Workshop Updates

Greetings IEP Community Members!

We hope you enjoyed the 2025 IEP Annual Workshop. It was a pleasure seeing so many of you in-person, and we were excited to see so many people joining us virtually over Zoom. We are already scheduling the workshop for 2026, so save the dates March 16 - 18, 2026. A call for volunteers to help us plan the program will be sent during mid-summer, so make sure you are subscribed to our Annual Workshop listserv.

2025 Early Career Awards

The scores for the Best Early Career Talk and the Best Early Career Poster at the workshop have been compiled from the judges and we are excited to announce the winners.

Congratulations to Sienna White, Kim Luke, and Delia Carpenter for the Best Early Career Talk.

• Sienna White (University of California, Berkeley) Session 14: Phytoplankton & HABs (Part II)
  • Talk Title: "Vertical Mixing in Dead-End Channels of the Delta"
• Kim Luke (Delta Stewardship Council) Session 12: Management & Policy
  • Talk Title: "Science Action Agenda Progress Summary"
• Delia Carpenter (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) Session 8: Fish Modeling
  • Talk Title: "Recovering High-Frequency Plankton Dynamics from Low-Frequency Samples"

Congratulations to Brandy Smith, Katie Hostetler, and Emma Freedman for the Best Early Career Poster.

• Brandy Smith (California Department of Water Resources) Poster Category: Habitat
  • Poster Title: "Creating and reconnecting floodplain habitat in the Yolo Bypass: an Overview of DWR restoration projects"
• Katie Hostetler (California Department of Fish and Wildlife) Poster Category: Methodology Assessment & Improvement
  • Poster Title: "Evaluating Image-Based Deep Learning Methods for Zooplankton Sample Processing"
• Emma Freedman (California Department of Water Resources) Poster Category: Methodology Assessment & Improvement
  • Poster Title: "Old Clips, New Tricks: Dry Fin-Clip Preservation for High-Throughput Genetic Processing"

Poster Forum - Now Live!

The 2025 Poster Forum is now live on the IEP website. It contains the poster images and poster abstracts from the 2025 IEP Annual Workshop. Many, but not all, of the poster images have been added to the forum. In some cases, poster authors were unable to share their poster image. If you are interested in viewing a poster that is missing from the forum, please contact the poster author directly using the email shown in their abstract. Abstracts can be found under their associated poster category inside the forum, or you can look them up in the Abstract Booklet.

Workshop Recordings

We are busy reviewing and correcting the closed captions of the workshop recordings. Once the files are complete, we will share the link to the recordings. Thank you for your patience!

If you have additional questions related to the workshop, send an email to iep@wildlife.ca.gov.

Greetings 2025 IEP Workshop attendees,

For those of you who were able to join us for the workshop, thank you for coming! We hope you enjoyed the event.

Workshop Feedback & Planning for 2025

For those who attended remotely or in-person, please take a moment to complete a short survey to provide your feedback on what you liked and any suggestions for additions or changes.

• 2025 IEP Workshop Feedback Survey

If you’d like to participate in the planning of the 2026 IEP Workshop, please include your name and email in the survey or send an email to iep@wildlife.ca.gov. Planning will begin in the fall of 2025.

Looking forward to seeing you all next year!

Rosemary Hartman and Adam Nanninga (IEP Workshop Organizing Chairs)
Note: This announcement is being shared to multiple listserv groups. Sorry for cross postings.

In-Person Workshop Registration closes Friday, February 21, 2025

This is the last week to register for in-person attendance of the IEP Annual Workshop. Registration ends Friday, February 21, 2025. Tickets are going fast, so don't miss out.

Registration

To register, visit the IEP Annual Workshop page on the IEP website. You can find the program, abstract booklet, FAQs, and Area Guide documents on this page. Registration for remote attendance (via Zoom) will remain open through the workshop.

A Workshop After Hours Event - March 5

Need to blow off some energy following all the exciting workshop science? Peter Nelson has organized an after hours event for attendees. Join Peter and others on Wednesday evening (3/5/2025) after the talks at the local climbing gym, Sacramento Pipeworks, in downtown Sacramento (116 N 16th St). Everyone is welcome, whether you are new to climbing or an old hand. You can then head next door to the Pintworks Restaurant and Brewery to brag over your climbing feats. Check out the details in the After Hours Event Flyer.

• After Hours Event Flyer (PDF)

Volunteers Still Needed

• Volunteer Registration Form

Greetings IEP community members,

The Chairs of the Delta Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Bloom Strategy Implementation Team will be hosting their first annual Delta CHAB Workshop concurrently with the IEP Workshop on March 6, 2025 (8:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.) in the California Natural Resources Building. Separate registration from the IEP Workshop is required to attend.

The goal of the workshop is to implement Recommendation 1.5 of the Delta CHAB Monitoring Strategy.

For more information including how to register, see the Delta CHABs Workshop Flyer (PDF).

For questions on the Delta CHABs Workshop, contact Tricia Lee at Tricia.Lee@deltacouncil.ca.gov.

Please share this information with others who may be interested.

Greetings IEP Community Members,

Registration for the IEP Annual Workshop opens February 3, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. The workshop will be a hybrid event held March 4-6, 2025 in the California Natural Resources Agency building auditorium. Participants can come in person or watch remotely.

Registration

The Program, Abstract Book, and Registration links are located on the IEP Annual Workshop page.

Use the "EventBrite Registration" button to attend in-person to see the live presentations in the auditorium.

Use the "ZOOM Registration" button to watch the presentations remotely.

Volunteers Needed!

We still need volunteers to assist as microphone runners and timekeepers in the auditorium, and monitor the 2nd floor overflow room next to the posters. Shifts are half-day, and volunteers will still be able to see and hear the presentations. Interested?

Sign up now! Volunteer Registration Form

Judges Needed!

Every year at the workshop we give an award to an early career scientist with the Best Presentation and Best Poster. Volunteer judges are needed to evaluate candidate presentations and posters.

Interested in being a judge? Contact Ted.Flynn@water.ca.gov

Tips and Ideas on How to Prepare Scientific Presentations and Posters

Don’t forget IEP has a short training course available on February 7, 2025 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. to provide information on how to prepare an amazing presentation or poster. The training is free and 100% remote.

Sign up Now! Training Course Registration Form

Visit the IEP Annual Workshop page of the IEP website for more information.

Please share this announcement with others and tell them to subscribe to the IEP Workshop listserv.

Kind regards,
IEP Program Support and the 2025 IEP Workshop Planning Committee