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Water-quality monitor at the OMSI dock is live for the 2025 season

Water-quality monitor at the OMSI dock is live for the 2025 season

The USGS has redeployed its seasonal water-quality sensor at the OMSI dock on the Willamette River.

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Western Fisheries Research Center Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Meeting

Western Fisheries Research Center Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Meeting

The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is responsible for oversight of the animal care and use program and the components as...

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Assessing the Risk of Invasive Mussels Spreading throughout the Columbia River Basin

Assessing the Risk of Invasive Mussels Spreading throughout the Columbia River Basin

Western Fisheries v Mussels: Working to understand factors influencing the movement of invasive mussels in the Columbia River Basin.

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Recent Accomplishments: Tracking Salmon in the Changing Klamath River

Recent Accomplishments: Tracking Salmon in the Changing Klamath River

Klamath salmon populations enter a whole new world post dam removal.

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USGS Launches New Inter-Regional Partnership with Four Interstate Fisheries Commissions

USGS Launches New Inter-Regional Partnership with Four Interstate Fisheries Commissions

Fish don’t obey lines on a map, so at WFRC we are working to create cross-regional partnerships to improve delivery of our science.

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Partner Experience: Keeping an Eye on Flukes in Upper Klamath Lake

Partner Experience: Keeping an Eye on Flukes in Upper Klamath Lake

Biologist Sarah Flores of the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission shares how her collaborative science with the Western Fisheries Research...

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Message from the Director: Continuing Our Commitment to Science and the Partnerships that Drive our Work

Message from the Director: Continuing Our Commitment to Science and the Partnerships that Drive our Work

We continue to deliver impartial, high-impact science with our partners in Federal, State, Tribal, & local government, and in academia and private...

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Congratulations to Joe Skalicky for Winning this Issue’s Photo Contest!

Congratulations to Joe Skalicky for Winning this Issue’s Photo Contest!

Marty Liedtke and Lisa Weiland seek to understand how larval lamprey populations survive under various substrate conditions. 

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Hawaiian Volcano Observatory welcomes 150 international scientists to the Island of Hawai'i

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory welcomes 150 international scientists to the Island of Hawai'i

The AGU Chapman Conference on Caldera-Forming Eruptions at Basaltic Volcanoes will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scientists to contrast...

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Western Fisheries Research Center Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Meeting

Western Fisheries Research Center Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Meeting

The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is responsible for oversight of the animal care and use program and the components as...

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Saline Lake Ecosystems IWAA February 2025 Seminar

Saline Lake Ecosystems IWAA February 2025 Seminar

On February 26th the Saline Lakes Ecosystems project science leads will be discussing their projects and plans for the 2025 field season. The science...

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