A new paper led by QCons lab member Mark Sorel was published October 19 in the Journal of Applied Ecology. We used data augmentation to understand how sea lion-associated mortality differentially impacts populations of endangered Chinook salmon in the Columbia River. Read the full UW news release here. Co-authors are Richard Zabel and A. Michelle Wargo Rub of NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center and Devin Johnson of NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center. The research was funded by the National Marine Fisheries Service West Coast Protected Resource Division.