Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Work Group 

Annual Reporting Meeting (Jan 24-25, 2017) and 

Technical Work Group Meeting (Jan 26, 2017) 

Technical Work Group Attachments: 

No. Document Author / Presenter 

1 Action Item Tracking Report 

2 TWG Ad Hoc Group List Seth Shanahan 

3 Science Advisors Program Update PPT David Braun 

4 Review of the 2017 Annual Reporting Meeting (ARM) and Discussion of 

Knowledge Assessment 

Seth Shanahan 

5 Update on the LTEMP ROD PPT Katrina Grantz 

6 Basin Hydrology, Operations and 2018 Hydrograph Paul Davidson 

7 As Request by the AMWG, Review the FY17 Budget to Determine if Budget or 

Work Plan Changes May Be Needed as a Result of the LTEMP ROD PPT

Seth Shanahan 

8 Adaptive Management Program Funding Considerations PPT Rod Smith 

9 Discuss Upcoming Budget and Conduct Group Exercise to Develop Initial 

Budget Guidance for GCMRC and the Bureau of Reclamation PPT

Seth Shanahan 

10 Brown Trout Management Considerations: An Update PPT Brian Healy 

Annual Reporting Meeting Attachments: 

No. Document Author / Presenter 

AR1 Project 2: Streamflow, Water Quality, Sediment Transport, and Sand Budgets 

in the Colorado River Ecosystem PPT

David Topping 

AR2 Hydrologic Change, and the Geomorphic Transformation of the Little 

Colorado river: Implications for Sediment Delivery to the Grand Canyon PPT

David Dean 

AR3 Sandbars and Sediment Storage in Marble and Grand Canyons: Response 

to Recent High-flow Experiments and Long-term Trends PPT

Paul Grams 

AR4 Water Quality in Lake Powell and its Influence on the Colorado river Below 

Glen Canyon Dam PPT

Robert Radtke 

AR5 Fluvial-aeolian sediment connectivity during the current HFE protocol: 

alteration on fluvial-aeolian sediment connectivity in Grand Canyon PPT

Joel Sankey 

AR6 The Individual and Additive Effects of Hydrologic Alteration and Vegetation 

Encroachment on Sediment Connectivity in Grand Canyon PPT

Alan Kasprak 

AR7 Historical Changes to Culturally-Important Riparian Plants along the Colorado 

River: A Progress Report on a Pilot Study Integrating Science and Traditional 

Ecological Knowledge PPT

Helen Fairley 

AR8 Kinship on the Canyon: Hualapai Stories of Success PPT Carrie Cannon 

AR9 Humpback Chub that Spawn in the LCR: Status and Drivers PPT Charles Yackulic 

AR10 Humpback Chub in the Little Colorado River, Monitoring of Juveniles, SubAdults, and Adults and translocations PPTRandy VanHaverbeke 

AR11 Is Rainbow Trout Control Necessary, and if so, What is the Most costeffective approach? PPTLucas Bair 

AR12 Humpback Chub Aggregations Updated (6.1) Kirk Young 

AR13 Humpback Chub in the Little Colorado River and Translocations PPT Randy VanHaverbeke 

AR14 Lees Ferry Long Term Monitoring PPT David Rogowski 

AR15 Boom-and-Bust Cycles in the Population of Rainbow Trout in Glen Canyon 

and Effect of Fall High Flow Experiments PPT

Josh Korman 

AR16 Natal Origin Project PPT Mike Yard 

AR17 Status and Trends of Hydropower and Energy PPT Craig Ellsworth 

AR18 Fluvial Aquatic Ecology of the Colorado River (... especially Lees Ferry) Jeff Muehlbauer 

AR19 Floods, Flows, and the Aquatic Foodbase PPT Ted Kennedy 

AR20 The Role of Nutrients in Colorado River Ecosystem Dynamics PPT Charles Yackulic 

AR21 System Wide Monitoring PPT Dave Rogowski 

AR22 Bright Angel Brown Trout Removal and Humpback Chub Translocations PPT Brian Healy 

AR23 Brown Trout in Glen Canyon: Insights From Two Expert Elicitation Surveys 

PPT

Jeff Muehlbaur 

Lucas Bair