T3 Watershed Experiment’s riparian study
Research Mentor(s)
Marco Hatch
Description
I am a research intern with NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center over the Winter and Spring quarters of 2022, working in a lab on campus. This internship had me working on a project that NOAA Fisheries was collaborating with called the Type-3 Watershed Experiment. It was developed to assess the impacts of current and alternative forest management strategies on a holistic vision of ecosystem wellbeing. The internship entailed lab work where I processed, identified, and recorded data of fish diets from juvenile salmonoids and sculpins collected through electrofishing of different tributaries within the Olympic Experimental Forest. The experiment is based in the Olympic Experimental Forest which is owned and managed by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (WA DNR). This experiment is a collaboration between the NOAA Fisheries, Washington State University, University of Washington, US Forest Service, and WA DNR. NOAA fisheries part in this experiment, and in turn my part, is to quantify changes in food webs because of different forest harvest techniques. The core purpose of this experiment is to see if a sustainable level of rural ecosystem wellbeing will emerge from different land management practices being compared across the Olympic Experimental Forest.
Document Type
Event
Start Date
May 2022
End Date
May 2022
Location
Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)
Department
CE - Environmental Sciences
Genre/Form
student projects; posters
Type
Image
Rights
Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
T3 Watershed Experiment’s riparian study
Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)
I am a research intern with NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center over the Winter and Spring quarters of 2022, working in a lab on campus. This internship had me working on a project that NOAA Fisheries was collaborating with called the Type-3 Watershed Experiment. It was developed to assess the impacts of current and alternative forest management strategies on a holistic vision of ecosystem wellbeing. The internship entailed lab work where I processed, identified, and recorded data of fish diets from juvenile salmonoids and sculpins collected through electrofishing of different tributaries within the Olympic Experimental Forest. The experiment is based in the Olympic Experimental Forest which is owned and managed by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (WA DNR). This experiment is a collaboration between the NOAA Fisheries, Washington State University, University of Washington, US Forest Service, and WA DNR. NOAA fisheries part in this experiment, and in turn my part, is to quantify changes in food webs because of different forest harvest techniques. The core purpose of this experiment is to see if a sustainable level of rural ecosystem wellbeing will emerge from different land management practices being compared across the Olympic Experimental Forest.