Presentations at AFS Annual Meeting, AFS Symposium A-107, August 18, 2015, Portland, OR

The Status of Anadromous Salmonid Passage Strategies at Hydroelectric Projects on the Snake and Columbia Rivers, AFS Symposium, August 18, 2015. Sponsor: Bonneville Power Administration. Moderator: Al Giorgi, PhD. Opening Remarks: Jason Sweet (BPA).

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Morning Session

Time
Title
Presenter / POC
8:20 AM
Performance of Surface Flow Outlets for Passing Smolts at Hydro Projects
Gary Johnson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Gary.Johnson@pnnl.gov

8:40 AM
Effects of Encountering Juvenile Bypass Systems on Migration and Smolt-to-Adult Survival Rates
Tommy Garrison, Fish Passage Center, tgarrison@fpc.org

9:00 AM
Ice Harbor Turbine Replacement Project Designed for Improved Fish Passage Survival
Jon F. Renholds, Presented by Bradly Trumbo, USACE Walla Walla District, Bradly.A.Trumbo@usace.army.mil

9:20 AM
Asking the Fish: Using Acoustic Telemetry Data to Identify Safest Operating Conditions for Juvenile Salmonid Passage at Bonneville Dam
Mark A. Weiland, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, mark.weiland@pnnl.gov

9:40 AM
Predation on Juvenile Salmonids: A Spatially-Explicit Analysis of Smolt Losses in Relation to Survival Standards
Allen Evans, Real Time Research, Inc., allen@realtimeresearch.com

10:20 AM
Accounting for Density-Dependent Predation in the Survival of Juvenile Salmon and Steelhead during Their Seaward Migration
James R. Faulkner, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Jim.Faulkner@noaa.gov

10:40 AM
Going and Coming: Survival and Timing of PIT-Tagged Juvenile and Adult Salmonids in the Columbia River Estuary
Matthew Morris, Ocean Associates, Inc. Point Adams Biological Field Station, matthew.morris@noaa.gov

11:00 AM
Operational and Structural Changes at Two Dams to Aid in Downstream Juvenile Salmonid Passage Survival on the Mid-Columbia River
Curt Dotson, Grant County P.U.D., CDOTSON@gcpud.org

11:20 AM
Ten Years Successful Collaboration to Achieve No Net Impact for Plan Species by the HCPs' Signatory Parties
Alene Underwood, Public Utility District No. 1 of Chelan County, Alene.Underwood@chelanpud.org

11:40 AM
Post-Emergence Behavior of Subyearling Summer/Fall Chinook and Implications for the Measurement of Passage Survival
Tom Kahler, Public Utility District No. 1 of Douglas County, tomk@dcpud.org

Afternoon Session

Time
Title
Presenter / POC
1:20 PM
Assurance Criteria Used in Evaluating the Performance of Survival Compliance Studies at Federally Operated Columbia/Snake River Dams
John Skalski, University of Washington, skalski@uw.edu

1:40 PM
Factors Affecting Survival of Subyearling Chinook Salmon at Little Goose Dam in 2013
Ryan Harnish, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, ryan.harnish@pnnl.gov

2:00 PM
Snake River Juvenile Salmon Transportation Program: An Overview of a Long-Term Hydropower Mitigation Effort
Marvin K. Shutters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, marvin.k.shutters@usace.army.mil

2:20 PM
Seasonal Effects of Transporting Fish from the Snake River to Optimize a Transportation Strategy
Benjamin Sandford, NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Fish Ecology Division, ben.sandford@noaa.gov

2:40 PM
Seasonal Pattern of Differential Marine Survival of Barged to Run-of-River Juvenile Spring Chinook Salmon Explain By Counteracting Patterns of Smoltification and Fish Condition
James J. Anderson, University of Washington, jjand@uw.edu

3:20 PM
Regional Patterns in Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon and Steelhead Juvenile Survival Relative to Smolt-to-Adult Return Rates
Steve Haeseker, USFWS Columbia River Fisheries Program Office, steve_haeseker@fws.gov

3:40 PM
Balancing Ocean and Freshwater Survival Rates When Managing Anadromous Fish Passage
David Welch, Kintama Research Services, Ltd., david.welch@kintama.com

4:00 PM
Does Passage through Snake River Dams Cause Latent Mortality?
Tiffani Marsh, NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, tiffani.marsh@noaa.gov

4:20 PM
Gas Supersaturation May Reduce the Survival of Yearling Chinook Salmon in the Lower Columbia River and Ocean Plume
Ian Brosnan, NASA Ames Research Center, ian.g.brosnan@nasa.gov

4:40 PM
Upstream Migration in the Columbia River Basin: Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Adult Salmon and Steelhead Radiotelemetry Projects
Matthew Keefer, Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of Idaho, mkeefer@uidaho.edu

5:00 PM
Patterns of Migration and Delay Observed in PIT Tagged Summer Steelhead from the Upper Columbia and Snake River Basins
Blane Bellerud, NOAA Fisheries, West Coast Region, blane.bellerud@noaa.gov