IEP Stakeholders News

Greetings IEP Stakeholder Community,

Please see the two announcements below and share with others. Apologies for any cross postings you may receive from other groups.

Invitation to Fall DSP Workshop: Advancing Interdisciplinary Research

You are invited to the Advancing Interdisciplinary Research: Training and Workshop (PDF) for natural and social scientists in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Bay-Delta) and beyond!

The goal of the two-part event is to introduce the Bay-Delta Social Science Community of Practice (CoP) to existing collaborative science forums (PDF) (See Page C-8) in the Bay-Delta in an effort to foster relationships and build more opportunities for interdisciplinary work in this system. The intended audience is scientists, managers, and practitioners interested in generally supporting and integrating interdisciplinary approaches into their work.

Mark your calendars for Friday, October 14th 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. PST AND Thursday, October 20th 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. PST 2022.
The workshop will be mostly virtual and occur in two parts:

• Oct. 14th will be a virtual training on social science and interdisciplinary approaches to social-ecological challenges, highlighting case studies presented by social scientists/ practitioners from across the country.
• Oct. 20th will be a very interactive workshop in which CoP members will be paired with Delta science forum members in breakout rooms to co-develop mock mini-proposals focused around the core themes in the Delta Science Program’s new Science Action Agenda.
  • The Oct 20th workshop will be followed by a no-host networking event in Sacramento to meet and greet in person for those who are local.

Registration:

• Register for the training
• Register for the workshop (all workshop attendees are strongly encouraged to attend the training)

For more information, visit the CoP web page.

Please help us spread the word! For questions or additional information, please contact Rachael.Klopfenstein@deltacouncil.ca.gov.

Thank you,
Steve Culberson

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Salmon Tag Recovery Request

Greetings IEP Science Community:

Can you circulate this Have You Seen Me? Floy Tag flyer (PDF) to anyone on your team or in your network that may encounter adult salmon in monitoring or research surveys?

NOAA Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center and UC Santa Cruz started catching, tagging, and releasing tagged salmon earlier this week in the ocean for a large-scale effort to understand the bioenergetics of salmon during migration. It will be really valuable for us to recover the red archival tags shown on this flyer. We expect them mostly to be observed at hatcheries and on carcass surveys. The tags record temperature every few seconds and archive the data for future download if we can get them back. If your team encounters these fish, it would require checking the body cavities for the temperature logging tags. Some fish are getting smaller acoustic tags that would be valuable to us too.

We also have a real-time tracking web-page where we hope to detect these tags as they pass receivers once they enter SF Bay, the delta, and Central Valley rivers: CalFish Track Central Valley Enhanced Acoustic Tagging Project

For further information, feel free to call or email Miles Daniels miles.daniels@noaa.gov, Cyril Michel cyril.michel@noaa.gov, or Nate Mantua nate.mantua@noaa.gov.

Kind regards,
Rachel C. Johnson, PhD
Salmon Life History Research
Fisheries Ecology Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
National Marine Fisheries Service
University of California Davis
Associate Researcher
Office: Center for Watershed Sciences, Rm 2109
phone: 831-239-8782
websites: Salmon Life History Research California Central Valley
websites: UC Davis Rachel Johnson

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,

This is a reminder that our next IEP Project Work Team & Stakeholder meeting is Wednesday, August 10 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. This will be a remote Teams meeting. If you have an item you would like to present and share with others, or have a topic you'd like to receive more information on, please send a request to iep@wildlife.ca.gov to get on the agenda. Meeting materials will be sent closer to the meeting.

Additional Announcements:

• The Culture and Supplementation of Smelt Steering Committee has opened the solicitation for proposals for 2023 brood year fish. There will only be one solicitation for proposals. Requests must be submitted to the director of the FCCL, Dr. Tien-Chieh Hung at thung@ucdavis.edu on or before September 30, 2022. Read the memorandum (PDF) regarding the annual process for requesting cultured Delta Smelt.
• ACWA and the EPA Water Modeling Workgroup will be holding an in-person workshop on Water Quality Modeling in Chicago, IL. The workshop will take place September 19 - 23, 2022 and feature hands-on training opportunities on Qual2K and SWAT. Check out the ACWA member 365 page for more information on how to register.

We hope to see you at the August 10 IEP PWT & Stakeholder meeting.

IEP Program Support Team

Greetings IEP Stakeholders,

Carl Dealy of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation would like to remind IEP stakeholders of the May 6, 2022 deadline for Draft Research proposals for the Tracy Fish Facility Improvement Program (TFFIP) Fiscal Year 2023 Projects.

Proposals should be emailed to the TFFIP Editorial Team: csvoboda@usbr.gov and zsutphin@usbr.gov

Proposals should adhere to Tracy Series Volume 13 guidelines: Tracy Series Volume 13, Guidelines for Research and Authorship, Revised and Expanded (PDF)
Proposal template can be found at: Current Research Study Plans | TFFIP | California-Great Basin | Bureau of Reclamation

2022-23 (FY 2023 Projects) the program emphasis will be like the FY22 year's:

1. Predation evaluations / removal methods
2. Maintenance / Replacement
3. Brennan Is. fish release site Upgrade Prep Data
4. Facility fish loss evaluations
5. Fish count automation

Feel free to share this reminder with others.

Thank you,
Carl Dealy
jcdealy@usbr.gov

Greetings IEP stakeholders,

We hope that you had an opportunity to watch the 2022 IEP Workshop. If you missed the workshop, the recordings will be posted online once we complete post processing. The recordings will be available until June 30, 2022. For the IEP Workshop Statistics R Micro-Training courses - that material is hosted on Jereme Gaeta's Statistics Micro-Training GitHub page. 

For those who did attend the workshop, don't forget to take part in voting for your 3 favorite early career posters and your 3 favorite overall best presentations, which also includes all posters. This is a great way for the IEP community to recognize the high quality of workshop contributions. Complete the IEP 2022 Workshop Ballot Form before 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 25. Winners announced on Monday, March 28 on the IEP Annual Workshop page.

We'd also like to hear from those who attended the workshop - what did you like, what did you not like, and what would you like to see more of in future workshops. Complete the 2022 Workshop Feedback Form by April 1.

Thanks,

IEP Program Support Team

Greetings IEP Stakeholders,

The 2022 IEP Workshop is one week away. The event will be a virtual and free Zoom Webinar on March 22 through March 24. There is no registration required to attend the general workshop.

Mentor Luncheon - Registration Open!
A Mentor Luncheon will be held March 23 from noon to 1:00 p.m. The luncheon is for early career scientists and provides them a great opportunity to meet and talk with career scientists. This year we have seven career professionals that have volunteered to be mentors. The luncheon will be hosted as a Zoom Meeting and mentors will be in breakout rooms eating their lunch waiting to speak with mentees. Registration is required to participate. This virtual luncheon is meant to be an informal and stress-free environment, where mentees can freely move from room to room to speak with different mentors. If interested in participating, fill out the Registration Form no later than March 18 and remember to check out the Mentor Bios (PDF)!

Workshop Program and Links
The Annual Workshop page on the IEP website has been updated and includes the Workshop Program (PDF), the Talk Abstract Booklet (PDF), the Poster Abstract Booklet (PDF) and workshop agenda with Zoom links. These links are also provided in the Workshop Program. The Poster Discussion Forum, which houses the IEP Workshop posters, will go live on the workshop page the week of March 14. Check out the posters prior to the workshop. This year we have not only traditional posters but have interactive StoryMap formats too. The Evening Poster Session will be held on Monday, March 22 and Tuesday, March 23 from 4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. The link to attend is on the website and included in the program. Presenting poster authors will be assigned breakout rooms and attendees can move from room to room to speak with poster authors.

We look forward to seeing you there!

IEP Program Support Team

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

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 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 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.