Chanice Davies

Chanice is a former Biological Science Technician at the Columbia River FWCO. 

Former Position Summary:

Chanice operates automated mass marking trailers to support mass marking projects, assists with PIT tagging, biosampling, extraction and reading of recovered coded wire tags, and scale reading and aging. Chanice is also a USFWS certified motor boat operator and assists the Passage and Habitat Team with lamprey surveys.

Former Program: Marking and Tagging

Past Projects:

1. Mass Marking at Columbia River Gorge, Mid-Columbia and Dworshak NFH complex hatcheries
2. Mass Marking and tagging for fall Chinook salmon at Spring Creek and Little White Salmon NFHs
3. Mass Marking and tagging at Leavenworth NFH complex hatcheries
4. PIT tagging for the Smolt Monitoring Project 
5. PIT tagging for the Comparative Survival Study 
6. Mass Marking and tagging for steelhead and spring Chinook at Dworshak NFH
7. Representative PIT tagging at Columbia River Gorge Complex NFHs 
8. Marking and tagging for the Yakama Indian Nation Mid-Columbia Coho reintroduction project 
9. Lamprey surveys
10. Monitoring Bull Trout on the Pinhead Weir

11. eDNA projects including invasive New Zealand mud snails and Bull Trout spawning grounds in La Grande and John Day

Background: Chanice is a graduate of Oregon State University (Go Beavs), and has previously worked for Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and US FWS at the Soldotna, AK office. 

Start at the CRFWCO in: 2017