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| | A | 185 | Produce CBFish Status Report | Periodic Status Reports for BPA | The Contractor shall report on the status of milestones and deliverables in Pisces. Reports shall be completed either monthly or quarterly as determined by the BPA COTR. Additionally, when indicating a deliverable milestone as COMPLETE, the contractor shall provide metrics and the final location (latitude and longitude) prior to submitting the report to the BPA COTR. | | |
| | B | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Manage and Administer CHaMP project-related materials | 2011 will be the first year of CHaMP implementation throughout the PNW. Significant review and evaluation of the year's events and success will occur post-field season and we expect minor adjustments and improvements to the program in preparation for 2012. | | |
| | C | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Environmental Compliance documents | Review and evaluate existing NEPA compliance/permits to ensure coverage is adequate for any work to be performed during the next field season (if applicable). Ensure necessary documents are provided to BPA's Environmental Compliance group in sufficient time to allow for a compliance letter to be written prior to any work. Coordinate with appropriate agencies regarding any permits that may be required. | | |
| | D | 156 | Develop RM&E Methods and Designs | CHaMP B6: Protocol development | Protocol development is an ongoing task as new information and lessons learned from implementation results in a refining of methodologies. The goal of this work element is to support ongoing development of the CHaMP protocol to clarify, revise and update methodologies through testing in the field in the winter/spring of 2011 prior to implementation in select watersheds across the PNW in the summer of 2011. | | |
| | E | 156 | Develop RM&E Methods and Designs | CHaMP: Development and implementation of training program | This work element also allows for the development, coordination and implementation of a training program for CHaMP collaborators. | | |
| | F | 160 | Create/Manage/Maintain Database | CHaMP 5a-e: Field data capture device development | This Work Element funds a subcontract to TH Computing to develop programming for specified CHaMP handheld data-loggers for field data entry by CHaMP habitat crews. | | |
| | G | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Submit Progress Report for the period (02/2011 to 2/2012) | The progress report summarizes the project goal, objectives, hypotheses, completed and uncompleted deliverables, problems encountered, lessons learned, and long-term planning. Examples of long-term planning include future improvements, new directions, or level of effort for contract implementation, including any ramping up or ramping down of contract components or of the project as a whole. Date range 2/2011 to 2/2012 will be agreed upon by the COTR and the contractor. This may or may not coincide with the contract period. For an ongoing project, a progress report covering a contract period may be submitted under the subsequent contract, if approved by the COTR.
Progress reports must conform to BPA guidelines. See the ''formatting guidelines'' link at the Technical Reports and Publications page: https://www.cbfish.org/Help.mvc/GuidanceDocuments.
If producing a technical report for this contract, a discrete experiment, or a peer-reviewed publication, use work element 183: Produce Journal Article. | | |
| | H | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Manage and Administer CHaMP watersheds | This work element covers the management of on the ground efforts in the South Fork Salmon and Lemhi watersheds, including all staff associated with implementing the Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program (CHaMP) and any administrative work in support of on the ground efforts and in support of BPA's programmatic requirements such as metric reporting, financial reporting (e.g., accruals), and development of an SOW package (includes draft SOW, budget, spending plan, and property inventory) for annual contract renewal. | | |
| | I | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Conduct CHaMP fish habitat surveys in the South Fork Salmon River (Secesh) | In support of habitat restoration, rehabilitation and conservation action performance assessments and adaptive management requirements of the 2008 FCRPS Biological Opinion (BiOp), the Bonneville Power Administration is working with NOAA and other regional fish management agencies to monitor status and trends of fish habitat for each major population group (MPG) in the Pacific Northwest identified through the Endangered Species Act (ESA). BPA is adopting a standardized fish habitat monitoring protocol, the Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program (CHaMP) for the Columbia River Basin monitoring programs.
CHaMP is a Columbia River basin-wide habitat status and trends monitoring program built around a single habitat monitoring protocol with a program-wide approach to data collection and management. CHaMP will capture habitat features that drive fish population biology and will result in systematic habitat status and trends information that will be used to assess basin-wide habitat condition and correlated with biological response indicators to evaluate habitat management strategies.
BPA is implementing CHaMP in at least one population within each steelhead and Chinook MPG which has, or will have, fish in-fish out monitoring. The goal of this work element is to implement CHaMP in the Secesh River tributary of the South Fork Salmon River watershed. The data from this project will be used to evaluate the quantity and quality of tributary fish habitat available to salmonids across the Columbia River basin. When combined with parallel fish monitoring metrics from related projects, these data will also be used assess the impact of habitat management actions on fish population processes. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | J | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Conduct CHaMP fish habitat surveys in the Lemhi | In support of habitat restoration, rehabilitation and conservation action performance assessments and adaptive management requirements of the 2008 FCRPS Biological Opinion (BiOp), the Bonneville Power Administration is working with NOAA and other regional fish management agencies to monitor status and trends of fish habitat for each major population group (MPG) in the Pacific Northwest identified through the Endangered Species Act (ESA). BPA is adopting a standardized fish habitat monitoring protocol, the Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program (CHaMP) for the Columbia River Basin monitoring programs.
CHaMP is a Columbia River basin-wide habitat status and trends monitoring program built around a single habitat monitoring protocol with a program-wide approach to data collection and management. CHaMP will capture habitat features that drive fish population biology and will result in systematic habitat status and trends information that will be used to assess basin-wide habitat condition and correlated with biological response indicators to evaluate habitat management strategies.
BPA is implementing CHaMP in at least one population within each steelhead and Chinook MPG which has, or will have, fish in-fish out monitoring. The goal of this work element is to implement CHaMP in the Lemhi watershed. The data from this project will be used to evaluate the quantity and quality of tributary fish habitat available to salmonids across the Columbia River basin. When combined with parallel fish monitoring metrics from related projects, these data will also be used assess the impact of habitat management actions on fish population processes. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | K | 159 | Transfer/Consolidate Regionally Standardized Data | Deliver habitat data to CHaMP Data System | In a regionally coordinated monitoring strategy that has multiple groups collecting data, such as the CHaMP, it is critical to have data accessible and available for use by all groups within and outside the program. The CHaMP data system provides an online website for loading field data and serves as a long-term storage facility for datasets including metadata. The CHaMP data system features online interfaces for searching, viewing, and downloading datasets and documents associated with the coordinated monitoring program. www.champmonitoring.org | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | L | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Contribute to and review CHaMP Annual Synthesis Report | The CHaMP Lead Coordinator will work with collaborators to produce a logistics/lessons learned annual synthesis report for the CHaMP 2011 field season. This “lessons learned” annual report will be used to inform full implementation in 2012, including any adjustments that may be appropriate on the design or scope of the project.
The CHaMP Annual Synthesis report will:
a) provide regular synthesis and reporting of habitat status results
b) compare these results to available fish status and trend information
c) inform adaptive management improvements for CHaMP, including comparison with other similar efforts such as PIBO and Washington State monitoring protocols with the goal of achieving use of fewer key parameters, greater efficiencies and lower costs;
d) support Action Agencies requirements for the 2013/2016 Comprehensive Evaluations; and
e) be written to inform agency and tribal decision-makers and specifically address key management questions and decisions. | | |
| | M | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | River Bathymetry Toolkit modification | This work element funds two specific alterations to the "River Bathymetry Toolkit (RBT: http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/boise/AWAE/projects/river_bathymetry_toolkit.shtml)" to improve its utility as an analytical tool for the CHaMP project:
1. Reprogramming to enable automated data exchange and automated analysis capabilities to support download of data from the CHaMP database, analysis of those data, and upload of resulting metrics to the CHaMP database in an automated fashion.
2. Development of a "de-trending" algorithm for use with site-based digital elevation models (DEMs) of the type generated by the CHaMP protocol.
In its current form, RBT development has focused on the use of relatively large and continuous DEMs generated by remote sensing approaches (e.g., green LiDAR) to produce metrics such as pool volume. In order to provide the greatest utility for a diverse research community, metric calculations require significant human interaction with the program - in short, metrics can be calculated using a number of definitions via a "rich user interface" that allows the user to vary parameter values to meet their research needs.
The proposed changes to the RBT, funded by this work element, will allow automation of metric generation by "hard-coding" CHaMP metric definitions. Many of the site-based metrics require de-trending. The de-trending algorithm currently employed in the RBT is appropriate for DEMs generated for large areas (i.e., via remote sensing). This work element funds the generation of a de-trending algorithm more appropriate for short site-based DEMs of the type generated by CHaMP. Lastly, this work element will fund changes in the architecture of the RBT enabling automated data exchange with databases such as the CHaMP database.
In summary, this work element funds changes to the RBT that will support the automated generation of site-based metrics and communication with the CHaMP database. These changes will vastly improve efficiency in metric generation in support of the CHaMP program. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations, Coho (O. kisutch) - Unspecified Population, Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) - All Populations, Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) - All Populations | Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened), Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii), Trout, Rainbow (Oncorhynchus mykiss) |
| | N | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Participate in crew variability study in the Grande Ronde watershed | The habitat measurements made by CHaMP crews will incorporate some amount of error, or variation. We must
understand the magnitude and source of that variation in order to 1) understand the statistical power inherent in the CHaMP data so that the statistical inferences we make in answer to the managers’ overarching questions (e.g. "are the CHaMP results statistically significant or not") are adequately informed, 2) ensure that the levels of effort that we are expending through CHaMP are adequate/appropriate for answering the managers’ questions, and 3) ensure that CHaMP can be compared to similar programs like PIBO who have studied/quantified sources of variance/power in their protocols. The sources of error/variability in CHaMP will come from differences between sites (i.e. spatial variation), between sample timing (i.e. temporal variability), between crews (i.e. crew variability), and may be affected by stream size (i.e. stream size variability). The information on spatial variability is built into the CHaMP design and will not require any additional effort. Similarly, the information on temporal variability is built into the "basin-wide revisit design" (contracted to Terraqua and sub-contracted to Tetra Tech). This work element addresses the between crew variability design (between crew variability and stream size variability). | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Upper Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | |
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