Community / Workshops
On June 18, POST hosted twenty-one West Coast researchers at the Vancouver Aquarium for the 2009 POST Science Forum. The day provided our community the opportunity to share with each other the research they've done using POST, as well as the chance to participate in forward looking activities to help inform POST's future planning.
The morning's presentations on scientists' research can be accessed through the links found further down this page. Afternoon sessions saw the community calling for continued operation of the POST array well into the future, an exploration of the need to reconfigure the array to best detect newly developed tags, and lobbying of industry to evolve acoustic tagging technology where it will be compatible with other tagging approaches (such as archival tagging).
Participants also identified POST as being vital to answering questions around: the role of extrinsic factors (ex. predation, disease, food sources, etc) on survival; how physiology and behaviour influence an animal's location; and identifying the "where and when?" of movement and survival for species and stock conservation.
Generally, the message was loud and clear that POST is serving a very useful role in answering scientific questions around movement, migration, survival and habitat usage, all of which help improve our collective understanding of, and subsequent ability to manage and conserve marine species.
Shannon Balfry (University of British Columbia) -- Management strategies to enhance the marine survival of Seymour River steelhead salmon
Ed Connor (Seattle City Light) -- Migration Studies of Bull Trout and Steelhead in the Skagit River, Washington
Steven Hare (International Pacific Halibut Commission) -- Movement Dynamics of Sablefish and Halibut in Southeast Alaska
Camille Leblanc (Oregon State University) -- Migration, physiology and behavious of coastal steelhead in Oregon
Steve Lindley (NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center) -- Insights into the biology of green sturgeon from acoustic tagging
Bruce MacFarlane (NOAA SWFSC) -- POST array at Pt. Reyes, CA; Migration & Survival of Juvenile Salmonids in California's Central Valley & San Francisco Estuary
Mike Melnychuk (University of Washington) -- 3 trade-offs: spacing between receivers on a line, placement of receivers along a migration route, and tag size/type
Megan Moore (NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center) -- Early marine survival and behaviour of steelhead smolts through Hood Canal and the Strait of Juan de Fuca
Mary Moser (NOAA NWFSC) -- Use of acoustic telemetry to document English sole movements: application to management of contaminated sediments; Do Green Sturgeon in Estuaries Segregate by Distinct Population Segment?
Glenn Crossin (UBC) -- Physiological correlates of migration timing and fate in adult sockeye salmon homing to the Fraser River
Scott Hinch (UBC) -- Ocean Tracking Network Canada Pacific Arena Research
Troy Nelson (Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society) -- Lower Fraser River Acoustic Telemetry Project 2008-2010
Chrys Neville (DFO) -- Acoustic tagging of juvenile coho and chinook salmon in the Strait of Georgia 2006-2008
John Payne (POST) -- A pilot study of mortality and tag loss in captive Puget Sound herring surgically implanted with acoustic tags
Brad Reynolds (Prince William Sound Science Center) -- Residency and Movements of Lingcod in Port Gravina, PWS
David Welch (Kintama Research Corporation) -- Results from the 1st Generation Pilot Array; Implications for Conservation & Management; POST in the Future
Chris Wood (DFO) -- Comparison of early marine migratory behaviour of sockeye salmon and kokanee