September 2024 eNews

 

In this eNewsletter you will find:

First Call for 2025 SRF Presentation Abstracts
Presenter Abstracts Due November 18
 

The 42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference will be held in Santa Cruz, California from April 29-May 2, 2025. Please visit our website to see the First Call for Presentation Abstracts.

Please note that the agenda evolves and the Second Call for Abstracts may include additional concurrent sessions. Session and workshop descriptions are posted and the field tour descriptions will be online shortly. Early abstract submission helps SRF determine which sessions and workshops will be in the final agenda.

SRF’s Call for Abstracts is highly competitive and not all abstracts can be accepted. Presentations that have not been given before at our conference will have priority.

To submit an abstract, please review our submission guidelines. Please fill out this form, Then email your abstract to abstracts@calsalmon.org. Receipt of your submission will be acknowledged by email and forwarded to the correct session chair.

42nd Annual SRF Conference Hotel Group Blocks, FAQs, and more
 

SRF will be hosting the conference workshops at the Hotel Paradox and the Courtyard by Marriott is within walking distance to the conference venue in Santa Cruz and we have set up hotel blocks. Hotel rooms will sell out before the conference registration does so please make your hotel reservations early if you plan on registering for the conference. More hotel blocks will be available soon. Conference registration will probably not open until early December but you can reserve your hotel rooms now. For more information on lodging, registration pricing, scholarship opportunities, etc. please check out our FAQs.

Sponsor the 42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference
 

Please consider supporting the 42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference through sponsorship. Co-sponsors are recognized in all conference materials, receive complimentary conference passes, and help keep the conference affordable for practitioners. Please see the co-sponsor appeal letter.

26th Annual Coho Confab 
Sold Out
 

SRF, with the support of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, will host the 26th Annual Coho Confab on September 13 - 15 at the beautiful Rock Creek Ranch on the South Fork of the Smith River. The pristine Smith River is the largest undammed river in California and is located in the northwest corner of the state in the Siskiyou Mountains. Field tours will include exciting projects in Mill Creek, Prairie Creek State Park, Lower Klamath, tributaries to the Smith, and underwater fish ID. The agenda is posted.

Restoration Job Board
 

SRF hosts a Job Board on our website to post current positions related to California's fisheries and watershed restoration field.  Please email info@calsalmon.org to post a job on our webpage.

Sept 5, 2024
 

Register for Coastal Quest’s free webinar to learn more about their new Assessment Tool and how it can support your water quality goals.

This training will explore the history of the California State Water Quality Protection Areas (SWQPAs) and how Coastal Quest’s new SWQPA Assessment Tool can help accelerate solutions, building resilience in coastal communities for people, nature, and climate.

CDFW, OSPR Environmental Enhancement Grant
Due Sept 11, 2024
 

These awards support environmental enhancement projects located within or immediately adjacent to waters of the state. An enhancement project is a project that acquires habitat for preservation or improves habitat quality and ecosystem function above baseline conditions. Learn more here.

California Coastal Cleanup Day
Sept 21, 2024
 

The California Coastal Cleanup Day events are in waterways throughout California, not just on the coast. Look at the map to learn about a clean up event near you.

NOAA Fisheries Community Science Funding
Due Nov 4, 2024
 

NOAA Fisheries is seeking proposals to support citizen science projects that can improve federal fishery stock assessments and climate-ready fisheries management. Funding will prioritize projects that provide information for use in stock assessments and increase understanding of current and/or future impacts of climate change on fish stocks and/or fishing communities. Learn more here.

Cal Poly Margie Caisley Conservation Engineering Award

This fund established an annual award for students with undergraduate experience in Engineering or the sciences of Fisheries, Geology, Hydrology, or Watershed and Wildland Sciences interested in pursuing a graduate degree in Environmental Systems in the focus area of Environmental Resource Engineering at Cal Poly Humboldt. Support the fund or learn more here.

Support SRF

You can support SRF by making a donation, becoming a member, or purchasing SRF merchandise.