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What is the largest amount of fine sediment that can occur along the 

banks of the Colorado River, especially as eddy sandbars? 

What flow regime, in relation to the natural supply of fine sediment from 

tributaries, results in the most widespread distribution of fine sediment 

along the channel banks and in eddies? 

Do larger amounts of fine sediment along the channel banks and in 

eddies significantly change the amount and distribution of fine sediment 

that occurs above the active channel and that occurs at or near 

archaeological sites? 

What management strategies should be employed to maintain a high 

quality rainbow trout fishery in Glen Canyon while protecting, and 

potentially recovering, the endangered humpback chub fish 

community in Marble and Grand Canyons? 
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Assistant Secretary’s Guidance concerning research and monitoring 

priorities in GCMRC science planning (March 2011 and May 2014 memos) 

2011 Desired Future Conditions Ad Hoc Group 

(April 30, 2012: SoI directed AMWG “to utilize these DFCs to inform and guide 

the AMWG’s future considerations”)

Secretarial Directive concerning Environmental Assessments and related 

Science Plans for (1) High-flow Experimental Releases, and (2) Non-native 

Fish Control (May 23, 2012: “I direct ... USGS ... to undertake coordinated 

implementation of the actions and commitments described and analyzed 

in the Environmental Assessments ...”) 

GCDAMP Documents and Guidance:

Core Monitoring Plan (February 2011, draft) 

Strategic Science Plan (April 2009)

Monitoring and Research Plan (April 2009) 

Priority Questions (5) and Program Goals (12) (August 2004) 

Questions, Expectations, Concerns 

Recent Guidance from Secretary’s Designee Regarding 

Triennial Budget Process and Science Planning Priorities 

• “science relevant to compliance with Endangered Species Act, particularly 

relative to native fish and humpback chub” 

• “science informing ... compliance with the Grand Canyon Protection Act, 

especially the sediment resource” 

• “science on non-native fish control and the recreational trout fishery” 

science priorities originally described in March 2011 for which “the need for this science 

continues”

• “the evolving issue related to cultural/archaeological resources as linked to 

modern river processes”; “understanding ... how cultural and archaeological sites 

are linked to modern river processes” 

• “the role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in contributing to scientific 

understanding and river operations” 

• “other investigations for which there is “widespread support and further the 

purposes of the Adaptive Management Program” 

• “continue ... long-term monitoring of core ecosystem components” 
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• Each project comprehensively focuses on a particular resource and/or 

specific questions; each project focuses on key monitoring activities and 

resolving key management uncertainties. 

• To the degree possible, projects should reference each other and be linked 

with each other. 

• Research projects should consider cost effective strategies to resolve 

knowledge uncertainties. Field-scale experiments should be avoided unless 

based on previous laboratory experiments, literature reviews, innovative data 

analysis, and/or comparative studies of other rivers 

• Collaborate with land, species, and water management agencies. Pursue 

cost effective monitoring strategies. 

• Report the full cost of each project (i.e., incorporate logistics and remote 

sensing/GIS costs in the associated science activity) 
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"high elevation open riparian sediment deposits ... in sufficient volume, area, and distribution ..."

"Physical characteristics, including climate, site-specific geomorphology, dam-related discharge and 

flow, and tributary flows, generally predominate ..."

"Water quality with regards to dissolved oxygen, nutrient concentrations and cycling, turbidity, 

temperature, etc. is sufficient to support natural ecosystem

Desired Future Conditions 

"... maintain significance and integrity [of] prehistoric archaeological sites and historic sites]"

Project 1: Water quality monitoring of Lake Powell and Glen Canyon 

Dam releases ($0.02 GCDAMP)($0.29 million, other BoR)
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Project 3: Sandbars and sediment storage dynamics ... ($1.32 million, 

GCDAMP) 

3.1.1 Monitoring sandbars using topographic surveys and remote cameras ($370,000) 

3.1.2 Monitoring sand bars and shorelines...by remote sensing ($120,000) 

3.1.3 Surveying with a camera: rapid topographic surveys... ($42,000) 

3.1.4 Analysis of historical images at selected monitoring sites ($89,000) 

3.2 Sediment storage monitoring ($460,000) 

3.3 Characterizing, and predictive modeling, of sand bar response... ($100,000) 

3.4 Connecting bed material transport, bed morphodynamics... ($36,000) 

3.5 Control network and survey support ($110,000) 

Project 2: Stream flow, water quality, and sediment transport ... 

($1.34 million, GCDAMP) 

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Project 4: ...Quantifying the relative importance of river-related factors that 

influence upland geomorphology and archaeological site stability ($0.34 

million, GCDAMP)

4.1 Quantifying connectivity along the fluvial-aeolian-hillslope continuum at landscape 

scales ($140,000 AMP; $75,000 BoR) 

4.2 Monitoring of cultural sites in Grand and Glen Canyons ($48,000 AMP; $75,000 BoR)

($174,000 of FY14 carryover allocated to purchase Terrestrial Laser Scanner) 

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Native Species -- "Native fish species and their habitats ... sustainably maintained ..."

"A high quality trout fishery in GCNRA ... that does not adversely affect the native aquatic 

community in GCNP"

Desired Future Conditions 

Project 5: Food base monitoring and research ($0.52 million, GCDAMP; $0.04 

million unfunded; $0.18 million request to WAPA for work beyond CRe) 

5.1 Are aquatic insect diversity and production recruitment limited? 

5.1.1 Insect emergence in Grand Canyon via citizen science ($120,000) 

5.1.2 Effects of hydropeaking on oviposition and egg mortality ($97,000) 

5.1.3 Synthesis of stressors and controls on EPT distributions ($30,000) 

5.1.4 Synthesis of the aquatic foodbase in western US tailwaters ($30,000) 

5.1.5 Natural history of oviposition for species in Grand Canyon ($26,000) 

5.1.6 Laboratory studies on insect oviposition and egg mortality ($37,000; unfunded) 

5.1.7 Comparative emergence studies in Upper Basin ($59,000; WAPA)

5.1.8 Natural history of oviposition for EPT in the Upper Basin ($25,000; WAPA) 

5.2 Patterns and controls of aquatic invertebrate drift in Colorado River tailwaters

5.2.1 Characterize and monitor drift, emergence in Glen Canyon ($52,000) 

5.2.2 Drift monitoring in Glen, Marble, and Grand Canyons($87,000) 

5.2.3 Link drift to channel bed shear stress ($21,000) 

5.2.4 Link drift patterns to substrate in Glen, Marble, Grand Canyons ($21,000) 

5.2.5 Comparative drift in Upper and Lower Basin tailwaters ($94,000 ;WAPA)

5.3 Primary Production Monitoring in Glen Marble and Grand Canyons 

5.3.1 Synthesis and publication of Glen Canyon algae production ($26,000 

5.3.2 Monitoring dissolved O2 in Glen, Marble, and Grand Canyons ($15,000) 

5.3.3 Developing automated tools for estimating algae production (outside funding) 

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Project 6: Main-stem Colorado River humpback chub 

aggregations and fish community dynamics ($.57 million, 

GCDAMP) ($0.10 million, other BoR) ($0.02 million 

unfunded)

6.1 Main-stem Colorado River humpback chub aggregation monitoring ($220,000)

6.2 Aggregation recruitment ($84,000; other BoR) 

6.3 Monitoring main-stem aggregations with PIT tag antennas (pilot) ($18,000; other BoR) 

6.4 System wide electrofishing ($270,000) 

6.5 Brown trout natal origins through body pigmentation patterns... ($16,000; unfunded)

6.6 Direct main-stem augmentation of humpback chub (start in FY17) 

6.7 Rainbow trout early life stage survey ($77,000) 

6.8 Lees Ferry creel survey (fund in FY16/17)

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Project 7: Population ecology of humpback chub in and around the Little 

Colorado River ($1.29 million, GCDAMP) ($0.26 million other BoR)

7.1 Spring/fall humpback chub abundance estimates in the LCR ($530,000) 

7.2 Juvenile chub monitoring near the LCR confluence ($450,000) 

7.3 July LCR juv. humpback chub marking to est. production and outmigration ($110,000; other BoR) 

7.4 Remote PIT tag array monitoring in the LCR ($54,000) 

7.5 Food web monitoring in the LCR ($140,000) 

7.6 Gravel substrate limitation for humpback chub reproduction in the LCR ($12,000; (other BoR) 

7.7 CO2 as a limiting factor early life history stages of humpback chub in the LCR ($96,000; other BoR) 

7.8 Evaluate effects of Asian tapeworm infestation on Juvenile humpback chub ($17,000) 

7.9 Development of a non-lethal tool to assess physiological condition of HBC... ($42,000; other BoR) 

7.10 Humpback chub population modeling ($97,000) 

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Project 8: Experimental actions to increase abundance and distribution of 

native fishes in Grand Canyon ($.18 million, GCDAMP)

8.1 Efficacy and ecological impacts of BNT removal ($96,000) 

8.2 Translocation and monitoring above Chute Falls ($89,000) 

8.3 Fish population monitoring Protocol Evaluation Panel (fund in FY16) 

8.4 Invasive species surveillance and response (fund in FY17) 

8.5 Genetic Monitoring of Lower Basin humpback chub (fund in FY17)

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Project 9: Understanding factors determining recruitment, population size, 

growth, and movement of rainbow trout in Glen and Marble Canyons ($0.92 

million, GCDAMP; $0.14 million unfunded) 

9.1 Lees Ferry RBT; monitoring, analysis, and study design ($180,000) 

9.2 Detection of RBT movement from upper Colorado River below GCD ($350,000) 

9.3 Exploring the mechanisms behind trout growth, reproduction, and movement in Glen and Marble 

Canyons using lipid (fat) reserves as an indicator of physiological condition ($100,000) 

9.4 Comparative study on the feeding morphology of drift feeding fish ($86,000; unfunded) 

9.5 Meta-analysis and development of reactive distance relationships... ($20,000; $18,000 unfunded)

9.6 Lab evaluation of turbidity as a management tool to constrain RBT populations and reduce 

predation/competition on juvenile humpback chub ($37,000) 

9.7 Application of a bioenergetics model in a seasonally turbid river ($33,000; $33,000; unfunded) 

9.8 Mechanisms that limit RBT and BNT growth in other western tailwater systems ($72,000) 

9.9 Contingency planning for HFEs and subsequent RBT population management ($72,000) 

9.10 Effects of HFEs on the physiological condition of RBT in Glen Canyon ($54,000) 

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Project 10: Where does the Glen Canyon Dam rainbow 

trout tailwater fishery end? – Integrating fish and channel 

mapping data below Glen Canyon Dam ($0.15 million, 

GCDAMP)

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Project 11: Riparian vegetation studies: ground-based and landscape-scale 

riparian vegetation monitoring and plant response-guild research associated 

with sandbar evolution and wildlife habitat analysis (FY15: $0.49 million, 

GCDAMP) 

11.1 Ground-based vegetation monitoring ($180,000) 

11.2 Periodic landscape scale vegetation mapping and analysis using remotely sensed data 

($150,000) 

11.3 Influence of sediment and vegetation feedbacks on the evolution of sandbars in Grand Canyon

($100,000) 

11.4 Linking dam operations to changes in terrestrial fauna ($24,000) 

11.5 Science review panel of successes and challenges in non-native vegetation control in the 

Colorado River and Rio Grande watersheds ($33,000;) 

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Project 12: Dam-related effects on the distribution and abundance of selected 

culturally-important plants in the Colorado River ecosystem ($0.05 million, 

GCDAMP)

12.1 Tribal workshop and analysis of cultural landscape change ($52,000) 

12.2 Tribal evaluations of cultural landscape changes (begins in FY16)

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13.1 Economic values of recreational resources along the Colorado River – Grand Canyon 

whitewater floater and Lees Ferry angler values ($70,000) 

13.2 Tribal values and perspectives of resources downstream of Glen Canyon Dam (begin in 

FY17) 

13.3 Applied decision methods for the Glen Canyon Adaptive Management Plan ($110,000) 

Project 13: Socio-economic monitoring and research ($0.18 million, 

GCDAMP) 

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Project 14: Geographic information systems, services, and support (FY15: $0.23 

million, GCDAMP)

Project 15: Administration and Support (FY15: $1.30 

million, GCDAMP)

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Project 3: Sandbars and sediment storage dynamics ... 

($1.33 million) (FY16: $1.27 million) (FY17: $1.37 million) 

3.1.1 (FY15: $370,000) (FY16: $350,000) (FY17: $370,000) 

3.1.2 (FY15: $120,000) (FY16: $130,000) (FY17: $140,000) 

3.1.3 (FY15: $42,000) (FY16: $73,000) (FY17: $77,000) 

3.1.4 (FY15: $89,000) (FY16: $45,000; $45,000) (FY17: 45,000; $45,000) 

3.2 (FY15: $460,000) (FY16: $520,000) (FY17: $550,000) 

3.3 (FY15: $100,000) (FY16: $110,000) (FY17: $120,000) 

3.4 (FY15: $36,000) (FY16: $18,000$18,000) (FY17: $18,000; $18,000) 

3.5 (FY15: $110,000) (FY16: $120,000) (FY17: $120,000) 

Project 2: Stream flow, water quality, and sediment transport ... 

(FY15: $1.34 million) (FY16: $1.35 million) (FY17: $1.46 million) 

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Project 4: ...Quantifying the relative importance of river-related factors that 

influence upland geomorphology and archaeological site stability (FY15: 

$0.34 million) (FY16: $0.57 million) (FY17: $0.59 million)

4.1 (FY15: $140,000; $75,000 BoR) (FY16: $140,000; $75,000 BoR) (FY17: $160,000; $93,000 BoR) 

4.2 (FY15: $48,000 AMP; $75,000 BoR) (FY16: $270,000; $75,000 BoR) (FY17: $250,000; $93,000 

BoR) 

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5.1 Are aquatic insect diversity and production recruitment limited? 

5.1.1 (FY15: $120,000) (FY16: $120,000) (FY17: $140,000) 

5.1.2 (FY15: $97,000) (FY16: $110,000) (FY17: $120,000) 

5.1.3 (FY15: $30,000) (FY16: $30,000) (FY17: $38,000) 

5.1.4 (FY15: $30,000) (FY16: $32,000) (FY17: $38,000) 

5.1.5 (FY15: $26,000) (FY16: $28,000) (FY17: $31,000) 

5.1.6 (FY15: $37,000) (FY16: $40,000) (FY17: $47,000) 

5.1.7 (FY15: $59,000) (FY16: $64,000) (FY17: $75,000) (WAPA)

5.1.8 (FY15: $25,000) (FY16: $27,000) (FY17: $31,000) (WAPA) 

5.2 Patterns and controls of aquatic invertebrate drift in Colorado River tailwaters

5.2.1 (FY15: $52,000) (FY16: $67,000) (FY17: $88,000) 

5.2.2 (FY15: $87,000) (FY16: $116,000) (FY17: $157,000) 

5.2.3 (FY15: $21,000) (FY16: $25,000) (FY17: $30,000) 

5.2.4 (FY15: $21,000) (FY16: $25,000) (FY17: $30,000) 

5.2.5 (FY15: $94,000) (FY16: $168,000) (FY17: $203,000) (WAPA)

5.3 Primary Production Monitoring in Glen Marble and Grand Canyons 

5.3.1 (FY15: $26,000) (FY16: $27,000) (FY17: $14,000) 

5.3.2 (FY15: $15,000) (FY16: $17,000) (FY17: $18,000) 

5.3.3 (FY15-FY17: outside funding) 

* WAPA: submitted to Western Area Power Administration for funding consideration 

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Project 5: Food base monitoring and research (FY15: $0.52 million; FY16: $0.55 

million; FY17: $0.57 million) 
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Project 6: Main-stem Colorado River humpback chub 

aggregations and fish community dynamics (FY15: $.67 million) 

(FY16: $0.65 million) (FY17: $0.70 million)

6.1 (FY15: $218,000) (FY16: $240,000) (FY17: $250,000)

6.2 (FY15: $84,000; BoR) (FY16: $53,000; BoR) (FY17: $50,000) 

6.3 (FY15: $18,000; BoR) (FY16: $14,000; BoR) (FY17: $9,000) 

6.4 (FY15: $270,000) (FY16: $280,000) (FY17: $320,000) 

6.5 (FY15: $16,000) (FY16: $16,000) 

6.6 (FY17: $43,000) 

6.7 (FY15: $77,000) (FY16: $79,000) (FY17: $90,000) 

6.8 (FY16: $26,000) (FY17: $26,000)

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Project 7: Population ecology of humpback chub in and around the Little 

Colorado River (FY15: $1.55 million) (FY16: $1.60 million) (FY17: $1.30 million)

7.1 (FY15: $531,000) (FY16: $540,000) (FY17: $550,000) 

7.2 (FY15: $450,000) (FY16: $470,000) (FY17: $180,000) 

7.3 (FY15: $110,000; BoR) (FY16: $120,000) (FY17: $130,000) 

7.4 (FY15: $54,000) (FY16: $110,000) (FY17: $150,000) 

7.5 (FY15: $140,000) (FY16: $87,000) (FY17: $3,000) 

7.6 (FY15: $12,000; BoR) (FY16: $12,000; BoR) (FY17: $14,000) 

7.7 (FY15: $96,000; BoR) (FY16: $108,000; BoR) (FY17: $64,000) 

7.8 (FY15: $17,000) (FY16: $17,000) (FY17: $18,000) 

7.9 (FY15: $42,000; BoR) (FY16: $95,000; BoR) (FY17: $52,000) 

7.10 (FY15: $97,000) (FY16: $150,000) (FY17: $210,000) 

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Project 8: Experimental actions to increase abundance and distribution of 

native fishes in Grand Canyon (FY15: $0.19 million) (FY16: $0.21 million) 

(FY17: $0.28 million)

8.1 (FY15: $96,000) (FY16: $118,000) (FY17: $120,000) 

8.2 (FY15: $89,000) (FY16: $88,000) (FY17: $88,000) 

8.3 (FY16: $21,000) 

8.4 (FY17: $52,000) 

8.5 (FY17: $33,000)

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Project 9: Understanding factors determining recruitment, population size, 

growth, and movement of rainbow trout in Glen and Marble Canyons (FY15: 

$1.01 million) (FY16: $1.02 million) (FY17: $0.74 million) 

9.1 (FY15: $180,000) (FY16: $210,000) (FY17: $77,000) 

9.2 (FY15: $350,000) (FY16: $440,000) (FY17: $370,000) 

9.3 (FY15: $100,000) 

9.4 (FY15: $86,000) (FY16: $103,000) (FY17: $92,000) 

9.5 (FY15: $20,000; $18,000) (FY16: $20,000; $18,000) (FY17: $18,000; $17,000) 

9.6 (FY15: $37,000) (FY16: $29,000) (FY17: $30,000) 

9.7 (FY15: $33,000; $33,000)(FY16: $35,000; 35,000) (FY17: $33,000; 33,000) 

9.8 (FY15: $72,000) (FY16: $81,000)

9.9 (FY15: $72,000) (FY16: $62,000) (FY17: $99,000) 

9.10 (FY15: $54,000) (FY16: $70,000) (FY17: $5,000) 

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Project 10: Where does the Glen Canyon Dam rainbow trout tailwater fishery 

end? – integrating fish and channel mapping data below Glen Canyon Dam 

(FY15: $0.15 million) (FY16: $0.15 million) (FY17: $0.13 million)

Project 11: Riparian vegetation studies: ground-based and landscape-scale 

riparian vegetation monitoring and plant response-guild research associated 

with sandbar evolution and wildlife habitat analysis (FY15: $0.49 million) 

(FY16: $0.51 million) (FY17: $0.48 million) 

11.1 (FY15: $180,000) (FY16: $190,000) (FY17: $210,000) 

11.2 (FY15: $150,000) (FY16: $130,000) (FY17: $130,000) 

11.3 (FY15: $100,000) (FY16: $98,000) (FY17: $50,000) 

11.4 (FY15: $24,000) (FY16: $136,000) (FY17: $110,000) 

11.5 (FY15: $33,000) 

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Project 12: Dam-related effects on the distribution and abundance of selected 

culturally-important plants in the Colorado River ecosystem (FY15: $0.05 million) 

(FY16: $0.08 million)

12.1 Tribal workshop and analysis of cultural landscape change (FY15: $52,000) (FY16: $80,000)

12.2 Tribal evaluations of cultural landscape changes (FY16: $31,000)

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13.1 (FY15: $70,000) (FY16: $73,000) 

13.2 (FY16: $137,000) (FY17: $128,000) 

13.3 (FY15: $107,000) (FY16: $147,000) (FY17: $228,000) 

Project 13: Socio-economic monitoring and research (FY15: $0.18 

million) (FY16: $0.20 million) (FY17: $0.34 million) 

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Project 14: Geographic information systems, services, and support (FY15: $0.22 

million) (FY16: $0.22 million) (FY17: $0.24 million)

Project 15: Administration and Support (FY15: $1.30 

million) (FY16: $1.33 million) (FY17: $1.48 million)

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