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

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