IEP Stakeholders News

Greetings IEP Community Members,

Andrea Jaegge of the USGS California Water Science Center asked us to share the information below for those working on Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs).

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Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract for the HABs session at the upcoming 2023 Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Conference.

27th Biennial CERF Conference
Resilience & Recovery
Portland, Oregon, USA
12 –16 November 2023

CERF 2023 Call for Abstracts
Abstract Deadline: 20 May 2023

CERF 2023 Session:
Advances in harmful algal bloom (HAB) research across the freshwater to marine continuum
Keith Bouma-Gregson, U.S. Geological Survey; Andrea Jaegge, U.S. Geological Survey; Beth Stauffer, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Hans Paerl, University of North Carolina

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) represent a threat to human and ecosystem health across the freshwater to coastal continuum worldwide. Estuaries are particularly prone to HAB impacts from delivery, or in situ growth, of both freshwater and marine taxa. With continued anthropogenic pressure and climate change, HAB impacts are expected to increase. Resilience and recovery of impacted ecosystems can only occur through better understanding of HAB impacts on: ecosystem function and health; environmental drivers supporting occurrences and toxin production; and successful mitigation and management strategies. This session welcomes novel advances in HAB research and management across the freshwater to marine continuum.

Questions? Contact Andrea Jaegge, PhD (she/her) from the U.S. Geological Survey, California Water Science Center at ajaegge@usgs.gov or 803-760-8521.

Greetings IEP Community Members,

Everyone has been waiting in anticipation for the 2023 IEP Annual Workshop. Registration for in-person attendance and virtual attendance will open February 28, 2023. The registration links will be posted to the Annual IEP Workshop web page and distributed via the IEP Workshop email listserv, and this stakeholder listserv. It would be great to see everyone in person, unfortunately, seating is limited in the auditorium. Tickets for the in-person event will be distributed on a first come, first served basis. Once seating capacity for each day is reached, only virtual attendance will be available.

The Workshop Program and Presentation Abstracts Booklet have been posted. For posters, we have 54 to share this year, which will be showcased on the 2nd floor. Make sure to visit the poster authors during the scheduled poster sessions on Tuesday, March 21 and Wednesday, March 22. Poster abstracts and images will be shared later on the IEP online Poster Discussion Forum so remote participants can check them out after the workshop. The presentations in the auditorium will be recorded and made available (later) under the IEP Workshops Playlist on the California Department of Fish and Wildlife YouTube channel. So, if you miss a session, you’ll be able to watch it later at your own convenience!

Registration is now open for the early career luncheon and two IEP training courses. More information on these events has been posted to the Annual IEP Workshop web page. Registration is FREE for all events.

• Early Career Luncheon (Tuesday, March 21) 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
  • Great networking opportunity for students and early career scientists.
• Two IEP Training Courses (Friday, March 24) 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
  • Introduction to GIS with QGIS (beginner class)
  • Introduction to Hierarchical Models in R with Application to Abundance Modeling (advanced class)

Transportation & Parking:
The California Natural Resources Building is in downtown Sacramento. Parking garages and lots are located nearby. The Sacramento Regional Transit has bus and light rail stations nearby.

Food:
The California Natural Resources Building has food vendors located inside the building on the first floor.
There are additional food establishments within walking distance of the building.

Questions? Send them to iep@wildlife.ca.gov

Greetings IEP Community Stakeholders,

Below is an announcement that we were asked to share with our IEP Community members.

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Hello Biological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting/Conservation Community, 

I am pleased to announce the release of the A.40 Earth Science Applications: Ecological Conservation (formerly Ecological Forecasting) solicitation. This program element solicits proposals that would enable:

1. Decision-making to combat the spread of invasive species,
2. Advance the use of ecosystem service assessment for decision-making,
3. Inform management, establishment, or protection of protected areas.

Proposals must outline activities and products that will achieve operational deployment and sustained use in decision-making by the end user(s) (i.e., ARL 9) before the end of the award. To feasibly achieve this objective, all submissions must show a demonstrated maturity in development beyond initial discovery, feasibility, and development (i.e., start at ARL 5 or greater) and an established relationship with an end user. Like past solicitations, proposals must combine three components: Earth observations, in-situ biological observations, and ecological models to develop decision-support tools.

Notices of intent are requested by March 14, 2023, and proposals are due April 14, 2023. A virtual meeting for potential proposers will occur January 13, 2023, from 2-4 pm eastern time. Connect information will be posted under other documents on the NSPIRES page for this program element no later than December 13, 2023.

This release marks the official name change of the Ecological Forecasting Application Area to Ecological Conservation Application Area. After over a year of consultation with our community, we have made this change to better reflect the program’s objectives. Forecasting remains the principle methodological approach for the work we support but achieving sustainable decision support for conservation is the end goal. You will see this change is now reflected on our program websites (Biological Diversity & Ecological Conservation and Earth Science and Applied Sciences).

Sincerely,
Keith Gaddis, Ph.D. (he/him)
Ecological Conservation Application Area
Biological Diversity Program Element
NASA Headquarters, Mary Jackson Bldg.
300 E St., SW
Washington, D.C. 20546
Keith.Gaddis@NASA.gov
202.358.4651
appliedsciences.nasa.gov
cce.nasa.gov/biodiversity/index.html

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 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