Schedule of Events

 

9:30am          Tea and Coffee

 

10:00am       Stephen Sutton, Coordinator of Community Outreach and Engagement, ASF

Topic: Atlantic Salmon: An International Perspective

 

10:30am       Paul Chamberland, Department of Fisheries and Oceans

Topic: Improving Salmon population assessment through the development of an automated radiotelemetry array in the Miramichi system

 

11:00am       Ryan Carrow, M.Sc.F Candidate at the University of New Brunswick

Topic: Migration and behavior of wild and smolt-adult-supplementation (SAS) adult Atlantic salmon in the Miramichi River, New Brunswick

 

11:30am       Jani Helminen, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of New Brunswick

Topic: Counting salmon using imaging sonars in the Miramichi River. What was done in 2017 and what is happening in 2018.

 

12:00-1:00pm LUNCH

 

1:00pm          Drew Carlton, Energy and Resource Development, GNB

Topic: Budworm

 

1:30pm          Antóin O’Sullivan, Ph. D. Candidate at the University of New Brunswick

Topic: You could fry an egg out there: stream temperature projections for an Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) river under a warming climate

 

2:00pm          David Roth, PhD Candidate, Canadian Rivers Institute

Topic: Smolt-to-Adult-Supplementation (SAS):  Experimental River & Laboratory Experiment

 

2:30pm          Kelsey McGee, MSA Biologist & MSA President Mark Hambrook

Topic: Miramichi Salmon Association Field Programs 2018 & on SAS in South Esk, NB

 

THE MIRAMICHI WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE AND THE MSA THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR SCIENCE DAY 2018!

 

RSVP by e-mailing kate@miramichisalmon.ca