Day 1
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 | 9 A.M. – 1 P.M.
9:00 A.M.
Introductions
9:10 A.M.
Opening Remarks
Dr. Donald Portz, San Joaquin River Restoration Program
9:20 A.M.
Panel: Return of the Chinook
MODERATOR: Josh Newcom, San Joaquin River Restoration
- A Brief History of the San Joaquin River
Bart Bohn, past board president of the San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust - It’s A Long Haul and Spring-Run Are Leading the Way
Erin Strange, National Marine Fisheries Service - Hatchery Development, Operations and Conservation Strategies
Gerald Hatler, California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Return of the King: Overview of 2019 and 2020 spring-run returns to the San Joaquin River
Dr. Oliver Burgess, Bureau of Reclamation - Monitoring a Recovering River: The Importance of Ongoing and Future Efforts in SJRRP
Donald Ratcliff, US Fish and Wildlife Service - Questions for panel
10:50 A.M.
Break
11:00 A.M.
Upper Watershed Pop-Up Talks
- Dealing with Uncertainty: Runoff Forecasting for the San Joaquin River Restoration Program
Emily Thomas, Bureau of Reclamation - Airborne Snow Observatory System Quantification of San Joaquin Snowpack
Dr. Thomas H. Painter, Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc. - Real-time 10-day Forecasts of Snow Water Equivalent in the Upper San Joaquin
Dr. Andrew Hedrick, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
11:20 A.M.
Restoration Flows Science and Drivers
Tom Johnson, Restoration Administrator
11:40 A.M.
Panel: Constructing the Future for Fish Passage
MODERATOR: Emily Thomas
- Integrating Resiliency into the Analysis and Design of Fish Passage Facilities
Jean Castillo, Native! Marine Fisheries Service - Eastside Bypass Control Structure Fish Passage Improvement Project
Alexis Phillips-Dowell, California Department of Water Resources - “Fish vs. Ducks”: Developing a Win-Win for Resolving Competing Demands on a National Wildlife Refuge
Kim Forrest, US Fish and Wildlife Service - Got Water and Fish, Now What? Tackling Passage and Increased Flows at Mendota Dam and Sack Dam
Elizabeth Vasquez, Bureau of Reclamation - Questions for panel
12:50 P.M.
Panels Conclude
12:50-1:30 P.M.
Break
2:30 P.M.
Chatrooms Conclude
Day 2
Thursday, October 15, 2020 | 9 A.M. – 1 P.M.
9:00 A.M.
Open Session
9:10 A.M.
Genetics
Dr. Carlos Garza, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Southwest Fisheries Science Center
9:30 A.M.
Outmigration Survival of Juvenile Spring-run Chinook Salmon in Relation to Physicochemical Conditions in the San Joaquin River
Colby Hause, University of California, Davis
9:50 A.M.
Rotary Screw Trap Monitoring of Juvenile Chinook Salmon in the Restoration Area
Jarod Hutcherson, Bureau of Reclamation
10:10 A.M.
Break
10:20 A.M.
Adult Spring-run Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Movement and Over-summer Holding within Reach 1 of the San Joaquin River
Mike Grill, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
10:40 A.M.
Field Observations and Results from Redd and Carcass Surveys on the San Joaquin River
Austin Demarest, US Fish and Wildlife Service
11:00 A.M.
Agricultural Groundwater Recharge Study
Dr. Helen E. Dahlke, University of California, Davis
11:20 A.M.
Break
11:30 A.M.
Pop-Up Talks
- In the Weeds: Keeping Up with Invasive Pressures on the San Joaquin River
Francis Ulep, River Partners - Van Clief Diversion Fish Passage Project
Sothea Oeun, California Department of Water Resources - Project Update: Habitat Restoration Planning at Ball Ranch
Haley Mirts, River Partners - A Look into Spring-run Fry Emergence for the 2018 and 2019 Sampling Seasons in the San Joaquin River
Andreas Raisch, US Fish and Wildlife Service - San Joaquin River Reach 1A Spawning Habitat Adaptive Management Plan
Trent Sherman, California Department of Water Resources - San Joaquin River Restoration: Juvenile Chinook Salmon Habitat Assessment
Dr. Steve Blurnenshine, California State University, Fresno - Milburn Gravel Pit Isolation Project Development
Dave Encinas, California Department of Water Resources - There and Back Again: Green Sturgeon Passage
Meiling Colombano, National Marine Fisheries Service - Modeling Sturgeon Habitat Access and Suitability in the San Joaquin River Restoration Program Area
Dr. Mark Tompkins, San Joaquin River Restoration Program, Technical Advisory Committee - The San Joaquin River Restoration Program’s Fisheries Long-Term Monitoring Plan
Dr. Lauren Yamane, US Fish and Wildlife Service
12:50 P.M.
Closing Remarks
1:00 P.M.
Conclude