Corey Wright Email & Phone Number

Ellensburg, Wa, Us

Ellensburg, Wa

Responsible for acoustic tag and hydroacoustic evaluations at hydropower dams. Acts as project manager including, project permitting and oversight of subcontractors and support staff. • Responsible for deployment, fish collection, data collection, data analysis, and report writing. • Yearling Chinook survival assessment using acoustic telemetry at Rock Island Dam (client Chelan PUD, 2021) - As Project Manager, responsible for all aspects of study implementation, study design, budgeting, hiring, installation of monitoring equipment, data collection, analysis and reporting. • White sturgeon indexing and monitoring (client Chelan PUD, 2012 – 2023) – responsible for assessing the post-release survival, condition, growth, movement, dispersal, and emigration of JSATS and PIT tag implanted fish. Employ mark-recapture methods to estimate the size of the population and to determine habitat associations.• White sturgeon broodstock collection (client Chelan PUD, 2011 – 2023) – As Project Manager, oversight on all facets of broodstock collection from design, permitting, collection, and summary/technical writing.• American shad upstream passage behavior at a small hydroelectric dam on the Merrimack River, Massachusetts, (Enel Green Power, ENG, North America, in collaboration with Alden Research Laboratory, 2011) – As Project Manager, traveled to Massachusetts for pilot testing of HTI Acoustic Tag Tracking methods in April 2011 and deployment of gear in May 2011; guided research scientists in the use of telemetry system, oversight in data collection and processing, data analysis and reporting. • DIDSON evaluation of fish behavior at turbine gatewell exclusion screens (Grant PUD, 2010) – As Project Manager, all facets of project were completed (study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting.• Assistant Project Manager – Juvenile salmonid survival and passage behavior using acoustic telemetry at Priest Rapids Project (Grant PUD, 2009-2017).

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for acoustic tag and hydroacoustic evaluations of salmonid distributions, bypass effectiveness, behavior, and migration characteristics at hydropower dams in the Pacific Northwest. • Responsible for equipment deployment, data collection, data analysis, and report writing. • Assistant Project Manager – Juvenile salmonid survival and passage behavior using acoustic telemetry at Priest Rapids Project (Grant PUD, 2006-2008).

Columbia River Research Laboritory Cook, Wa

White sturgeon population monitoring in the lower Columbia River basin (client USACE, Portland District); as a Project Lead, tasks included sampling all life stages of sturgeon through numerous methods including setline, trawl, kick-net, D-ring, and stake net gears and tracking actively tagged sturgeon utilizing the VEMCO VRAP, VR2, and Lotek MAP acoustic systems• Followed permit guidelines for collection, holding, and transporting of endangered and non-endangered species.• Surgically implanted acoustic telemetry tags.• Prepareed professional presentations, and annual reports, assisted with preparation of research proposals, and manuscripts.• Wrote Statistical Analysis Software (SAS) programs to manipulate and analyze large databases. • Prepared GIS maps for spatial analysis, study design, sampling protocols, presentations, and reports.• Designed and developed databases for storage of telemetry data to allow integration with analysis software.• Developed standard operating procedures and train other employees in the use of database software.• Made suggestions for improvements in data collection methods to supervisors.• Trained and lead field crews of biological technicians implanting gastric radio tags and releasing juvenile salmonids.• Installed, updated, maintained, and repaired acoustic and radio telemetry equipment including: hydrophones, antennas, receivers, amps, attenuators, etc.• Operated, maintained, and repaired boats, vehicles, and other field equipment.