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.