PIT Tag Workshops - 2024
2024 PIT Tag Workshop
January 30 - February 1, 2024
Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA
Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA
The 2024 PIT Tag Workshop gathered over 230 attendees together from 45 different organizations, based both inside and outside the Columbia River Basin, to share PIT tag related presentations and posters, attend training, network, and learn from each other over the course of two and half days.
2024 Workshop Presentations
| Wilbur Slockish | Invocation and Opening Words from Chief of the Klickitat | Abstract | |
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| John Tenney | Origins on the Use of PIT Tags in Fisheries: A Retrospective Video | Abstract | Video |
| Gabriel Brooks | A Brief Summary of NOAA Fisheries PIT Tag Technology Advancements | Abstract | Presentation |
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| James Faulkner | Modeling Estuary and Ocean Survival of Pacific Salmon Using a Temporally-Stratified Mark-Recapture-Recovery Approach that Accounts for Avian Predation and Age of Return | Abstract | Presentation |
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| Jason Neuswanger | A Method to Compute Adult Anadromous Salmonid Abundance by PIT Tagging Juvenile Outmigrants | Abstract | Presentation |
| Dalton Hance | The Value of Time and the Perils of Aggregation in PIT Tag Survival Analyses | Abstract | Presentation |
| Jeffrey K. Fryer | The Use of Three Types of PIT Tag Antennas at Zosel Dam on the Okanogan River | Abstract | Presentation |
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| Joseph H. Vinarcsik | Columbia River Estuary PIT Detection Project- Towed Methodologies | Abstract | Presentation |
| Stephani Clark Barkalow | Applications of a Floating PIT Tag Antenna Detection System in Desert Riverscapes | Abstract | Presentation |
| Kara E. Jaenecke | Comparing Stationary and Towed PIT Interrogation Methods for Detecting Juvenile Salmonids in the Lower Columbia River Estuary | Abstract | Presentation |
| Steve Whitlock | Trends in PIT-Tag Data Availability for Juvenile Snake River Pacific Salmon: How Structural, Environmental, and Operational Changes Have Influenced the Capacity to Monitor Hydrosystem Survival From 1998 to 2023 | Abstract | Presentation |
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| Jesse Lamb | 30-Years of Monitoring Wild Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook Parr Using PIT Tags | Abstract | Presentation |
| Benjamin Sandford | Migration Timing and Survival of Wild Chinook Salmon Using PIT-Detection at the Marsh Creek Instream Array | Abstract | Presentation |
| Lora Tennant | Delayed Emigration of Juvenile Steelhead and Its Impact on Survival Estimates | Abstract | Presentation |
| Jason Vogel | Snake Basin In-Season Management of Salmon, Steelhead, and Coho Tribal and State Fisheries Utilizing PIT Tags | Abstract | Presentation |
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| Bill Bosch | Emigration and Survival of Hatchery-Reared Coho Salmon Released as Parr and Smolts in a Reintroduction Program | Abstract | Presentation |
| Peter Cleary | Use of Seasonal Instream PIT Tag Detection Systems in Lower Clearwater and Salmon River Tributaries | Abstract | Presentation |
| Michael Kosinski | Utilizing PIT Tag Arrays to Evaluate Translocated Adult Pacific Lamprey in the Clearwater River Basin, ID | Abstract | Presentation |
| Virginia White | Salmonid Habitat Usage and Movement in Restored and Unrestored Reaches | Abstract | Presentation |
| Kathleen Hemeon | PIT Tag Ingestion: the Curious Fate of Shed Tags in Salmonid Hatcheries | Abstract | Presentation |
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| Ken TIffan | Performance of Subyearling Fall Chinook Salmon Tagged With 8-, 9-, And 12-mm Passive Integrated Transponder Tags in the Snake River | Abstract | Presentation |
| Douglas Peterson | Retention of Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) Tags in Hatchery Brook Trout: Effect of Tag Size, Implantation Site, and Double Tagging | Abstract | Presentation |
| Ken Tiffan | A Field Evaluation of the Growth and Survival of Age-0 Oncorhynchus mykiss Tagged with 8-mm Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) Tags | Abstract | Presentation |
| John Tenney | Recent Accomplishments of the PTAGIS Program | Abstract | Presentation |
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| Erin Benham | Development of a Klamath Basin Fisheries Collaborative Database that is Interoperable with PTAGIS: Supporting Within and Across Basin Collaboration | Abstract | |
| Elliot Koontz | A Model of a Regional PIT-Tag Data Management System in the Puget Sound | Abstract | Presentation |
| Kyle Meier | Instream PIT Array Communications - Types, Schemes, and Lessons Learned | Abstract | Presentation |
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| Kevin See | Wrangling and Preparing PIT Tag Data using PITcleanr | Abstract | Presentation |
| Matthew Stilwater | Remote Power Systems for PIT Tag Arrays | Abstract | Presentation |
| Gabriel Brooks | Demystifying PIT Antennas: From Theory to Practice | Abstract | Presentation |
| Derrek Faber | Efficient Integration of Raspberry Pi with M5 Software for uploading site interrogation data to PTAGIS | Abstract | Presentation |
| Derrek Faber | Instream PIT Tag Detection Session Introduction | Abstract | Presentation |
| Ian Jezorek | Early Days Instream: A Retrospective Visit to the Challenges and Evolution of the Rattlesnake Creek PIT-Tag Detection Site | Abstract | Presentation |
| Marika Dobos | PTAGIS Data Analysis: Transforming Raw Data into Research Insights | Abstract | Presentation |
| Nicole Tancreto | PTAGIS Reporting Tools | Abstract | |
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| Matthew Stilwater | Remote Power Systems for PIT Tag Arrays Hands-On | Abstract | |
| Kyle Meier | Instream PIT Array Communications – Network and Device Configurations | Abstract | |
| Gabriel Brooks | Hands-On PIT Antenna Workshop: From Design to Deployment | Abstract | |
| Kevin See | Hands-on Training - Wrangling and Preparing PIT Tag Data using PITcleanr | Abstract | |
| Derrek Faber | Practical Workshop: Configuring Raspberry Pi for M5 Software and PTAGIS Connectivity | Abstract | |
| Nicole Tancreto | PTAGIS Tagging Software | Abstract |
2024 Workshop Posters
| James Harbeck | Birds of a Feather Excrete PIT Tags Together: Twenty Years of Salmonid Mortality from an Eastern Oregon Great Blue Heron Rookery | Abstract | Poster |
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| Patrick Zubick | Sockeye Salmon Reintroduction to the Canadian Columbia River – Lessons from Small-Scale PIT Tag Releases | Abstract | Poster |
| PTAGIS Staff | Columbia Basin PIT Tag Information System | Abstract | Poster |
| Macus Ong | From Fry to Freedom: Tracing the Odyssey of Sockeye Salmon in the Okanagan Basin | Abstract | Poster |
| Tobyn Rhodes | Methods And Techniques For PIT Tagging Large Numbers of Small Juvenile Salmonids | Abstract | Poster |
| Danielle Grundy | Combining Parentage Analysis with PIT-Based Estimates to Evaluate Stray Rates and Smolt-to-Adult Survival of Hatchery Coho Salmon (O. kisutch) Released from Multiple Sites within the Methow River Basin | Abstract | Poster |
| Adam Palik | Nitrogen Purging as a Method of Restoring Function to Water-Intruded Flexible PIT Antenna Cable, 2023 | Abstract | Poster |
| Benjamin Sandford | Effects of Juvenile Barge Transportation on Snake River Sockeye Salmon Survival | Abstract | Poster |
| Craig Contor | Using PIT Tags to Estimate Pelican Predation of Smolts in the Umatilla River | Abstract | Poster |
| Paul Bentley | Observations of White Sturgeon Behavior at Four Pile Dikes in the Columbia River Estuary | Abstract | Poster |
| Samantha Smith | All for One, and One P4 for All: Centralizing P4 for Nez Perce Tribe Fisheries | Abstract | Poster |
| Matthew S. Morris | Pile Dike PIT Interrogation in the Columbia River Estuary, 2023 | Abstract | Poster |