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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2018
Saildrones: ‘We have to balance more than cost’ Tomlinson: Oversees
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For years, research on
yearly fish populations has
been conducted primarily
from huge research vessels.
For now, the bright orange
saildrones will supplement
the data collected on the
manned ships.
“Before we make any
changes that would affect sur-
vey results, we really have
to be certain those changes
would be equivalent or bet-
ter,” Hufnagle said.
Saildrones, produced by
Saildrone Inc., are under con-
sideration by NOAA in part-
nership with the company and
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
because of what the vehicles
can do that research vessels
cannot.
Because
they
are
unmanned, the vehicles can
be programmed to stay out
in the water for as long as a
year, without needing to stop
for reasons like human illness
or breaks.
They can get much closer
to the shore than a research
vessel, as the vehicles can
operate in a depth as shallow
as 10 feet.
And they cost less. A
research vessel costs $25,000
dollars a day or more to oper-
ate. A saildrone costs around
$2,500 a day. Though cost
is a factor in the consider-
ation, NOAA scientists want
Sebastien de Halleux
Saildrones could supplement data collected by tradi-
tional research vessels.
to make sure the saildrones
are effective data collectors
before they start using them
extensively.
“We have to balance more
than cost because the mea-
surements are important
enough to the livelihoods of
commercial fishermen,” Huf-
nagle said.
After a few months at sea,
the two saildrones launched
in Washington state are now
off the coast of Grays Har-
bor. While NOAA scientists
will do a more complete anal-
ysis of the data when the expe-
dition is complete, the collec-
tion has been so far successful,
with only one minor com-
ponent malfunction that was
fixed on shore.
“Like anything else, noth-
ing’s 100 percent,” Hufnagle
said. “We’ve had loss of time
or malfunctions on ships, too,
so it’s nothing to worry about.
Their reliability is extremely
high.”
When starting the project,
NOAA planned for the sail-
drones to travel transect lines
just like research vessels. Tran-
sect lines run back and forth
from shore for 35 miles, with
10-mile spaces between each
line, similar to how someone
would push a lawnmower in a
backyard.
But saildrones are wind-de-
pendent, not power-operated
like research vessels. Hufnagle
has realized that NOAA will
have to consider sea and wave
conditions more extensively
when they plan transect lines
for saildrones in the future, as
the vehicles can get buffeted
29 properties along
the Columbia River
off path. Future transect lines
for saildrones may look more
like zigzags.
“We’re learning that what
we do as survey planning and
survey design may not be opti-
mal for a sailing vehicle,” Huf-
nagle said.
While the technology is still
being tested, David Demer,
the leader of advanced survey
technology at NOAA’s South-
west Fisheries Science Center,
said that saildrone-only sur-
veys are not a possibility yet.
But the testing could lead to
saildrones as the primary data
source in the future.
“It’s presently difficult
to say that saildrone surveys
could replace the types of
fishery surveys that we con-
duct presently,” Demer said.
“But it’s conceivable that
new advances in technology
for remotely sensing fish spe-
cies could evolve, then sail-
drone-only surveys could then
be a possibility.”
The saildrones will sail
south from 164 feet to 4,900
feet offshore. Hufnagle was
unable to provide the sail-
drones’ exact locations, as
NOAA doesn’t want anyone
tampering with them out in the
water.
But tourists and locals
standing on the shore may be
able to see the saildrones pass
by the Oregon Coast in the
next month if their timing is
right.
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After college, Tomlinson
became a project manager for
a forestry consultant analyzing
the health of timber stands. But
the job involved constant travel,
and soon he was burned out.
Within a couple of years
of graduation, Tomlinson was
back on the North Coast. He
spent five years in tempo-
rary positions, augmenting his
income by fishing in Bristol
Bay, Alaska.
“I was always here, but I
was just doing seasonal (work),
just trying to scrape by, which
isn’t bad,” he said. “I still got
to do the things I love, to travel
and stuff, but I was just living
paycheck to paycheck.”
In 2015, he was hired by the
Clatsop Soil and Water Con-
servation District, and two
years ago landed a highly com-
petitive job as a land steward
with the land trust, competing
against some of his friends for
the opportunity.
Tomlinson oversees 29
properties along the Colum-
bia River, from the mouth and
Washington’s Long Beach Pen-
insula to Rainier. Much of his
time is spent in the field mon-
Housing: Investigations have
taken weeks longer than expected
Basin: ‘This might even be the end of the sea lions’
Continued from Page 1A
The project could boost the
local economy while preserv-
ing the rich history, charac-
ter and core values of Astoria,
Sernande wrote.
The company is proposing
floating, single-family homes
similar to those found in Sau-
salito, California, in front of
Comfort Suites, just west of
the East Mooring Basin cause-
way with connecting docks to
the Astoria Riverwalk, Ser-
nande said. The homes would
be no more than 20 feet tall
from the water level, hope-
fully allaying any concerns
about blocking river views for
nearby residents, he said.
The company is also look-
ing to expand moorage at the
East Mooring Basin, which
was originally designed for
1,000 slips, and to potentially
create a cruise ship terminal
along the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers breakwater.
The causeway to the break-
water has fallen into disrepair.
The Port has estimated it will
cost $4 million to rehabilitate
the roadway, and has looked
at potential public-private
partnerships to provide fund-
ing and spur development.
“That breakwater can eas-
ily accommodate one or two
cruise ships,” Sernande said.
“That could be a really nice
facility there as a terminal to
accept cruise ships (and) shut-
tle customers around Astoria.”
The development of homes
and a cruise ship terminal
would also require enhancing
the waterfront with more dock
connections, lighting and
security, Sernande said.
Jim Knight, the Port’s
executive director, said Tues-
day’s presentation will pro-
vide a rollout of what Fisher-
mens Wharf is planning.
“Floyd is really the moti-
vating person behind this, has
itoring the properties as part
of accreditation with the Land
Trust Alliance, which includes
yearly checkups on species
diversity, encroachment of
invasives and nearby develop-
ment that can affect a property
in conservation. He also over-
sees restoration projects such as
pulling invasive species.
Tomlinson tries to expose
local students to conserved
lands and local opportunities in
the field, inviting teachers inter-
ested in class field trips to con-
tact the land trust.
He recently purchased a
house in Gearhart with his part-
ner, a local nurse he’s known
since middle school who also
moved back after spending
time in Southern California and
New York City.
“A lot of people I went to
high school with just couldn’t
wait to leave,” Tomlinson said.
“It was a small town. They just
wanted to get out. And of course
I wanted to do the same thing,
too, but I always knew we lived
in such an awesome place. I
knew I wanted to be here. It had
everything that I wanted — the
natural environment, the ocean,
close to the mountains. It was
just like, ‘How do you do it?’”
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been working on it for the last
several years,” he said.
The East Mooring Basin is
subject to building and height
restrictions in the Civic Gre-
enway portion of Astoria’s
Riverfront Vision Plan. The
Port can get exceptions to
the restrictions if the agency
presents a master plan that is
approved by the City Council.
Knight sees the compa-
ny’s proposal as a potential
shot in the arm for the Port,
which lacks the money to
develop the area around the
East Mooring Basin.
“This might even be the
end of the sea lions,” he said.
“The handwriting appeared
to be Johnston’s and I believe
he forged this document to
retaliate against me,” the com-
plaint alleges. “The investi-
gator showed me a copy of
the income verification form.
I would never sign anything
in respect to verifying Nativ-
idad’s income for Section 8
purposes.”
Johnston could not immedi-
ately be reached for comment.
The complaint names the
housing authority, Johnston,
Lee and LinMarie DiCianni,
who resigned from the agen-
cy’s board in July follow-
ing what she called a harass-
ing email exchange with Sims.
The complaint alleges Lee
failed to offer the entire scope
of the investigations and that
DiCianni mischaracterized the
email exchange in comments
to the news media.
“Why would I have retali-
ated against her while she was
already on leave?” Lee said.
“These claims are baseless and
mean nothing to me.”
The housing authori-
ty’s investigations, which
have taken weeks longer than
expected, could be completed
soon. “I expect to give a report
by the end of next week,” Lee
said.
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