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Agencies Nature of Partnership
Bonneville Power Administration Department of Energy funding entity for numerous Columbia Basin fisheries projects
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
  Map of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Regions
ESA species, contaminants, and Columbia River issues such as gas supersaturation.

Conducting work in the Klamath Basin.

NOAA Lamprey passage issues
National Park Service
  Map of National Park Service Regions
Salmonid genetic diversity, Elwha restoration, forest ecosystem health
SERDP (Strategic Environmental Research and Development Project) Investigate means to detect and evaluate the impact of anthropogenic stressors on the structure and structural integrity of ecosystems.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  Map of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regions
Numerous fish passage and other Columbia River studies
U. S. Department of Agriculture Fish health research, aquaculture issues, plant health, biological control research
U.S. Department of the Navy ESA listed species, aquatic contaminant issues
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  Map of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regions
Numerous hatchery, refuge, and wild stock fishery and ecosystem issues
U.S. Forest Service
  Map of U.S. Forest Service Regions
Collaborative project to characterize habitat/micro-habitat of steelhead trout and amphibians in tributaries of the South Fork Trinity River, CA, and to quantify these species' requirements and inter-species interactions.
U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Division Soil geochemical analysis and heavy metal bioremediation
U.S. Geological Survey NAWQA Participate in the Urban Land Use Gradient Study, using the combination of water chemistry, contaminant, physical environmental and biological survey data, to construct population dynamics models...writing the per-capita population growth rate as a function of all four data fields.
U.S. Geological Survey Water Division NAWQA program, hydrology/water quality issues, ecosystem studies
State of California Aquatic contaminants, salmonids, introduced species, Salton Sea ecosystem issues
State of Idaho Salmonid population dynamics, hatchery, and disease issues
State of Montana Salmonid population dynamics, hatchery, and disease issues
State of Nevada ESA listed species, desert aquatic systems
State of Oregon Salmonid population dynamics, hatchery, and disease issues.
Sturgeon population dynamics.
State of Washington Salmonid population dynamics, hatchery, and disease issues

International Partners  
D.F.O. British Columbia, Canada Pacific salmon life history requirements
FAO, United Nations Control of bacterial kidney disease
Helix Biotechnology, Belgium Molecular biology of INH/IPN
Hokkaido University, Japan Molecular biology of rhabdoviruses from Japan
Instituoto de Fomento Pesquero, Chile Control of bacterial kidney disease
Institut National de la RecherchÄ Agronomique, France Collaborative investigations in salmonid viral immunity
Instotuto Pirenaico de Ecologia, Spain Occasional collaborative work on the impact of grazing and other stressors on ecological community structure, and its detection using developmental instability.
Kochi University, Japan Fish health and pathology research, Pacific species
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, New Zealand Detection of bacterial kidney disease
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, United Kingdom Fish pathology research
Miyazaki University, Japan Fish disease control research affecting mutual national interests
National University, Taiwan Detection and control of fish diseases
Nikon University, Japan ELISA assay for IHN detection
State Serum Laboratory, Denmark Molecular biology of IPN viral disease
Tiawan National University, Tiawan Detection and control of fish diseases
Tokyo University of Fisheries, Japan Molecular biology of IHN virus
übo Akademi University, Finland Molecular biology of spring viremia virus
University of Chile Control of bacterial kidney disease
University of Regina, Canada Analysis of algal pigments in estuarine sediments

Private Sector  
Biomed, Inc Jointly funded collaborations on fish disease, critical to hatcheries and aquaculture
Clear Springs Trout Company Development of molecular tools for hatcheries and aquaculture
Coastal net pen aquaculture industry Viral strain determination, net pen disease management
Columbia River Fish Farms Gas bubble trauma in Columbia River net pen and wild fish

Tribal  
Columbia River Intertribal Fisheries Commission Fish passage, migration, gas bubble trauma, white sturgeon populations; bioenergetics
Colville Tribe Gas bubble trauma below Grand Coulee
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Collaborative research on Pacific lamprey migration.

Collaborative research on restoration of lamprey populations in the Columbia River Basin.

Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation Integration of artificial and natural production of chinook salmon
Klamath Tribes
Nez Perce Tribe Chinook/steelhead migration and passage, Lower Granite Dam
Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission Viral hemorrhagic septicemia, proliferative kidney disease, hatchery applications
Skagit System Tribal Cooperative Salmonid use of estuarine habitats (otolith study)

U.S. Universities  
Coop Units Graduate student and collaborative research
Humboldt State University Graduate student research
Michigan State University Technical assistance for lamprey olfaction studies and comparative species studies on lampreys.
Oregon State University Fishery and forest issue collaboration
University of California/Davis Joint research on disease and contaminants, library support for Dixon Station
University of Miami Collaborative modeling work predation
University of Washington Teaching; graduate student research; joint research.

Collaborative work on life history theory; developing a framework for linking survivorship and reproductive output schedules, and examining their alteration by both natural and anthropogenic factors.

Wayne State University Continuing collaborative work on morphological indicators of stress in organisms.

Continuing collaborative work on predicting the population and community consequences of management actions and contaminants.


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