This project seeks to develop two novel monitoring and evaluation programs: (i) subbasin-scale pilot status and trend monitoring efforts for anadromous salmonids and their habitat in the Wenatchee, John Day and Salmon River basins, and (ii) effectiveness monitoring for suites of habitat restoration projects in selected watersheds within the three target subbasins.  This work builds on current status and trend monitoring programs within each of these basins; however, the proposed work differs structurally from much of the ongoing status and trend monitoring work as it focuses on the explicit development and testing of the sampling protocols and methodologies required for generating habitat and population monitoring data of known spatio-temporal resolution, accuracy and precision.  The proposed work expands on the utility of status monitoring data to explicitly address watershed-scale questions of habitat restoration action effectiveness.  The ultimate objective of the project is to develop an end-to-end data gathering to analysis system that supports tributary habitat off-site mitigation actions.

This contract's specific portion of the entire project (2003-017-00) will address overall coordination tasks.  The overall technical and scientific coordination of the project will be accomplished by the project sponsor (NMFS/NWFSC, Dr. Chris Jordan) through this contract.  

This contract will also cover three additional technical coordination tasks: data collation to support initial design and scoping, data management system design and development, and statistical support for project data analysis.  These tasks fall under the overarching heading of technical project management, and are identified as individual tasks as they will be accomplished through a variety of subcontracting vehicles initiated by the project sponsor.

The role of actions under this contract are to integrate and oversee all other ISEMP (2003-017) contract and cost-share actions.  As a result, some WEs appear redundant with other contracts; however, these are shared tasks and tasks where direct NOAA staff or contractor participation is necessary.  All potential WE overlap is identified in the WE description.

Coordination with USFS's monitoring program PIBO
As part of the work expected under this contract, specific effort will be directed to developing interoperability between CHaMP and PIBO monitoring metrics.  The work involved to advance the interoperability includes two components: data analysis methods that make use of both program's data, and the development of a data management system to store metrics from both programs.  The outcome of this work will be a report on suggested analytical methods for joint data analysis.   The data management system to jointly serve monitoring metrics from both programs will also be an outcome of the coordination efforts, but will be accomplished through different CHaMP/ISEMP (non-NOAA effort).


Coordination with BPA's monitoring program AEM
As part of the work expected under this contract, specific effort will be directed to tracking the coordination of implementing CHaMP and AEM -ield data collection and post-processing.  The work involved to track coordination includes two components: ongoing journaling of coordination effort, and a post-season meeting to evaluate the efficacy of planned coordination of field data collection, post-processing of data, data management, and issues that arose from study design coordination.  The outcome of this work will be a report on the joint operation experience from field season 2014.