IEP Stakeholders News

NOW OPEN! Call for Lightning Talks and Poster Abstracts!

The upcoming IEP workshop is scheduled for March 21-24 at the Resources Agency (CNRA) Headquarters Building in Sacramento, CA! If you aren’t already on tap to present at the workshop, we invite you to participate in the Lightning Talks Session (March 21) or the Poster Session (March 21-23).

Currently we are placing a call for Lightning Talks and Poster Abstracts. Space is limited to present, so if you’d like to participate don’t wait to respond!

Submission deadlines vary, so check out the flyers for submission requirements:

• Call for Lightning Talks (pdf) Lightning Talk Deadline: November 30, 2022
• Call for Poster Abstracts (pdf) Poster Abstract Deadline: February 10, 2023

Questions regarding the Lightning Talk Session can be directed to Lynn Takata at Lynn.Takata@Deltacouncil.ca.gov.

Questions regarding the Poster Session can be directed to Jordan Buxton at jbuxton@usgs.gov or Anna Feerick at afeerick@ucdavis.edu.

Kind regards,
IEP Program Support Team
iep@wildlife.ca.gov

Save The Dates March 21-24, 2023 for the 2023 IEP Annual Workshop!

Greetings IEP Stakeholders,

The IEP Annual Workshop for 2023 will take place March 21-24 at the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) Headquarters Building located at 715 "P" Street in downtown Sacramento.

The workshop will be a FREE hybrid (in-person and virtual) event!

The in-person events will consist of the workshop presentations being shared inside the CNRA's 300-seat auditorium and the posters being showcased in conference rooms on the 2nd floor. These events will occur March 21-23, while the 4th day of the workshop will be reserved for training courses. Space is limited for the auditorium and training courses, so registration for those events will be required for each day. The workshop presentations in the auditorium will be live streamed for remote participants.

Registration

Registration for the in-person workshop events will open in early 2023.

Poster Session and Call for Abstracts

The Poster Session will be incorporated into the daily workshop schedule rather than an evening poster reception. So, there will be plenty of opportunity for community members to engage with the poster authors each day. No registration is required to come and peruse the posters, so if you are unable to register for the in-person event in the auditorium, you can still come to the CNRA building and peruse the posters on the 2nd floor and interact with poster authors during the daily poster session schedule.

A call for poster abstracts will be announced in early November. Posters will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. To be eligible for consideration, the primary poster author must register to attend the workshop in-person.

Mentor Luncheon

The IEP Workshop will be offering an in-person Mentor Luncheon for students and early career professionals. This event allows a limited number of students and early career scientists to be paired with established career professionals to discuss their research interests and career building pathways. Seating is limited and registration is required. More information on the luncheon and how to register will be coming soon. This event is being sponsored by the State Water Contractors.

Questions?

We'll be sharing more information on the workshop and how to register as we move closer to the event. Information will be posted on the IEP website under our IEP Annual Workshop web page and through the IEP Annual Workshop email listserv. If you are not receiving emails on the workshop, don't forget to subscribe to the workshop listserv by visiting our IEP Subscription web page. Feel free to share this announcement and the Save the Dates flyer (PDF) with others.

Additional questions regarding the workshop can be sent to iep@wildlife.ca.gov.

We look forward to seeing many of you there!

Kind regards,

IEP Program Support Unit

Greetings IEP Stakeholder Community,

The Delta Science Program is hosting a Delta Harmful Algal Bloom Workshop November 8-9, 2022 and registration is now open.

• Register to attend in-person
• Register to attend virtually
• Flyer on the Delta HABs workshop (PDF)

Attendees will hear presentations from subject matter experts and participate in breakout sessions, In-person attendance will be hosted at the California Natural Resources Headquarters (715 P Street, Sacramento, CA 95814).

Virtual attendance will be hosted via Zoom. Both in-person and virtual attendance are free with registration.

Questions? Email hello@deltacouncil.ca.gov

Greetings IEP Science and Stakeholder Community Members,

We still have space available for the September 20, 2022 Macrophyte Identification Training at Lake Natoma Inn. Please register no later than Wednesday, September 7.

If you’ve not yet registered for the October 28 training events, don’t wait. Spaces are filling up fast.

Please review the flyer on the Fall 2022 In-Person Training Opportunities (PDF) and share the announcement with others who may be interested. Questions regarding the training can be sent directly to the instructor.

September 20, 2022 IEP training events at Lake Natoma Inn

• Macrophyte Identification Training (8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.)
• Intermediate R Training (1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)

October 28, 2022 IEP training events at Lake Natoma Inn

• Advanced R Training (8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.)
• Science Communication Training (1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)

Apologizes if you receive cross-postings.
We hope you can join us.

Kind regards,
IEP Program Support Team

Greetings IEP Stakeholders:

On September 13 the State Water Contractors (SWC) are hosting a Science Symposium on spring-season San Joaquin River flows and South Delta exports.

Date: September 13, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (registration opens at 8:30 a.m.)
In Person: Capitol Event Center at the M.A.Y. Building, 1020 11th Street, Sacramento
Online: This will be a hybrid event and virtual attendance information will follow
RSVP: Send email to science@swc.org and indicate if you plan to attend in person or virtually

Seeking to provide protections and benefits to San Joaquin origin juvenile salmonids, the 2009 NMFS Biological Opinion imposed a new regulatory export limit: the San Joaquin River inflow to export ratio (I to E ratio). Under the I to E ratio, exports are limited to a fraction of the San Joaquin River inflow, with proportionally less exports in wetter year types. Since 2009, numerous scientific investigations-- particularly acoustic tagging of juvenile salmonids-- have been conducted to assess the effectiveness of the I to E ratio and San Joaquin River inflows. The symposium will discuss the numerous scientific investigations since 2009 — particularly acoustic tagging of juvenile salmonids — that have been conducted to assess the effectiveness of the I to E ratio and San Joaquin River inflows.

Questions on this symposium can be directed to Darcy Austin, Science Manager, State Water Contractors.

Darcy Austin | Science Manager
State Water Contractors
1121 L Street, Suite 1050 | Sacramento, CA 95814
daustin@swc.org

Visit the State Water Contractors website for more information on their Science Program.

Greetings IEP Science and Stakeholder Community Members,

Registration is now open for the upcoming free IEP training events!

Please review the flyer on the Fall 2022 In-Person Training Opportunities (PDF) and share the announcement with your staff and others who may be interested. Questions regarding the training can be sent directly to the instructor contact listed in the flyer.

September 20, 2022 IEP training events at Lake Natoma Inn

• Macrophyte Identification Training (8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.)
• Intermediate R Training (1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)

October 28, 2022 IEP training events at Lake Natoma Inn

• Advanced R Training (8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.)
• Science Communication Training (1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)

This announcement is being sent to multiple listservs, so we apologize if you receive cross-postings.
We hope you can join us.

Kind regards,
IEP Program Support Team

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,

IEP PWT & Stakeholder Meeting:

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. The link to join the meeting is included in the Meeting Agenda (below). Additional meetings materials for the IEP Work Plan (agenda item #3) and the IEP Workshop Planning Committee (agenda item #5) are linked below.

• Meeting Agenda (PDF)
• Draft IEP 2023 Annual Work Plan (PDF) (agenda item #3)
• 2023 IEP Workshop Planning Committee Calendar (PDF) (agenda item #3)
• Principles of Organization for Planning the IEP Workshop (PDF) (agenda item #3)
• Workshop Planning Committee - Roles and Responsibilities (PDF) (agenda item #5)

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 look forward to seeing you at the August 10 IEP PWT & Stakeholder meeting.

IEP Program Support Team
Contact us! iep@wildlife.ca.gov

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