D.G. Watson's scientific contributions

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Article
The Hanford Reach of the Columbia River provides the only major spawning habitat for the upriver bright (URB) race of fall chinook salmon in the mainstem Columbia River. Hanford Site biologists have conducted aerial surveys of spawning salmon in the Hanford Reach since 1948. This report summarizes data on fall chinook salmon spawning in the Hanford...

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... In the Ketelsen et al. (2017) study, sampling was focused solely on specific spawning areas and non-contiguous stream reaches were sampled. Even though suitable spawning habitat may be widely distributed, salmonid redd locations can be clustered (Dauble and Watson 1990), making redd density comparisons somewhat specious. ...