Projects and Research
This project is designed to continue to support and sustain salmon recovery, improve fishery resources, prioritize fish passage enhancement projects, manage human uses, prioritize strategic habitat protections, and prevent habitat fragmentation. The information garnered from this project will provide science-based decision support information to help inform future habitat conservation work in...
Temperature is one of the most important environmental factors controlling the distribution and behavior of fishes. Fish often inhabit a specific thermal niche where they optimize physiological performance. Although water temperature requirements and preferences vary according to individual species and life stage, of interest and relevance to us is continual engagement in field...
This project utilizes Forward Looking InfraRed (FLIR) data to detect temperature variation and impacts on spawning distribution of Chinook and Coho Salmon returning to the Kenai Peninsula's Funny River and Moose River in Alaska. Thermal imagery has been used to make assumptions about critical fish habitat and suboptimal temperatures often based on a single flight. This study seeks to further...