January 2025 eNewsletter

In this eNewsletter you will find:

SRF is partnering with California Fish and Wildlife, Michael Love & Associates, and Ross Taylor & Associates to offer a hands-on Fish Passage Design and Engineering field school in Santa Barbara on February 19 - 21, 2025. The curriculum will cover aquatics species and stream crossings; channel morphology; pre-design and project layout; including geomorphic-based designs, profile control techniques, hydraulic designs using baffles and fishways, monitoring and adaptation strategies, and more. 
 

This course is limited to 35 participants and will likely sell out so please register early. Early bird registration ends January 31, 2025.

Conference Registration is now open for the 42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference that will take place from April 29-May 2 in Santa Cruz, California. All presentations will be in person. 
 

The 2024 Conference Agenda is posted and registration is now open online.

Please submit 200 words or more to nominate candidates for the illustrious Restorationist of the Year Award, the Golden Pipe Award for Innovation, the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Gordon Becker Memorial River Advocate Award. Please find descriptions of the awards here. 
 

These awards will be presented at the 2025 Salmonid Restoration Conference Banquet. Nominations should be sent to lindsay@calsalmon.org by March 10, 2025. Please write "Award Nominations" in the subject line.

The Poster Session will be 7-10 pm on Thursday, May 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.

California Estuarine Marine Protected Area (EMPA) Monitoring Program is an ongoing effort to assess the quality and condition of estuaries statewide.The purpose of the workshop is to increase statewide estuarine monitoring capacity by training SRF attendees in EMPA monitoring protocols, including field work, data management, and data analysis. The program is interested in increasing estuarine monitoring capacity along the North Coast, and the SRF conference provides a unique opportunity to bring together existing North Coast program partners with potential future program partners. Learn more here.

During the Butano Creek: Threading the Needle to Accomplish Restoration at Scale Tour field tour participants will see examples of a range of restoration projects in the lower Pescadero watershed, including floodplain restoration, off-stream farm water storage, instream riparian habitat enhancement, and a dredge project that restored a stream channel and fish passage. Learn more here.

SRF is thrilled that the Israel Family Fund is making a multi-year contribution to SRF's Conference scholarship fund. The SRF Conference in Santa Cruz will cost considerably more than other conferences. Please consider contributing to the conference scholarship fund so we can continue to offer scholarships to students, tribal members, and other young professionals. SRF will match each dollar contributed.
 

To apply for a Conference scholarship, please complete this form by February 14, 2025.

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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.

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