these data and provide another option for managers that can increase confidence associated with making informed decisions that rely on accurate habitat data. Developing a standardized protocol using these technologies could significantly increase the quality of data collected in non-wadeable rivers and also decrease the costs associated with extended time in the field.
Agenda

10:00 – Welcome and Introductions
10:05 – Task Updates
10:20 – Tech Talk
11:10 – Q&A
11:30 – Adjourn

Click link below to join on April 17th

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Never been to a FMWG meeting? This meeting is a perfect time to learn about the project, join in, and help guide future work.
Missed a previous FMWG meeting? Check out our YouTube page for presentations or task meetings.

The PNAMP Fish Monitoring Work Group (FMWG), meets quarterly to discuss task progress, share expertise through guest presentations, and support collaboration, communication, and coordination among fish monitoring practitioners for effective monitoring and efficient data sharing. The FMWG is also interested in your work; if you would like to present your innovative fish monitoring ideas or any recent publications at a future meeting please contact Meg Dethloff, mdethloff@usgs.gov
