Workshop Updates

Greetings IEP Community Members,

Planning for the 2024 IEP Annual Workshop will kick-off in August, and I would like to extend an invitation to you to consider participating on the Workshop Planning Committee. The Workshop Planning Committee plans the format and content of the workshop.

If you are interested, please join us on August 15 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. to discuss expectations, roles, and responsibilities, selecting chairs and start brainstorming. This will be a hybrid meeting MS Teams + in-person at DWR West Sacramento office (3500 Industrial Blvd., West Sacramento) in the 2nd floor library, Room 231a. If you cannot attend on August 15 but want to participate on the committee, send an email to iep@wildlife.ca.gov and cc Rosemary.Hartman@water.ca.gov.

Microsoft Teams meeting: Join the meeting on your computer
Meeting ID: 220 499 032 344
Passcode: BPdvfR
Or call in (audio only)
+1 (916) 535-0984 United States, Sacramento
Phone Conference ID: 774 632 424#

What does participation entail?

• Attend ~7 meetings between August 2023 – February 2024 (see attached planning calendar)
• Potentially chair a session or activity at the workshop (see attached roles & responsibilities)
• Act as a point of contact & liaison for session speakers
• Actively participate in developing workshop program – this is a working group!

Who can participate?

• IEP member agency staff and stakeholders are encouraged to volunteer, but only if you can commit to the full range of responsibilities.
• Early career staff are encouraged to participate, but they must have the approval of their supervisor first.
• If students would like to volunteer, please contact Rosemary Hartman and Christine Joab about volunteer opportunities.

Materials to Review:

• IEP Workshop Organizing Principles (PDF)
• 2024 Workshop Committee Roles and Responsibilities (PDF)
• 2024 Workshop Planning Committee Calendar (PDF)

Feel free to share this invitation with anyone you think may be interested in participating.

Rosemary Hartman (DWR) – Executive Chair of the IEP Workshop Committee
Christine Joab (CDFW) – Program Support Chair of the IEP Workshop Committee

Greetings IEP Annual Workshop List Subscribers:

The video recordings from the 2023 IEP Annual Workshop are now available for viewing. The recordings are housed on the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's YouTube channel under the IEP Workshops 2023 playlist. The playlist contains the following three videos:

• 2023 Interagency Ecological Program - Annual Workshop - Day 1 (video)
• 2023 Interagency Ecological Program - Annual Workshop - Day 2 (video)
• 2023 Interagency Ecological Program - Annual Workshop - Day 3 (video)

Other information pertaining to the 2023 Annual Workshop (e.g., program, posters, and abstract booklets) can be found on the Annual IEP Workshop web page.

2024 IEP Workshop Planning Committee

A kickoff meeting for the 2024 Workshop Planning Committee will be held in August. If you are interested in helping to plan the 2024 IEP Annual Workshop, send an email to iep@wildlife.ca.gov to receive more information.

Greetings IEP Community Members,

The Poster Forum is now live on the IEP Annual Workshop web page. The Poster Forum houses the posters and abstracts that were showcased at the 2023 IEP Workshop in Sacramento.

For those who attended the workshop remotely, you can now view the posters.

Also, we are working on post processing the presentation recordings from the workshop and those will be available soon.

Thank you all for attending and acknowledging the research and monitoring being conducted by IEP member agencies and partners.

IEP Program Support Unit
iep@wildlife.ca.gov

On behalf of the IEP Workshop Planning Committee, I want to thank everyone who attended the 2023 Annual IEP Workshop. It was so nice to see so many smiling faces. This was IEP's first hybrid workshop and it went very well. The acoustics in the new auditorium were exceptional and the seats were very comfy. The poster room was large and it was nice to have an overflow room where you could watch the sessions and multi-task at the same time. Had the weather been better the first two days, it would have been nice to sit outside at the numerous tables located around the auditorium.

We had a great showing of work by our early career professionals. The judges thoroughly enjoyed listening to all the presentations and reading the posters. The evaluation sheets were tallied and the winners were announced at the end of the workshop. For those who missed the announcement, we want to acknowledge the Early Career Award winners for Best Presentation and Best Poster.

Best Presentation:

• First Place: Madison Thomas (DWR) for "Controlling Invasive Phragmities australis at a Restoration Site in Suisun Marsh"
• Second Place (tie): Emily Richardson (USGS) for "A Multiparameter Approach to Modeling Light Attenuation in the Delta"
• Second Place (tie): Leticia Cavole (UC Davis) for "Fitness Tradeoffs for Migratory and Resident Delta Smelt in the San Francisco Estuary"

Best Poster:

• First Place: Alisa Dahl (CDFW) for "Confirmed Presence of Green Sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) in the Stanisalus River"
• Second Place: Diana Muñoz (UC Davis/USGS) for "Long-term Dataset Reveals Black-crowned Night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) Nest Survival is Primarily Associated with Bottom-up Processes on Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, California"
• Third Place: Andrea Jaegge (USGS) for "Identifying Microcystin Sources and Producers in San Francisco Bay"

IEP Program Support staff are in the process of downloading the presentation recordings. Once we finish reviewing the closed captioning, the recordings for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday will be placed on the IEP playlist on the CDFW You Tube channel. We'll let the IEP community know where to find them once the recordings are up. Not all of the presentations were recorded (per directive from the presenters), so if a talk is missing that you are interested in, make sure to reach out to the presenter directly for more information.

We are also working on uploading the poster abstracts and posters to the online Poster Discussion Forum. This is the same online forum that we've been using the past few years, which will allow those who attended the workshop remotely to see what posters were shared. The content should be viewable on the Forum by the first week in April.

If you are interested in helping to plan the 2024 Annual IEP Workshop, our kickoff planning meeting will be in August. If interested, send an email to iep@wildife.ca.gov.

Thanks again, and we look forward to seeing you next year!

IEP Program Support Unit

Greetings IEP Community Members:

Registration Links

The registration links for the 2023 Annual IEP Workshop are now posted to the Annual IEP Workshop web page. We are using Eventbrite for the in-person registration platform and Zoom for the remote registration. Registration for in-person attendance will open on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. The Zoom registration for virtual attendance is now open.

For the in-person attendance, it is one ticket per person. On the Eventbrite page, please only register for the day(s) in which you plan to attend in-person. Also, we are looking for people to volunteer to be a guest judge for the Early Career Oral Presentation & Poster Award. This award is given to the student and/or early career scientist who has the best oral presentation and poster. If you are interested in being a judge, please reserve a ticket and we will contact you with more information on how to participate.

For the remote attendance, the link will work for all three days of the workshop. Do not share your Zoom registration link with others as it is unique for each registrant. Remote users will be able to post questions to presenters through the Question and Answer feature during the workshop. If a presenter does not have time to answer your question, the questions will be provided to speakers after the workshop. It will be up to the discretion of the speakers to reach out to participants via email to respond to any unanswered questions.

Early Career Luncheon

Also, if you are a student and/or early career scientist and you'll be attending the workshop on Tuesday, sign up to sit and have lunch with a career scientist to discuss career opportunities, pathways and experiences. Our mentor volunteers have experience working in state and federal agencies, academic institutions, and consulting firms. It is a free lunch being sponsored by the State Water Contractors. Seating is limited and registration is required. Visit the Annual IEP Workshop web page for the registration link.

IEP Training Courses

Finally, don't forget to sign up for one of the two IEP training courses! These classes will be held on Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the CNRA Building. Visit the Annual IEP Workshop web page for the registration link.

Kind regards,

IEP Program Support Unit