Workshop Updates

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

Greetings IEP Community Members,

Everyone has been waiting in anticipation for the 2023 IEP Annual Workshop. Registration for in-person attendance and virtual attendance will open February 28, 2023. The registration links will be posted to the Annual IEP Workshop web page and distributed via the IEP Workshop email listserv, and the stakeholder listserv. It would be great to see everyone in person, unfortunately, seating is limited in the auditorium. Tickets for the in-person event will be distributed on a first come, first served basis. Once seating capacity for each day is reached, only virtual attendance will be available.

The Workshop Program and Presentation Abstracts Booklet have been posted. For posters, we have 54 to share this year, which will be showcased on the 2nd floor. Make sure to visit the poster authors during the scheduled poster sessions on Tuesday, March 21 and Wednesday, March 22. Poster abstracts and images will be shared later on the IEP online Poster Discussion Forum so remote participants can check them out after the workshop. The presentations in the auditorium will be recorded and made available (later) under the IEP Workshops Playlist on the California Department of Fish and Wildlife YouTube channel. So, if you miss a session, you’ll be able to watch it later at your own convenience!

Registration is now open for the early career luncheon and two IEP training courses. More information on these events has been posted to the Annual IEP Workshop web page. Registration is FREE for all events.

• Early Career Luncheon (Tuesday, March 21) 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
  • Great networking opportunity for students and early career scientists.
• Two IEP Training Courses (Friday, March 24) 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
  • Introduction to GIS with QGIS (beginner class)
  • Introduction to Hierarchical Models in R with Application to Abundance Modeling (advanced class)

Transportation & Parking:
The California Natural Resources Building is in downtown Sacramento. Parking garages and lots are located nearby. The Sacramento Regional Transit has bus and light rail stations nearby.

Food:
The California Natural Resources Building has food vendors located inside the building on the first floor.
There are additional food establishments within walking distance of the building.

Questions? Send them to iep@wildlife.ca.gov

Greetings IEP Community Members,

This is a reminder that the deadline for the 2023 IEP Workshop poster abstract submissions is February 10, 2023. If one of your colleagues or staff are considering submitting a poster, please make sure to share this information with them.

Abstracts should be submitted following the guidelines and template provided in the Call for Poster Abstracts (PDF). Any questions on the abstract or poster session can be directed to the Poster Session Chairs - Anna Feerick (afeerick@ucdavis.edu) and Jordan Buxton (jbuxton@usgs.gov).

Registration for the workshop will open in late February along with the ability to register for the Student-Mentor Luncheon and the IEP training courses.

General questions on the workshop can be directed to iep@wildlife.ca.gov. More information on the workshop can be found on the IEP Workshop web page.

Kind regards,

IEP Program Support