October 2024 eNews

In this eNewsletter you will find:

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 Second Call for Presentation Abstracts.

Please note that the agenda evolves and the Second Call for Abstracts may include additional concurrent sessions. Session, workshop, and field tour descriptions are posted. 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.

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.

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.

The Poster Session will be 7-10 pm on Thursday, March 1 at Cocoanut Grove, the main Conference venue. This annual event is open to all registered conference attendees and is a great venue to network with your peers.

If you would like to present during the Poster Session, click here to pre-register. Please email with any questions about the poster session.

SRF, with the support of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, hosted the 26th Annual Coho Confab on September 13 - 15 at the beautiful Rock Creek Ranch on the South Fork of the Smith River. Orientation presentations are posted here.

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

The Klamath Dam Removal Host Committee members invite you to the celebration of the largest dam removal project in the world and rebirth of the Klamath River. More information is available here.

PMEP Launches New Tool

The Pacific Marine & Estuarine Fish Habitat Partnership launched the West Coast Estuary and Nearshore Habitat Viewer. In this geographic viewer you can use PMEP data, import ArcGIS data, as well as import your own data to view together. Find the Habitat Viewer and PMEP data here. 

The Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC) is hiring a Beaver Coexistence Program Manager to lead and design a 3-year statewide Beaver Coexistence Training and Support Program. Learn more here.

The University of Washington has three tenure-track faculty positions available including Assistant Professor Freshwater Ecology; Assistant or Associate Professor in Pacific Salmon ecology, evolution, & management; and Associate or Full Professor in Applied Organismal Biology & Aquaculture and Executive Director of the Western Regional Aquaculture Center.

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