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Wetland & Watershed Assessment Group

Current Projects

• 2008-2009 Cabomba Surveys in OR Coastal Lakes
• 2006-2009 Monitoring Biocontrol Agents on the Lower Columbia River Estuary
• 2006 Monitoring Stream Invertebrates in the Triton Ck Restoration Project, Portland, OR
• The Use of Adult Aquatic Insects as a Wetland Characterization Tool (Oregon, Ohio & Texas)

 Past Projects

• 2006 Invertebrates of the Lower Columbia Estuary
• 2004/05 Algal Survey of Siletz River Tributaries, funded by the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
• 2004 Effects of Biocontrol of Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) in the Lower Columbia River
• 2007 Benthic Invertebrates from South Puget Sound Subestuaries (component of Deschutes Estuary Feasibility Study)2005 Monitoring Invertebrates Associated with Large Wood Placement at the South Slough NERR
• 2005 Deschutes River Estuary Restoration Study: Reference Estuary and Biological Conditions
• 2005 Patterns in Nutrient Limitation in the Siuslaw River Watershed
• 2004 Modeling Wetlands in Clark Co. Washington; partner with Virgil-Agrimis, Inc.
• 2003 A survey of Insects in the West Eugene Wetlands, funded by BLM
• 2003 Monitoring Invertebrates and Plant Communities in Restored Tidal Wetlands in the Yaquina Estuary
• 2000 Landscape characterization of selected wetland sampling sites in the Willamette Valley, Adamus Resource Assessment, Inc. (ARA)
• 2001 Establishing a nutria impact monitoring program on wetland vegetation in Big Bend National Park, funding is from Big Bend Natural History Association
• 1998 Earthwatch Research Trips to Big Bend National Park (Spring Ecosystems & Wetland Restoration) and to Churchill, Manitoba (Arctic Ecology Course)
• 1998 Wetland Delineation and Replacement Wetland Design (Warren, Ohio)
• 1997 Earthwatch (Big Bend National Park Research Trip)

Publications

Garono, R. J. and J. G. Kooser. 2001. The relationship between patterns in flying adult insect assemblages and vegetation structure in wetlands of Ohio and Texas. Ohio Journal of Science 101 (2):12-21.

Garono, Ralph J., Richard L. Kiesling, James G. Kooser, Eric N. Wold, Shon S. Schooler, and David D. Bradsby. 2001. Adult Insect Assemblages as a Conservation Planning Tool. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 27:4032-4041.

Garono, R. J. and J. G. Kooser. 1994. Ordination of wetland insect populations: evaluation of a potential mitigation monitoring tool. In Global Wetlands: Old World and New [W. J. Mitsch, ed.] . 509-516.

Garono, R.J. and D. B. MacLean. 1988. Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of Ohio Wetlands as Indicated by Light-Trapping. Ohio J. Science 88 (4): 143 - 5.

Contact Information

Wetland & Watershed Assessment Group Earth Design Consultants, Inc. 230 SW Third St., Suite 212 Corvallis, OR 97333 (541) 757-7896 (541 757-7991 FAX http://www.earthdesign.com