Current & Future Projects
- Trinity River Benthic Macroinvertebrate Drift
- Hydrogeomorphic Classification in California North Coast Streams
- Riparian and Stream Monitoring on Lower Rush Creek in the Mono Lake Basin
- Annual hydrograph assessment for steelhead migration in the Santa Ynez River watershed (Santa Barbara Co.) – funding from the National Marine Fisheries Service
- Potter Valley Blockwater Investigation on the Eel River to improve stream productivity and smolt/juvenile salmonid outmigration (Mendocino Co.) – funding from Friends of the Eel River
- Developing Interim Instream Flow Allocation Guidelines for Northern California Watersheds – collaboration with CalTrout
- Mad River/Sullivan Gulch fish passage analysis (Humboldt Co.)
- Mekong River Don Sahong Power Project Review
- Steelhead spawning surveys on Elder Creek, South Fork Eel River (Mendocino Co.)
- Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District internships. Get students involved in looking at salmon as beneficial use.
Humboldt undergraduate Katherine Stonecypher examines an invertebrate in a vial in the River Institute laboratory
Humboldt undergraduate Marisa McGrew examing benthic macroinvertebrates under a microscope in the River Institute laboratory
Dr. Alison O'Dowd examines river samples with Humboldt students.