2007 Scheduled Seminars

Paul Scheerer, ODFW, "Improved Status of Oregon Chub in the Willamette Basin, Oregon"
Rod Engle and Steve Pastor, USFWS, "Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery contribution & survival"
Jeff Hogle and David Hand, USFWS, "Evaluating hatchery release strategies using PIT-tags"
Billy Conner, USFWS, "An overview of research on Snake River Fall Chinook Salmon"
Greg Silver, USFWS, "The utility of elastomer marks to investigate the biology of larval lamprey"
Kyle Dittmer, CRITFC, Climate Change on Columbia Basin Treaty-Tribal Lands
Howard Schaller, USFWS, The relationship of Snake River stream-type Chinook survival rates to river and ocean conditions: evidence of hydrosystem related delayed mortality
Christina Luzier, USFWS, "Electroshocking Efficiency for Larval Pacific Lamprey"
Tim Cummings, Ron Rhew, Sam Lohr, USFWS, "Recovery, Assessment and Planning: A Potpourri of Conservation"
Jeff Johnson, USFWS, "Assessment of Salmonid Populations and Habitat in Tenasillahe and Welch Islands Sloughs"
Robert Magie, USGS, " Passage and behavior of adult Pacific lamprey at Willamette Falls Dam, Oregon"
Paul Wilson, USFWS, "SAR Estimates: The Beta Version"
Robert Wertheimer, US Army Corps of Engineers, "Columbia Basin Steelhead Kelts: Abundance, Downstream Passage, and Repeat Spawning"
Maureen Kavanagh, USFWS, "Assessing the effects of hatchery released steelhead and coho on ESA listed species in Eagle Creek: Are hatchery fish negatively impacting native origin fish
Dr. Carl Schreck, OSU, "Mortality Estimates of Juvenile Spring-Summer Chinook Salmon in the Lower Columbia River Estuary, 1992-1998: Evidence for Delayed Mortality?"
Stephen Pastor, USFWS, "CRiS (Columbia River information System) - Resources and Uses"
Cyndi Baker, Ducks Unlimited, "Juvenile Salmonid Use of Flood Plains"
Michael Hudson, USFWS, "Coastal Cutthroat Trout in the Lower Columbia River and Estuary: What We Know and Don't Know"
Bruce Schmidt, PSMFC, "The StreamNet Program"
Don Anglin, USFWS, "Spawning Habitat Model for Hanford Reach Fall Chinook"
Joe Skalicky, USFWS, "Remote Sensing Methods for Inland Fisheries Assessments"
Dave Marvin, PSMFC, "PIT Tag Data Retrieval and Analysis from the PTAGIS Web Portal"
Rod Engle, USFWS, " Ladder Operations Assessment for Spring Creek and Little White Salmon NFHs"
Christina Luzier, USFWS, "The Cedar Creek Lamprey Project: Updates and New Developments"
Kyle Dittmer, CRITFC, "Climate Change in Pacific Northwest Indian Country"
Jennifer Poirier, USFWS, "Chum at Pierce NWR"
David Hand, USFWS, "Summer Steelhead in the Deschutes River - Straying and Genetics"
Dan Rawding and Todd Hillson, WDFW, "Duncan Creek Chum Restoration"
Russ Keifer, IDFG, "Importance of Water Level Management to Kokanee and Bull Trout in Lake Pend Orielle"
Steve Parker, ODFW, "At Least Salmon can Burp: Challenges in Studying Rockfish Ecology"
Howard Schaller, USFWS, "Interior Basin Salmon Technical Recovery Team: Population ID and Delisting Criteria"
Dan Roby, Oregon State University, "Tern Predation of Salmoonid Smolts in the Columbia River Estuary"
Robert Al-Chokhackhy, Utah State University, "Effective bull trout population monitoring with mark/recapture techniques"
C.V. Haridas, Stanford Unversity, CA, "Elasticities in Stochastic Population models: Theory and Applications"
Tom Hoffman and Steve Olhausen, USFWS, "Eagle Creek Hatchery - Wild Interaction Study"
Robert Stansell, US Army Corps of Engineers, "Evaluation of Pinniped Predation on Adult Salmonids and Other Fish in the Bonneville Dam Tailrace, 2002 - 2004"
Howard Schaller and Tim Whitesel, USFWS, "Conserving bull trout: What are the appropriate units?"
Ken Tiffin, USGS, "Chum Spawning at Pierce/Ives Complex"
Don Anglin, USFWS, "Hanford Reach Studies and Priest Rapids Relicensing"
Ken Cash, USGS, "3D Telemetry of Juvenile Salmonids at the Dalles Dam"
Michelle McCree, USFWS, "Metamorphosis in Pacific lamprey: can we predict who and when?"
Dan Avery, USFWS, "Region 1 and CNO Enterprise GIS: USFWS Region 1 GIS planning effort"
Darren Gallion and Tad Kisaka, USFWS, "Predicting Habitat Use of Rearing Bull Trout in the Walla Walla River"
Steve Stampfli and Gail Miller, Americorps and Pacific Corps, "The history of Condit Dam and the removal process, where it's at and where it's headed"
Andrew Goodwin, US Army Corps of Engineers, "Forecasting 3-D Use of Aquatic Habitat by Highly Mobile Species"
Jeff Duda and John Emlen, USGS - Seattle, "Interaction Assessment: An Ecological Modeling Tool to Infer Population Dynamics"
Matt Mesa, USGS, " Passage difficulties for Pacific lampreys at Columbia River dams--insights from studies on their performance and physiology"
Tim Cummings, USFWS, "Evolving or Devolving: Changes in ESA Policy Decision Making and Implications for Bull Trout"
Jason Podrabsky, Portland State University, "Using microarray technologies in nonmodel organisms: Profiling changes in gene expression during exposure to diurnal temperature cycling in the annual killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus."
Sam Lohr, USFWS, "Fish surveys at National Wildlife Refuges: Franz Lake and Malheur"
Paul Sankovich, USFWS, Comparing Methods of Estimating the Abundance of Adult Bull Trout"
Don Anglin and Steve Haeseker, USFWS, "Stranding of fall Chinook salmon in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River"
Bao Le, USFWS, "Habitat use and population dynamics of lampreys in Cedar Creek, WA"
Bernie Taylor, Author, "Biological Time: How Animals Time Themselves"
Pat Connoly, USGS, Biological Resources, "Investigations in the Wind River Watershed"
Rod Engle, USFWS, "Progress of Hatchery and Wild Interactions Studies"
Kyle Martin, CRITFC, "Altered Flood Control, Climate Change, and Rebuilding Pacific Northwest Salmon Stocks"
Tom Rien, ODFW, "White Sturgeon Research in the Columbia River"
Ron Rhew, USFWS, "Subbasin Planning in the Columbia River: Current Status"
Steve Kolmes, Russ Butkus, University of Portland, "Ethics of Salmon Recovery"
Donna Allard, USFWS, "Oh, so that's what she does, Information and Education Activities and Opportunities at the CRFPO"
Darren Gallion, USFWS, "Bull Trout Habitat Modeling in the Upper Walla Walla River"
Jamie Glasgow, Washington Trout, " Use of underwater video to monitor juvenile salmonid habitat use"
Maureen Smith, USFWS, "Columbia Basin Wildlife Mitigation and Crediting"
Paul Sheerer, ODFW, "Status and Recovery of Oregon Chub in the Willamette Valley"
Robert Gresswell, USGS/Oregon /State University, "Coastal cutthroat trout in headwater streams of western Oregon"
Fred Utter, University of Washington, "Some traditional and hertical thoughts about salmon populations and their recovery from a geneticist's perspective"
Mark Chilcote, ODFW, "Hatchery Supplementation Programs and Productivity"
Robert Lackey, USEPA, "A Salmon-centric View of the 21st Century "
Nancy Uusitalo, USFWS, " Factors Limiting Columbia River Gorge Chum Salmon Populations"
Don Anglin, USFWS, "Juvenile Fall Chinook Stranding in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River."
Stephen Pastor, USFWS, "An evaluation of fresh water recoveries of fish released from National Fish Hatcheries in the Columbia River Basin, and observations of straying"
Antonio Baptista, Oregon Graduate Institute, "CORIE: An Environmental Observation and Forecasting System for the Columbia River"
Kyle Martin, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, "Water Supply Forecast Correction Curves"
Joe Skalicky, USFWS, "Use of GIS and Videography to Assess Spawning of Fall Chinook Salmon Below the John Day Dam."
Paul Spruell, University of Montana, "Conservation of Native Char: Genetic Analysis of Bull Trout and Dolly Varden."
William Ardren, Abernathy FTC, "Genetic Analysis of a Conservation Hatchery"
Rod Engle, USFWS, "An Overview of Ecological Interaction Studies on the Warm Springs Reservation"
Steven Haeseker, Simon Fraser University, "Using decision analysis to guide sea lamprey management in the Great Lakes."
Henry Yuen, USFWS, "Upgrading the Pacific Salmon Commission Chinook Model to Handle Additional Stocks, Fisheries, and Multiple Time Steps"
Paul Moran, NOAA Fisheries, "Residents, residuals, and 'orphans': Implications of juvenile delinquency in genetic studies of Oncorhynchus mykiss hatchery/wild interactions."
Paul Wilson, USFWS, "Comparative Survival Study: Implications for salmon recovery."
Liz Grossman, Author, "The Undamming of America: Implications of Dam Removal to America’s Rivers and Their Communities"
Joe Zydlewski, USFWS, "Movement and migration of coastal cutthroat trout."


Climate Change on Columbia Basin Treaty-Tribal Lands: Past-Present-Future

Kyle Dittmer, Hydrologist - Meteorologist,
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Portland, Oregon

ABSTRACT: Trends in climate (i.e., temperature and precipitation) and streamflow are summarized for the last 100 years for select sub-basins co-managed by the Columbia Basin Treaty Tribes (Warm Springs, Umatilla, Nez Perce, and Yakama)-the Deschutes, John Day, Umatilla, and Imnaha Basins of Oregon; Clearwater and Salmon Basins of Idaho; Walla Walla, White Salmon, Wenatchee, Methow, and Okanogan Basins of Washington. Timing of the freshet (i.e., spring snow-melt sequence) has moved to 1-17 days earlier in the last 100 years. The spring-summer volume of runoff has shifted to autumn-winter by 3-26%. Current climate change is accelerating as evidenced with more extremes in the weather each year. Future climate change suggests a warmer and wetter Columbia Basin and even less snow and summer flow. What about a catastrophic collapse of our climate? The key to our climate future may be locked up in glaciers of Greenland. Mr. Dittmer just returned from Copenhagen, Denmark, after an interview with government climate researchers. He will share insights from the Danish scientists on the direction of our 21st century climate, including abrupt climate change and a possible new ice age.

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