Lauren Yamane is a Fish Biologist – statistician for the San Joaquin River Restoration Program with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, stationed at the Lodi Fish and Wildlife Office. She has been with SJRRP since October 2018. Prior to joining USFWS, Lauren completed a postdoctoral fellowship with UC Davis and CDFW focused on informing a long-term monitoring plan for California’s marine protected areas. She also served as a Sea Grant State Fellow for the Delta Science Program. She received her PhD in Ecology from UC Davis in 2016, where she was a NMFS-Sea Grant Population Dynamics fellow and focused on salmon population dynamics. Lauren received her M.S. from University of South Carolina in Marine Science, and her B.S. from UC San Diego.