Clare Atkinson <catkinson at psf.ca>
Since 2008, the Pacific Salmon Foundation's (PSF) Salmon Watersheds Program has worked to synthesize the best available data on Pacific salmon, evaluate the status of salmon populations and their habitats, and make information broadly accessible. In 2016, PSF launched the Pacific Salmon Explorer, an online data visualization tool that allows those interested in salmon conservation and management to access baseline data and assessments relevant to Pacific salmon. Using this innovative tool, professionals and the public can explore salmon datasets through interactive maps and figures for individual salmon Conservation Units (CUs).
To leverage this successful tool to improve the availability of information about steelhead and their habitats, PSF is working to expand the Pacific Salmon Explorer to include the best-available data for steelhead in British Columbia. We hope to apply methodologies developed to evaluate the status of salmon CUs, and pressures on their freshwater habitats, to steelhead in the regions visualised on the Pacific Salmon Explorer. This project is one component of a broader initiative funded by the British Columbia Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund (BC SRIF) to update, expand, and mobilize the information provided in the Pacific Salmon Explorer between April 2021 and March 2024.
Brief description of each folder in this repository:
/code contains data wrangling and analysis code scripts to produce datasets for population indicators and biological status assessments for steelhead on the Pacific Salmon Explorer.
/data contains input data (i.e. raw data sets in the format they were accessed or shared). Note that some of these datasets are too large to post to GitHub; please contact Clare or Eric to request these.
/output contains output synthesized datasets and metadata files, which are visualized in the Pacific Salmon Explorer and provided for download in PSF's Salmon Data Library.
We would like to thank our partners in this work:
- The Province of British Columbia
- The University of British Columbia
- Simon Fraser University
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
- The Freshwater Fisheries Society
- The Gitanyow Fisheries Authority
- The Nisga'a Lisims Government
- A-Tlegay Fisheries Society
This work is possible with funding from the British Columbia Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund (BC SRIF) between 2021 - 2024 .
General contact: info at salmonwatersheds dot ca.
Contributers to this repository:
- Clare Atkinson, Project Manager (PSF) catkinson at psf dot ca
- Eric Hertz, Analyst (PSF) ehertz at psf dot ca
Related papers and reports:
- Pacific Salmon Explorer Technical Report: more information about the approach and methods underlying the Pacific Salmon Explorer