Estuarine Habitat Restoration, Basic and Applied Research, and Their Interaction in the Skagit River Delta
Greg Hood
Senior Research Scientist
Skagit River System Cooperative
21 April 2009
This seminar describes a variety of ecological, geomorphological, and hydrodynamic studies that are currently underway in the Skagit Delta, in Washington State, and describes how they are being applied to planning and design of tidal marsh restoration for the sake of Chinook salmon recovery.
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About the speaker
Greg Hood has a PhD from the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. He has been working at the Skagit River System Cooperative since 2000 on estuarine wetland habitat restoration and research, primarily in the Skagit Delta. His research interests focus on estuarine wetland ecology, geomorphology, and their interaction. He is also interested in landscape ecology and climate change impacts and adaptation. His applied research focuses on development of restoration design and planning tools, i.e., predictive models of estuarine vegetation and geomorphology.