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# Northwest Fisheries Science Center

## Watershed Program Open House

January 24^th^ and 25^th^, 2001

NWFSC Auditorium, 2725 Montlake Blvd East

8:30 **Welcome**

Usha Varanasi, Director, Northwest Fisheries Science Center

Phil Roni, Watershed Program Manager

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#### Nutrients and Productivity (Peter Kiffney, Moderator)

###### 8:45 Factors limiting productivity of PNW Streams -- Peter Kiffney, John Richardson, Bob Edmonds, Phil Roni

9:00 Stable isotope ratio analysis: A tool for evaluating nutrient
restoration in depleted salmon streams -- Bill Reichert, Peter Kiffney,
Phil Roni, Todd Bennett

9:15 Utilization of nutrients from spawning salmon by juvenile chinook
salmon and steelhead in the Columbia and Snake River basins -- Todd
Bennett, Phil Roni, Bob Bilby

#### Juvenile Habitat (Tim Beechie, Moderator)

9:35 Floods and fish: Effects of peak flows on chinook salmon spawning
success -- George Pess, Eric Beamer, Ashley Steel

9:50 Relationships between beaver and coho salmon in the Pacific
Northwest: Implications for the recovery of a threatened species --
Michael Pollock, George Pess, Dave Montgomery

10:05 Habitat types and use by juvenile salmonids in a large Puget Sound
river -- Eric Beamer, Tim Beechie, Martin Liermann, Rich Henderson

**10:20-10:45 BREAK**

10:45 In-stream factors affecting juvenile chinook salmon migration --
Ashley Steel, Eric Hockersmith, John Williams, Steve Neuhauser, Peter
Guttorp

11:00 The influence of estuaries on anadromous salmonids: What we know,
what we don\'t know, and what we want to know -- Casey Rice, Blake
Feist, Charles Simenstad, Michael Pollock

#### Models and Quantitative Tools (Blake Feist, Moderator)

11:15 Factors influencing juvenile coho salmon in coastal Oregon basins:
An overview -- Cara Campbell, Martin Liermann

11:30 Factors influencing juvenile coho salmon in coastal Oregon basins:
A modeling approach -- Martin Liermann, Cara Campbell

###### 11:45 Using a large-scale landscape analysis to identify high priority areas for salmon habitat restoration (SWAM I) -- Blake Feist, George Pess, Ashley Steel, Bob Bilby

12:00 Using a hierarchical statistical model to link salmonid abundance
records to habitat characteristics (SWAM II) -- Ashley Steel, Blake
Feist, George Pess, Bob Bilby

**12:15 -- 1:30 LUNCH**

#### Riparian and Upslope Habitat (Michael Pollock, Moderator)

1:30 Effects of management on riparian-stream linkages -- Peter Kiffney,
John Richardson, Bob Edmonds

1:45 Watershed-scale patterns of stream temperature change in a Puget
Sound river basin -- Tim Beechie, Brian Collins, Michael Pollock, George
Pess

2:00 How riparian functions vary with buffer width in forested
watersheds of the PNW -- Michael Pollock

2:15 GIS-based prediction of sediment supply to stream channels in the
North Cascades, Washington -- Tim Beechie, Blake Feist

##### Restoration (George Pess, Moderator)

2:30 Responses of fishes and salamanders to in-stream restoration
efforts in western Oregon and Washington -- Phil Roni, Tom Quinn

2:45 Restoration of off-channel habitats for Pacific Salmon -- Sarah
Morley, Patsy Garcia, Phil Roni

3:00 Monitoring of large-river in-stream restoration projects -- George
Pess, Mike McHenry, Mike McHugh, Tim Beechie, Peter Kiffney, Roger
Peters, Martin Liermann, Phil Roni

3:15 **Questions**

3:45 **Wrap-up** -- Phil Roni