2014 Annual Reporting Meeting 

Agenda 

Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center 

 in collaboration with Arizona Game and Fish Department, Ecometric, Inc., National Park 

Service, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

January 28-29, 2014 

Arizona Department of Water Resources 

Phoenix, Arizona 

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January 28 

9:15 – 9:30a: Welcome / Introductions (Jack Schmidt) 

Native Fishes in Marble and Grand Canyons 

9:30 – 9:50a Humpback chub in the Colorado River: status and trends of 

aggregations, changes in range (Bill Persons) 

9:55 –10:20a Humpback chub in the Little Colorado River and other tributaries: 

monitoring of juveniles, sub-adults, and adults and translocations 

(Kirk Young and Brian Healy) 

10:25 – 10:45a Other native fishes: population status and trends in the Colorado 

River and tributaries (Dave Rogowski and Brian Healy) 

10:50 – 11:30a Humpback chub population dynamics and modeling: juveniles, 

sub-adults, and adults in the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers 

(Charles Yackulic) 

11:30a – 12:00p Stakeholder discussion: Management implications of native fish 

monitoring and research 

--- Lunch --- 

Trout in Glen, Marble, and Grand Canyons 

1:00 – 1:25p Colorado River trout population monitoring: spawning and rearing 

surveys, seasonal and annual electrofishing surveys, and creel 

survey (Dave Rogowski) 

1:30 – 1:45p Tributary trout population monitoring: status and trends and effects 

of removals (Brian Healy) 
1:50 – 2:20p Aquatic food base in Glen, Marble, and Grand Canyons (Ted 

Kennedy and Jeff Muehlbauer) 

2:25 – 2:45p Context and comparison: status of tailwater fisheries in the western 

US (Kim Dibble) 

2:50 – 3:35p Rainbow trout movement, growth, population dynamics and 

modeling in Glen and Marble Canyons (Josh Korman and Mike 

Yard) 

3:40 – 4:30p: Tribal roundtable: perspectives on fish and aquatic science 

4:30 – 7:00p: Poster session 

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January 29 

8:15 – 8:35a: Low flows in Glen Canyon: preliminary geomorphic analysis of 

the potential effects on fish and food base (Ted Melis) 

8:35 – 9:20a Stakeholder Discussion: Management implications of trout and 

food base monitoring and research 

Geomorphology of the Active Channel and Valley Margins 

9:20 – 10:05a: Sand in Marble, Glen, and Grand Canyons: status and trends (Paul 

Grams) 

10:10 – 10:25a: Processing fine sediment transport data: procedures, processing, 

and bottlenecks (Ron Griffiths) 

10:25 – 10:40a Break 

10:40 – 11:10a: Stakeholder discussion: Management implications of sediment 

transport and geomorphology monitoring and research 

11:15 – 12:00p Archaeological site change: distinguishing meteorological and 

human effects (Brian Collins) 

---Lunch --- 
1:00 – 1:15p Field and remote sensing evidence that gullies are healed by 

windblown sand (Joel Sankey) 

1:15 – 1:30p Landscape-scale management implications of cultural resource 

studies (Helen Fairley) 

1:30 – 1:45p Navajo Nation River monitoring trip report 2013 (Tony Joe) 

1:45 – 2:45p Tribal roundtable: perspectives on vegetation and 

geoscience/cultural resources 

2:45 – 3:00p Break 

3:00 – 4:00p Stakeholder discussion: Management implications of cultural 

resource / geomorphology studies 

4:00 – 5:00p Stakeholder discussion: Moving forward