Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program 

Annual Reporting Meeting 2022 

WebEx: https://rec.webex.com/rec/j.php?MTID=m1ed72729b30a2d7a003cd1f368765d09

Phone: (415) 527-5035 Meeting number: 2760 197 2350

Meeting Password: Jan11

All Times Are Mountain Standard

TIME Tuesday, January 11, 2022

8:30 – 8:40

(:10) 

Welcome and Administrative: Seth Shanahan, Technical Work Group (TWG) Chair

• Introductions: Michael Moran, Deputy Chief, USGS GCMRC

Fish Resources

8:40 – 9:00

(:20) Josh Korman, Ecometric, Rainbow and brown trout in Glen and Grand Canyon

9:05 – 9:20

(:15)

James Crossman, BC Hydro, Comparing the reproductive structure of rainbow trout and brown trout below Glen 

Canyon Dam and advancing methods to assign sex using non-lethal methods

9:25 – 9:40

(:15) Dave Rogowski, AZGFD, Lees Ferry fish monitoring

9:45 – 10:00

(:15)

Mariah Giardina, USGS GCMRC and Josh Korman, Ecometric, Trout management flows literature review and 

hypsometric analysis

10:05 – 10:20

(:15) Lucas Bair, USGS GCMRC, Trout management flows and hydropower modeling

10:20 – 10:40

(:20) Panel Discussion: Fish Resources

10:40 – 10:50

(:10) BREAK

Fish Resources – Cont.

10:50 – 11:05

(:15) Lucas Bair, USGS GCMRC, Brown trout incentivized harvest 

11:10 – 11:25

(:15) Charles Yackulic, USGS GCMRC, Fish modelling to support management decisions

11:30 – 11:50

(:20) Jan Boyer, AZGFD, System-wide fish monitoring

11:55 – 12:35

(:40) Maria Dzul, USGS GCMRC and Randy VanHaverbeke, USFWS, Humpback chub in Grand Canyon

12:40 – 1:30

(:50) LUNCH/Virtual Poster Session

Fish Resources – Cont.

1:30 – 1:45

(:15) Emily Omana-Smith, NPS, Humpback chub translocations

1:50 – 2:05

(:15) Bob Schelly, NPS, Brown trout control

2:10 – 2:25

(:15) David Ward, USGS GCMRC, Channel catfish monitoring in the LCR

2:25 – 2:40

(:15) Panel Discussion: Fish Resources

Aquatic Food Base/Water Quality/Ecosystem Drivers

2:40 – 2:55

(:15) Ted Kennedy, USGS GCMRC, Food base monitoring in 2021

3:00 – 3:15

(:15) John Wehr, Fordham University, The changing benthic flora in the Glen Canyon Dam tailwaters

3:20 – 3:30

(:10) BREAK 

Aquatic Food Base/Water Quality/Ecosystem Drivers Cont.

3:30 – 3:45

(:15) Bridget Deemer, USGS GCMRC, pH regulates phosphorus cycling in the Colorado River

3:50 – 4:05

(:15)

Anya Metcalfe, USGS GCMRC, The role of insect abundance and riparian vegetation in driving bat foraging activity 

in Grand Canyon: insights from a community science project

Monitoring Metrics

4:10 – 5:00

(:50) Helen Fairley, USGS-GCMRC, Panel Discussion: Monitoring Metrics

5:00 Adjourn
Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program 

Annual Reporting Meeting 2022 

WebEx: https://rec.webex.com/rec/j.php?MTID=m05d180d9f8538c0993ff253df6ebe4c2

Phone: (415) 527-5035 Meeting number: 2764 095 3364

Meeting password: Jan12

All Times Are Mountain Standard

TIME Wednesday, January 12, 2022

8:30 – 8:40

(:10)

Welcome and Administrative: Seth Shanahan, TWG Chair

• Introductions: Joel Sankey, Acting Chief, USGS, GMCRC

Tribal Resources

8:40 – 8:50

(:10)

Lucas Bair, USGS GCMRC, Kurt Dongoske, Pueblo of Zuni, Reflection on the 2020 and 2021 Annual 

Reporting Meeting Tribal Resources Sessions

8:50 – 9:10

(:20) Doreen Martinez, CSU, TBD

9:10 – 9:30

(:20) Kristin Hoelting, CSU, TBD

9:30 – 9:50

(:20) Jakob Maase, Hopi Tribe, Hopi long-term monitoring program 

9:50 – 10:20

(:30) Panel Discussion: Tribal Resources

10:20 – 10:30

(:10) BREAK

Archeological Resources/Riparian Vegetation

10:30 – 10:45

(:15) Jennifer Dierker, NPS, 2021 LTEMP Section 106 Monitoring Results

10:50 – 11:05

(:15)

Joel Sankey, USGS GCMRC, Geomorphic effects of dam operations and vegetation management for 

archaeological sites

11:10 – 11:25

(:15) Lonnie Pilkington, NPS, LTEMP experimental vegetation treatments in Grand Canyon National Park

11:30 – 11:45

(:15)

Kelly Burke and Larry Stevens, GCWC, Riparian Ecosystem Rehabilitation in Glen and Grand Canyons: Lessons 

Learned for Future Projects

11:50 – 12:05

(:15) Brad Butterfield, NAU, Riparian vegetation monitoring and modeling

12:10 – 12:25

(:15) Joel Sankey, USGS GCMRC, Overflight remote sensing

12:30 – 1:30

(1:00) LUNCH

Hydropower Resources

1:30 – 1:55

(:25) Clayton Palmer, WAPA, Update on hydropower resources

Sediment, Sandbars, and Geomorphology

2:00 – 2:25

(:25) David Topping, USGS GCMRC, Sediment monitoring in Grand Canyon

2:30 – 2:55

(:25) Paul Grams, USGS GCMRC, Sandbar monitoring in Grand Canyon

3:00 – 3:10

(:10) BREAK

Spring Disturbance Flow Panel Session

3:10 – 4:10

(1:00)

Lightning talks:

Ted Kennedy, USGS GCMRC, Introduction

Bridget Deemer, USGS GCMRC, Nutrients

David Lytle, OSU, Invertebrates

Paul Grams, USGS GCMRC, Western Grand Canyon sediment

Joel Sankey, USGS GCMRC, Aeolian sand

Brad Butterfield, USGS GCMRC, Riparian vegetation

Kim Dibble, USGS GCMRC, Aquatic vegetation

Kim Dibble, USGS GCMRC, Brown trout early life stage

Lucas Bair, USGS GCMRC, Recreation

Bob Tusso, USGS GCMRC, Campsites

Lucas Bair, USGS GCMRC, Synthesis of the SDF: Where do we go from here?

4:10 – 5:00

(:50) Panel Discussion: Spring Disturbance Flow

5:00 Adjourn