Aquatic and Land Interactions Program

Wenatchee Aquatic and Land Interactions Team

Research highlights:

- Aquatic and riparian ecosystem management and restoration strategies in eastern Washington and Oregon.

-Methods to monitor and assess conditions of aquatic and riparian ecosystems and evaluate management options.

-Hydrologic and geomorphic processes that create, maintain, or modify aquatic and riparian habitats, water quantity, or water quality.

-Trophic processes governing salmonid productivity in the Columbia River basin.

-Role of salmon carcasses as vectors of marine-derived nutrients to freshwater and riparian ecosystems.

-Trophic linkages between fishless headwaters and fish-bearing mainstem habitats.

- The effects of fisheries and land management on behavioral interactions between native salmonids and their resources.

- Processes governing stream food webs and fish carrying capacity.

Rick Woodsmith is a geomorphologist and Team Leader with the Aquativ and Land Interactions team. His research interests include processes that shape hillslopes, generate stream runoff, and create and maintain aquatic habitat, as well as the effects on land use practices on these processes.

Karl Polivka is a fish biologist with the ALI team in Wenatchee. His research interests include the behavioral responses to foraging opportunities and predation risk and variation in density dependence for fish populations in natural and restored habitats in managed watersheds.

Christopher Binckley is an ecologist and a postdoctoral researcher with the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Currently, he is working with the Wenatchee ALI team investigating headwater stream energy and nutrient subsidies and how these affect downstream salmonid populations.

USDA Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Research Station, Aquatic and Land Interactions Program
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