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NPIC WA/BC Annual General Meeting
June 6-8, 2007, Landmark Center, WA

Track Schedules

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Track 1 - "Salmon Ecosystems: Recovery and Management"

Wednesday PM and at all Coffee Breaks

Salmon Recovery Programs Overview -- Sara LaBorde (WDFW) - Chair
	Landmark -- Ionic Hall
1:20	NOAA Perspective on Salmon Recovery	Rob Walton, NOAA Fisheries
1:40	Recovering Salmon "The Washington Way"	Chris Drivdahl, WA Governor's Salmon Recovery Office
2:00	Lower Columbia Salmon Recovery - A Regional and Watershed Perspective	Jeff Breckel, Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board
2:20	Is recovery of lower Columbia River salmon a realistic goal? Population and factor-level analysis of recovery prospects	Ray Beamesderfer, Cramer Fish Sciences
2:40	Salmon Recovery - Tribal Perspective	Terry Williams, Tulalip Tribe

3:00	Break

Supporting Long-term, Large-scale Pacific Salmon Conservation Planning with MALBEC - Nate Mantua (UW)-Chair
	Landmark -- Ionic Hall
3:20	A North Pacific scale study to support salmon conservation planning.	Nate Mantua/Xan Augerot
3:40	Hatchery Versus Wild Salmon Production in the North Pacific Ocean.	Greg Ruggerone
4:00	Rearing, movement, and interactions among Pacific salmon populations in marine environments.	Kate Myers
4:20	A Model for Assessing Links Between salmon Ecosystems: MALBEC	Nathan Taylor
4:40	Climate impacts on salmon habitat domains and productivity across the N. Pacific	Dave Preikshot/Nate Mantua
5:00	Discussion

Thursday AM

Salmon Recovery in Light of Changing Habitats - Cleve Steward - Chair
	Landmark -- Ionic Hall
8:20	Effect of Changing Land Use on the Distribution of Coho Salmon	Bob Bilby
8:40	Private Industry and Salmon Recovery: A New Model	Kelley Jorgenson et al.
9:00	Habitat resilience, disturbance, and intrinsic potential	Kelly Burnett
9:20	Does sufficient habitat remain to support viable chinook salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest of the United States? A spatially explicit assessment of spawning and rearing habitat in Puget Sound	Beth Sanderson
9:40	The Columbia River Estuary Recovery Plan Module: Setting the Stage for Recovery	Cathy Tortorici

10:00	Break

Changing Fisheries Management for Salmon Recovery - Norma Sands (NOAA)-Chair
	Landmark -- Ionic Hall
10:20	Making ESA Determinations Regarding the Effects of Harvest of Listed Salmon and Steelhead	Peter Dygert
10:40	Harvest Management and the 4-d consultation process using RERs	Norma Jean Sands and Susan Bishop
11:00	Steelhead Science & Management for the 21st Century	Jim Scott
11:20	Incorporating Diversity Characteristics into the Viability Criteria for Recovering ESA-Listed Summer Chum Salmon	Bill Graeber (TRT), et al.

Thursday PM

Hatchery Reform - Ron Warren (WDFW) - Chair
	Landmark -- Ionic Hall
1:20	Hatchery Reform: It's Implications	Lars Mobrand and John Barr
1:40	Hatchery Refrom: It's Happening	Heather Bartlett
2:00	H-Degrees of Separation: Using the AHA Model to Explore a Segregated Population Scenario in the Snoqualmie Basin	Janne Kaje
2:20	Natural Rearing Techniques in Fish Hatchery Design	Ed Donahue
2:40	A field evaluation of traditional and enriched hatchery rearing environments: effects on the behavior, growth, and survival of hatchery and natural juvenile steelhead	Chris Tartara

3:00	Break

The Role of Watershed Groups in Salmon Recovery - Chris Sergeant (Steward and Associates) - Chair
	Landmark -- Ionic Hall
3:20	An overview of watershed group involvement in Washington State salmon recovery	Jeanette Dorner
3:40	The Role of Regional Fisheries Enhancement	Heather Bartlett
4:00	South Sound Nearshore Restoration Opportunities	Lance Winecka, et al.
4:20	Bureaucrats, Crusaders ........ or something else?	Shirley Solomon _
4:40	Salmon Recovery Planning and Implementation: Regional Challenges	Margaret Duncan
5:00	The Siuslaw Partnership: Our 25-year Metamorphosis	Charley Dewberry

Friday AM

Monitoring Fish and Watersheds for Salmon Recovery - TBD - Chair
	Landmark -- Ionic Hall
8:20	The Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership: A Forum for Regional Coordination	Jen Bayer
8:40	Washington Salmonid Abundance and Productivity Monitoring Framework	Greg Volkhardt, et al.
9:00	Intensively Monitored Watersheds-Understanding Salmon Restoration in Urbanizing Watersheds	Tim Quinn et al.
9:20	Habitat Lost and Found - the First Step for Puget Sound Habitat Recovery	Jamie Glasgow
9:40	Salmonid Health Indicator Project: Applying Science to Conservation	Samantha Chilcote
10:00	Break
Tying Recovery Together with the All-H Integration Process - Sara LaBorde (WDFW) -Chair
	Landmark -- Ionic Hall
10:20	An All-H Integration Process Overview	Sara LaBorde
10:40	Integration for Salmon Recovery: The View of the Puget Sound Technical Recovery Team	Bob Fuerstenburg
11:00	Nisqually Case Study	Jeanette Dorner
11:20	Open Discussion on Salmon Recovery	Sara LaBorde
11:40

Track 2 - "New Fisheries Science"

Wednesday PM

Recent Advancements In Genetics That Will Aid Salmon Recovery - Scott Blankenship (WDFW) and Paul Moran (NOAA) - Co-Chairs
	Mt Adams Hall
1:20	What Do Geneticists Really Think.And Are We Doing What It Takes To Back It Up?	Ken Currens
1:40	Genetic analysis of Pacific Salmonids (title TBA)	Paul Moran
2:00	Reproductive success of the captive-bred steelhead in the Hood River	Hitoshi Araki
2:20	Genetic data estimate stocks of origin for the legal, sub-legal, landed, and age strata of the Area-2 non-treaty Chinook troll fishery	Scott Blankenship
2:40	The Rainbow Trout Genome Map and Its Applications	Ruth B. Phillips

3:00	Break

3:20	*Production and survival of naturally spawning hatchery-produced vs. wild steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Forks Creek, Washington, U.S.A.*	Todd Seamons, et al., UW
3:40	Microsatellite Analysis of Yakima Basin Bull Trout *(Salvelinus confluentus) and Genetic Stock Identification of Bull Trout from a Radio Telemetry Study*	Denise Hawkins, WDFW
4:00	How much inbreeding leads to a decline in fitness in a hatchery population of steelhead, O.mykiss?	Kerry Naish, UW
4:20	The Role of Genetic Stock Identification in a Juvenile Salmon Ecology Study off Oregon and Washington	David Teel, et al. NOAA Fisheries
4:40	Introduction to molecular genetic markers used in fishery management	Sewall F. Young, WDFW
5:00	The economy of SNPs for genetic stock identification work in Pacific salmon	Christian T. Smith, USFWS

Thursday AM

Innovations in Fisheries Technology - Carl Burger (Smith-Root) -- Chair
	Mt Adams Hall
8:20	Innovative Technology to Deter Marine Mammal Predation on Fish Populations	Carl Burger, Smith-Root
8:40	Combined Split-Beam Narrowband/Single Beam Broadband Sonar for Cueing Electric Barriers for Marine Mammal Deterrence	Patrick K. Simpson, Scientific Fishery Systems
9:00	Survey of applications in fisheries assessment and behavioral studies using the Dual-Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON)	Edward O. Belcher, Soundmetrics
9:20	Identifying Fish Sex and Species With Riverwatcher Camera Fish Counter	Ian Race PRAqua
9:40	Innovations in the Use of Micro-Acoustic Tags for Monitoring the Fine Scale 3D Behavior of Fish	Bruce Ransom and Tracey Steig, Hydroacoustic Technology, Inc.

10:00	Break

Fisheries Science -- Contributed Papers -- Roger Tabor (USFWS) -- Chair
	Mt Adams Hall
10:20	Evaluating behavior and habitat use of Chinook salmon smolts in the Lake Washington system using fine-scale continuous acoustic tracking	Mark Celedonia, et al. USFWS
10:40	Habitat use patterns of adult smallmouth bass and prickly sculpin in Lake Washington and the Lake Washington Ship Canal	Roger Tabor, et al., USFWS
11:00	*The summer feeding ecology of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and cutthroat Trout (O. clarkii) in the Cedar River, Washington*	Benjamin Price, USFWS & TESC
11:20	Spatial and temporal trends in feeding of juvenile Chinook salmon in Puget Sound	Elisabeth Duffy and Dave Beauchamp, UW

Thursday PM

Fisheries Science -- Contributed Papers -- Pete Bisson (USFS) - Chair
	Mt Adams Hall
1:20	Identifying Genetic Population Structure and Quasi-Extinction Thresholds for Recovering ESA-Listed Summer Chum Salmon	Kenneth P. Currens, NWIFC
1:40	Genetic differences in survival between naturally reared progeny of sea-ranched and wild steelhead from the Clearwater River, Idaho	Steve Rubin, USGS
2:00	Assessment of the Risk of Invasion of National Forest Streams in the Pacific Northwest by Farmed Atlantic Salmon	Pete Bisson, USFS
2:20	Temporal and spatial variation of invertebrate drift in southwest British Columbia streams	Sandra Nicol, UBC
2:40	Assessing Habitat Needs for Coho in the Deschutes River (Thurston County, WA) Using the Shiraz Population Simulation Model	Paul Schlenger, et al. Anchor Environmental

3:00	Break

Life History Modeling of Salmonid Populations - Eric Knudsen and Cleve Steward - Co-Chairs
	Mt Adams Hall
3:20	Salmonid Life-History Diversity: A Review of Modeling Approaches	Lucy Flynn and Bradley Thompson
3:40	Life history models and salmon management	Bob Lessard
4:00	EDT application in Puget Sound salmon recovery planning	Bradley E. Thompson, et al.
4:20	Effects of past, present and future hatchery and habitat management scenarios on Stillaguamish Chinook salmon	Greg Blair, et al.
4:40	Predicting the Effects of Temperature Change on Production of Salmon and Steelhead	Steven P. Cramer Cramer Fish Sciences
5:00	Trophic ecology of Bull trout, Salvelinus confluentus, in a coastal riverine food web	Erin Lowery

Track 3 - "Adapting to A Developing World"

Thursday AM

Puget Sound and Marine Areas- John Lombard (Steward and Associates) - Chair
	Mt Bachelor Hall
8:40	The Puget Sound Partnership: Round 3 of the fight to Save Puget Sound	Brad Ack
9:00	Saving Puget Sound: A Practical, Long-Term Proposal	John Lombard
9:40	Puget Sound Discussion

10:00	Break

Puget Sound and Marine Areas- John Lombard (Steward and Associates) - Chair
10:20	Biological Applications of Marine Geophysics	Paul Conrecode, Golder Associates Inc.
10:40	Preliminary report on isotopic records of geoduck shells and the variation of dissolved oxygen in Hood Canal	Y.W. Gao, et al.
11:00	*Determination of the age of lost annuli in Pacific spiny dogfish (Aqualus acantias) by mixed effects model*	Yuk W. Cheng, et al., WDFW
11:20	Bulkheads to Beaches - Two Examples of Shoreline Restoration in Puget Sound	Jon Houghton, et al. Pentec

Thursday PM

Kokanee Biology, Ecology and Management - Hans Berge (King County) - Chair
	Mt Bachelor Hall
1:20	Native kokanee in Lake Sammamish: where have we been and where are we going?	Kirk Lakey
1:40	Lake Sammamish kokanee stock management and population characteristics	Chad Jackson
2:00	The Role of Trout Unlimited in the Restoration of Lake Sammamish Kokanee	Mark Taylor
2:20	Are indirect interactions between Mysis relicta and kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka) mediated by shared prey or shared predators? Evidence from a large oligotrophic lake	Erik Schoen
2:40	WDFW's Kokanee Program	Bob Gibbons and Jim Uehara

3:00	Break

Large Woody Debris Management - Larry Dominguez (WDNR) -- Chair
	Mt Bachelor Hall
3:20	Windthrow, LWD, and Habitat: Problem or Habitat Enhancement?	Doug Martin
3:40	Habitat conservation, infrastructure protection, and the management of large woody debris during riparian forest recovery in the Cedar River municipal watershed	Chris Brummer
4:00	Sources and dynamics of large logs in a temperate floodplain river	Joshua Latterell
4:20	Ecological Issues of Washington's Rediscovered (submerged) Wood Resources	Larry Dominguez, WDNR, and Pete Bisson, USFS
4:40	How Much Wood Could a Wood Truck Chuck? Establishing River Access for Woody Debris Loading using the Highway Network	Larry Dominguez, et al., WDNR
5:00	Integrating Engineered Logjam Technology into Infrastructure Protection: the 2004 Hoh River Project	Tim Abbe

Friday AM

Human Impacts Ecosystems, Fish, and Water Quality - Jim Shannon (DEA) -- Chair
	Mt Bachelor Hall
8:20	The impact of copper exposure on the olfactory neuroethology of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)	David Baldwin
8:40	Innovative Stormwater Management with Watershed-level Habitat Mitigation for Highway Improvements	Dale Anderson
9:00	Managing Stormwater for Healthy Salmon Populations in Puget Sound	DeeAnn Kirkpatrick, NOAA Fisheries
9:20	Can’t we all get along… Or is stormwater management really about Fish or People?	Kevin Dragon, HDR Engineering
9:40	Stormwater Engineering Design and the Impacts to Fisheries and Streams	Eric Mendel, HDR Engineering

10:00	Break


	Mt Bachelor Hall
10:20	Setting Instream Flows in the Context of Watershed Planning	Terra Hegy, WDFW
10:40	Dungeness River water acquisition monitoring	Jonathan Kohr, WDFW
11:00	How Much Stream Flow is Enough to Recovery Steelhead in the Walla Walla River?	Keith Underwood, HDR\|FishPro
11:20	Limiting factors of kokanee in Lake Roosevelt	Keith Underwood
11:40

Track 4 - Poster Session

Wednesday Evening

	Using Large Woody Debris (LWD) to Restore Geomorphic Process and Floodplain Connectivity in a Regulated River System	Elizabeth Ablow et al.
	Aquatic Habitat Guidelines in Washington	Susan Cierebiej
	Biological Applications of Marine Geophysics	Paul Conrecode, Golder Associates Inc.
	Impacts of Stormwater Runoff on Coho Salmon in Restored Urban Streams	Jay Davis et al.
	Incorporating spatial structure and diversity into the recovery of anadromous Pacific salmonid populations	Kurt Fresh, Bill Graeber, et al.
	Interpreting Acoustic Telemetry Information from a Shallow Water Environment	Tad W. Schwager, Steward and Associates
	Application of the Shiraz salmon population dynamics model in the support of conservation planning in the Interior Columbia River Basin: Wenatchee spring chinook	Jon Honea et al., NOAA Fisheries
	The Role of Microsatellite Allele Ladders to Facilitate Inter-laboratory Standardization; An Example from the Genetic Analysis of Pacific Salmon (GAPS) Research Community	Eric S. LaHood, et al.
	South Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Planning	Tom Kantz, et al.
	Future Research Needs for Pacific Salmon	Eric Knudsen and Cleve Steward
	Williams Creek Fish Ladder Repair and Passage Improvement at Kerriston Road	Don Finney
	Distribution and run timing of bull trout in Skagit Bay	Steve Rubin, USGS
	Habitat Conservation Planning for Washington's State-Owned Aquatic Lands	Carol Cloen, WDNR
	Assessing dam impacts by catchment across the North Pacific using a hydro-georeferenced inventory of North Pacific dams and stream network analyses	Matthew Goslin, Wild Salmon Center