Hello,
Please help publicize the upcoming Salmonid Restoration Federation and American Fisheries Society Cal-Neva Conference with the attached press release and conference announcement.
Please email SRF if you can help distribute conference agenda packets and posters. Please indicate how many we should send and to what address.
Thank you,
PSA:
28th Annual Salmonid Restoration & 44th Annual AFS Cal-Neva Conference Agenda and Registration Online at www.calsalmon.org
The joint conference will be held March 10-13 at the Redding Convention Center in Redding, CA. The conference theme is “Fisheries Science and Restoration in a Changing Climate” and will include watershed tours, workshops, outstanding scientific presentations on coastal stream habitat restoration and salmon recovery. The conference will features special events including a screening of The filmRiver of Renewal , an AFS Social at Turtle Bay, a Poster Session and Job Fair, a 5 K Spawning run, and a wild salmon banquet with cabaret and music by Absynth Quintet http://www.absynthquintet.com/
Conference Announcement:
28th Annual Salmonid Restoration & 44th Annual AFS Cal-Neva Conference Agenda and Registration Online at www.calsalmon.org
Salmonid Restoration Federation and the California-Nevada American Fisheries Society chapter will co-host the 28th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference and the 44th Annual Cal-Neva AFS Conference in Redding, California. We are truly excited about this new collaborative effort. The theme of the conference is Fisheries Restoration and Science in a Changing Climate. The first two days of the conference will be filled with symposia, full-day workshops continuing education classes, 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 will focus on a broad range of salmonid, fisheries, and watershed restoration topics of concern to restoration practitioners, and the scientific fisheries community.
This year the conference will feature workshops on topics including Water Quality and TMDLs, Floodplain Restoration, a Fisheries Engineering and Stream Restoration Symposium, Stormwater Pollution Workshop, and continuing education classes on presentation skills, acoustic tag training, and River 2 D technology. Concurrent sessions include: the State of California Salmonids, Anadromous Salmonid Monitoring, Stream Channel Restoration, Central Valley Salmonid Recovery Planning, Marine and Estuarine Fisheries Research: Conservation and Management, Status, Ecology and Management of Inland Fishes and Anadromous/Migratory Fishes, Water Diversions and Fish Impediments, FERC Relicensing and Restoration Opportunities, Planning, Documenting, and Evaluating Fish Restoration Activities, Instream Flow for Salmonids, and a Contributed Papers session.
Field Tours will visit restoration projects in Clear Creek, Battle Creek, the Upper Trinity River, the Shasta River, the Upper Sacramento River and Redding urban streams. The Plenary session will feature David Montgomery author of King of Fish: the Thousand Year Run of Salmon and Dirt: the Erosion of Civilization, Larry Brown from the US Geological Survey who will discuss climate change and native fishes in the San Francisco Estuary and watershed, and Dan Bottom from the National Marine Fisheries Service will discuss “Pacific Salmon at the Crossroads and how Resilient are Salmon Ecosystems.” Maria Rea from NOAA will discuss salmonid recovery planning efforts for salmon in California.
SRF and AFS have created a dynamic conference agenda that addresses pressing issues that affect salmonid recovery and fisheries throughout the Pacific Northwest. We are also combining some of the unique features of each of our conferences. AFS will host a social at Turtle Bay, a job fair as part of the joint poster session, and a Saturday morning 5K Spawning Run. SRF will feature our annual meeting, the film screening of River of Renewal, a poster session and reception, banquet, awards ceremony, cabaret, and dance band Absynth Quintet.
For more information about the conference, to see the agenda, or to register, please visit www. calsalmon.org