NRTG’s MicroCourses offer a dynamic training pathway that’s as flexible as it is enriching to build expertise. Our Interpreting Fish Habitat Assessment Information, spanning four hours, delivers in-depth training in an easily digestible format. It’s designed to maximize your skills for immediate application.
You have collected a large amount of fish habitat data on a stream and now must use it to draw inferences and make decisions. How do you interpret these data that you have collected following standard methods? This Micro-Course describes ways to assess and interpret collected information to draw inferences on fish use based on habitat in a defensible manner. Participants are assumed to have working knowledge of the standard stream fish habitat assessment methods. This course focusses on interpreting the habitat as: (1) the fish sees it and (2) indicators of general channel, water, and fish health. Interpreting Fish Habitat Assessment Information is intended for fisheries people responsible analyzing and interpreting field collected data. This is a companion Micro-Course to Planning and Designing Fish Habitat Assessments.
Topics covered will include:
- Interpretation through ‘Lens of Purpose’.
- Inferences form Desktop assessments.
- Fish habitat related inferences.
- Channel related inferences.
- Inferences of land use effects on fish habitat and channel condition.
Course will be 4 hours long.
Sean Mitchell, PhD, RP Bio
NRTG Program Manager
Sean Mitchell has conducted stream assessments since the mid-1990s and these have included work in northern British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. He has seen stream assessment methods and approaches vary geographically, over time, and by jurisdiction. It is this wealth of experience that he distills down for the modern practitioner to understand the advantages and disadvantages, what the data tell us, and how to form a coherent picture of the habitat from the various, often disconnected, methods.