25th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference

Final Call for Session and Presenter Abstracts

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The 25th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference will be held in Santa Rosa, California at the Wells Fargo Arts Center from Wednesday, March 7 through Saturday, March 10, 2007.

The first two days of the conference will be filled with full-day workshops and field tours. A half-day, plenary session will be followed by 1.5 days of technical, biological, and policy-related concurrent sessions. This conference focuses on a broad range of salmonid and watershed restoration topics of concern to restoration practitioners, agency scientists, and land planners and owners.

The plenary session will feature prominent keynote speakers including UC Davis Fisheries Professor Peter Moyle who will address Climate Change and the state of California salmonid recovery efforts, Restoration pioneer Liza Prunuske who will provide a 20-year retrospective on restoration efforts in Sonoma County, Nat Scholz from NOAA Fisheries who will present on Coho Salmon recovery issues, and Freeman House, author of Totem Salmon. Salmon champion Congressman Mike Thompson is also invited to speak.

Other highlights of the conference include the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, SRF’s annual meeting, a poster session and reception, and a cabaret, banquet, and dance.

Proposals and abstracts for sessions, field tours, and workshops are required.

Workshops:

* Urban Creek Restoration, workshop and tour
* Bioengineering and Instream Structures, workshop and tour
* Estuarine Restoration
* Fish Passage Barrier Removal Tools
* Dam Removal and FERC Relicensing

Field tours

* Sustainable Grazing Tour of Southern Sonoma and West Marin
* Salmon-Friendly Vineyard Practices
* Ecologically Sustainable Water Management & Restoration Projects
* Steelhead Habitat Restoration in Upper Sonoma Creek
* Cooperative Restoration Efforts in Willow Creek

Sessions

* Coho Recovery Program
* North Coast Water Diversions: Can Salmon Go with the Flow?
* Chinook Fisheries Closures: the Economic, Cultural, and Recovery Impacts
* Salmonid and Watershed Education
* Coastal Watershed Recovery
* Watershed Indicators and Adaptive Management
* Fluvial Geomorphology
* Resources for the Emerging Restoration Field
* Water Quantity and Quality Issues Downstream of Large Reservoirs

Presenter Abstracts are due on November 13, 2006. Successful session proposals include presentations that address salmonid restoration and recovery from a fishery resource, physical watershed processes, or broad policy perspective. Sessions should be developed with 5 to 7 speakers, with talks lasting 25 minutes with a 5-minute question period. SRF encourages presentations on projects that have a monitoring and assessment component and/or have been completed. Panels can be incorporated into session design. The Agenda Coordinator will work with each Session Coordinator (SC) towards confirming presenters by November 1and soliciting speaker abstracts. SC’s and speaker’s conference fees are waived or reduced and they receive a commemorative conference t-shirt.

Format for submitting Session and Presentation Abstracts or Posters
Session and presentation abstracts should be prepared as MS Word or WordPerfect files in 12 point, Times New Roman font, and left justified only.

Each abstracts should include:

1. Title
2. A list of all the authors, their affiliation, and contact information. Presenters must be clearly identified
3. An abstract of 500 words of less. Extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) will also be accepted for distribution via the proceedings, web, and/or CD.
4. An indication of what concurrent session you would like to contribute to or indicate “Poster.” Include preference of presentation type- 2x2 slides or Powerpoint LCD projector
5. Indicate if the presenter is a student

All contributions, including Session and Presentation Abstracts, should be submitted electronically by email to srf@calsalmon.org with abstract attached as an MS Word document. Receipt of your submission will be acknowledged by email and forwarded to the correct session chair. For any additional information, please contact SRF at (707) 923-7501 or at srf@calsalmon.org