Development
Research
- Colorado Water Science Center
- Global Climate Change
- Restoration & Ecologically Designed Riverine Systems
- Understanding Biophysical Relationships—Anthropogenic Changes and Management Actions
- Understanding Biophysical Relationships—Basin and Regional Scales
- Understanding Biophysical Relationships—Biological Response Variables
- Understanding Biophysical Relationships—Biotic-Abiotic Interactions
- Understanding Biophysical Relationships—Flow and Riparian Vegetation
- Understanding Biophysical Relationships—Hydraulic Models, Physical Variables
Also @ FORT
Development: Monitoring Protocols
Effective river and aquatic system management depends in part on the quality of relevant information, which in turn is a result of how it is acquired. FORT develops new and novel techniques for collecting field data that enhance our depth of understanding of the systems we study. The following are examples of recent work involving development of monitoring protocols.
Cade, B.S., J.W. Terrell, and M.T. Porath. 2008. Estimating fish body condition with quantile regression. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 28: 349-359.
Mueller, G.A., R. Wydoski, E. Best, S. Hiebert, J. Lantow, M. Santee, B. Goettlicher, and J. Millosovich. 2008. Techniques for monitoring Razorback Sucker in the Lower Colorado River, Hoover to Parker Dams, 2006-2007, Final Report. U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2008–1245. 34 p.
Scott, M.L., and E.W. Reynolds. 2007. Field-based evaluations of sampling techniques to support long-term monitoring of riparian ecosystems along wadeable streams on the Colorado Plateau. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007–1266. 68 p.
Staff
Cade, Brian (statistics, modeling/DSS)
Carpenter, Jeanette (endangered fish, fish habitat, invasive species)
Scott, Mike (riparian vegetation, dam removal, riparian monitoring protocols, avian conservation)
Terrell, Jim (engineered river channels; fish body condition, habitat, and disease)
