IEP Stakeholders News

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

---

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

Greetings Stakeholders,

We've been asked to share an upcoming webinar from Western Washington University as part of the Toxicology and Societies Speaker Series. The upcoming talk is by Dr. Tamarra James-Todd presenting "Applying an Environmental Justice Framework to Epidemiologic Studies". 

Dr. James-Todd will present epidemiologic studies evaluating the evidence of environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals on women's reproductive health outcomes.

More information on the speaker series is available on the Western Washington University website and recordings from previous speaker series can be found on Vimeo (video).

Title: Applying an Environmental Justice Framework to Epidemiologic Studies 
When: Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. (Pacific Time)
Location: Zoom event
Cost: Free 
Registration is required to attend.

Please share with others who may be interested.

IEP Program Support Team

Greetings IEP PWT Chairs & Stakeholder Group members,

Our next meeting is Wednesday, May 11, 2022 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The meeting will be a MS Teams meeting. The link and call-in information is contained in the agenda (PDF) and is shown below.

Microsoft Teams meeting
Join on your computer or mobile app: Click here to join the meeting
Or call in (audio only) ;+1 (916) 535-0984 United States, Sacramento
Phone Conference ID: 516 309 664#

Upcoming PWT Chairs & Stakeholder Meetings:

• 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.

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
iep@wildlife.ca.gov

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