FY 2007-09 innovative proposals
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| PropID | Title | Sponsor | Province | Subbasin | FY08 | FY09 | ISRPRec | CouncilRec | BPARec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200750000 | A New Aging Technique For Lake Trout and Northern Pikeminnow Using Allometric Relationships Between Fish Size and Otolith Mass | University of Montana | Mountain Columbia | Flathead | $86,644 | $28,596 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200750100 | Adapting tree-ring techniques to reconstruct stream environmental histories from the growth increments of long-lived freshwater mussels | Oregon State University | Mainstem/Systemwide | $51,405 | $22,097 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable | |
| 200750200 | Application of Innovative Acoustic Telemetry Technology to Underpin Statistically-Valid Survival Estimates for Chinook Salmon in the Nearshore Ocean Off the Mouth of the Columbia River | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Mainstem/Systemwide | Systemwide | $447,928 | $84,752 | R4: Innovative, Research-Oriented, Highly Justified | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200750300 | Assessment of Functional Biological Differences Between Natural and Hatchery-Raised Redfish Lake Sockeye Salmon | University of Idaho - Aquaculture Research Institute | Mountain Snake | Salmon | $199,751 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable | |
| 200750400 | Automated Scale Image Analysis (ASIA) | Biopar, LLC | Blue Mountain | Grande Ronde | $153,250 | $45,000 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200750500 | Catching Predator fish with commercial traps | Gulf Vessel Management Inc. | Mainstem/Systemwide | $200,000 | $200,000 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable | |
| 200750600 | Chiwawa River Adult Spring Chinook Otolith Study | Wild Fish Conservancy (formerly Washington Trout) | Columbia Cascade | Wenatchee | $11,592 | $36,321 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200750700 | Crumble-Crete Habitat Revegetation and Stability Blocks - Development of degradable bank protection/reveg block to provide temporary stability during recovery of natural bank-stabilizing vegetation. | WDFW and CRITFC | Columbia Plateau | Yakima | $25,498 | $2,240 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200750800 | Designing Pre- and Post-Fire Restoration Strategies For Recovery of Salmonid Habitats in a Period of Climate Change and Increased Forest Fire Disturbance | Earth Systems Institute | Columbia Cascade | Methow | $38,500 | $49,800 | R3: Innovative, Research-Oriented, Highly Justified | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200750900 | Develop structure for implementing and maintaining a Master Sample of rivers and streams in the Columbia Basin, and develop statistical tools for analyzing Master Sample applications. | Oregon State University | $188,777 | $198,029 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable | ||
| 200751000 | Development of a Low-cost Dual-Frequency Acoustic Tracking Capability for Ocean & Freshwater Components of the POST Tracking Array | Kintama Research | Mainstem/Systemwide | None Selected | $330,199 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable | |
| 200751100 | DNA typing to identify native inland Oncorhynchus mykiss | Washington State University | Mainstem/Systemwide | Systemwide | $128,705 | $88,659 | R5: Innovative, Research-Oriented, Highly Justified | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200751200 | Documentation of food-web linkages in the mainstem Columbia River: towards understanding the role of invasive species and establishing a baseline trophic state | US Geological Survey - Cook | Mainstem/Systemwide | Columbia Gorge | $232,228 | $105,146 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200751300 | Eelgrass enhancement and restoration in the Columbia River Estuary through innovative site selection and planting techniques | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Lower Columbia | Columbia Estuary | $180,394 | $72,400 | A2: Innovative, On-The-Ground, Highly Justified | Fundable | Fundable |
| 200751400 | Effectiveness monitoring of in-stream habitat restoration using tools from population ecology | US Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Research Station | Columbia Cascade | Entiat | $96,812 | $96,812 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200751500 | Elemental analysis of fin spines: A potential tool for assessing movement of white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) within the Lower and Mid-Columbia River basin | Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife | Columbia Gorge | Columbia Gorge | $42,122 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable | |
| 200751600 | Enhancing Summer Instream Flow and Reducing Temperature in Agricultural Watersheds | Washington State University | Blue Mountain | Tucannon | $151,264 | $73,502 | A2: Innovative, On-The-Ground, Highly Justified | Fundable | Fundable |
| 200751700 | Estimating abundance of white sturgeon by using visual strip-transects; an alternative to mark-recapture population estimates | US Geological Survey - Cook | Mainstem/Systemwide | Columbia Gorge | $344,027 | $246,898 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200751800 | Evaluation of artificial upwelling to enhance lower Columbia River Gorge chum salmon spawning | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Lower Columbia | Mainstem on the ground/Multiprovince | $109,369 | $64,221 | B3: Innovative, On-The-Ground, Adequately Justified | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200751900 | Feasibility of using a computerized video system to estimate lamprey passage at Bonneville Dam | Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission | $53,797 | $39,735 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable | ||
| 200752000 | Genetic Predisposition of Smoltification in Rainbow Trout and Steelhead | Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission | Columbia Gorge | Klickitat | $44,837 | $45,141 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200752100 | Improving Fish Habitat Using Innovative Strategies to Remediate Contaminated Sediments in the Columbia River Basin | Washington State University | Intermountain | Coeur d'Alene | $55,534 | $129,578 | A1: Innovative, On-The-Ground, Highly Justified | Fundable | Fundable |
| 200752200 | Innovative Fish Sample Gear for Reducing Stress and Mortality in the Catch and Increasing Efficiency in Monitoring the Effectiveness of Dike Removal Projects | Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce | Lower Columbia | Columbia Estuary | $6,731 | $1,107 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200752300 | Innovative methods to quantify transport of hydrophilic and legacy pesticides to the riparian zones within the Yakima Basin | U.S. Geological Survey- Washington Water Science Center | Columbia Plateau | Yakima | $143,528 | $73,381 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200752400 | Integrated Non-Lethal Electric Barrier and Sonar System to Deter Marine Mammal Predation on Fish in the Columbia River System: A Demonstration Project | Smith-Root, Inc | Lower Columbia | Columbia Lower | $615,691 | $824,792 | A1: Innovative, On-The-Ground, Highly Justified | Fundable | Fundable |
| 200752500 | Integrating Ecological Flows into River Management on the Willamette River | Nature Conservancy | Lower Columbia | Willamette | $52,538 | $11,613 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200752600 | Lake oxygention pilot study: Improving Redband Trout habitat quality in Twin Lakes, WA | Washington State University | Intermountain | Columbia Upper | $217,990 | $53,644 | B2: Innovative, On-The-Ground, Adequately Justified | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200752700 | Lake Roosevelt Littoral Habitat Enhancement Project | Colville Confederated Tribes | Intermountain | Columbia Upper | $293,806 | $280,306 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200752800 | Little McCormick Creek: Investigating Placer Mine Impacts to Streamflow Connectivity and Developing New Restoration Techniques | Trout Unlimited | Mountain Columbia | Clark Fork | $45,500 | $51,300 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200752900 | Loss of salmon and steelhead productivity due to barriers in the Lower Columbia River ESU | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife | Columbia Gorge | Wind | $101,250 | $57,076 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200753000 | MADS Weir Demonstration Project in Walla Walla Subbasin (MADS - Modular Arch Drop Structure) | Steward and Associates (in conjunction with the Walla Walla County Soil and Water Conservation District) | Mainstem/Systemwide | Walla Walla | $103,050 | $15,700 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200753100 | Microbial Assessment of Thermal Impacts of Dworshak Reservoir Releases | Washington State University | Mountain Snake | Clearwater | $108,368 | $57,105 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200753200 | Molalla-Pudding Sub basin Assessment; utilizing the new EPA Watershed Assessment of the River Stability and Sediment Supply(WARSSS)procedural methods to increase anadromous fish survivability | Molalla River Watch | Lower Columbia | Willamette | $166,217 | $105,005 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200753300 | Monitoring fine sediment delivery to fish habitat in the Entiat River subbasin | PNW Research Station -- Wenatchee | Columbia Cascade | Entiat | $220,550 | $74,450 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200753400 | Performance comparison of a stationary PIT tag antenna array in Lookingglass Creek, Oregon | Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation | Blue Mountain | Grande Ronde | $31,733 | $16,096 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200753500 | Physical and Biological Field Testing of a Flow Velocity Enhancement System (FVES) | Natural Solutions | Mainstem/Systemwide | Cowlitz | $318,310 | B1: Innovative, On-The-Ground, Adequately Justified | Fundable | Fundable | |
| 200753600 | Piloting StreamBank™ Web Tool and permitting efficiencies to achieve Middle Fork John Day River Channel Reactivation and Floodplain Restoration. | Oregon Trout | Columbia Plateau | John Day | $327,742 | $27,199 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200753700 | Population specific in-season forecasts of Columbia River Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) returns for allowing selective in-river fisheries | Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission | Mainstem/Systemwide | Columbia Gorge | $66,508 | $33,254 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200753800 | Predicting the future effects of climate-induced stream warming on spring Chinook salmon and their predators in the John Day River Basin | University of Washington | Columbia Plateau | John Day | $161,802 | $53,157 | R1: Innovative, Research-Oriented, Highly Justified | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200753900 | Promote Kokanee Repopulation in Lake Pend Orielle using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for Location and Verification of Lake Trout Spawning Areas. | University of Idaho - Microelectronics Research & Communications Institute (MRCI) | Intermountain | Pend Oreille | $363,476 | $36,701 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200754000 | Quantitative Assessment Sampling for Pacific Lamprey in Cedar Creek (Lewis River Subbasin), Washington | US Fish & Wildlife Service | Lower Columbia | Lewis | $95,127 | $44,873 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200754100 | Reecer Creek Floodplain Restoration Project to support ecosystem function using build-in-the dry and 3 yrs revegetation to encourage channel dynamics, habitat formation and natural sediment management | South Central Washington Resource Conservation and Development | Columbia Plateau | Yakima | $400,307 | $28,000 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200754200 | Shad for Nutrient Enhancement -- Demonstration of Fishery Supply, Disease Evaluation, Product Type and Potential Use | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife | Mainstem/Systemwide | Columbia Lower | $96,526 | $66,874 | B4: Innovative, On-The-Ground, Adequately Justified | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200754300 | Simmons Dike Removal feasability study | Umatilla Basin Watershed Council | Umatilla | $39,800 | $3,200 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable | |
| 200754400 | Spawning Channel for Chum Salmon at Beaver Creek Hatchery | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife | Columbia Estuary | Elochoman | $372,500 | $25,500 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200754500 | Stock specific run timing and upstream migration mortality of adult Chinook salmon and steelhead through genetic stock identification and PIT tagging at Bonneville Dam | Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission | Mainstem/Systemwide | Systemwide | $101,534 | $21,616 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200754600 | Test of protocols and validation of estimates derived with traditional and new methods for steelhead adults, smolts, and parr using an instream PIT-tag interrogation system | US Geological Survey - Cook | Columbia Gorge | Wind | $155,853 | $80,932 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200754700 | The Natural Tag - TNT | Biopar, LLC | Mainstem/Systemwide | $170,238 | $59,050 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable | |
| 200754800 | The use of cDNA microarrays to develop biomarkers of environmental stress in salmonids and other fishes | US Geological Survey - Cook | Mainstem on the ground/Multiprovince | Systemwide | $284,065 | $288,287 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200754900 | Toppenish Creek Well Modification Project | Yakama Nation | Columbia Plateau | Yakima | $337,821 | $13,602 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200755000 | Toxics as a limiting factor for salmon recovery throughout the Columbia River Basin: understanding the enhanced toxicity of pesticide mixtures | Northwest Fisheries Science Center | Mainstem/Systemwide | Systemwide | $162,493 | $36,751 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200755100 | Use of a novel technique to compare of Pre-and Post-migratory energy storage and use in upriver coho salmon: How much change can can occur with intense selective pressure. | Yakama Nation | Mainstem/Systemwide | $29,012 | $20,233 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable | |
| 200755200 | Use of LA-ICPMS and fin ray microchemistry to examine historic and present movement patterns in Upper Columbia River white sturgeon | Ministry of Environment | $54,900 | $20,625 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable | ||
| 200755300 | Using acoustic telemetry to evaluate the behavior, habitat use, and survival of tagged juvenile salmonids in the John Day Reservoir | US Geological Survey - Cook | Mainstem/Systemwide | John Day | $844,848 | $132,487 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200755400 | Using advanced technologies to help reduce the impacts of global warming on anadromous and resident fish populations in the Columbia Basin | US Forest Service - Rocky Mt Research Station | None Selected | Systemwide | $187,466 | $106,836 | R2: Innovative, Research-Oriented, Highly Justified | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200755500 | Using otolith microchemistry and microstructure to assess the causes and consequences of alternative life history strategies for Snake River fall Chinook | Northwest Fisheries Science Center | Systemwide | $295,787 | $277,465 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable | |
| 200755600 | Water Stargrass Demonstration and Management in the lower Yakima River for Spawning Habitat, Water Quality and Beneficial Uses (WiSDoM) | Benton Conservation District | Columbia Plateau | Yakima | $314,570 | $57,880 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200755700 | What was old is new again: evaluate traditional gears for selective harvest | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife | Lower Columbia | Columbia Lower | $333,728 | $111,243 | A2: Innovative, On-The-Ground, Highly Justified | Not fundable | Not fundable |
| 200755800 | Willamette Mitigation | The Nature Conservancy | Lower Columbia | Willamette | $187,558 | $90,086 | Unranked | Not fundable | Not fundable |