Salmon Insider -- Columbia Basin Research Newsletter

The Salmon Insider is the quarterly newsletter from Columbia Basin Research, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington. The newsletter highlights recent and ongoing salmonid research in the Columbia Basin performed by Columbia Basin Research. The newsletter provides a quick introduction to investigations, capabilities of new statistical software, or data access capabilities on DART (secondary regional database). Readers interested in a topic are provided with direct links to relevant web addresses for more information.

John R. Skalski, Professor of Biological Statistics, and James J. Anderson, Research Professor

Summer 2009, September 2009 (pdf)

This issue of the Salmon Insider newsletter is intended as an introduction to the website, database, and programs of Columbia Basin Research.

About the Columbia River Basin
Study Design & Analysis Tools
- Program SampleSize
- Program PitPro
- Program ROSTER
- Program SURPH
- Program USER
Data Integration & Analysis Services: Columbia River DART
- Data Integration
- Analysis Services
  - Columbia Basin ESU (Evolutionarily Significant Unit)
  - Conversion Rates
  - Spring & Fall Transition Dates
  - 10 Year Historical Run Timing
Inseason Forecasts: Juvenile and Adult Passage and Water Quality
- Juvenile Passage Forecasts
  - Program RealTime
  - COMPASS
- Adult Passage Forecasts
  - Adult Peak Predictor
- Water Quality Forecasts
  - Temperature Forecasts
  - Total Dissolved Gas Forecasts
Post-Season Analyses
- Status & Trends Overview
- Columbia Basin Performance Measures

Spring 2009, May 2009 (pdf)

Columbia River DART: Migration Season 2009
2009 Juvenile Reach Survival & Travel Time Forecasts
2009 Adult Spring Chinook Forecasts
Program RealTime: 2009 Smolt Forecasts
CBR Training Workshop: Use of Analytical Software Programs
PitPro Updates
Columbia Basin "Quick Look" Summary for 2009
DART Assisting the Region
Program USER 4: New User's Manual

Summer 2008, August 2008 (pdf)

Separating Mortality from Residualiztion in Survival Estimates of Subyearling Fall Chinook Salmon
How We Can Help You: Statistical Support for the Design of Tagging and Other Population Estimation Studies

Spring 2008, June 2008 (pdf)

Inseason Forecasts for 2008--It's that time of year again
Major Update of Program USER (User Specified Estimation Routine)
DART Adult Upstream Conversion Rates: Expanded to Include PTAGIS Recapture and Mortality Datasets

Winter 2008, March 2008 (pdf)

Report on Results from Program ROSTER Analyses
2008 Columbia River Preseason Adult Spring Chinook Salmon Run Size and Arrival Timing Predictions

Summer 2007, August 2007 (pdf)

CBR Status & Trends: ROSTER Results
CBR Status & Trends: Ocean Indices
PitPro and ROSTER User's Manuals Updated

Spring 2007, May 2007 (pdf)

Inseason Forecasts for Salmonid Migration
Program SampleSize for the Design of Survival Studies

Autumn 2006, November 2006 (pdf)

CBR Status & Trends Overview: Google Maps Interface
Google Earth Interface
Water Quality Measures for Total Dissolved Gas

Summer 2006, August 2006 (pdf)

CBR Status & Trends Overview: Location-based Searches
CBR Status & Trends Overview: Adult Escapement Added
CBR Tools & Models: Update to Program ROSTER 1.3

Spring 2006, May 2006 (pdf)

Inseason Forecasts for 2006 Salmonid Migration
Research Highlight: Linking Environmental and Population Heterogeneity through Vitality: the Effects of Juvenile Growth on Salmon Survival
CBR Harvest Database Soon to Debut Online

Winter 2006, March 2006 (pdf)

Columbia Basin Research: Status & Trends Overview
Habitat Restoration and Harvest Databases

Autumn 2005, October 2005 (pdf)

Introducing Program ROSTER: The Life-Cycle PIT-Tag Model
Program ROSTER: The Application

Summer 2005, August 2005 (pdf)

Inseason Monitoring of Juvenile Salmon Outmigration
Smolt-to-Adult Ratios using Coded-Wire-Tag Recovery Data Updated
Latest Version (3.0) of Program PitPro is Now Available

Spring 2005, April 2005 (pdf)

Mid-Columbia Monitoring of Juvenile and Adult Salmon Runs
Explaining the Flow-survival Relationship
Using SURPH to Study Effects of Group Covariates on Survival

Winter 2005, January 2005 (pdf)

2004 Survival Trends for Hatchery Spring Chinook Salmon
Fallback -- Correcting Adult Window Counts for Re-ascensions
Modeling Individual Covariates with the SURPH Program
When Is It Best to Transport Smolts
What's Next in 2005

Autumn 2004, October 2004 (pdf)

Warmer Temperatures Speed Adult Chinook Migration--to a Point
Early Season Temperature Predictions
Introducing Program USER
Adult Escapement

Summer 2004, July 2004 (pdf)

Post-Season Evaluation of 2004 Smolt Run-Timing Forecasts: Snake and Lower Columbia Yearling Chinook
Introducing Program SampleSize
javaDART: Java-Based Columbia River DART Graphics Tool

Spring 2004, April 2004 (pdf)

Adult Run-Size and Run-Timing Forecasts at Bonneville and Upstream
2004 Smolt Run-Timing Forecasts for ESA-Listed Salmonid Stocks
Columbia River Salmon Passage (CRiSP) Model: Theory and Practice

Winter 2004, February 2004 (pdf)

2003 Survival Trends for Hatchery Spring Chinook
Introducing PitPro
2003 Run-Timing Predictions
The Vitality Model: What does not kill us makes us weaker
2003 Fish Exposure to River Conditions at Hydroelectric Projects
What's Next in 2004