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Dam Management Matters for Survival of Endangered Fish in Grand Canyon
Lead Companies
U.S. Geological Survey
Lead Researcher (s)
- Kimberly Dibble
This study modeled temperature changes in the Colorado River and imagined a future in which water storage is either mostly in Lake Powell or mostly in Lake Mead and what those different scenarios mean for native fish.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Environmental and Sustainability
Research Sub-Category
Fish and Aquatic Resources
Status
complete
Completion Date
2020
- Conventional Hydro
Deep Learning for Fish Identification from Sonar Data
Lead Companies
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Lead Researcher (s)
- Daniel Deng
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Environmental and Sustainability
Research Sub-Category
Fish and Aquatic Resources
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
TBD
- Conventional Hydro
Development and Field Research on Next Generation Coatings for Mussel Mitigation on Infrastructure.
Lead Companies
Bureau of Reclamation
Lead Researcher (s)
- Carter Gulsvig
Can new technologies be developed and scaled up to commercialization that have foul release properties, preventing attachment of quagga and zebra mussels, while maintaining durability protecting infrastructure? PNNL and USACE will be researching and developing new durable foul release coatings. USBR will provide support by sharing its knowledge and expertise it has learned during its past 10 years of researching foul release coatings and USBR will provide a site for field testing. Products that perform well in laboratory testing will be tested in the field on testing racks or scaled up on infrastructure.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Environmental and Sustainability
Research Sub-Category
Fish and Aquatic Resources
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
2021
- Conventional Hydro
Development of a Chimeric Biopesticide for the Treatment of Zebra and Quagga Mussels
Lead Companies
Bureau of Reclamation
Lead Researcher (s)
- Kevin Kelly
Currently, no approved treatments of zebra and quagga mussels provide effective eradication strategies in open water. There are currently no biopesticides utilizing immunotoxin technology for the remediation of aquatic nuisance species. Engineered toxin body (ETB) and Immunotoxin technologies are well validated in human health applications and can be utilized for environmental application. Production of such biopesticides in commercial micro-algae production vectors offer a low cost, high yield solution. This approach lowers the risk of unintended harm to native ecologies, lowers production cost, and requires a lower effective dose than previously approved biopesticides.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Environmental and Sustainability
Research Sub-Category
Fish and Aquatic Resources
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
2021
- Conventional Hydro
Development of field sampling protocol standards for environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring of dreissenid mussels
Lead Companies
Bureau of Reclamation
Lead Researcher (s)
- Sherri Pucherelli
The goal of this research is to evaluate field-based protocol standards and guidelines for dreissenid mussel eDNA surveillance that generate repeatable and reproducible results in a range of challenge conditions. Federal, state and tribal managers in the West are hesitant to use environmental DNA (eDNA) surveillance of dreissenid mussels to inform decision making until there are standardized protocols for eDNA field collection and lab analysis that generate repeatable and reproducible results. Given the need to prevent dreissenid mussel spread to the Columbia River Basin, the Western Regional Panel, the Western Governors' Association's Biosecurity and Invasive Species Initiative, and the DOI Safeguarding the West Initiative have all identified development and evaluation of eDNA dreissenid mussel field and lab protocols as an urgent need. In FY18, Reclamation assisted with a USGS led study that evaluated eDNA lab protocols. For FY19-20, we propose to evaluate field sampling approaches that best match with anticipated field conditions (e.g., water turbidity) and with the lab analytical approaches identified in our FY18 research effort.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Environmental and Sustainability
Research Sub-Category
Fish and Aquatic Resources
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
2021
- Conventional Hydro
Economic evaluation of activities associated with invasive mussel management
Lead Companies
Bureau of Reclamation
Lead Researcher (s)
- Jolene Trujillo
What is the cost effectiveness of prevention and control mussel management strategies? In the case of invasive mussels, prevention efforts to contain their spread rely on watercraft inspections and decontamination (WID). This effort is costly and is subject to concerns regarding efficacy. Once an infestation occurs, control of mussels to mitigate infrastructure impacts rely on reactive techniques to reduce interior mussel biofouling at hydropower or water delivery facilities. These efforts are also costly with regard to the O&M of the facility and the water and power users of that facility. This project aims to understand the cost effectiveness of these two types of management activities (prevention and control) in order to better utilize limited funds for quagga mussels management.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Environmental and Sustainability
Research Sub-Category
Fish and Aquatic Resources
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
2020
- Conventional Hydro
- Conventional Hydro
Effect of Electric Fish Barriers on Corrosion and Cathodic Protection
Lead Companies
Bureau of Reclamation
Lead Researcher (s)
- Daryl Little
The goal of this study is to examine the interaction between an electric fish barrier and cathodic protection system. Also, although pulsed cathodic protection is not normally utilized on submerged structures this study will examine whether a pulsed DC electric fish barrier can also be used to protect structures near the fish barrier.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Environmental and Sustainability
Research Sub-Category
Fish and Aquatic Resources
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
2020
- Conventional Hydro
Effect of Substrate Roughness, Slope, and Body Size on Climbing Behavior and Performance of Juvenile American Eels (Anguilla rastrata)
Lead Companies
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lead Researcher (s)
- Zahra Anwar
The effect of ramp slope and substrate grain size on the passage of juvenile American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) over indoor ramps was tested from May – August 2016. Two size classes of fish (300 glass eels 50 – 70 mm and 300 elvers 90-114 mm), five substrates varying in coarseness (Substrate 1: 0.18-0.25 mm grain size, Substrate 2: 0.25-0.60 mm grain size, Substrate 3; 0.60-1.00 mm grain size, Substrate 4: 1.00 – 2.00 mm grain size, Substrate 5: 2.00-4.00 mm grain size), and three ramp slopes (25, 35 and 45 degrees) were explored. Individual fish were placed at the bottom of a ramp and given 30 minutes to ascend 0.5 m. Movements over the substrate were recorded with video footage and digitized. Fish length, fish weight, water temperature, and days the fish were held in captivity before being tested were also recorded and analyzed. Results indicated that substrate had a highly significant effect on glass and elver climbing performance, and slope had an effect on elver performance but not glass eel performance. The roughest substrate yielded the highest proportion of eels ascending the entire length of the ramp and the highest climbing speed in each parameter category. Further testing with more grain sizes and longer ramp lengths are required, and mass manufacturing processes for this substrate need to be explored.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Environmental and Sustainability
Research Sub-Category
Fish and Aquatic Resources
Status
complete
Completion Date
2017
- Conventional Hydro
Environmental DNA is an effective tool to track recolonizing migratory fish following large‐scale dam removal
Lead Companies
U.S. Geological Survey
Lead Researcher (s)
- Jeffrey Duda
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is potentially a powerful tool for use in resource management, including for tracking the recolonization dynamics of fish populations. USGS and partners used eDNA to assess the effectiveness of dam removal to restore fish passage on the Elwha River in Washington State, and showed that most targeted anadromous species were able to pass upstream of both former dam sites. The timing and spatial extent of recolonization differed among species during the four years of post‐dam removal monitoring. More abundant species migrated farther into the upper portions of the watershed than less abundant species. Environmental DNA from Brook Trout, a non‐native species was detected downstream of Elwha dam but rarely upstream of the Glines Canyon Dam suggesting that the species has not expanded its range appreciably in the watershed following dam removal. We found that eDNA was an effective tool to assess the response of fish populations to large‐scale dam removal on the Elwha River.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Environmental and Sustainability
Research Sub-Category
Fish and Aquatic Resources
Status
complete
Completion Date
2020
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