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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.

Professional Experience

  • 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

Education and Certifications

  • Portland State University, M.S. Biology

  • Oregon State University, B.S. Fisheries Science

  • USDA Graduate School Executive Leadership Program 

  • Department of the Interior Partners in Conservation Award 2013

Affiliations and Memberships

  • American Fisheries Society

  • Ecological Society of America

  • Society for Freshwater Science

Science and Products

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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 are required to be published and cited. Aggregatin

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 consistency of monitoring in the region.

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 standards for data collection and organization. Coo
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Ecosystems, Status and Trends Program, Wildlife Program

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 consistency of monitoring in the region.PNAMP operates throug

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 point is to assess our ability to draw inferences fro
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Ecosystems, Water Resources, Fisheries Program, Cooperative Research Units, Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS), Western Fisheries Research Center, Oregon Water Science Center, Southwest Biological Science Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Columbia River Research Laboratory (CRRL)

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 and their terrestrial, aquatic, and marine habitats.
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Wildlife Program

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 boundaries. How do we reach the better data integration we n
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Wildlife Program

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 segments of large rivers, missing opportunities to
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Core Science Systems, Ecosystems, Fisheries Program, Gap Analysis Project, Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS), Southwest Biological Science Center, Western Fisheries Research Center, Columbia River Research Laboratory (CRRL)

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/mL from September to March, peaked in late April (2–4 n
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Ecosystems, Fisheries Program, Western Fisheries Research Center, Columbia River Research Laboratory (CRRL)

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 sensitivity of adult Pacific lampreys to lamprey bile aci
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Ecosystems, Fisheries Program, Western Fisheries Research Center, Columbia River Research Laboratory (CRRL)

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 experiment (56 d). Tag retention was 100% for all treatm
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Ecosystems, Fisheries Program, Western Fisheries Research Center, Columbia River Research Laboratory (CRRL)

Morphometric discrimination of early life stage Lampetra tridentata and L richardsoni (Petromyzonidae) from the Columbia river basin

The effectiveness of morphometric and meristic characteristics for taxonomic discrimination of Lampetra tridentata and L. richardsoni (Petromyzonidae) during embryological, prolarval, and early larval stages (i.e., age class 1) were examined. Mean chorion diameter increased with time from fertilization to hatch and was significantly greater for L. tridentata than for L. richardsoni at 1, 8, and 15
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Ecosystems, Fisheries Program, Western Fisheries Research Center, Columbia River Research Laboratory (CRRL)

Pre-USGS Publications

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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), a
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Community for Data Integration (CDI)
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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), a
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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 stakeholder ne
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Community for Data Integration (CDI)
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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 stakeholder ne
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