Agenda

• Swimming Upstream: Building Momentum for Bay Area Steelhead Restoration, Andrew Gunther, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Board and CEMAR
• Scrappy, Plastic and Persistent: Giving Bay Area Steelhead A Chance, Joe Merz, Cramer Fish Sciences
   

• Status reports on steelhead from more than a dozen key watersheds around the Bay Area and a summary of the health of Bay steelhead from the new State of the Salmonids report
   

• Opening Alameda Creek to Migratory Fish, Alameda Creek Alliance 
• SFPUC Fish Passage Projects in the Alameda Creek Watershed, Scott Chenue, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
• Sunol Valley PG&E Fish Passage Project, Claire Buchanan, California Trout
• Stevens Creek Fish Passage at Evelyn Avenue – Navigating Concrete, Denis Ruttenberg, Santa Clara Valley Water District

• Steelhead Monitoring in Urban Waterways, Clayton Leal, Santa Clara Valley Water District
• Integrating Collaboration, Fish Passage, Flow, and Monitoring for Steelhead Recovery, Joe Merz, Cramer Fish Sciences and Randall Renn, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
• From Mill and Deer Creeks to the Golden Gate: Tracking the Movement and Survival of Natural-Origin Steelhead Through California’s Central Valley, Jeremy Notch, NOAA Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Research Center
• Life Cycle Monitoring and Population Trends of Russian River Steelhead, Andrea Pecharich, Sonoma County Water Agency
• 11-Year Summary of O. mykiss Monitoring in San Mateo Creek, Richard Johnson, SFPUC Aquatic Biologist
   

• San Francisco Bay Steelhead Conservation in a Shifting Landscape, Alison Weber-Stover and Brian Meux, NOAA Fisheries
• Studying Steelhead Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Populations in Pescadero Lagoon, San Mateo County, CA: Implications for Recovery and Restoring Steelhead Populations in Central California Watersheds with Bar-Built Estuaries, Sean Cochran, District Fisheries Biologist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
• Steelhead Habitat Potential Among the Bay Area’s Natural and Artificial Stream Types, Greg Pasternak, U.C. Davis

• South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project – Anticipated Steelhead Use of Restored Tidal Marsh and Monitoring Gaps, Dave Halsing, CA State Coastal Conservancy
• Removing Dams and Jams: Salmonid Restoration in the Pescadero Watershed, Colleen McNally-Murphy, San Mateo Resource Conservation District
• Watershed-Scale Fish Passage Program in the Napa River, Martin Perales, Napa RCD
• Alder and Leatherwood Creek Restoration and Public Access Project, Edward Culver, East Bay Regional Park District Senior Scientist
   

• register for the poster session here by October 21, 2026. 

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Friday, November 6
 

• Alameda Creek Watershed Restoration Tour, Jeff Miller, Alameda Creek Alliance; Scott Chenue and Randall Renn, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission; Claire Buchanan, California Trout; Kelsi Oshiro and Andre Dextre, Alameda County Water District; and Ed Culver, East Bay Regional Park District
• San Francisquito Creek Watershed Tour, Patrick Samuel and Charlie Schneider, California Trout; Alan Launer and Karla Smith, Stanford University
• South Bay Creeks Tour, Clayton Leal, Santa Clara Valley Water District
  

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Saturday, November 7

• Alameda Creek Watershed Restoration Tour, Jeff Miller, Alameda Creek Alliance; Claire Buchanan, California Trout; and Ed Culver, East Bay Regional Park District
• Pinole Creek Tour, Bert Mulchaey, East Bay Municipal Utility District
• Lagunitas Creek Salmon Habitat Enhancement - Restoring Wood and Gravel to a Dammed Coastal Stream, Jonathan Koehler, Marin Water; and Sarah Phillips, Marin Resource Conservation District