Events

Thursday, November 5, 6:00 - 8:00 pm: Reception and Poster Session at DoubleTree Hotel

 

Saturday, November 7, 9:30 to 10:30 am: Why Bay Area Steelhead Matter – Keynote Talks and Book Signings with author and illustrator Obi Kaufmann and Jeff Miller author of Irreverent Guide to Bay Area Wildlife

 

Obi Kaufmann is an award-winning author of six best-selling books. Most famously, his 2017 book The California Field Atlas, recontextualized popular ideas about ecology, biodiversity, and geography. His subsequent books—The State of Water: Understanding California’s Most Precious Resource and The California Lands Trilogy (The Forests of California, The Coasts of California, and The Deserts of California)—present a comprehensive survey of California’s physiography and biogeography in terms of both its evolutionary past and its unfolding future. His most recent book, 2024’s The State of Fire: Why California Burns, is among his most popular and timely works to date. His next book is  California Inside Out: Mapping an Ecology of Mind (Heyday, fall 2026), a treatise on ecological philosophy, will be followed by a second California Lands Trilogy (Heyday, 2027–2030). You can follow his work on Instagram at @coyotethunder.

 

                                                                   

 

 

Jeff Miller is the founder and director of the Alameda Creek Alliance. He is also a senior conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. Jeff has been working on steelhead trout restoration in the Bay Area since 1996. He is the author of Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide published by Heyday Books.