Workshop Updates

Save the Date! September 20, 2022

Aquatic Vegetation ID and Advanced R Training

The IEP Program Support Team is planning two in-person only training events for September 20, 2022 at the Lake Natoma Inn.

• Shruti Khanna and Daniel Ellis are coordinating an Aquatic Vegetation Identification training event (morning September 20).
• Jereme Gaeta is coordinating an Advanced R training event (afternoon September 20).

More details on the two events will be coming soon!

Registration will be required for each event.

Please share this announcement with others.

This announcement is being cross-posted to multiple IEP email campaigns. We apologize for any inconvenience if you receive multiple posts.

Kind regards,
The IEP Program Support Team

Greetings IEP Community members,

For those of you planning to attend the Tuesday, August 9 workshop planning committee meeting, I have included the meeting agenda to the materials to be shared. The meeting details and link to join are included in the agenda.

Meeting Materials

• Meeting Agenda (PDF)
• 2023 Planning Committee Calendar (PDF)
• IEP Workshop Principles (PDF)
• Planning Committee Roles & Responsibilities (PDF)

We hope you can join us and participate to help us plan the workshop!

If you cannot attend, but want to participate on the Planning Committee, send an email to iep@wildlife.ca.gov and cc Steve.Culberson@deltacouncil.ca.gov.

Kind regards,

IEP Program Support
iep@wildlife.ca.gov

Greetings IEP Community members,

Planning for the 2023 Annual IEP Workshop will kick-off in August! I would like to extend an invitation to all to consider participating on the Workshop Planning Committee.
If you are interested, join us August 9 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. for an initial kick-off meeting to discuss committee expectations.

If you cannot attend, but want to participate on the Planning Committee, send an email to iep@wildlife.ca.gov and cc Steve.Culberson@deltacouncil.ca.gov

Meeting Details

Microsoft Teams Meeting - August 9, 2022 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Join on your computer or mobile app - Join The Meeting 
Meeting ID: 260 667 122 415 Passcode: DUoCWU 
Or call in (audio only) +1 (916) 535-0984 Phone Conference ID: 597 688 562# 

The Workshop Planning Committee guides the direction and content of the workshop, decides on session topics, invited speakers, and other relevant decisions. The workshop is intended to focus on topics of interest to IEP member agencies and stakeholders, and participation on the committee is an opportunity to provide input on agenda development. The workshop tends to favor new research results and technical analyses that advance our understanding of relevant estuary science and encourages participation by early career scientists. While the IEP wants to remain open to the diversity of viewpoints of its stakeholders, and some policy matters may be appropriate for consideration, the primary focus of the workshop is relevant IEP estuary science.

What does participation entail?

• Attending ~6 meetings between August 2022 – December 2022. See the 2023 Planning Committee Calendar (PDF)
• Potentially chairing and/or facilitating a session at the workshop. See the IEP Workshop Principles (PDF) and the Planning Committee Roles & Responsibilities (PDF) documents.
• Acting as point of contact & liaison for session speakers
• Active participation, leadership, and engagement – 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 Steven Culberson about volunteer opportunities.

Feel free to share this invitation with anyone who may be interested in participating.
Thanks so much, and I look forward to working with many of you on this in the very near future!

Steven D. Culberson, Ph.D.
IEP Lead Scientist steve.culberson@deltacouncil.ca.gov

Greetings IEP Workshop Community Members,

The Session recordings from the 2022 IEP Annual Workshop are now available on the CDFW YouTube channel for IEP. All sessions except for Session VIII - Career Panel Discussion with IEP Coordinators were recorded. The recordings will only be available for viewing until June 30, 2022, so don't wait to view them. Contact information for each Session Moderator and Session Speaker has been included in the details section (left hand side) of the YouTube page. So, if you have additional questions for the presenters feel free to contact them.

All Session recordings can be found on the CDFW YouTube channel for IEP. Individual Session recordings shown below.

• Session I - Welcome and Overview (with Plenary Talks) (Video)
• Session II - The Delta Science Fellows Program (Video)
• Session III - Drought Impacts (Video)
• Session IV - Lightning Talks & Poetry Slam (Video)
• Session V - Basic Statistics in R (Video)
• Session VI - Regression in R (Video)
• Session VII - Advanced Analyses in R (Video)
• Session IX - Experimental Release (Video)
• Session X - Longfin Smelt (Video)
• Session XI - Delta Salmon (Video)
• Session XII - Resident Fishes (Video)
• Session XIII - Invasive Species (Video)
• Session XIV - Data Synthesis (Video)
• Session XV - Lower Trophic & Invertebrates (Video)
• Session XVI - Harmful Algal Blooms (Video)

Interested in being on the Planning Committee for the 2023 IEP Workshop? Send an email to iep@wildlife.ca.gov and we'll add you to the list. A call to participate will be sent in early August and the first kick-off meeting will be in late August 2022.

Hello IEP community members,

Early Career Poster and People's Choice Awards

Thank you to those who voted after the 2022 IEP Workshop. Taking the time to vote shows your appreciation and recognition for the hard work contributed by all the workshop presenters. We would like to announce the winners for the Best Early Career Poster and the People's Choice for Best Presentation. Please send a congratulations to early career poster winner, Claudia Macfarlane of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for her poster "Liberty Island: A New Hope for Natives" and to Denise Colombano of the University of California, Berkeley for her plenary talk "Strength in Numbers: advancing estuarine ecology through data synthesis and collaboration".

We would also like to give a big shout out to all the other presenters and poster authors on the quality work they contributed to the workshop. We heard many compliments from attendees on the high quality of the presentations and posters that were presented in this year's event.

Workshop Recordings and R Micro-Training Materials

An announcement will be sent once the workshop session recordings are available and posted online. The materials and videos for the R Micro-Training courses (Sessions V - VII) are available on Jereme Gaeta's Statistical Micro-Training GitHub page.

IEP 2022 Workshop Feedback

Lastly, we'd like to hear your feedback on the workshop. You can provide your comments by completing the Workshop Feedback Form by April 1. If you'd like to participate in the planning for the 2023 workshop, send an email to Steve Culberson and Christine Joab.

See you next year!

IEP Program Support Team