Month: January 2024

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Administrative Specialist

B.S.

Phone: (425)-428-4045

 

Issaquah, Washington

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Fisheries Biologist II

B.S. Enviornmental Sciences; M.S. Hydrologic Sciences

 

 

West Sacramento, California

Pete is a fisheries biologist with extensive experience in habitat restoration and fish passage effectiveness monitoring in California and the Pacific Northwest. Specifically, he has used beach seines, trawls, gill nets, fyke traps, rotary screw traps, snorkel surveys, carcass and redd surveys, electrofishing (backpack and boat), and telemetry (PIT, radio, and acoustic) to monitor the abundance, habitat use, and movement of native and non-native fish species in both California and British Columbia. Additionally, Pete has analyzed physical habitat using data collected from depth and velocity, pebble count, and core sampling surveys, hydraulic models, topographic and bathymetric surveys (e.g., RTK GPS, total station, echo sounder), and remote sensing. He has also helped design and fabricate patented sampling equipment and has conducted environmental monitoring for a variety of instream construction projects. Before joining Cramer Fish Sciences, Pete was a Registered Professional Biologist in British Columbia where he designed, led, and managed telemetry-based field studies of salmonids and White Sturgeon using PIT, radio, and acoustic telemetry technology. In graduate school, Pete developed and validated juvenile salmonid habitat suitability models of the lower Yuba River and evaluated how rearing habitat evolved along the river over time.

Selected Publications

 

Moniz, P. J., and D. Ramos-Espinoza. 2023. Bulkley River Sockeye Salmon Telemetry Project Data Summary – 2022. Prepared for Wet’suwet’en, Smithers, British Columbia.

 

Buchanan, J., A. Hébert, P. J. Moniz, D. Ramos-Espinoza, and A. Putt. 2023. BRGMON-9 Seton River Habitat and Fish Monitoring Implementation Year 10 (2022). Prepared for Splitrock Environmental, Lillooet, British Columbia, and BC Hydro, Burnaby, British Columbia.

 

Cook, K. V., P. J. Moniz, and D. Ramos-Espinoza. 2023. Site C Fishway Effectiveness Monitoring Program (Mon-13) & Trap and Haul Fish Release Location Monitoring Program (Mon-14). Construction Year 8 (2022). Prepared for BC Hydro, Vancouver, British Columbia.

 

Hébert, A., P. J. Moniz, D. Ramos-Espinoza, and K. V. Cook. 2023. Lajoie Dam Improvement Project (GM-0246): Effects Assessment of the 2022 Drawdown of Downton Reservoir. Fisheries Act Authorization 22-HPAC-00271. Prepared for Splitrock Environmental, Lillooet, British Columbia, and BC Hydro, Burnaby, British Columbia.

 

Moniz, P. J., K. V. Cook, and D. Ramos-Espinoza. 2022. Site C Fishway Effectiveness Monitoring Program (Mon-13) & Trap and Haul Fish Release Location Monitoring Program (Mon-14). Construction Year 7 (2021). Prepared for BC Hydro, Vancouver, British Columbia.

 

Buchanan, J., A. Hébert, P. J. Moniz, D. Ramos-Espinoza, C. White, P. Freeman, and A. Putt. 2022. BRGMON-9 Seton River Habitat and Fish Monitoring Implementation Year 9 (2021). Prepared for Splitrock Environmental, Lillooet, British Columbia, and BC Hydro, Burnaby, British Columbia.

 

Moniz, P. J., and G. B. Pasternack. 2021. Chinook salmon rearing habitat–discharge relationships change as a result of morphodynamic processes. River Research and Applications 37(10):1386-1399.

 

Cook, K. V., P. J. Moniz, A. Putt, and D. Ramos-Espinoza. 2021. Site C Fishway Effectiveness Monitoring Program (Mon-13). Construction Year 6 (2020). Prepared for BC Hydro, Vancouver, British Columbia.

 

Hébert, A., P. J. Moniz, D. Ramos-Espinoza, J. Buchanan, C. White, and A. Putt. 2021. BRGMON-9 Seton River Habitat and Fish Monitoring Implementation Year 8 (2020). Prepared for Splitrock Environmental, Lillooet, British Columbia, and BC Hydro, Burnaby, British Columbia.

 

Moniz, P. J., G. B. Pasternack, D. A. Massa, L. W. Stearman, and P. M. Bratovich. 2020. Do rearing salmonids predictably occupy physical microhabitat? Journal of Ecohydraulics 5(2):132-150.

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