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.
• 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..
• 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.

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.
• 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.