Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP)

BC has a provincial flower, mineral, tree, bird, mammal and tartan. Now it's time for a provincial fish, say salmon supporters.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa's School of Ocean Earth Science and Technology completed a three-year long investigation of Sea Disposal Site Hawaii Number 5, a deep-water military munitions disposal site in US coastal waters approximately 5 miles south of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. This complex investigation required the use of high-resolution sidescan sonar and remotely operated underwater ve... Read More...

The world’s oceans are host to an enormous diversity of drifting, microscopic organisms, known as plankton. How this biodiversity has arisen has puzzled biologists for decades. An international team of researchers has now succeeded in elucidating how new planktonic species are formed, providing an explanation for the large biodiversity seen today.... Read More...

Humanity's rising carbon dioxide emissions could have a significant impact on the world's fish populations, according to groundbreaking new research. Baby fish may become easy meat for predators as the world's oceans become more acidic due to CO2 fallout from human activity, researchers have discovered.... Read More...

Shade-grown coffee farms support native bees that help maintain the health of some of the world's most biodiverse tropical regions, according to a new study.

The sound of a helicopter filled the woods south of Estacada on Monday as the crew of Columbia Helicopters performed a not-so-clandestine operation to restore salmon habitat to a two-mile stretch of Clear Creek.

The memory of last winter's blizzards may be fading in this summer's searing heat, but scientists studying them have detected a perfect storm of converging weather patterns that had little relation to climate change. The extraordinarily cold, snowy weather that hit parts of the US East Coast and Europe was the result of a collision of two periodic weather patterns in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean... Read More...

2010-07-27, The organizing committee of DC-2010, the tenth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 20-22 October 2010, has published an update to the program for the event. More meetings of DCMI Communities and Task Groups have been added and more details are now included for these meetings and the special sessions. Please register online; early-bird discount is available until 10 September 2010.

Some North American monarchs born in the Midwest and Great Lakes fly directly west over the Appalachians and settle along the eastern seaboard. This finding is the first proof of longitudinal migration and solves the long-standing mystery of why monarchs always show up later on the east coast compared to the interior. The study also suggests conservation efforts must target the Great Lakes region.... Read More...

An international team of scientists has been exploring Australia's Moreton Bay, close to Brisbane, as a possible 'lifeboat' to save corals from the Great Barrier Reef at risk of extermination under climate change. In a new research paper, they say that corals have been able to survive and flourish in the Bay, which lies well to the south of the main GBR coral zones, during about half of the past 7000 years.

In an effort to reduce wolf-livestock conflicts in Wallowa County, a new range rider will accompany cattle grazing in areas of the Imnaha wolf pack this summer.

Federal biologists feel they might have found the right combination of actions at John Day Dam to lift juvenile salmon survival to standards targeted in a Columbia-Snake hydro system biological opinion that prescribes actions believed necessary to avoid jeopardizing protected fish.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game this week completed its purchase of a former southeast Idaho trout hatchery site with the goal of constructing a new hatchery to help boost numbers of endangered Snake River sockeye salmon.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife this year will expand considerably its efforts to test "selective" fishing gear that might be deployed successfully in the mainstem Columbia River by the commercial fleet.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials and others gathered Wednesday to celebrate completion of a 17-year renovation program at the Bonneville Lock and Dam First Powerhouse that makes the project a more reliable and efficient energy producer and reduces salmon mortality at the dam.

There's been good news coming from Idaho's Bear Valley Creek this summer. First, fish biologists are excited about last June's construction and operation of the new Bear Valley Creek Chinook Salmon Abundance Monitoring Project -- the first fish monitoring station in a key portion of Bear Valley Creek.

Another commercial outing was approved for tribal commercial fishers who are targeting a record sockeye salmon run, as well as an ebbing summer chinook and budding steelhead returns to the Columbia River basin.

Bonneville Power Administration officials were recently shown on-the-ground results of the 10-year Columbia Basin Fish Accords -- a spring chinook salmon in a newly scoured pool on Meacham Creek on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeast Oregon.

Last month's efforts to boost white sturgeon spawning on the Kootenai River were not as successful as hoped, mainly because of this year's low-water conditions, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official said Thursday.

Scientists have long known that wind-driven "upwelling" during the spring and summer along the Pacific Coast is critical for bringing deep, nutrient-rich water to the surface and fertilizing plankton blooms that form the base of the marine food web.