{"id":361,"date":"2026-09-09T00:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesthesis\/?p=361"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:53:52","slug":"thesis-ideas-for-bull-trout-work-in-the-yakima-basin-with-the-us-fish-and-wildlife-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesthesis\/2026\/09\/09\/thesis-ideas-for-bull-trout-work-in-the-yakima-basin-with-the-us-fish-and-wildlife-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis Ideas for Bull Trout work in the Yakima Basin with the US Fish and Wildlife Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My team has collected three years of acoustic and PIT-tag telemetry data on Bull Trout in Keechelus Reservoir, downstream of Keechelus Dam, and in the sole spawning tributary in Gold Creek. Data collection will end in November 2026. Our primary research questions are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) What are the entrainment rates, survival, and timing of Bull Trout entrained through Keechleus Dam?<br>2) What factors (e.g., season, pool depth, temperature) are related to entrainment through Keechleus Dam?<br>3) What are the spatio-temporal movements of Bull Trout in Keechleus Reservoir?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are others potential research questions that could be formulated from this dataset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact Craig Haskell with your interest: craig_haskell@fws.gov<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about their work at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/project\/yakima\">https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/project\/yakima<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My team has collected three years of acoustic and PIT-tag telemetry data on Bull Trout in Keechelus Reservoir, downstream of Keechelus Dam, and in the sole spawning tributary in Gold Creek. Data collection will end in November 2026. Our primary&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesthesis\/2026\/09\/09\/thesis-ideas-for-bull-trout-work-in-the-yakima-basin-with-the-us-fish-and-wildlife-service\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesthesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}