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Contract 55970: 2003-017-00 EXP ISEMP - ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH - JOHN DAY
Project Number:
Title:
Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program (ISEMP)
BPA PM:
Stage:
Complete
Area:
Province Subbasin %
Basinwide - 100.00%
Contract Number:
55970
Contract Title:
2003-017-00 EXP ISEMP - ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH - JOHN DAY
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Contract Status:
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Contract Description:
****** CCR 27079 Purpose, need, and justification: ISEMP has produced a tremendous amount of PIT tag information in the Wenatchee, Entiat, John Day, and Salmon Basins that will be used to estimate abundance, growth, and survival of Chinook and steelhead.  Survival rates over different life-stages are perhaps the most important variables evaluated in life-cycle modeling and informing responses of these listed species to mitigation measures outlined in the FCRPS Biological Opinion (BiOp).  This information is crucial for the the 2013 BiOp Comprehensive Evaluations.  In addition, the ability to produce accurate and precise survival estimates is dependent on the survey design implemented to capture, tag, resight, and recapture PIT tagged fish collected during field campaigns, rotary screw traps, and with both mobile and fixed PIT tag antennas, including antennas in the mainstem dams of the Snake and Columbia Rivers.  ... The improvement of these designs is based on results of previous surveys, and is thus iterative.   In order to inform this year’s survey design, analyses of past year information has to occur immediately.   Most of ISEMP’s summer field work begins in June/July, and initial results are needed to plan out the upcoming field sampling.
  Mark-recapture models are used to estimate survival rates and abundance of fish tagged with PIT tags in the ISEMP subbasins. These models can be very complex and computationally time consuming.  In addition, alternative mark-recapture models continue to be developed to provide the most accurate and precise estimates of survival, and thus analyses also have to be updated to incorporate the best available science.  For example, ISEMP conducted simulations to demonstrate that the Cormack-Jolly-Seber model traditionally used to estimate survival of PIT tag fish, are biased and less precise than the Barker Model (ISEMP 2009). The Barker model is a more complex model and requires a slightly different survey design to maximize the advantages of this approach.  Additionally, other models are available that incorporate movement and habitat use in multiple tributaries, allowing for a more-realistic formulation of life-stage specific survival.
  Given the complexities of estimating survival, people have specialized in conducting mark-recapture models as well as using specific software to support these analyses.  This level of effort has been funded under Contract 46273 REL 28.  ISEMP requires the hiring of an individual with these skills in order to complete these analyses to inform this year’s survey design and provide crucial information regarding the 2013 BiOp Comprehensive Evaluations through ELR contract 55970 (CCR 27079).  The change in work would fall under current work element F.  
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Contract Description: The Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program (ISEMP, 2003-017-00) is an ongoing collaborative effort to design, test, implement and evaluate Status and Trends Monitoring for salmon and steelhead populations and their habitat, and watershed-scale Effectiveness Monitoring for management actions impacting salmon and steelhead populations and habitat in the Interior Columbia River Basin.

ISEMP explicitly addresses work requirements of many 2008 FCRPS Biological Opinion RPAs (56.1, 56.2, 56.3, 57.1, 57.2, 57.3, 57.4, 57.5) and is directly related to additional 2008 FCRPS Biological Opinion implementation strategy requirements and recommendations. ISEMP takes a pilot-project approach to the research and development of monitoring by implementing experimental programs in several major subbasins of the Interior Columbia: the Wenatchee, Entiat, Methow, John Day, South Fork Salmon and Lemhi River basins. The overall goal of the project is to provide regional salmon management agencies with the data, information and tools necessary to design efficient and effective monitoring programs.

Specifically, ISEMP generates quantitative guidance on and examples of: the robustness and limitations of population and habitat monitoring protocols, indicators and metrics; sampling design approaches for the distribution of monitoring effort in time and space; analytical approaches to the evaluation of monitoring data, information and programs; effective data management and communication designs that support the use, standardization and compilation of implementation, compliance, status, trends and effectiveness monitoring data by regional data generators and decision makers; and finally the design and implementation of watershed-scale restoration actions to maximize both the biological impact and associated learning opportunities resulting from the design and implementation strategy.

Through its work to date, ISEMP has developed expertise in the coordination and implementation of large-scale monitoring data collection programs. Applying this experience, ISEMP coordinates the installation, maintenance and calibration of in-stream PIT tag arrays across the Snake River basin and is designing and coordinating the implementation of a Columbia River basin-wide stream habitat status and trends monitoring. These programmatic implementation facets of ISEMP leverage previous experience with logistics and social factors to effectively implement comprehensive, standardized monitoring research and development at an unprecedented scale.  

This contract is one of several contracts that will implement this project.  Each contract is responsible for an end of contract progress report.  Additionally, a project level "synthesis report" will also be produced under this project and data and analysis from this contract will be utilized in the production of that project level report.  The synthesis report is a deliverable under the TerraQua contract (not this contract) under this project.

Eco Logical Research, Inc will perform specific design and coordination elements of the overall project in the Wenatchee, Salmon, and John Day River basins.
  
Account Type(s):
Expense
Contract Start Date:
12/01/2011
Contract End Date:
11/30/2012
Current Contract Value:
$1,051,793
Expenditures:
$1,051,793

* Expenditures data includes accruals and are based on data through 28-Feb-2025.

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Full Name Organization Write Permission Contact Role Email Work Phone
Christopher Beasley Quantitative Consultants Inc Yes Interested Party chris@qcinc.org (360) 620-2883
Nick Bouwes Eco Logical Research Yes Contract Manager nbouwes@gmail.com (435) 760-0771
David Byrnes Bonneville Power Administration Yes COR dmbyrnes@bpa.gov (503) 230-3171
Israel Duran Bonneville Power Administration Yes Env. Compliance Lead induran@bpa.gov (503) 230-3967
Chris Jordan National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Yes Supervisor chris.jordan@noaa.gov (541) 754-4629
Paul Krueger Bonneville Power Administration Yes F&W Approver pqkrueger@bpa.gov (503) 230-5723
Pamela Nelle Terraqua, Inc. Yes Interested Party pamela@terraqua.biz (509) 885-8143
Steve Rentmeester Environmental Data Services Yes Interested Party environmentaldataservices@gmail.com (503) 247-8431
Kristi Van Leuven Bonneville Power Administration Yes Contracting Officer kjvleuven@bpa.gov (503) 230-3605
Carol (VC) Volk Volk Consulting Yes Interested Party volkconsulting@gmail.com (206) 240-0301
Jody White Quantitative Consultants Inc Yes Interested Party jody@qcinc.org (208) 860-5269


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WSE End
A103836165Produce Environmental Compliance DocumentationEnvironmental complianceEnsure 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 ground-disturbing work. Coordinate with appropriate agencies regarding any permits that may be required.$00.00%12/01/201111/30/2012
B103837185Produce CBFish Status ReportPeriodic Status Reports for BPAThe 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.$1,8710.18%04/01/201211/30/2012
C103838191Watershed CoordinationISEMP John Day Subbasin Coordination (ELR)Eco Logical Research, Inc.(ELR) will provide project oversight and coordination for ISEMP's John Day Subbasin Project. ELR will coordinate periodic meetings and conference calls to ensure efficient cooperation between all interested parties in the John Day Subbasin Project. Meetings will include development of the John Day Subbasin monitoring program, the Bridge Creek and Middle Fork Intensively Monitored Watershed projects, conference calls for periodic administrative and budget updates, and provide the necessary documentation to all cooperators for review and development of project design, planning, and implementation. ELR will coordinate ISEMP contractors to help insure that contractors SOWs and deliverables meet ISEMP needs and that contractor budgets stay within the overall ISEMP budget and other available funds. ELR will also coordinate the analysis and reporting of ISEMP products with Terraqua, NOAA, and other program analysts.$51,5524.90%12/01/201111/30/2012
D103839189Coordination-Columbia BasinwideISEMP Project Coordination (ELR)This work element covers Eco Logical Research, Inc.(ELR) staff time and travel costs to attend ISEMP planning, technical and annual meetings. Implementation of the Project among the three pilot subbasins, particularly in the area of data management, analysis, reporting, and dissemination of information to other users in the Columbia Basin and states of OR, ID, and WA, requires close coordination of numerous entities who are participating in the Project. ELR will represent the interests of the Project at meetings of the pilot subbasin coordinators and will coordinate electronically and in-person with these coordinators and other entities that are developing data management systems, analysis, reporting, and document/conference preparation materials related to Project #2003-017-00.$26,3862.51%12/01/201111/30/2012
E103840119Manage and Administer ProjectsProject ManagementManage the project. Also covers 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).$71,9056.83%12/01/201111/30/2012
F103841162Analyze/Interpret DataISEMP John Day subbasin data analysisEco Logical Research, Inc.(ELR) will analyze the John Day and other ISEMP subbasin' s field and laboratory data collected by the project's cooperators. Data will be obtained from the ISEMP's status and monitoring database once data is input and past all QA/QC procedures. Data obtained from ISEMP's status and monitoring database will be synthesized and used to develop empirical and simulation models to assess limiting factors and fish habitat analyses. ELR will also analyze collected data to evaluate current field protocols and procedures to evaluate protocol efficiencies and data collection biases as required by ISEMP monitoring plans. Data obtained from cooperators and additional contractors will be used to generate habitat quality and quantity and associate this with anadromous survival and population growth.$299,69628.49%04/27/201211/30/2012
G103842132Produce Progress (Annual) ReportSubmit Progress Report for the period Jan 2011 to Nov 2012The 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. The progress report will cover work conducted in 2011 under contract 45470. Date range Jan 2012 to Nov 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.$71,5816.80%05/01/201208/01/2012
H103843157Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab DataConduct juvenile seining and PIT tagging activities in Bridge Creek IMWThis task funds ELR to conduct seining/collection activities for the capture of juvenile anadromous salmonids at sites throughout Bridge Creek and South Fork John Day. In order to ensure a high power to detect effectiveness of stream restoration, ELR will follow the monitoring program outlined in the Bridge Creek Intensively Monitored Watershed workplan. At each selected site, a sample of the collected juvenile salmon and steelhead will be PIT tagged to enable life-stage specific survival estimates via recapture in subsequent seining/collection surveys, at rotary screw traps, extended length PIT tag arrays, and mainstem dam PIT tag interrogation facilities. Additionally, each PIT tagged individual will be weighed, measured for length, scales sampled, and life stage identified. Physical site description will include, at a minimum, site length, average width and depth from a minimum, average gradient, and proportion of major instream habitat types (pools, riffles, runs, rapids). Fish collection methods will not be limited to seining, but in order to ensure adequate sample sizes crews may employ angling, electrofishing, and snerding.$56,4985.37%12/01/201111/30/2012
I103844158Mark/Tag AnimalsMark/Tag salmonids captured in the Bridge Creek IMW seining surveysThis work element funds the ELR to mark and/or tag juvenile anadromous salmonids captured during seining surveys.$47,0794.47%12/01/201111/30/2012
J103845157Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab DataConduct juvenile seining in intensively surveyed watershedsThis task funds the ELR to conduct seining/collection activities for the capture of juvenile anadromous salmonids at sites throughout selected watersheds within John Day Basin. ELR will collaborate with ODFW to develop a hierarchical survey strategy that will not only address status and trends of salmonids and their habitat but also provide potential information for the development of fish-habitat relationships, limiting factor analyses, prioritization and planning of restoration and management, and pre-project information for effectiveness monitoring programs. In addition, the strategy also provides data to help determine the appropriate sampling scales for monitoring, protocol precision, accuracy and efficiency, protocol comparisons, and development of protocol crosswalks. ELR will conduct juvenile fish surveys between and within watersheds stratified by population throughout the John Day basins five major population groups (MPG). At each selected site, a sample of the collected juvenile salmon and steelhead will either be fin clipped to estimated abundance through mark-recapture estimates or PIT tagged to enable life-stage specific survival estimates via recapture in subsequent seining/collection surveys, at rotary screw traps, extended length PIT tag arrays, and mainstem dam PIT tag interrogation facilities. Additionally, each PIT tagged individual will be weighed, measured for length, scales sampled, and life stage identified. Physical site description will include, at a minimum, site length, average width and depth from a minimum, average gradient, and proportion of major instream habitat types (pools, riffles, runs, rapids). Fish collection methods will not be limited to seining, but in order to ensure adequate sample sizes crews may employ angling, electrofishing, and snerding.$60,5285.75%12/01/201111/30/2012
K103846158Mark/Tag AnimalsMark/Tag salmonids intensively surveyed watershedsThis work element funds the ELR to mark and/or tag juvenile anadromous salmonids captured during seining surveys.$40,4343.84%12/01/201111/30/2012
L103847157Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab DataBridge and South Fork John Day IMW habitat samplingThis work element funds ELR to conduct habitat surveys based on the on the methods developed by ISEMP project coordinators. This information will be used to describe the effectiveness of the Bridge Creek Intensively Monitored Watershed plan to restore fish habitat. ELR follow data QA/QC procedures and ensure the data is adequately uploaded to the ISEMP status and effectiveness monitoring database.$139,76213.28%12/01/201111/30/2012
M103848157Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab DataHabitat sampling in intensively surveyed watersheds of the John Day BasinThis work element funds ELR to conduct habitat surveys based on the on the methods developed by ISEMP project coordinators. This information will be used to describe the longitudinal patterns within watersheds as well as differences between watersheds. ELR follow data QA/QC procedures and ensure the data is adequately uploaded to the ISEMP status and effectiveness monitoring database$80,9577.69%12/01/201111/30/2012
N103849159Transfer/Consolidate Regionally Standardized DataEnter data in ISEMP Database (ELR)Data collected from tagging and habitat surveys, and laboratory analysis for ELR ISEMP funded activities will be uploaded into ISEMP's Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Database using ISEMP's automated template module.$34,4193.27%10/01/201211/30/2012
O10385029Increase Aquatic and/or Floodplain ComplexityBeaver dam structual supportsVertical wood post will be driven into the stream bottom to provide structure for beavers to build off of using cuttings from trees we have brought in from tree farms. This approach will be used to help provide structural integrity to beaver dams so that they can collect fine sediment, aggrade the stream bottom, and reconnect the channel to the historic floodplain.$3,2160.31%12/01/201110/31/2012
P103851156Develop RM&E Methods and DesignsDevelopment of ISEMP sampling designs and protocolsELR will develop sampling designs that will be used to guide sample location and timing for ISEMP monitoring programs in the ISEMP pilot subbasins. Design considerations will include hierarchical spatial and temporal resolution, salmonid population level, protocol comparisons and complementation, metric identification, and project effectiveness information needs. In some cases, power analyses and sample size estimates will be required to determine ability to detect trends or differences between sites.$66,2346.30%12/01/201111/30/2012
      
$1,052,118
   

Deliverable Title WSE Sort Letter, Number, Title Start End Concluded
Environmental Compliance completed A: 165. Environmental compliance 02/29/2012 02/29/2012
ISEMP John Day Subbasin Coordination (ELR) C: 191. ISEMP John Day Subbasin Coordination (ELR) 11/30/2012 11/30/2012
ISEMP Project Coordination (ELR) D: 189. ISEMP Project Coordination (ELR) 11/30/2012 11/30/2012
Funding Package - Submit draft to COTR E: 119. Project Management 09/01/2012 09/01/2012
ISEMP John Day subbasin data analysis F: 162. ISEMP John Day subbasin data analysis 11/30/2012 11/30/2012
Attach Progress Report in Pisces G: 132. Submit Progress Report for the period Jan 2011 to Nov 2012 08/01/2012 11/30/2012
Conduct juvenile seining and PIT tagging activities in Bridge Creek and the South Fork John Da H: 157. Conduct juvenile seining and PIT tagging activities in Bridge Creek IMW 11/30/2012 11/30/2012
Mark/Tag salmonids captured in Bridge Creek seining surveys I: 158. Mark/Tag salmonids captured in the Bridge Creek IMW seining surveys 11/30/2012 11/30/2012
Juvenile seining for in intensively surveyed watersheds J: 157. Conduct juvenile seining in intensively surveyed watersheds 10/31/2012 09/30/2012
Mark/Tag salmonids in intensively surveyed watersheds K: 158. Mark/Tag salmonids intensively surveyed watersheds 11/30/2012 09/30/2012
Bridge Creek and South John Day Basin habitat sampling L: 157. Bridge and South Fork John Day IMW habitat sampling 11/30/2012 11/30/2012
Intensively surveyed watersheds of the John Day Basin habitat sampling M: 157. Habitat sampling in intensively surveyed watersheds of the John Day Basin 11/30/2012 11/30/2012
Enter data into ISEMP Database (ELR) N: 159. Enter data in ISEMP Database (ELR) 11/30/2012 11/30/2012
Beaver dam structural supports O: 29. Beaver dam structual supports 10/31/2012 09/30/2012
Development of ISEMP sampling designs and protocols P: 156. Development of ISEMP sampling designs and protocols 11/30/2012 11/30/2011

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Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Middle Columbia River DPS (Threatened)
  • 1 instance of WE 29 Increase Aquatic and/or Floodplain Complexity
  • 4 instances of WE 157 Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data
  • 2 instances of WE 158 Mark/Tag Animals
  • 1 instance of WE 159 Transfer/Consolidate Regionally Standardized Data
  • 1 instance of WE 162 Analyze/Interpret Data

Sort WE ID WE Title NEPA NOAA USFWS NHPA Has Provisions Inadvertent Discovery Completed
A 165 Environmental compliance 12/01/2011
B 185 Periodic Status Reports for BPA 12/01/2011
C 191 ISEMP John Day Subbasin Coordination (ELR) 12/01/2011
D 189 ISEMP Project Coordination (ELR) 12/01/2011
E 119 Project Management 12/01/2011
F 162 ISEMP John Day subbasin data analysis 12/01/2011
G 132 Submit Progress Report for the period Jan 2011 to Nov 2012 12/01/2011
H 157 Conduct juvenile seining and PIT tagging activities in Bridge Creek IMW 12/30/2011
I 158 Mark/Tag salmonids captured in the Bridge Creek IMW seining surveys 12/01/2011
J 157 Conduct juvenile seining in intensively surveyed watersheds 12/30/2011
K 158 Mark/Tag salmonids intensively surveyed watersheds 12/30/2011
L 157 Bridge and South Fork John Day IMW habitat sampling 12/30/2011
M 157 Habitat sampling in intensively surveyed watersheds of the John Day Basin 12/30/2011
N 159 Enter data in ISEMP Database (ELR) 12/01/2011
O 29 Beaver dam structual supports 12/01/2011
P 156 Development of ISEMP sampling designs and protocols 12/01/2011