Year Began: 2020
PNAMP and the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission’s StreamNet program collaborated in the fall of 2020 and through the winter of 2021 to host a webinar series on topics related to emerging technologies for aquatic monitoring and data management. The speaker lineup with links to abstracts and recordings can be found below. Additionally, you can view all thirteen recordings in the ETIS playlist on PNAMP’s YouTube Channel.
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
Want more information?
Contact Amy Puls apuls@usgs.gov and Nancy Leonard nleonard@psmfc.org.
And a big thank you to the ETIS Planning Group members: Mike Banach, Jen Bayer, Sam Cimino, Ken Fetcho, Nancy Leonard, Mitch Mumma, David Pilliod, Amy Puls, Russell Scranton, Becca Scully, Erik Suring, Greg Wilke, and Tami Wilkerson.
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