Independent Scientific Advisory Board

The Independent Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) serves the National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries), Columbia River Indian Tribes, and Northwest Power and Conservation Council by providing independent scientific advice and recommendations regarding scientific issues that relate to the respective agencies' fish and wildlife programs. See background, membership and terms of reference (60k PDF).

Documents

Newest documents are listed first. Document number assumes "ISAB" prefix (like ISAB 2010-1).

Number	Title
	State of the Science reports: Overview of ISAB Reports from 1996-2009
2010-4	Review of FPC 2009 Annual Report to suggest analyses for further review and to provide comments to improve the Annual Report
ISAB/ISRP 2010-3	Comments on the Draft Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Reporting Plan
2010-2	NOAA Fisheries asks ISAB to review analyses of spring transport and spill operations in a low water year
2010-1	Scoping for the ISAB Review of Fish Passage Center Products
2009-3	Comments on the draft Tribal Pacific Lamprey Restoration Plan for the Columbia River Basin
ISRP/ISAB 2009-2	ISRP and ISAB Comments on the Council's March 2009 Proposed High Level Indicators
ISAB/ISRP 2009-1	Tagging Report: A comprehensive review of Columbia River Basin fish tagging technologies and programs
2008-5	Snake River Spill — Transport Review
2008-4	Non-native Species Impacts on Native Salmonids in the Columbia River Basin (Including Recommendations for Evaluating the Use of Non-Native Fish Species in Resident Fish Substitution Projects)
2008-3	Review of the Comprehensive Passage (COMPASS) Model – Version 1.1
2008-2	Review of the Estuary Recovery Module
2008-1	Review of the Interior Columbia River Technical Recovery Team’s Analyses of Survival Changes Needed to Meet Viability Criteria
ISAB/ISRP 2007-6	ISAB and ISRP Review of the CSS Ten-Year Retrospective Summary Report
ISAB/ISRP 2007-5	ISAB/RP review of the Salmonid Field Protocols Handbook
2007-4	Review of draft Viability Criteria for Application to Interior Columbia Basin Salmonid ESUs
2007-3	Human Population Impacts on Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife
2007-2	Climate Change Impacts on Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife
2007-1	ISAB Latent Mortality Report
2006-7	December 2006 Review of Compass Model version 1.0
2006-6	COMPASS Model Development: ISAB reply to NOAA Fisheries’ request for a reaction to the COMPASS team response
2006-5	ISAB review of Council proposal for a Columbia River Basin Data Center
ISRP/ISAB 2006-4	Review of the Draft Monitoring and Evaluation Guidance Document
2006-3	Review of the 2005 Comparative Survival Studies’ Annual Report and Applicability of Comparative Survival Studies’ Analysis Results
2006-2	Review of the COMPASS Model
2006-1	Biological Effectiveness of 2005 Summer Spill
ISRP/ISAB 2005-20	Review of the Draft Columbia River Basin Research Plan
ISRP/ISAB 2005-13	Preliminary Review of Draft Research Plan
ISRP/ISAB 2005-5	Review of the All-H Analyzer (AHA)
2005-4	Report on Harvest Management of Columbia River Salmon and Steelhead
2005-3	Recommendation to Study Effects of Load Following on Juvenile Salmon Migratory Behavior and Survival
2005-2	Viability of ESUs Containing Multiple Types of Populations
2005-1	Review of the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership's "Study Design for Comparing Monitoring Protocols"
ISRP/ISAB 2004-13	Scientific Review of Subbasin Plans for the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program
ISRP/ISAB 2004-2	Comments on the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership's (PNAMP) Draft Recommendations for Monitoring in Subbasin Plans
2004-2	ISAB Findings from the Reservoir Operations / Flow Survival Symposium
2004-1	Review of Draft Action Agency and NOAA Fisheries RME Plan
2003-4	Comments on Draft NOAA Technical Recovery Team Documents Identifying Independent Salmonid Populations Within Evolutionarily Significant Units
2003-3	Review of Salmon and Steelhead Supplementation
2003-2	Review of Strategies for Recovering Tributary Habitat
2003-1	Review of Flow Augmentation: Update and Clarification
2002-1	Review of Giorgi et al Report
2001-7	Review of Salmon Recovery Strategies for the Columbia River Basin
2001-6	Review of the Biological Objectives in the 2000 Fish and Wildlife Program
2001-5	Review of Lower Snake River Flow Augmentation Studies
2001-4	Recommendations on Council Staff's Draft Issue Paper: "Analysis of 2001 Federal Columbia River Power System Operations on Fish Survival"
2001-3	Hatchery Surplus Review
2001-2	2001 Emergency Surface Spill letter
2001-1 2001-1a	Model Synthesis Report (470k PDF)   plus Executive Summary (150k PDF)
2000-5	The Columbia River Estuary and the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program (260k PDF)
2000-4	Recommendations for the Design of Hatchery Monitoring Programs and the Organization of Data Systems
2000-3	Consistency of the Council’s Artificial Production Policies and Implementation Strategies with Multi-Species Framework Principles and Scientific Review Team Guidelines (70k PDF)
2000-2	Review of the Draft Performance Standards and Indicators for Artificial Production in the Northwest Power and Conservation Council's Artificial Production Review (45k PDF)
2000-1	Review of Studies of Fish Survival in Spill at The Dalles Dam (510k PDF)
99-7	Review of the National Marine Fisheries Service Draft Cumulative Risk Analysis Addendum and cover memo
99-6	Review of the National Marine Fisheries Service Draft Appendix: "An Assessment of Lower Snake River Hydrosystem Alternatives on Survival and Recovery of Snake River Salmonids" and cover memo
99-5	Lake Pend Oreille Kokanee Net Pen Alternative: Response to Question from the Northwest Power and Conservation Council (15k PDF)
99-4	Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Capital Construction Program
99-3	Work-In-Progress Report: Looking for Common Ground: Comparison of Recent Reports Pertaining to Salmon Recovery in the Columbia River Basin
99-2	Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Capital Construction Program Part III, A. Adult Passage
99-1	Review of "1998 Draft Annual Report to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality"
98-8	Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Capital Construction Program Part II.B Dissolved Gas
98-7	Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Capital Construction Program Part II.A Surface Bypass
98-6	Review of "Development of a Regional Framework for Fish and Wildlife Restoration in the Columbia River Basin"
98-5	Recommendation for Stable Flows in the Hanford Reach During the Time When Juvenile Fall Chinook are Present Each Spring
98-4	First Report: The ISAB Corps Capital Construction Project Review The scientific basis for juvenile fish passage improvements in the federal Columbia River power system: John Day Dam extended length turbine intake screens and Bonneville Dam bypass system outfall Also see document 97-15, Downstream passage for Salmon
98-3	1997 Annual Report
98-2	Response to the Questions of the Implementation Team Regarding Juvenile Salmon Transportation in the 1998 Season This document begins with a letter from the ISAB to Dr. Michael Schiewe of the National Marine Fisheries Commission
98-1	Review of Comparative Survival Rate Study of Hatchery PIT Tagged Chinook
97-5	Review of the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Impacts of Artificial Salmon and Steelhead Production Strategies in the Columbia River Basin
97-4	Review of Proposal: Lake Pend Oreille Fishery Recovery Project
97-3	Ecological impacts of the flow provisions of the Biological Opinion for endangered Snake River salmon on resident fishes in the Hungry Horse and Libby systems in Montana, Idaho, and British Columbia
97-2	Review of a Research Proposal for Inclusion in the 1997 Smolt Monitoring Program: Comparative Survival Rate Study of Hatchery PIT Tagged Chinook
97-1	Review of the National Marine Fisheries Service's 1996 Annual Report to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality related to Waiver of the Dissolved Gas Standard
96-6	ISG Return to the River Report

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