SERVICES AND EXPERTISE

Fish and Habitat Monitoring

Fish population monitoring

Habitat monitoring and assessment

Stream channel/sediment surveys

Large woody debris (LWD) and riparian monitoring

Macroinvertebrate/diatoms

Temperature and water quality monitoring

Electrofishing, snorkeling, trapping, tagging (PIT, CWT etc.)

Radio and acoustic tracking

Sampling platform

Resistance board weirs

Fish Population and Life Cycle Modeling

Life cycle and limiting factors modeling

ESA viability and extinction risk

Juvenile salmon habitat capacity (UCM)

Growth and bioenergetics

Salmon stock-recruitment

Hydro, hatchery, harvest and habitat effects

Climate change modeling

Forests and Fish

Forest management and restoration plans

Riparian timber harvest

Riparian modeling and restoration

LWD recruitment

Water typing (Fish/Non-fish)

Fish passage Issues

Forest pesticide use

Livestock grazing

Habitat restoration

Monitoring and evaluation

Hatchery and Harvest Management

Run size/harvest rate estimates

Sustainable yield estimations

Mixed stock analysis

Regulation strategies

Harvest monitoring

Hatchery/wild interactions

Genetic risk assessments

Hatchery Master planning

Statistical Analysis

Experimental, monitoring and sampling design

Data, time series, trend and other analyses

Univariate/multivariate statistics

Nonparametric methods

Simulation modeling

Data Dashboards with R Shiny

Mark-recapture modeling

Bayesian statistics

Cluster/ordination analysis

Maximum likelihood estimators

Spatial analysis

Water and Land Use Projects

Fish passage strategies

Water quality issues

Flow management

FERC relicensing

ESA consultations

Mitigation programs

Migration monitoring

Environmental impact assessment

Permitting (NEPA, SEPA, etc.)

Watershed and Habitat Restoration

Watershed assessment and analysis

Geomorphic and sediment assessments

Riparian and instream assessments

Limiting factors analysis

Ecohydraulics

Identification of restoration opportunities

Prioritization of restoration actions

Restoration, planning, design and construction

Effectiveness monitoring

Climate change planning

Estuarine, Nearshore and Marine Ecology

Estuary, nearshore and marine habitat assessment

Estuary, nearshore and ocean ecology

Salmonid estuary and ocean survival and migration

Sediment transport modeling

Seagrass community ecology

Invasive assessment and management plans

Genetics

Genetic ID of stomach contents (diet, predation, food web)

Detection of species in water samples – eDNA (e.g., Delta smelt, brook trout, garter snakes, amphibians)

Detection of invasive species

Genetic Stock Identification

Parent-based tagging

Genetic-mark-recapture

Population metrics (e.g., abundance, diversity, reproductive success)

Restoration monitoring and evaluation

RECENT RESEARCH