Steacie Fellowship RTI - Fish Tracking System

我在卡尔顿的鱼类生态学和保护生理学实验室的团队研究野生鱼类的压力生态学。 我们的长期目标是建立一个清晰的理解之间的相互关系的环境，生理，行为和健身在个人层面以及扩大到人口。这项工作将提供一个功能的理解，人类引起的快速环境变化对野生生物的影响，同时阐明个人生理和人口下降之间的机械关系。 2014年底，我被授予NSERC E.W.R.。斯泰西奖学金题为“了解太平洋鲑鱼迁移的多重压力的后果”。 对于该奖项，我们将确定上游迁移的鲑鱼如何应对多种压力，以及在迁移的一个阶段所经历的压力的影响是否会延续到随后的时间和地点。 尽管携带效应的潜在重要性，他们很少被研究，由于通过空间和时间跟踪个人相关的困难。 斯泰西奖学金建立在我的发现补助金（DG）中开发的想法的基础上，但在安装一系列覆盖整个流域的大规模实地实验方面更具雄心和挑战性，但涉及确定个体鱼类是否产卵。 为了在接下来的两年里支持我的斯泰西奖学金中概述的研究，并为我提供将这种类型的机械实地研究整合到我的NSERC DG计划中的能力，我需要专门的设备。 所要求的设备是利用电子标记技术，结合生物遥测（远程传输信息）和生物记录（记录信息供以后下载）的要素，追踪野生鱼类。 需要利用无线电遥测技术来描述洄游行为，查明其命运，使鱼类得以恢复，并确定装有生物记录标签的鱼类的位置，以便利标签的恢复和下载。 拟议的设备将促进PDF，研究生和本科生的培训，同时使他们能够进行创造性和尖端的研究，连接生态学，行为，生理学和保护。

My team in the Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory at Carleton studies the ecology of stress in wild fish. Our long-term goal is to establish a clear understanding of the inter-relationships between the environment, physiology, behaviour and fitness at the individual level as well as scaling up to populations. This body of work will provide a functional understanding of the effect of human-induced rapid environmental change on wild organisms while elucidating the mechanistic relationships between individual physiology and population declines. In late 2014, I was awarded an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship titled "Understanding the consequences of multiple stressors on the migration of Pacific salmon". For that award we will determine how upriver migrating salmon respond to multiple stressors and whether the effects of stressors experienced at one stage of the migration will carry over to subsequent times and locations. Despite the potential importance of carry-over effects, they are rarely studied due to difficulties associated with tracking individuals through space and time. The Steacie Fellowship builds on the ideas developed in my Discovery Grant (DG) but is much more ambitious and challenging in terms of mounting a series of large-scale field experiments that cover entire watersheds yet involve determining whether individual fish spawn. To support the research outlined in my Steacie Fellowship over the next two years and to provide me with the ability to integrate that type of mechanistic field research into my NSERC DG program, I require specialized equipment. The equipment requested is for the tracking of wild fish using electronic tagging technology combining elements of biotelemetry (remote transmission of information) and biologging (information logged for later downloading). Radio telemetry is needed to characterize migration behaviour, identify fate, enable the recovery of fish and locate fish equipped with biologger tags to facilitate tag recovery and downloading. The proposed equipment will facilitate the training of PDFs, graduate students and undergrads while enabling them to conduct creative and cutting edge studies that bridge ecology, behaviour, physiology and conservation.