Workshop Updates

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

Hello IEP Community members,

We hope that all of you had the opportunity to join the 2022 IEP Workshop on March 22-24. The IEP Lead Scientist and IEP Support Team would like to thank the IEP Planning Committee, the Workshop Session Chairs and their speakers for volunteering their time to develop this year's workshop program. We'd also like to extend our thanks to all of you who made time to attend the workshop. Your questions and comments during individual sessions were informative and allowed for some good discussion. Hopefully, you will continue those discussions by reaching out to the presenters. Recordings of the workshop will be posted once we complete post processing.

We'd also like to extend our appreciation to poster authors for making time to meet with attendees during the evening poster session. We heard positive feedback on the format of using breakout rooms to allow for group discussion. Finally, a big THANK YOU to mentors and mentees for being willing to engage in a virtual mentor lunch - first of its kind.

IEP 2022 Workshop Ballot Form

Now it is time to show consideration to the poster authors and presenters by remembering to vote. This is your way to show appreciation for the high quality of work contributed to the IEP Workshop. Go to the IEP 2022 Workshop Ballot Form and select your 3 favorite early career posters and your 3 favorite overall best presentations, which includes all posters. Voting closes today, Friday, March 25 at 5:00 p.m. so don't delay! Winners announced on Monday, March 28 on the IEP Annual Workshop page.

Lastly, we'd like to hear your feedback on the 2022 IEP Workshop. Please complete this 2022 Workshop Feedback Form by April 1. As we being to prepare for the next workshop we'd like to know what you'd like to see in future workshops.

Thanks,

IEP Program Support Team

Greetings IEP Stakeholders,

The 2022 IEP Annual Workshop is only a day away! We hope you are as excited to participate as we are since many of the speakers and Session Chairs have been working really hard to put their presentations together for you. Just a reminder that the general workshop is free to attend and no registration is required. You can find the agenda overview, the workshop program, talk abstract booklet, poster forum, poster abstract booklet, and Zoom workshop links on the IEP Annual Workshop page.

The workshop is a Zoom Webinar. Each session is 100 minutes long with a 10-minute break between each session. Lunch is an hour long each day. The Mentor Lunch will take place on March 23 for those who registered and the Project Work Team chairs will have their lunch on March 24. 

At the end of the day on March 23 and 24, there will be an Evening Poster Session via a Zoom Meeting. Poster presenting authors will be hanging out in breakout rooms waiting to speak to you about their posters, so don't forget to check out their posters on the Poster Discussion Forum prior to the Poster Session.

The 3rd and final day of the workshop (March 24) will have two concurrent sessions running (Sessions 9-12 and Sessions 13-16), so make sure to check the workshop program to see which Zoom link you need for a particular session. At the conclusion of the workshop, don't forget to vote for your 3 favorite early career posters and your 3 favorite overall presentations. More info on voting for the 'Best Early Career Poster and People's Choice Presentation' is included in the workshop program under the "To Our Attendees" section. These recognition awards are a great way to acknowledge the high quality of contributed work to the workshop. Winners will be announced on Monday, March 28.

We're looking forward to seeing all of you there!

IEP Program Support Unit