Continuous, Accurate and Cost-effective Counting of Migrating Salmon for Conservation and Fishery Management in the Pacific Northwest
Profile
Continuous, Accurate and Cost-effective Counting of Migrating Salmon for Conservation and Fishery Management in the Pacific Northwest
PIs: Pietro Perona and Georgia Gkioxari
Research Team: Michael Hobley, Suzanne Stathatos, Madison Van Horn, and Sevan Brodjian
Division of Engineering and Applied Science and Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ecology and Biosphere Engineering Initiative
We will develop and provide an automated sonar-based system for counting with high accuracy migrating salmonid (salmon and trout) populations as they return to their natal rivers to spawn. Our system will be affordable and will be accurate in all rivers, and all water conditions. We will strive to make our system the standard measurement system for fishery management, and we will partner with fishery managers to achieve real-time data-driven management of salmon populations, big and small, throughout the Pacific Northwest. We will also partner with governmental agencies and environmental nonprofits to accurately assess the success of salmon habitat conservation projects