October 2020: Aerial Monitoring of Aquatic Systems

Tuesday, Oct 6, 1:00-2:30pm Pacific (watch recording )

• Richie Carmichael (Biomark) : Drone Assisted Stream Habitat (DASH) Protocol: Establishing consistency and compatibility between UAS monitoring programs
• Sarah Hoffmann (Biomark) : Machine learning applications for conservation

Tuesday, Oct 13, 1:00-2:30pm Pacific (watch recording )

• Kain Kutz (USFS) : Mapping riparian habitat and geomorphology monitoring applications within the United States Forest Service (USFS) using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) acquired imagery
• Lauren Burns (CRITFC) : Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles into large-scale habitat monitoring in the Columbia River Basin

Tuesday, Oct 20, 1:00-2:30pm Pacific (watch recording )

• Mischa Hey (Quantum Spatial) : Characterizing riverine fish habitat with bathymetric LiDAR
• Phil Roni (Cramer Fish Sciences) : Review of remote sensing and emerging technologies for use in evaluating floodplain and riparian projects

November 2020: eDNA

Tuesday, Nov 3, 1:00-2:30pm Pacific (watch recording )

• David Pilliod and Matthew Laramie (USGS) : eDNA 101: Overview of sampling and extraction methods for environmental DNA

Tuesday, Nov 10, 1:00-2:30pm Pacific (watch recording )

• Carl Ostberg (USGS) : eDNA 201: Using environmental DNA for single-species assessments

Tuesday, Nov 17, 1:00-2:30pm Pacific (watch recording )

• Taylor Wilcox (National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation) : eDNA 301: Multi-species and biodiversity assessments, focusing on laboratory procedures and interpretation of results including challenges and future directions

January 2021: Fish Monitoring and Assessment

Thursday, Jan 7, 1:00-2:30pm Pacific (watch recording )

• Chris Harrington (IDFG), Justin L Welty (USGS), Michelle Steg-Geltner (YN), and Samantha Smith (NPT) : Latest applications for handheld devices for field data collection

Thursday, Jan 14, 1:00-2:30pm Pacific (watch recording )

• Thomas Delomas (PSMFC/IDFG) : Measuring ploidy with non-lethal tissue samples and amplicon sequencing
• John Hargrove (PSMFC/IDFG) : Parentage-based tagging improves escapement estimates for ESA-listed adult Chinook Salmon and Steelhead in the Snake River basin

Thursday, Jan 21, 1:00-2:30pm Pacific (watch recording )

• Gabriel Brooks and Benjamin Sandford (NOAA) : Advances in PIT tag technology and what this can mean for assessments

Thursday, Jan 28, 1:00-2:30pm Pacific (watch recording )

• Ryan Kinzer (NPT) : A streamlined data flow for improved decision making: data collection to analysis and all the gunk in between
• Dan Isaak (USFS) : The Fish Data Analysis Tool: Applying spatial stream network models with standardized databases to provide information for decision making

February 2021: Data Management

Thursday, Feb 11, 1:00-2:30pm Pacific  (watch recording )

• Amanda Whitmire (Stanford University) : The basics of data management plans for research  
• Stacy Schumacher (Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation) : The Centralized Data Management System used by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation for the storage of fisheries data  

Thursday, Feb 18, 1:00-2:30pm Pacific  (watch recording )

• Kevin D. Henry and Jeff Peters (USGS) : Data visualization tools and frameworks for hazards and risk research  
• Brendan Ward (Astute Spruce, LLC) : Using open-source technologies to build spatial web apps  

Thursday, Feb 25, 1:00-2:30pm Pacific  (watch recording )

• Tami Wilkerson (Columbia Basin Fish & Wildlife Library/CRITFC) : Tools and best practices for data sharing and reuse to advance research  
• Patricia Soranno (Michigan State University) : The ethics of data sharing in the environmental sciences