Workshop Early Career Scientist Luncheon Registration & Publication of Food Web Paper
Greetings IEP Stakeholders,
Just some general announcements to share on the IEP Workshop and a new Food Web paper that was recently published.
IEP Workshop Early Career Scientist Luncheon - Registration Now Open!
This year, the IEP workshop is offering both in-person and virtual mentoring luncheons! Both the in-person and virtual luncheons will be held on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, as part of this year's IEP workshop. The luncheon is aimed at connecting early career and new professionals working on the Bay-Delta with professionals who are more familiar with the community of researchers, managers, and conservation/natural resource practitioners who are more familiar with the issues, priorities, and professional opportunities. We encourage attendance by mentors and mentees with a wide range of interests, expertise, and experiences.
Luncheon Registration
If you are interested in attending the luncheon as either a mentor or mentee, please complete this Registration Questionnaire by Monday, March 4. Both the virtual and in-person luncheon will be limited to 25-30 people (mentees and mentors), with participation based on the order in which people sign up.
The in-person luncheon will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. on the 2nd floor of the California Natural Resources Building in Room 2-301. Lunch will be provided by the building's Getaway Café. The virtual luncheon will be held from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. via MS Teams. Mentors and mentees will be placed in separate breakout rooms to facilitate conversation, with mentees having the opportunity to move to other rooms.
Thank you to the State Water Contractors for sponsoring the in-person luncheon!
Please contact Kristi Arend (karend@usbr.gov) with any questions.
Please share this email with others who may be interested. This information has also been sent to the IEP Workshop listserv and posted on the IEP Workshop web page.
New Food Web Paper
A new article titled “Evaluating top‐down, bottom‐up, and environmental drivers of pelagic food web dynamics along an estuarine gradient” is out in Ecology. This work was part of the NCEAS workshops which started in 2021 and utilized structural equation modeling with four decades of long-term monitoring data to evaluate drivers of the SFE food web. The integrated dataset has also been published on EDI.