Technical Modeling and Analysis Group (TMAG)
Interdisciplinary group of scientists, engineers, and technical specialists, responsible for conducting and managing complex technical studies and projects, and integrating the products of those studies and projects into management objectives and recommendations. Supervised by the Team Leader under the Executive Director. The TMAG conducts technical analyses, model projections for achieving restoration objectives, design for comparison with ongoing approaches, planning, peer review, and budgeting. The TMAG makes recommendations to the TMC through the Executive Director for implementation and testing of appropriate hypotheses. The TMAG recommends modifications to the annual flow schedule within the annual water year-type allocation. The TMAG oversees scientific evaluation and design of all rehabilitation projects including: bank rehabilitation, gravel augmentation, riparian re-vegetation, floodplain creation, sediment management, and watershed rehabilitation. The TMAG develops the scope of work for these actions. The TMAG serves as the Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR). The TMAG shares some COTR responsibilities to the RIG.
Membership
Full-time Group Leader Interdisciplinary experience in water resources management or river restoration/ rehabilitation with expertise in biological and geomorphological sciences. Supervised by the Executive Director. Four full-time, multi-disciplinary scientists/ engineers representing these disciplines:
- Fisheries Biology
- Fluvial Geomorphology/ Hydraulic Engineering
- Riparian Ecology/ Wildlife Ecology
- Water Quality/ Temperature
- Hill Slope Geomorphology/ Watershed Hydrology
- Information Management/ Computer Modeling
A part-time representative from USBR Operations (CVP) serves as a member of this team when formulating the annual flow schedule.
Roles & Responsibilities
Team members collaborate in:
- Habitat modeling and mapping, SALMOD, habitat quality (gravel quality), statistics, population modeling
- Sediment transport, channel response, channel design
- Riparian revegetation, regeneration, and encroachment and removal
- Water temperature and other water quality indicator modeling
- Information Management and GIS
- Flow release recommendations and annual flow schedule formulation
- Integration of appropriate models for describing the response of the stream corridor to management alternatives
- Watershed restoration
- Evaluates previous year & historical monitoring results with respect to existing hypotheses
- Re-visits scientific hypotheses as appropriate
- Conducts sediment transport modeling, habitat modeling, temperature modeling and salmon production modeling
- Integrates multidisciplinary information and identifies alternatives to resolve conflicting ecological management needs
- Coordinates with operations and presents analyses to TMC for resolving conflicts and assessing management needs
- Provides short term research project development and oversight
- Conducts long-term trend monitoring development and oversight
- Sets standards and protocols for monitoring information (datum, coordinate systems, reporting techniques and formats, etc)
- Ensures effective data management, storage, analysis, and distribution
- Solicits technical input review from stakeholder groups and regulatory agencies
- Analyzes and submits implementation plans for scientific peer review
- Coordinates review from Scientific Advisory Board and Review Committees
- Submits designs in collaboration with the RIG for Rehabilitation Activities and Objective Specific Monitoring
- Is responsible for RFP development and preparation of statements of work in cooperation with the RIG Contracting Officer
- Contracting Officer's Technical Representative - assist in Objective Specific Monitoring and Rehabilitation Activities contracting
- Provides program reporting
- Completes special duties as requested by Executive Director