FY 2002 Innovative proposal 34036
Contents
Section 1. General administrative information
Section 2. Past accomplishments
Section 3. Relationships to other projects
Section 4. Budgets for planning/design phase
Section 5. Budgets for construction/implementation phase
Section 6. Budgets for operations/maintenance phase
Section 7. Budgets for monitoring/evaluation phase
Section 8. Budget summary
Reviews and Recommendations
Additional documents
| Title | Type |
|---|---|
| 34036 Narrative | Narrative |
Section 1. Administrative
| Proposal title | Development and Demonstration of Automatic Calibration Tools for Models to Assess Biological Performance of Habitat Restoration Strategies |
| Proposal ID | 34036 |
| Organization | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) |
| Proposal contact person or principal investigator | |
| Name | Dr. Richard L. Skaggs |
| Mailing address | P.O. Box 999, MSIN: K9-18 Richland, WA 99352 |
| Phone / email | 5093755900 / Richard.skaggs@pnl.gov |
| Manager authorizing this project | Dr. Richard L. Skaggs |
| Review cycle | FY 2002 Innovative |
| Province / Subbasin | Systemwide / Systemwide |
| Short description | This project will develop a calibration tool to enable analysis of biological productivity for streams and rivers throughout the Columbia Basin, but will be demonstrated on a specific subbasin (to be determined) within the Salmon River basin. |
| Target species | Spring/summer chinook |
Project location
| Latitude | Longitude | Description |
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Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives (RPAs)
Sponsor-reported:
| RPA |
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Relevant RPAs based on NMFS/BPA review:
| Reviewing agency | Action # | BiOp Agency | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| BPA | Action 180 | NMFS | The Action Agencies and NMFS shall work within regional prioritization and congressional appropriation processes to establish and provide the level of FCRPS funding to develop and implement a basinwide hierarchical monitoring program. This program shall be developed collaboratively with appropriate regional agencies and shall determine population and environmental status (including assessment of performance measures and standards) and allow ground-truthing of regional databases. A draft program including protocols for specific data to be collected, frequency of samples, and sampling sites shall be developed by September 2001. Implementation should begin no later than the spring of 2002 and will be fully implemented no later than 2003. |
Section 2. Past accomplishments
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Section 3. Relationships to other projects
| Project ID | Title | Description |
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Section 4. Budget for Planning and Design phase
Task-based budget
| Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2002 cost | Subcontractor |
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Outyear objectives-based budget
| Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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Outyear budgets for Planning and Design phase
Section 5. Budget for Construction and Implementation phase
Task-based budget
| Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2002 cost | Subcontractor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characterize data requirements for conducting biological performance of salmon recovery and habitat restoration strategies and actions. | Task 1. | 2 | $48,178 | |
| Select demonstration basin. | Task 2 | 1 | $54,578 | |
| Develop and demonstrate the autocalibration tool. | Task 3 | 12 | $58,437 | Yes |
| Document and report project findings. | Task 4 | 3 | $44,522 | Yes |
Outyear objectives-based budget
| Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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Outyear budgets for Construction and Implementation phase
Section 6. Budget for Operations and Maintenance phase
Task-based budget
| Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2002 cost | Subcontractor |
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Outyear objectives-based budget
| Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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Outyear budgets for Operations and Maintenance phase
Section 7. Budget for Monitoring and Evaluation phase
Task-based budget
| Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2002 cost | Subcontractor |
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Outyear objectives-based budget
| Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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Outyear budgets for Monitoring and Evaluation phase
Section 8. Estimated budget summary
Itemized budget
| Item | Note | FY 2002 cost |
|---|---|---|
| Personnel | $87,882 | |
| Fringe | $5,481 | |
| Supplies | $4,625 | |
| Travel | $3,002 | |
| Indirect | $82,441 | |
| Subcontractor | Mobrand Biometrics, Inc. | $16,434 |
| Other | In-kind contribution from IDFG - see cost sharing table below. | $5,850 |
| $205,715 | ||
Total estimated budget
| Total FY 2002 cost | $205,715 |
| Total FY 2002 budget request | $205,715 |
Cost sharing
| Organization | Item or service provided | Amount | Cash or in-kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| IDFG | Task 1. Project coordination and data assembly. | $2,632 | in-kind |
| IDFG | Task 2. Data analysis. | $2,632 | in-kind |
| IDFG | Task 4. Contribute to project report and peer-reviewed paper. | $586 | in-kind |
Reviews and recommendations
This information was not provided on the original proposals, but was generated during the review process.
Comment:
This fifth ranked proposal is innovative and the potential for learning and for application are significant. If successful, this project will help automate the monumental tasks that are involved in developing trial data sets to calibrate models such as EDT.The proponents propose to develop and demonstrate an automated calibration tool capable of simultaneously calibrating a sequence of distributed physical and biological process models assembled to assess efficacy of salmon recovery and habitat restoration strategies. The ISRP also supports the project because we believe that assistance in obtaining data sets from multiple sources and agencies via a distributed database system on the internet is very worthwhile. This proposal does a good job incorporating constituents from around the basin and from multiple states.
The proponent knows and understands the problems involved with this research effort. In addition to the primary goals, this project will help point out important data gaps and it will improve accessibility of data via distributed systems on the internet. We recommend that the proponents also emphasize development of intermediate results in the calibration process that can be judged by an intelligent human as well as automation of the process by use of artificial intelligence and neural networks.
Comment:
Comment:
Statement of Potential Biological BenefitIndirect benefits. Develop and demonstrate an automated calibration tool capable of simultaneously calibrating a sequence of distributed physical and biological process models assembled to assess efficacy of salmon recovery and habitat restoration strategies.
Comments
This proposal describes a large modeling exercise. The key question is the quality of data that are going into the hydrologic model. It may work for some basins, but not in others due to the lack of good streamflow and precipitation data. Proposal is only worth pursuing if the sponsors can prove the data going into the model is of good quality.
Already ESA Required?
No
Biop?
No
Comment:
Statement of Potential Biological Benefit to ESUIndirect benefits. Develop and demonstrate an automated calibration tool capable of simultaneously calibrating a sequence of distributed physical and biological process models assembled to assess efficacy of salmon recovery and habitat restoration strategies.
Comments
This proposal describes a large modeling exercise. The key question is the quality of data that are going into the hydrologic model. It may work for some basins, but not in others due to the lack of good streamflow and precipitation data. Proposal is only worth pursuing if the sponsors can prove the data going into the model is of good quality.
Already ESA Req? No
Biop? No
Comment:
Recommend funding under the NPPC contract for subbasin planning. Any funding should be contingent on additional rationale on the assumption that models calibrated to a few streams in Idaho would have applicability to subbasins throughout the Columbia River Basin.