LCREP chemistry and lipids - Lower Columbia River Ecosystem Monitoring Project

1) The purpose of this project is to document juvenile salmon habitat occurrence in the Lower Columbia River and estuary, and examine how habitat conditions influence their distribution, health, and abundance. We also want to monitor habitat conditions and indicators of salmon health in these environments. Parameters measured include habitat conditions such as vegetation, water temperature, and dissolved oxygen; salmon diet and prey availability; weight, length, growth rate, lipid content, genetic stock, and chemical contaminant exposure.

2) Lyndal Johnson (NFWSC FTE) is the project lead, and other primary staff involved are Sean Sol and Paul Olson (NWFSC FTEs) and Kate Macneale (NWFSC term employee), but the project also involves other NWFSC FTEs, other term employees, contractors, and staff from other programs (Environmental Chemistry) and Divisions (FE, CB), as well as staff from collaborating agencies (i.e, the Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership, USGS, PNNL, OHSU).

3) The project involves field surveys in which parameters measured include habitat conditions such as vegetation, water temperature, and dissolved oxygen; salmon diet and prey availability; weight, length, growth rate, lipid content, genetic stock, and chemical contaminant exposure.

4) Specific products include annual reports for the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, and manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals.

5) Specific audiences include (but are not limited to) the Bonneville Power Administration and other federal, state, and local agencies involved with salmon recovery and environmental management in the Columbia Basin (e.g., EPA, Washington Department of Ecology, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, the City of Portland); the NMFS regional office, and other agency and academic scientists.

6) This is a stand-alone project, but it is also a component of a larger monitoring program overseen by the Estuary Partnership in which other tasks are conducted by collaborators in USGS, PNNL, and OHSU.

7) This is an ongoing project with a soft completion deadline; however, there are no final deadlines with specific tasks to be completed on a yearly basis.

Concentrations of chemical contaminants in bodies and stomach contents of Chinook salmon from Lower Columbia sampling sites.

Addresses Legal Mandate

Laboratory data

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These data are available to the public

Peer Reviewed Publication: PBDEs in juvenile chinook salmon from the lower Columbia River and estuary and Puget Sound

Peer Reviewed Publication: Persistent Organic Pollutants in Juvenile Chinook Salmon in the Columbia Basin: Implications for Stock Recovery.

Peer Reviewed Publication: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and risk to threatened and endangered Chinook salmon in the Lower Columbia River estuary.

Peer Reviewed Publication: Contaminant Exposure in Juvenile Salmon from Columbia River Hatcheries.

Report: Lower Columbia River Ecosystem Monitoring Water Quality and Salmon Report

Report: Lower Columbia River Ecosystem Monitoring Program (Annual Reports, years 3-7.)

At this time, contact the Data Manager for information on obtaining access to this data set. In the near future, the NWFSC will strive to provide all non-sensitive data resources as a web service in order to meet the NOAA Data Access Policy Directive (https://nosc.noaa.gov/EDMC/PD.DA.php).

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Other - Filemaker database

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See NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-77: These data were collected and processed in accordance with established protocols and best practices under the direction of the projects Principal Investigator. Contact the dataset Data Manager for full QA/QC methodology.

No Delay

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See NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-125