Stories with the tag: Wildlife Research
A new laboratory test can help limit the injuries fish receive from loud, underwater booms created during pile driving, the practice of pounding long, hollow steel piles into the ocean floor to erect structures such as tidal energy turbines. Release Date: 6/20/2012
PNNL scientists are examining how aquatic animals behave around electromagnetic fields similar to those expected to be created by marine power devices. Release Date: 9/20/2010
The new Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System more precisely tracks the migration of juvenile salmon in deep, fast-moving rivers than comparable methods, suggests a paper in the January edition of the journal Fisheries. Release Date: 1/8/2010
A team of Northwest researchers are researching the unusual life history of fall Chinook salmon on the Clearwater River in Idaho, where many fish delay their migration to the ocean for a year. Release Date: 9/17/2009
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will receive more than $6.8 million total over three years to advance the production of renewable power from the movement of oceans and rivers. PNNL will also lead a study looking at the environmental impacts of hydrokinetic and marine energy, which includes tidal and wave power. Release Date: 9/1/2009
PNNL researchers will discuss how they used two technologies - the Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) and river modeling - to improve salmon dam passage during Waterpower XVI, a conference for professionals in the hydroelectric industry that will run July 27-30, 2009, in Spokane, Wash. Release Date: 8/19/2009
Power System by attending a media event at John Day Dam on May 21. Release Date: 5/12/2009
