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| A | 129245 | 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. | $11,245 | 4.09% | 10/01/2014 | 05/14/2016 |
| B | 129246 | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Routine project updates, reporting and maintenance | I will work diligently to maintain the updates to the project reporting and maintenance standards of Pisces. And shall report quarterly on the status of milestones and deliverables in Pisces. 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. | $11,310 | 4.11% | 05/15/2014 | 03/14/2016 |
| C | 129248 | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Submit Progress Report for the period 5/2014 to 4/2015 | Results and conclusions will not be available from this 5 year study plan, therefore the progress report will consist of a summary of activities implemented as well as appendixes to include poster presentations given at technical meetings and a copy of the annual accomplishments presentation given to BPA. This report will be uploaded to Pisces.
In general BPA progress reports summarize the project goal, objectives, hypotheses, completed and uncompleted deliverables, problems encountered, lessons learned, and long-term planning.
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. | $3,468 | 1.26% | 06/13/2014 | 03/31/2015 |
| D | 129249 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Identify and quantify alluvial valley floodplain characteristic associated with temp. resilien | This is a continuation of our initial effort to monitor water temperatures in each of the study sites. We will report on out progress by year, as is shown below.
We will identify alluvial valleys across appropriate portions of the Columbia River Basin, quantify floodplain characteristics that portend high temperature resilience to expected changes in air temperature and river discharge under projected climate change scenarios (e.g., base-flow hydrology, floodplain size, and channel complexity riparian vegetation) .
Study sites boundaries will be located at topographic breaks where valley morphology suggests groundwater movement is constrained or can be estimated easily. As with the monitoring of water temperatures in these floodplain reaches, we have identified 5 alluvial valleys in 2012 ( in Oregon ) and in 2013 added on in NW Montana, on the Middle fork of the Flathead River. We anticipate continuing to expand the number of sites in 2014 and 2015. | $18,800 | 6.83% | 05/15/2014 | 12/30/2015 |
| E | 129250 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Continue to monitor water temperatures in study floodplains | This is a continuation of our initial effort to monitor water temperatures in each of the study sites. We will report on out progress by year, as is shown below.
Monitor annual water temperatures upstream and downstream of several alluvial floodplains that capture the integrated water temperature signals across the study area. We have installed temperature loggers in the Umatilla River, Grand Ronde River, East Eagle Creek and East Pine Creek (all in Oregon). These 5 study sites represent the product of our first effort in 2012. In 2013 we also instrumented the Nyak floodplain on the Middle Fork of the Flathead River. The Nyak floodplain site is parallel with other allied work going on at the University of Montana Flathead Lake Biological Research Station (http://www2.umt.edu/flbs/). This work is interactive with Geoff Poole and Jack Stanford and two other NSF projects.
Installation of loggers in the streams consists of attaching a small, self enclosed stream temperature logger (HOBO) are attached to a rock on the bed of a stream. Additional loggers to measure air pressure and temperature are also deployed. No ground disturbing activities are part of this project. | $24,650 | 8.96% | 05/15/2014 | 05/13/2016 |
| F | 129251 | 156 | Develop RM&E Methods and Designs | Identify patterns in the temperature data of "thermal fingerprinting" | We will use the outputs of the stream temperature model to conduct sensitivity analysis , that, in turn, will allow us to differentiate patterns of response in diel and annual temperature cycles of stream channel temperature resulting from variation in channel depth, shade, rates of hyporheic exchange, and size of the hyporheic zone. We will show examples from across our sites where channel temperature response to hyporheic exchange is substantial in some contexts, and minimal in others. We will identify temperature metrics that are sensitive to hyporheic exchange and therefore most appropriate for assessing hyporheic influence on stream temperature. Our results suggest the possibility of “thermal fingerprints” of hyporheic exchange that may help quantify rates of hyporheic exchange in streams using inexpensive submersible temperature loggers. | $64,000 | 23.26% | 05/15/2014 | 02/25/2015 |
| G | 129252 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Apply the model with anticipated climate change scenarios | For particular floodplains of interest, we will incorporate the outputs of daily mean water temperature and flow, as modified by the RegCM3 (regional climate model). Additionally, at a regional scale, we will create outputs from thermal and hydrologic data using a subset of the existing data, AR4 IPCC global model output (Meehl et al. 2007). Expected changes in water temperature inflow and base-flow discharge will be used as new parameters for all floodplains identified across the study region, and entered into the empirical model to project the temperature mitigation effect of each floodplain under future water temperatures and flows associated with climate change. Our assumption is that with increased annual average atmospheric temperatures and declining baseflows that hyporheic exchange is sensitive to a lower volume of water in the alluvial aquifer. Based on the projected capacity of each floodplain to ameliorate effects on water temperature, the floodplains will be ranked in terms of their temperature resilience to climate change. Restoration efforts can be targeted toward reaches with degraded channel complexity but otherwise high levels of resilience. | $59,000 | 21.44% | 06/09/2014 | 05/20/2015 |
| H | 129253 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Integrate the results into available life history information | Integrate the results of the empirical model into the life histories of Chinook and Summer Steelhead and show likely persistent habitats that relate to both floodplain reaches where these species currently exist and areas with restoration of normative floodplain functions will allow them to occupy these reaches. | $45,000 | 16.35% | 05/14/2015 | 05/12/2016 |
| I | 129254 | 99 | Outreach and Education | Present progress on this work at regional and national meetings | We will continue to seek out peer review, outreach opportunities and interactions that strengthen and extend this work throughout the science community. The interaction with peers at conferences is invaluable in continuing to vet and refine ideas that developed through this work. Two examples in this project are for peer interaction; the ongoing work to understand how different stream reaches will respond to climate changes is the topic of a multi-day session at the American Geophysical Union meeting each year and further, these meeting underscore the commitment of BPA to enable stream restoration based on established, effective science. | $2,700 | 0.98% | | 05/13/2016 |
| J | 129546 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Proof of concept - testing the model on Meacham Creek, Oregon | Using the detailed study design and monitoring to date on the restoration of nearly two miles of Meacham Creek, Oregon, we will test our method on this project as a proof of concept. During the past several years we have conducted a detailed pre and post restoration monitoring effort to better understand the specific small scale dynamics associated this stream restoration effort. This project also presents an excellent example that can help us determine how well our simplified (bulk) method can describe the patterns and scale of hyporheic exchange at work on Meacham Creek. Additionally, this WE is a direct integration between our broader efforts to produce applied research and the implementation of our work at project scales. | $35,000 | 12.72% | 05/15/2014 | 05/13/2016 |
| K | 129255 | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Provide BPA EC lead with any needed EC documents | Work activities do not include ground disturbance or handling of ESA listed species. Coordinate and work with BPA staff to ensure all work elements have appropriate NEPA/ESA106 clearance if needed. | $0 | 0.00% | 05/15/2014 | 09/15/2014 |
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