Jennifer M Bayer
Jen Bayer serves as the Coordinator of the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP), where she has facilitated collaboration and coordination across monitoring programs of state, federal, tribal, local, and private organizations in the Pacific Northwest. Jen began her USGS career as a fishery biologist at the Columbia River Research Laboratory.
Biography
Education:
Portland State University, M.S. Biology, 2001
Oregon State University, B.S. Fisheries Science, 1993
Recent Appointments:
2004 – present: Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP), US Geological Survey
1996 – 2004 Fishery Biologist, US Geological Survey
1994-1996 Fishery Biologist, National Biological Service
Science and Products
Developing APIs to support enterprise level monitoring using existing tools
In this age of rapidly developing technology, scientific information is constantly being gathered across large spatial scales. Yet, our ability to coordinate large-scale monitoring efforts depends on development of tools that leverage and integrate multiple sources of data. North American bats are experiencing unparalleled population declines. The North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat...
Facilitating Knowledge Integration with a Monitoring Protocol Registry
This project identified collected, and characterized existing online monitoring methods and protocol collection tools that USGS manages or is a substantial collaborator. It also identified the common elements between existing protocol libraries content and functionality. The project examined the results of the USGS Monitoring workshop in December 2011 that provided information about...
Citing aquatic monitoring data sets: Best practice recommendations for authoritative data citation
The use of data generated from long term monitoring efforts necessitates accurate authoritative source citations of those data to ensure credit for data collected, and accountability for the data quality to enable repeated retrieval of a given data set. Data sets used in published reports and articles are increasingly being considered objects that...
Olson, Sheryn J.; Barnas, Katie A; Williams, Margaret; Wheaton, Christopher; Banach, Michael; Bayer, Jennifer M. Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership 2018 Annual Report
The Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP) continued to promote the integration of monitoring resources and development of tools to support monitoring in 2018. Improved coordination and integration of goals, objectives, and activities among Pacific Northwest monitoring programs is essential to improving the quality and...
Dethloff, Megan M.; Puls, Amy L.; Scully, Rebecca A.; Olson, Sheryn J.; Bayer, Jennifer M.; Cimino, Samuel A.
MonitoringResources.org—Supporting coordinated and cost-effective natural resource monitoring across organizations
Natural resource managers who oversee the Nation’s resources require data to support informed decision-making at a variety of spatial and temporal scales that often cross typical jurisdictional boundaries such as states, agency regions, and watersheds. These data come from multiple agencies, programs, and sources, often with their own methods and...
Bayer, Jennifer M.; Scully, Rebecca A.; Weltzin, Jake F. Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership 2017 Annual Report
The Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP) continued to promote the integration of monitoring resources and development of tools to support monitoring in 2017. Improved coordination and integration of goals, objectives, and activities among Pacific Northwest monitoring programs is essential to improving the quality and...
Puls, Amy L.; Scully, Rebecca A.; Dethloff, Megan M.; Bayer, Jennifer M.; Olson, Sheryn J.; Cimino, Samuel A. Can data from disparate long-term fish monitoring programs be used to increase our understanding of regional and continental trends in large river assemblages?
Understanding trends in the diverse resources provided by large rivers will help balance tradeoffs among stakeholders and inform strategies to mitigate the effects of landscape scale stressors such as climate change and invasive species. Absent a cohesive coordinated effort to assess trends in important large river resources, a logical starting...
Counihan, Timothy D.; Waite, Ian R.; Casper, Andrew F.; Ward, David L.; Sauer, Jennifer S.; Irwin, Elise R.; Chapman, Colin G.; Ickes, Brian; Paukert, Craig P.; Kosovich, John J.; Bayer, Jennifer M. Developing enterprise tools and capacities for large-scale natural resource monitoring: A visioning workshop
In October 2016, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP, www.pnamp.org), convened a 30-person workshop, https://www.pnamp.org/event/5509, to identify and prioritize development of enterprise systems for programs that monitor the status and trends of species populations...
Bayer, Jennifer M.; Weltzin, Jake F.; Scully, Rebecca A. Defining opportunities for collaboration across data life cycles
Monitoring natural resources - water, forests, and animal populations—is required to support effective management of natural resources. However, because monitoring activities are often specific to a discipline, issue, or agency, it is typically difficult to integrate data to answer questions that transcend geopolitical and jurisdictional...
Weltzin, Jake F.; Bayer, Jennifer M.; Scully, Rebecca A. Long-term fish monitoring in large rivers: Utility of “benchmarking” across basins
In business, benchmarking is a widely used practice of comparing your own business processes to those of other comparable companies and incorporating identified best practices to improve performance. Biologists and resource managers designing and conducting monitoring programs for fish in large river systems tend to focus on single river basins or...
Ward, David L.; Casper, Andrew F.; Counihan, Timothy D.; Bayer, Jennifer M.; Waite, Ian R.; Kosovich, John J.; Chapman, Colin; Irwin, Elise R.; Sauer, Jennifer S.; Ickes, Brian; McKerrow, Alexa J. Annual sex steroid and other physiological profiles of Pacific lampreys (Entosphenus tridentatus)
We documented changes in plasma levels of estradiol 17-β (E2), progesterone (P), 15α-hydroxytestosterone (15α-T), thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), protein, triglycerides (TGs), and glucose in adult Pacific lampreys (Entosphenus tridentatus) held in the laboratory in two different years. Levels of E2 in both sexes ranged from 0.5 to 2 ng...
Mesa, Matthew G.; Bayer, Jennifer M.; Bryan, Mara B.; Sower, Stacia A. Olfactory sensitivity of Pacific Lampreys to lamprey bile acids
Pacific lampreys Lampetra tridentata are in decline throughout much of their historical range in the Columbia River basin. In support of restoration efforts, we tested whether larval and adult lamprey bile acids serve as migratory and spawning pheromones in adult Pacific lampreys, as they do in sea lampreys Petromyzon marinus. The olfactory...
Robinson, T. Craig; Sorensen, Peter W.; Bayer, Jennifer M.; Seelye, James G. Survival and tag retention of Pacific lamprey larvae and macrophthalmia marked with coded wire tags
We examined the survival, tag retention, and growth of Pacific lamprey Lampetra tridentata larvae and macrophthalmia marked with standard-length decimal coded wire tags and exposed to two levels of handling stress. The survival of marked individuals did not differ from that of unmarked individuals at either life stage for the duration of the...
Meeuwig, M.H.; Puls, A.L.; Bayer, J.M. Comparison of synthesis of 15α-hydroxylated steroids in males of four North American lamprey species
Recent studies have provided evidence that 15α-hydroxytestosterone (15α-T) and 15α-hydroxyprogesterone (15α-P) are produced in vitro and in vivo in adult male sea lampreys (Petromyzonmarinus), and that circulatory levels increase in response to injections with gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). We examined four species...
Bryan, Mara B.; Young, Bradley A.; Close, David A.; Semeyn, Jesse; Robinson, T. Craig; Bayer, Jennifer M.; Li, Weiming