Insights

Technical writing on
watershed intelligence.

Primary research and analysis from the Nyun team on freshwater monitoring, fish survival modelling, co-management evidence and regulatory science in BC watersheds.

Research

The Evidence Gap: Salmon Monitoring in BC Watersheds

Analysis of the 50% collapse in BC salmon monitoring since the 1980s, its causes, and the infrastructure required to close the resulting evidence gap for co-management decision-making.

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Technical

Coupled Modelling for Fish Survival: A BlueGrid Technical Overview

How BlueGrid integrates hydrodynamic, water-quality and fish bioenergetics models into a continuously-updated survival prediction framework — and why coupling matters.

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Policy

OCAP® by Architecture: What Data Sovereignty Actually Requires

Most platforms treat OCAP® as a governance checkbox. BlueGrid treats it as an architectural constraint. This paper explains the difference and why it matters for Indigenous co-management.

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Operations

Hydropower and Fish Survival: Beyond the Spill-Generation Trade-off

The conventional frame — more spill means more fish — misses most of the causal structure. This note outlines the mechanisms that actually drive TDG mortality and how operators can intervene precisely.

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Research

From Input to Outcome: Measuring the Return on Conservation Program Investment

Conservation Action Plans commit significant funding to habitat and fish passage restoration. This analysis reviews how outcome attribution is currently approached and what a BlueGrid-enabled model produces instead.

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Technical

Autonomous Monitoring in Inaccessible Watersheds: UAVs, USVs and eDNA

BC has thousands of salmon-bearing streams and rivers that have not been monitored in years. This paper describes the autonomous field sensing architecture AquaTwin uses to re-establish monitoring coverage.

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