- ID: 362
- State: Draft
- Owner: Carol Volk
- Spatial Design Category: Generalized Random Tessellation Stratified (GRTS)
- Sites in Design: 556
- Has Location Privacy: No
- Data Repository: <none>
- Created by: Carol Volk
- Created: 5/14/2014
- Updated by: Carol Volk
- Updated: 5/14/2014
- Version History: v1.0 Draft (5/14/2014)
The details of this Sample Design, including all the parameters used to generate it, are included below. Sample designs must belong to a Study Plan.
Description
CHaMP is designed as a Columbia River basin-wide habitat status and trends monitoring program built around a single protocol with a programmatic approach to data collection and management (RM&E Workgroup 2010). CHaMP will result in the collection and analysis of systematic habitat status and trends information that will be used to assess basin-wide habitat conditions. When coupled with biological response indicators, this status and trends information will be used to evaluate habitat management strategies. This program will be integrated with ongoing Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Program (PNAMP) recovery planning efforts and will be part of the collaborative process across Columbia Basin fish management agencies and tribes and other state and federal agencies that are monitoring anadromous salmonids and/or their habitat. The implementation of CHaMP will characterize stream responses to watershed restoration and/or management actions in at least one population within each steelhead and spring Chinook Major Population Group (MPG) which have, or will have, “fish-in” and “fish-out” monitoring (identified in RPA 50.6), thereby meeting the requirements of RPA 56.3, RPA 57, and RPA 3. CHaMP was designed to deliver trends in habitat indicators and requires that monitoring occurs for three cycles of a sampling panel (see section 1.6), at least 9 years.
John Day’s ChaMP design integrated several projects. The overarching design covered 5 TRT populations (Steelhead) defined by each of the major basins making up the John Day (Lower John Day, South Fork, Middle Fork, North Fork, and upper mainstem). ODFW has conducted GRTS based habitat surveys for several years, providing an extensive list of legacy sites. Two special studies were embedded within the overarching design. An ISEMP Intensively Monitored Watershed (IMW) project, initiated in 2005, was set up to evaluate potential stream restoration by stimulating repopulation of beaver communities in Bridge Creek (Lower John Day, OR) with Murderer’s Creek (South Fork John Day) as a watershed-scale reference. The ISEMP project designed a ‘staircase’ framework to evaluate the range of restoration projects to be implemented over time, with a set of reference sites on the mainstem of Murderer’s Creek. A second project, initiated in parallel with CHaMP status and trend and the Bridge Creek IMW, intended to examine spatially intensive sampling (ISW = intensively sampled watersheds). This study selected sites in several small watersheds (Strahler Order 3) across the John Day Basin.
2013 Design updates:
In 2013, the ODFW frame was reduced to the Middle Fork John Day and South Fork John Day steelhead populations. In both of these areas, ODFW did slight updates to the frames within these HUC4s and a GRTS sample was done to cover areas outside of ELR's sampling frame. Previously sampled CHaMP sites were used as legacy sites within the new GRTS draw.
2013 stratification:
New strata were created to cover the new frame of ODFW, specifically for the MFJD. "Greater Middle Fork John Day" refers to the frame area outside of ELR's MFJD sampling frame. Valley class was also used as a stratification variable (Source, Transport Depositional). In the "Greater South Fork John Day", outside of ELR's Murderer's Creek target frame, Valley class was grouped into "Source" and "Transport Depositional" classes since there were very few Transport sites. Note that some frame area in the 'Greater South Fork John Day' strata is within the Murderer's Creek HUC6, but is not part of the ELR Murderers Creek frame.
ELR's design did not change from 2012 sampling.
2012 design change summary: The primary change in the JD Design for 2012 revolved around the redesign of the ISW component; the ISW design set up for 2011 was abandoned as these watersheds were too small, yielding insufficient habitat contrasts across their target domains. Instead, the ISW effort switched to the upper mainstem of the Middle Fork John Day and Murderers Creek. Within both, sampling effort was increased. The basic design was to sample 15 sites per year, an annual panel of 6 sites and 3 rotating panels of 9 sites, each on a three year cycle, stratified by valley class. There was no change to the greater John Day and non-Murderer's sampling in the South Fork John Day.
2012 stratification:
There were no changes to the Greater John Day and Greater South Fork John Day strata in 2012. ISWs were discontinued in 2012 and all effort was moved to the upstream Middle Fork John Day, using strata of mainstem/not mainstem and valley class (depositional, transport and source). Murderer's Creek sampling continued with a slightly reduced frame and additional samples selected in the draw. The mainstem section of the Middle Fork John Day was defined where NHDPlus v1.0 hydrography GNISName=Middle Fork John Day. Mainstem/not mainstem stratification notes are not listed in the champmonitoring.org CategoryName, but are within the GIS frame files. ODFW sampling in the 'Greater John Day' included the remainder of the 2011 ODFW JD frame not covered by ELR's MFJD sampling.
Master sample GRTS Input file: JD_MS_LEG_all_20120520_take 2.xlsx
Legacy sample GRTS Input file:
Final Design File: Murderers Creek ISW: murd.isw.dsgn.20120606.csv; Middle Fork John Day ISW: MFJD.isw.dsgn.20120606.csv
R code: Murderers JD MF ISW 2012.Clean.r
2011 Design Notes:
Stratification:
The Greater John Day and Greater South Fork John Day designs were stratified by Valley Class (Source, Transport, Depositional) and Ownership (Public/Private).
The Intensively Surveyed Watersheds were stratified by the Watershed Name (e.g. Rancheria Creek) and gradient classes that were used in a geomorphic classification by Tim Beechie et al. (2013) for large streams >8m. Gradient classes were <1, 1-3, and >3.
Murderers Creek was stratified into mainstem and non-mainstem area as defined by NHDPlus' GNIS Name =Murderers Creek as the 'mainstem' area. This stratification is not listed in the Category Name used on cm.org, but was used during the initial GRTS design process.
Master sample GRTS Input file: ISW file: JDISW_MS_20110523_b.txt; Greater John Day file: JohnDay_MS_20110506_1400.txt; South Fork John Day/Murderers: JohnDaySF_MS_20110506_1500.txt (note Murderers Creek sites extracted from this file)
Legacy sample GRTS Input file: ISW file: JDISW_Legacy_20110523_b.txt; Greater John Day file: JohnDay_Legacy_20110506_1400.txt; South Fork John Day/Murderers: JohnDaySF_Legacy_20110506_1500.txt
Final design file: Greater John Day (ODFW): John Day sans SF Design.5.6.2011.csv, Murderers Creek design: Murderers.mainstem.7.6.2011.csv; ISW design: ISW.sample.5.25.csv
R code: John Day Design 5.24.2011.clean.r
Strat.panel function version: Stevens.strat.panel6.r
Design Documentation Files:
Sample Design Parameters
- Has user sites
- 5 Panels
- Is stratified
Start Year
2011
Initiation Year
2013
Retirement Year
2013
Study Plan
Data Repositories
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Photos
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Documents
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Map of Sites
- Stratum
- Panel
- Occasion
Area of Inference
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AOI Notes
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