30th Annual SRF Conference April 4-7, 2012 in Davis, CA

Second Call for Abstracts: Presenter Abstracts Due Oct 18th

SRF is posting the Second Call for Abstracts for our 30th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference that will be April 4-7 in Davis, CA.

This year the conference will feature workshops on topics including Fish Passage Design, Engineering and Implementation, Analytical Measures to Determine Instream Flow Needs for Salmonids, Restoring Floodplain Processes to Increase Salmonid Populations, Integrated Population Monitoring in California, and Community Partnerships to Promote Restoration. Field Tours will include tours of Upper Yolo Bypass and Putah Creek, Cosumnes River and Floodplain, Tidal Wetland Restoration and Mitigation Banking to Benefit Threatened Fishes: a Tour of Cache Slough and Liberty Island, and Siusun Marsh Fish Habitat Restoration and UC Davis: From Habitat Needs to Restoration.

Potential Concurrent sessions include:

• Genetic Effects of Hatcheries on Chinook Salmon Population Dynamics in the Central Valley
• The Downstream End: the Role of Coastal Lagoons and Ocean Conditions on Salmonid Restoration
• Restoring the San Joaquin: A Future for Chinook Salmon
• Frontiers in California River Management and Restoration
• The Role of Artificial Propagation in Recovering Salmon Populations
• Utilizing Existing Fish Tagging Data to Guide Restoration Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation
• Dam Removal to Benefit Salmonid Recovery
• Floodplain Processes and Restoration: Research and Application
• Managing the Bay Delta for Water and Fish

Keynote speakers include Jim Lichatowich, author of Salmon Without Rivers, and new DFG Director, Chuck Bonham. Other conference events will include the SRF Annual Meeting, a poster session and reception on Friday night, and a cabaret and banquet with a Wild Copper River salmon dinner and live music.

If you are interested in co-sponsoring the Conference this year, download this.

This item originally appeared in the Oct. 2011 SRF e-Newsletter.