IEP Data Management Plans

Data Management Plans (DMPs) are documents that capture and share essential information from data providers of IEP studies to ensure proper accommodation for their data management needs and practices.

DMPs are usually developed as a first step of a project to identify the format and subject matter of data being collected, methods for housing and sharing data, and quality control steps. DMPs are updated throughout the life of the dataset to identify changing needs and resources.

They establish a common understanding of the data for long-term maintenance beyond the point of initial submission and processing.

DMPs include essential components such as:

  • Contact info
  • Data description
  • Metadata description
  • Backups
  • Archiving
  • Sharing
  • Formats
  • Quality assurance
  • Rights and requirements

Data Management Plans for prior years and projects are available upon request by sending an email to IEP@wildlife.ca.gov.

2026 Data Management Plans by Project Element
Project
Element
Number		 Sub-Category Project Title Principal Investigator
003 Compliance Fall Midwater Trawl Survey (FMWT)
Pen#003 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Steve Slater, CDFW
007 Compliance Summer Townet Survey (STN)
Pen#007 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Steve Slater, CDFW
011 Compliance Estuarine and Marine Fish Abundance and Distribution Survey (Bay Study)
Pen#011 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Kathy Hieb, CDFW
012 Compliance Bay Shrimp and Crab Abundance and Distribution Surveys (Bay Study)
Pen#012 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Kathy Hieb, CDFW
029 Compliance San Francisco Bay Salinity & Temperature Monitoring
Pen#029 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 David Hart, USGS
030 Compliance Delta Flows Network
Pen#030 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Catherine Ruhl, USGS
033 Compliance 20-mm Delta Smelt Survey (20 mm)
Pen#033 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Vanessa Mora, CDFW
043 Synthesis, Modeling & Reviews Estimation of Pelagic Fish Population Sizes
Pen#043 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Lara Mitchell, USFWS
047 Baseline Status & Trends Yolo Bypass Fish Monitoring Program (YBFMP)
Pen#047 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Nicole Kwan, DWR
053 Compliance Juvenile Salmon Monitoring (DJFMP)
Pen#053 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Adam Nanninga, USFWS
059 Compliance Coleman National Fish Hatchery Late-Fall-Run Production Tagging
Pen#059 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Kevin Niemela, USFWS
062 Directed Studies Fish Diet and Condition
Pen#062 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Steve Slater, CDFW
071 Compliance Mossdale Spring Trawl (Mossdale)
Pen#071 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Steve Tsao, CDFW
Eric Huber, USFWS
072 Compliance

Environmental Monitoring Program
Pen#072 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)

 Ted Flynn, DWR
073 Compliance San Joaquin River Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring
Pen#073 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Julianna Manning, DWR
074 Compliance Central Valley Juvenile Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring (Knights Landing)
Pen#074 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Nick Bauer, CDFW
077 Compliance Upper Estuary Zooplankton Sampling
Pen#077 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Caroline (Tracy) Shaw, CDFW
093 Compliance UC Davis Suisun Marsh Fish Monitoring
Pen#093 2024Data Management Plan (PDF)		 John Durand, UC Davis;
Peter Moyle, UC Davis
096 Compliance Smelt Larva Survey (SLS)
Pen#096 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Vanessa Mora, CDFW
104 Compliance Operation of Thermograph Stations
Pen#104 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Travis Hiett, USGS
208 Synthesis, Modeling & Reviews Statistical Support (DJFMP) - Delta Smelt Life Cycle Model
Pen#208 Data Management Plan (PDF) (PROJECT CLOSED)		 Lara Mitchell, USFWS
249 Synthesis, Modeling & Reviews Gear Efficiency in Support of Delta Smelt Modeling Efforts
Pen#249 Data Management Plan (PDF) (PROJECT CLOSED)		 Lara Mitchell, USFWS
281 Directed Studies North Delta Flow Action: Role of Improved Yolo Bypass Flows on Delta Food Web Dynamics
Pen#281 Data Management Plan (PDF) (PROJECT CLOSED)		 Eric Holmes, DWR
296 Compliance Investigation of the Distribution and Abundance of Longfin Smelt in the San Francisco Estuary
Pen#296 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Levi Lewis, UC Davis
301 Compliance Juvenile Salmon Emigration Real Time Monitoring (DJFMP)
Pen#301 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Adam Nanninga, USFWS
311 Compliance Tidal Wetland Monitoring Pilot Study - Phase 4
Pen#311 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Christy Bowles, CDFW
322 Directed Studies Estimating Abundance of Juvenile Winter-run Chinook Salmon Entering and Exiting the Delta (SAIL)
Pen#322 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Bryan Matthias, USFWS
325 Directed Studies Enhanced Delta Smelt Monitoring (EDSM)
Pen#325 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Denise Goodman, USFWS
329 Directed Studies Extracting Better Information from Long-term Monitoring Data: Estimating Occupancy and Abundance of Near-Shore Fishes in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
Pen#329 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Adam Nanninga, USFWS
330 Directed Studies Aquatic Habitat Sampling Platform Standardized Fish Community Sampling Across Habitat Types
Pen#330 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Joseph Merz, Cramer Fish Sciences
333 Directed Studies Enhanced Acoustic Tagging, Analysis, and Real-Time Monitoring
Pen#333 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Cyril Michel, UCSC/NMFS
335 Directed Studies Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gate Study
Pen#335 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Rosemary Hartman, DWR
342 Synthesis, Modeling & Reviews Spatio-Temporal Community Patterns for Early Life Stages of Fishes and their Associations with Zooplankton in the Upper San Francisco Estuary
Pen#342 Data Management Plan (PDF) (PROJECT CLOSED)		 Gonzalo Castillo, USFWS
346

Special Study:
Compliance Related

 Using Delta Smelt Enclosures to Support Species Recovery
PEN#346 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Brian Schreier, DWR
Melinda Baerwald, DWR
Trishelle Tempel, DWR
352 Special Study:
Compliance Related		 Larval Smelt Entrainment Monitoring
PEN#352 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Morgan Gilbert, CDFW
Tim Malinich, CDFW
353 Operational Monitoring Fish Facilities Monitoring
PEN#353 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Virginia Afentoulis, CDFW
354 Special Study:
Non-Compliance Related		 Physical and Biological Drivers of Fish Distribution in Suisun Bay
PEN#354 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Matt Young, USGS
355 Special Study: 
Non-Compliance Related		 Phytoplankton Enumeration Synthesis Project (PESP)
PEN#355 2024 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Sarah Perry, DWR
357 Special Study:
Non-Compliance Related		 Submersed Aquatic Vegetation in the Delta: Composition, Niche Occupancy and Response to Climatic Factors
PEN#357 Data Management Plan (PDF)		 Shruti Khanna, CDFW
358 Special Study:
Non-Compliance Related		 Zooplankton Monitoring Design Review: Gaps, Strength, and Redundancies
PEN#358 Data Management Plan (PDF) (PROJECT CLOSED)		 Daniel Ellis, CDFW
359 Special Study:
Compliance Related		 Trends in the Distribution and Abundance of Large Estuarine Fishes "Enhanced Large Fish Study"
PEN#359 Data Management Plan (PEN INACTIVE)		 Dylan Stompe, CDFW
360 Special Study:
Compliance Related		 Genetic Analysis and Storage of Listed Species to Inform Multiple Studies for State Water Project Operations
PEN#360 Data Management Plan (Not Available Yet)		 Melinda Baerwald, DWR
Daphne Gille, DWR
361 Special Study:
Non-Compliance Related		 Evaluation of Morphological Characteristics Used in Identification of Larval Delta Smelt Hypomesus transpacificus in the San Francisco Estuary
PEN#361 Data Management Plan (PROJECT CLOSED)		 Denise Goodman, USFWS
Evan Carson, USFWS