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ONRC Research 2001

Title:
The Next Step in ONRC's Validation Monitoring Efforts: Peer review of the Department of Natural Resource's Monitoring Plans

Principal investigator(s); affiliations(s):
John Calhoun; University of Washington

Award:
$17,616

Project description:
ONRC is in a unique position to organize a working group to develop adult escapement estimation methods appropriate for validation monitoring. The Validation Monitoring Panel Report released in December 2000 was successful in emphasizing the importance of establishing and implementing these monitoring plans in response to public interest and investment in salmon conservation. The development of the tools necessary to carry out validation monitoring plans will be useful to all groups required or interested in understanding the effects of salmon conservation efforts through validation monitoring. Through our previous work with the Validation Monitoring Panel. Project Objectives:
(1) Establish a peer review team of five qualified, well-respected scientists. A chair of this team will serve to guide the review and organize input from each reviewer.
(2) Bring reviewers together for a two-day working group at ONRC to collectively investigate the critiques and compile a review summary for DNR.
(3) Compile results in a summary for DNR.

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