Webinars

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Webinars occur on the Third Thursday of each month.  To get on the mailing list to receive  announcements of future webinars, email anna.freitas@oacd.org

Next webinar: “Your OWEB Grant from Start to Finish” on Thursday, July 18th, 2019 at 10 a.m – 11 a.m. 

Register here

This webinar will provide participants with the know-how to take an idea all the way from project development, to successfully obtaining an OWEB grant, and managing the project through completion and monitoring. Content is geared toward project managers working within the Open Solicitation grant program, but the information is useful for anyone working with OWEB funding who wants to confidently and efficiently navigate the process. The webinar is broken into three components:

1. To Boldly Go – taking a project from an idea to a reality
2. I Need More Power! – a project becomes a grant
3. Live Long & Prosper – wrapping up and monitoring a project

The webinar will be presented by OWEB staff Katie Duzik and Sue Greer and is modeled after the three-session workshop recently presented at the CONNECT 2019 conference in Sunriver. Katie and Sue are Regional Program Representatives for OWEB’s North Coast and Mid-Columbia regions, respectively. There will be plenty of time for Q & A during this webinar.

Just completed on June 20th:

Beaver Dam Analogs and Post-Assisted Log Structures: Cost-Effective, Scalable Methods for Region-Wide Stream Restoration

Download the recording here (Powerpoint coming soon). If you have questions about the webinar, including where to find some of the sources mentioned in the presentation, feel free to email Dr. Chris Jordan at chris.jordan@noaa.gov

The systematic and widespread removal of large woody debris (LWD) and beaver has resulted in simplified and degraded riverscapes. Historically, large woody debris and beaver dams were ubiquitous throughout North American riverscapes. Beaver dams and large woody debris have been shown to influence hydrologic and geomorphic processes in similar ways, creating fish habitat and spawning areas and promoting sediment and nutrient retention The introduction of habitat structures has been practiced for at least a century, with restoration focused on the creation of discrete habitat features, often pools for fish, rather than emphasizing how structures could enable and promote processes.

However, to address the scope of degraded streams region-wide, cost-effective and scalable restoration methods are critical. The approach to restoration, the design of low-tech process-based restoration projects, described here is informed by the vision of physically complex valley bottoms and multi-thread channels described as ‘Stage 0’. We describe the design process for two types of low-tech structures, post-assisted log structures (PALS) and beaver dam analogues (BDAs). PALS are woody material of various sizes pinned together with untreated wooden posts driven into the substrate to simulate natural wood accumulations. BDAs are channel-spanning, permeable structures, with a uniform crest elevation, constructed using woody debris and fill material, to form a pond and mimic natural beaver dams. Both structure types are designed as complexes, or a group of low-tech restoration structures designed to achieve specific objectives. A complex may be composed of a single type of structure, or a mix of structure types, and consist of 2 – 15 structures.

Presenter:

Dr. Chris Jordan, Research Fisheries Biologist with NOAA/NMFS’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center and Program Manager for the Mathematical Biology and Systems Monitoring Program

Trained as a mathematical biologist, Dr. Jordan has worked on a wide range of biological topics, all with an emphasis on the development or application of quantitative methods.  Recent work has focused on the design and implementation of large-scale monitoring programs to assess anadromous salmonid freshwater habitat and population status as well as the watershed-scale effect of management actions on salmonid habitat and population processes.

 

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