IEP Stakeholders News

Greetings IEP Community Members,

We still have slots available in the Lightning Talks and Poetry Slam session of the 2022 IEP Annual Workshop!

If you have research findings you’d like to share or if you are looking for an outlet to express your thoughts and feelings on the estuary and its amazing residents that call it ‘home’, consider participating. Reservations for presentations will be accepted up to March 15!

LIGHTNING TALKS are those that deliver a succinct and vibrant message within 4 minutes using a few important graphics. Lightning Talks should have no more than five PowerPoint slides or other figures (if used) and should focus on boiling down findings to their core concepts. This session is designed to be a safe space for early career scientists and others to practice their presentation skills – but all are welcome to participate!

POETRY SLAM is an “open mike’ format for presentations of a more creative type. With the virtual format, the possibilities are endless. It can be an individual or group presentation. It can be a live performance or a pre-recorded video of you and others (inside or outside) reciting, singing, strumming, or drumming your thoughts. We leave the specifics up to you. Be creative and share your voice! Your slam should not be more than 3-4 minutes long. Let us know if you’d like to reserve a slot, but depending on time and availability, we’ll take last minute volunteers until it is time to end the session. Show up and SLAM!

Email Steve Culberson to communicate your intent to participate if you have not already. We anticipate this to be a lively, dynamic, and informative session, delivering distilled and important information in effective, impactful, and digestible short presentations.

Best,
Steve Culberson, IEP Lead Scientist
Steve.Culberson@deltacouncil.ca.gov

Greetings IEP PWT Chairs and Stakeholders,

Just a friendly reminder that our 1st quarterly meeting of 2022 will be tomorrow, Wednesday, February 9, 2022 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The February agenda(PDF) was attached to the calendar appointment. If you did not receive the calendar appointment via Outlook and want to be added for future meetings, please send an email to iep@wildlife.ca.gov

Upcoming PWT Chairs & Stakeholder Meetings:

• Wednesday, May 11 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, August 10 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, November 9 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Also, if you'd like to present an item at a future meeting or have suggestions for agenda topics, please send requests to iep@wildlife.ca.gov

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

IEP Program Support Team

Happy Friday, IEP Stakeholders:

This announcement is to let you know that we've just updated information on the Home page of the IEP website. IEP Lead Scientist, Steve Culberson, updates the featured section on surveys, publications, and data sets on a monthly basis. Plus, we regularly update information on breaking news and upcoming IEP meetings. Also, we just updated the IEP Journal Publications page to highlight some recent IEP journal articles:

• Simulated Fishing to Untangle Catchability and Availability in Fish Abundance Monitoring by Vanessa Tobias
• Examining Retention-at-Length of Pelagic Fishes Caught in the Fall Midwater Trawl Survey by Lara Mitchell and Randall Baxter

Do you have information on a project, meeting, or journal publication that you'd like to share on the IEP website? Send an email to iep@wildlife.ca.gov.

Greetings IEP PWT Chairs and IEP Stakeholders,

Our next IEP Project Work Team Chairs & Stakeholder Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, February 9, 2022. If you have an item you would like to present or discuss, or would like more information on a specific topic to be presented by a PWT Chair or other IEP researcher, please send your requests to iep@wildlife.ca.gov no later than close of business Friday, January 28, 2022.

The February meeting will be via an MS Teams meeting from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. A meeting appointment was sent out previously using our Outlook system, so many of you should have the appointment on your calendar. If you want me to add you to the Outlook appointment, send a request to iep@wildlife.ca.gov Otherwise, please make sure to add this event to your own calendar. An agenda will be sent closer to the meeting with the meeting link information.

Kind regards,
Christine Joab, IEP Program Facilitator

Greetings IEP Stakeholders,

The draft 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda (SAA) (PDF) is here! This draft was collaboratively developed by and for the Delta science community and facilitated by the Delta Science Program. The SAA provides a framework to address persistent, emerging, and forthcoming scientific uncertainties and management needs. We truly appreciate the engagement we’ve received in developing the draft SAA from the [collaborative group].

The Delta Science Program invites members of the [collaborative group] to review and comment on the draft SAA. Please provide your input to the Delta Science Program by 5:00 PM on January 21, 2022, by email to SAA@deltacouncil.ca.gov or by mail to 715 P Street, 15-300 Sacramento, CA 95814.

The Delta Science Program will consider feedback from the review period when revising the final SAA, which is anticipated by Spring 2022.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Eva Bush (She/Her/Hers)
Senior Environmental Scientist
Delta Stewardship Council
Delta Science Program

715 P Street, 15-300
Sacramento, CA 95814

Greetings IEP PWT Chairs & Stakeholder Group members,

Our next meeting is Wednesday, November 10, 2021 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. We hope you can join us.

Please peruse the agenda (PDF) for meeting topics and to obtain the call-in information. This will be a remote MS Teams meeting.

If you have any questions, please contact Christine Joab at Christine.Joab@wildlife.ca.gov

Kind regards,
Christine Joab
IEP Program Facilitator

Greetings IEP stakeholders,

The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy has now opened the registration for their Fourth, Biennial Delta Invasive Species Symposium, which will be held as a virtual Zoom event on December 15, 2021. You must register to attend the event. Register through Zoom, or on the DIISC website, where the agenda and other details will be posted in advance of the Symposium.

About the Symposium

The Symposium is a forum for Delta managers, researchers, and decision-makers to meet, share and synthesize information, and communicate best practices and lessons learned. This year’s Symposium will focus on early detection and rapid response (EDRR) to invasive species. The virtual event will take place on December 15, 2021, from 9:00 a.m. through 2:30 p.m.

The Symposium will highlight EDRR lessons learned, current EDRR efforts across the Delta and beyond, and future challenges and solutions for EDRR work. The Symposium will consist of invited talks, a panel discussion, and an opportunity for participants to provide feedback on the draft Delta EDRR Framework being developed by the Delta Interagency Invasive Species Coordination (DIISC) Team. The Delta Interagency Invasive Species Coordination (DIISC) Team plans and facilitates the Symposium.

Greetings IEP PWT Chairs & Stakeholders,

Our next IEP Project Work Team Chair & Stakeholder meeting is coming up on Wednesday, November 10, 2021. If you have an item you would like to present or discuss at the meeting, or have a specific item or topic that you would like more information to be presented on, please send your request to iep@wildlife.ca.gov no later than Wednesday, October 20.

The meeting will be hosted via MS Teams from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. If you do not have the meeting appointment on your calendar, send an email request to iep@wildlife.ca.gov to be added to the appointment.

If you have any questions let me know.

Kind regards,
Christine Joab
IEP Program Facilitator
Christine.Joab@wildlife.ca.gov

Dear IEP stakeholders,

Do you have data or research you are looking to share with the Delta community? Or perhaps an opinion letter or essay? Consider submitting to the IEP Newsletter! The Newsletter is a triannual product of the Interagency Ecological Program (IEP) that publishes perspectives on our Program and community, reviews, data reports, research articles, and research notes. The Newsletter is a forum for resource managers, scientists, and the public to learn about recent important programmatic and scientific topics from across the San Francisco Estuary. Articles in the IEP newsletter are intended for rapid communication and are not peer reviewed.

The deadline to submit articles for the 2021 Summer/Fall issue of the IEP Newsletter is October 15. 
Please send your contributions for the Summer/Fall issue to Geoff Steinhart (Geoffrey_Steinhart@fws.gov).

Additional Resources:

• See the Guide to Authors (PDF) on the IEP Publication Guidelines web page.
• Read the latest newsletters (Winter, Volume 40, Issue 1 and Spring, Volume 40 Issue 2) located on the IEP Newsletter web page.
• Subscribe to the IEP Newsletter listserv and other IEP listservs by visiting our IEP subscription web page.
• Visit the IEP website for additional news and information on IEP activities and upcoming meetings.

Dear California Delta Science Stakeholder:

As the Lead Scientist for Interagency Ecological Program, I am requesting your participation in a survey about your experience with the Delta science enterprise, which is broadly defined as “the collection of science programs and activities that exist to serve managers and stakeholders in a regional system.” With collaboration from the Delta Science Program, the survey is being conducted by research team consisting of the University of California-Davis, University of Colorado-Denver, and University of Arizona. Your responses to this survey are extremely important to understand how to link science and policy more effectively. The results will support strategic planning for Delta science and policy, including ongoing discussions about changing science governance.

The survey has been approved by the UC Davis Institutional Review Board, which governs human subjects protocols. Whether or not you choose to participate, or answer any question, or stop participating in the survey, there will be no penalty to you or loss of benefits to which you are otherwise entitled. Your responses to the survey and interview questions will not include information that identifies you.

If you have any questions, please contact Principal Investigator Professor Mark Lubell, UC Davis, mnlubell@ucdavis.edu.

You can access the survey at the following link: Interagency Ecological Program Science Enterprise Survey

Cheers,

Steven Culberson, PhD
Lead Scientist / Program Manager III
Interagency Ecological Program (IEP)

715 P Street, 15-300
Sacramento, CA 95814