Chena River Chinook Salmon Study

Unraveling the mysteries of Yukon River king salmon production on its most popular roadside sub-drainage.

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Entries Tagged as 'Field Work Reports'

Four-day data collection float

August 2nd, 2008 by Jason

It’s been a while since the last update, because we’re all out on the river all the time, or in lab processing samples and tinkering with equipment.  We’ve all had our setbacks but the project is generally going well.
From July 24th to the 27th, I floated 50 miles of the Chena in a cataraft.  I […]

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Underwater Video of Juvenile Chinook

April 20th, 2008 by Jason

Underwater video is going to play a huge role in Megan’s and my projects. Last fall we went out and tested the first and simplest of several video cameras we’ll be using, an Aqua-Vu DVR made for ice fishing, which I’ll be setting up with auxiliary batteries to do lengthy surveillance of juvenile Chinook […]

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The Chena from a Helicopter

April 19th, 2008 by Jason

Back on August 2nd, Sam Decker did a helicopter flyover on the Chena to count and map adult Chinook salmon redds. I rode along to take photos of the spawning sites (and other interesting features) from the air. Because I synced the camera’s clock with the clock on my GPS, a little post-processing […]

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