Columbia River DART provides an interactive data resource designed for research and management purposes relating to the Columbia Basin salmon populations and river environment. Currently, daily data plus historic information dating back to 1878 is accessible online. Columbia River DART focuses on the Columbia Basin dams and fish passage. Detailed information is brought in daily from federal, state and tribal databases to provide a comprehensive information tool. Daily data loads occur from 5:30 to 8:30 every morning as well as several updates throughout the day.

Columbia River DART generates user-specified data files which can be saved to a user's personal computer in a variety of formats designed to be compatible with most spreadsheet programs. In addition, Columbia River DART has graphing capabilities which allow for the visual comparison of multiple variables on one plot. These output formats are available for the following data resources related to fish passage, PIT tags and the river environment.

Adult Salmonid Passage

• Adult Passage - Daily counts of adult salmon at all major Columbia and Snake River dams.
• PIT Tag Adult Returns - Adult PIT Tag detections at detectors in adult ladders at many Columbia and Snake River dams.
• Sport Fishing & Recreation - Daily counts of adult salmon at all major Columbia and Snake River dams queried via map. This query combines the Adult Passage data set with a clickable map for producing bar charts of adult counts. The web page also provides information about recreational access and river conditions for the Columbia Basin.

Juvenile Salmonid Passage

• PIT Tag Release & Observation Summary - Summary of user-selected PIT-tagged salmonid releases and observations at Columbia Basin dams.
• PIT Tag Observations by Hydro Unit - Daily observations of salmon containing passive transponders detected at Columbia Basin dams. Observations grouped by user-specified release hydro unit. Detailed data regarding release, size and characteristics of PIT-tagged fish is included.
• PIT Tag Observations by Observation Site - Daily observations of salmon containing passive transponders detected at Columbia Basin dams. Observations grouped by user-specified observation site. Detailed data regarding release, size and characteristics of PIT-tagged fish is included.
• PIT Tag Observations by Release Site - Daily observations of salmon containing passive transponders detected at Columbia Basin dams. Observations grouped by user-specified release site. Detailed data regarding release, size and characteristics of PIT-tagged fish is included.
• PIT Tag Observations by Tag Coordinator - Daily observations of salmon containing passive transponders detected at Columbia Basin dams. Observations grouped by user-specified tag coordinator and release site. Detailed data regarding release, size and characteristics of PIT-tagged fish is included.
• Smolt Index - Daily salmonid passage index and collection counts at locations throughout the Columbia Basin. Sites include dams and river traps along the Salmon, Snake, Columbia, Imnaha and Grande Ronde rivers.
• Transportation - Transportation data at the four Columbia Basin tranport projects: Lower Granite, Little Goose, Lower Monumental, and McNary.
• Hatchery Releases - Hatchery releases by migration year with some anticipated release schedules early in the season.
• PIT Tag Releases - Detailed PIT Tag release information by migration year.
• PIT Tag Release Sites - PIT Tag release site information including state, river km, and total km.

Columbia Basin ESU (Evolutionarily Significant Unit)

• Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook ESU - consists of 39 local spawning populations (subpopulations) of the following: Tucannon River Basin, Snake River Basin, Salmon River Basin, Lemhi, Pahsimeroi, Grande Ronde, and Imnaha River Basin, and includes all locations above river kilometer 522.000.
• Snake River Fall Chinook ESU - consists of the production from spawning populations of fall chinook in the Snake, Tucannon, Clearwater, Salmon, Imnaha and Grande Ronde Rivers.
• Snake River Sockeye ESU - consists of Redfish Lake stock sockeye in the captive broodstock program at Eagle and Beef Creek hatcheries, and the hatchery fish released from this program into Redfish Lake, Pettit Lake, Pettit Creek, and Redfish Lake Creek; wild residual sockeye in Redfish Lake and their out-migrating progeny; any naturally-spawned progeny of broodstock adults released into Redfish Lake in 1993-94; and any adults returning to Redfish or Pettit Lake.
• Snake River & Upper Columbia Steelhead ESU - The Snake River Wild Steelhead ESU includes all naturally spawned populations of Summer run steelhead (and their progeny) in the Snake River Basin. The Upper Columbia River Wild Steelhead ESU includes all naturally spawned populations of steelhead (and their progeny) upstream from the Yakima River, Washington (above river kilometer 539), to the United States-Canada border and the Wells Hatchery stock of Summer run steelhead.
• Columbia Basin ESU and River Environment - Joins the River Environment data set with the Columbia Basin ESU populations.

River, Climate and Ocean

• River Environment - Daily river environment data including outflow, spill, dissolved gas, dissolved oxygen, barometric pressure, temperature (C), and turbidity at Columbia and Snake River dams.
• Streamflow - Daily streamflow (cfs), stage (ft), and water temperature (where available) from headwater locations and several other locations throughout the Columbia Basin.
• Hourly Water Quality - Hourly measurements of river environment data including outflow, spill, dissolved gas, dissolved gas percent, barometric pressure, and temperature (C) at forebay and tailrace Water Quality Monitoring sites throughout the Columbia and Snake River basin.
• Coastal Upwelling Index - Daily indices of the intensity of large-scale, wind-induced coastal upwelling at 15 standard locations along the west coast of North America. PFEL generates the indices on a monthly basis. PFEL Live Access Server provides access to the daily updated 6-hourly data, in user-specified graphical or data forms.
• Ocean Moored Buoys - Daily mean values of air temperature, sea temperature, surface atmospheric pressure, wind speed, and wind direction. Sources of the data are 22 different NOAA NDBC moored buoys along the North American west coast. The data has been processed from the raw hourly data files. The processed buoy data is updated semi-annually by PFEL.

Coded Wire Tag, Version 3.1, 1997

• Recoveries - Detailed data regarding recoveries of coded wire tagged salmonids. This data set is historic. Current CWT release and recovery data are available from RMIS.
• Releases - Detailed data regarding releases of coded wire tagged salmonids. This data set is historic. Current CWT release and recovery data are available from RMIS.

FYI - Announcements about the current status of DART and other information for DART users.

Related Topics - Various web sites and sources for information about the Columbia Basin hydroelectric system, related data sets, and historical data sets.

javaDART - javaDART is a Java-based graphics client for the Columbia River DART database.

Maps - Columbia River DART Location Map includes the location of the major Columbia Basin dams, Dissolved Gas Monitoring sites, USGS Stream Gaging stations, and Climate sites

Monthly Stats - Monthly web statistics of Columbia River DART data query requests made during 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004.

Columbia Basin Performance Measures -- online data analysis tool generates graphs and summary tables of juvenile or adult fish exposure to hydrosystem conditions (Temperature, Dissolved Gas Percent, Outflow, Spill, Spill Percent, and Turbidity) at the major hydroelectric projects on the Columbia and Snake Rivers.

Northwestern Regional Temperature Data Analysis -- online integration of water temperature distributions with fish distributions.

PIT Tag Survival and Travel Time Analysis -- survival and travel time analysis and plots for Columbia Basin PIT-tagged salmon.

Smolt-to-Adult Ratio (SAR) Estimates for Coded Wire Tag -- online data analysis and plots of SARs for Coded Wire Tag (CWT) hatchery salmon from Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

Inseason Forecasts for juvenile and adult salmon populations in the Snake and Columbia Rivers. The Inseason Forecasts tool is a joint effort of RealTime Forecaster and COMPASS model. The Inseason Forecasts tool uses "real time" information about the current status of various Columbia Basin juvenile and adult salmon runs along with current hydrographic information to predict the future progress of the migrating fish. The Inseason Forecasts predictions are organized in the following categories:

Smolt Passage (PIT Tag): Forecasts include arrival distributions, historical timing, transport, and survival for various Snake River yearling chinook, steelhead, subyearling chinook and sockeye stocks at Lower Granite, Little Goose, Lower Monumental, Ice Harbor, and McNary dams. Forecasts are based on PIT Tag detections at Lower Granite Dam.

Smolt Passage (Passage Index): Forecasts include arrival distributions and historical timing for combined stocks of yearling chinook, steelhead, subyearling chinook, sockeye, and coho at Rock Island, McNary, and John Day dams. Forecasts are based on Passage Index data at each dam, individually.

Smolt Passage (Chelan): Forecasts include arrival distributions and historical timing for yearling chinook, steelhead, subyearling chinook, and sockeye at Rocky Reach Dam. Forecasts are based on Chelan PUD passage counts at Rocky Reach Dam.

Smolt ESU Passage (PIT Tag): Forecasts include arrival distributions, historical timing, and survival for specific Snake River and Upper Columbia River ESU stocks at McNary, John Day, The Dalles, and Bonneville dams. Forecasts are based on selected PIT Tag detections at McNary Dam.

Adult Passage: Forecasts include arrival distributions, total run size, and cumulative run size for spring and fall adult chinook at Bonneville Dam. Arrival distributions are forecasted upstream for The Dalles, John Day, McNary, Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose, and Lower Granite dams. Forecasts are based on visual adult passage counts at Bonneville Dam.

Water Quality: Forecasts include water temperature and total dissolved gas percent at various dams in the Columbia and Snake rivers. Forecasts are based on observed temperature and total dissolved gas percent data at each location.

Stock Map and Information -- Provides information about parameters used by CRiSP/RealTime to provide estimates of arrival distributions for the distinct stocks and species at the Columbia Basin dams. Includes critical parameters used by CRiSP when generating predictions for the downstream dams and details about transport operations.

Archive -- Provides access to inseason forecasts since 1995.

Publications -- Includes post-season evaluations of the performance of both RealTime and CRiSP/RealTime and technical documentation.

Fish Growth & Vitality

• Egg Growth of Pre-emergent Salmon -- The on-line egg growth model tracks egg development from spawning to emergence, and then uses a bioenergetics to model the growth of fry after emergence during their first season of growth. It is useful for examining the role of seasonal temperatures on early life development and growth.
• Vitality Model -- The vitality-based survival model is a parametric model for relating stressors and environmental properties to organism survivorship. The web page includes research papers, S-PLUS code, sample data file, and documentation.

Fish Passage

• CRiSP Passage (Columbia River Salmon Passage Model) -- CRiSP Passage model predicts downstream migration and survival of individual juvenile salmonid stocks from the tributaries and dams of the Columbia and Snake rivers to the estuary. It is also stochastic, incorporating measures of variability and uncertainty into survival predictions. The web page includes the CRiSP Passage executable, data files, and documentation.
• Juvenile Salmon Travel Time Model -- This research is conducted as part of the Columbia River Salmon Passage (CRiSP) model. Our goal is to predict the time it takes for juvenile salmon to migrate through segments of the Columbia and Snake Rivers during their migration to the Pacific Ocean.
• RealTime Forecasters -- The Realtime Forecasters use pattern recognition techniques to predict the percent of the run-to-date and days to a specific percent of the run of juvenile salmonids in the Columbia Basin. The statistical algorithms smooth historical trends in PIT tag arrivals or passage indices and use a generalized weight least squares decision criterion in making predictions.

Harvest

• Coast Model -- The Coast Model is a code framework that can be configured at runtime to represent many different models depending upon the specific process algorithms and data specified in the input files. Currently, the Coast Model only contains algorithms used by the Pacific Salmon Commission (PSC) chinook model. The web page includes the Coast Model executable, data files, documentation, and source code.
• CRiSP Harvest (Chinook Salmon Harvesting Model) -- CRiSP Harvest model simulates the harvest of 30 chinook salmon stocks by 25 fisheries over an extended time horizon. The geographic range covered by the model extends from Southeast Alaska to the Oregon coast. The web page includes the CRiSP Harvest executable and documentation.

Parameter Estimation

• PitPro (PIT Tag Processor) -- Includes CaptHist. A program for processing PTAGIS data into capture histories. PitPro has a graphical user interface while CaptHist is a console or command line application.
• ROSTER (River-Ocean Survival and Transportation Effects Routine) Program ROSTER models the life cycle of Pacific salmonids from the initiation of the juvenile migration as smolts to the end of the spawning migration as adults.
• SampleSize -- A suite for four sample size programs for estimating parameters: SingleRelease, PairedRelease, PairedRadio, and TransportInRiverRatio. The web page includes the SampleSize executables.
• SURPH (SURvival under Proportional Hazards) -- SURPH is an analytical tool for estimating survival using release-recapture data as a function of environmental and experimental effects. The web page includes the SURPH executable, PTAGIS Utilities, and documentation.
• USER (User Specified Estimation Routine) -- The program USER is a flexible software tool that allows investigators to develop statistical models for analyzing tagging and counts data. The web page includes the USER executable and documentation.

Past Projects & Programs

• Dissolved Gas Modeling Core Team -- From 1995 through 1997, the Dissolved Gas Modeling Core Team web page coordinated the work of multiple agencies to develop and implement dissolved gas modeling for the major hydroelectric projects in the Columbia Basin.
• NMFS Harvest Modeling Project -- From 1996 through 1999, the NMFS Harvest Modeling Project web page coordinated the work of multiple agencies to develop and implement various harvest algorithms including the CRiSP Harvest model, PM Selective Fishery Modeling and Data Retrieval, and the PSC Selective Fishery Simulation Model.
• Radio Telemetry Survey -- This experimental tool was developed in 1997 to plot juvenile salmon radio telemetry data.
• GeoMap for Java - Java Mapping System for GIS Data. GeoMap is a collection of Java classes designed to display latitude and longitude coordinate data on an interactive canvas. The tool was written in 1997. The web page includes the source code.

Who We Are - Brief description of Columbia Basin Research group.

Publications & Papers - Provides access to publications and papers written by Columbia Basin Research faculty, staff, and students, including theses and dissertations.

Salmon Insider - Columbia Basin Research Newsletter. The quarterly newsletter highlights recent and ongoing salmonid research in the Columbia Basin performed at the University of Washington.

Contact Information

• Staff Directory
• Directions to CBR Office

Literature Database - Searchable database of journal articles, technical reports, books, and book chapters pertaining to areas of research of Columbia Basin Research held in the CBR Library.

Subject Bibliographies

• Migration Bibliography
• Ocean Climate & Regime Shift Bibliography

Web Navigation

• Columbia River Web Sites - Provides access to other agencies involved in the research and management of salmonids and the Columbia River Basin.
• Hydroelectric Information for the Columbia and Snake River Projects - Provides images and basic information about the dams including construction date, full pool, normal elevation and powerhouse capacity.
• Related Sites - Provides access to Federal and State agencies as well as other sites involved in research, data dissemination, and model development similar to CBR.