Day 1

Baneful Blooms: Investigating Harmful Algal Blooms in the San Francisco Estuary

• Monitoring for Harmful Algal Blooms as an Effort to Keep the Public Informed of Risks in Our Waters. Spencer Fern (Restore the Delta)
• Delta Harmful Algal Bloom Strategy: Where are We Going Next? Ellen Preece (Dept Water Resources), Mine Berg (Delta Stewardship Council), Tricia Lee (CA Dept Fish and Wildlife)
• HABs monitoring and response in the Sacramento River Basin. Zachary Gigone (Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians)

Tribal Water Rights and Beneficial Use

• Tribal Beneficial Uses & Flows. Emily Moloney (California Trout)
• Water Quality and its Impact on Tribal Beneficial Uses. Sarah Ryan (Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians)

Day 2

Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Estuary

• California’s Safer Consumer Products Program: Advancing chemically safer products for people and the environment. Anne-Cooper Doherty (Dept Toxic Substances Control)
• Microplastics Monitoring in San Francisco Bay and Statewide to Inform Management Actions. Christine Sur (Ocean Protection Council). Diana Lin (SF Estuary Institute)
• PFAS in San Francisco Bay. Kimberlee West (SF Bay Regional Water Board)
• State of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Estuary. Maggie Monahan (SF Bay Regional Water Board)

Estuary Cleanup: Successful Strategies and Key Opportunties for Reducing Trash in the Bay

• Trash Sources, Pathways, Threats, and Solutions for the San Francisco Bay. Chris Sommers (EOA,Inc.)
• Working Towards 100% Trash Reduction: Protecting Surface Water Quality in San Jose. Rajani Nair (City of San Jose)
• It Takes a Village (of Programs): Oakland’s Journey to Protect Local Waterways. Kristin Hathaway (City of Oakland)
• Trash Management in Unsheltered Communities: Scaling Programs to Engage and Support Unhoused Populations. Chris Richardson (Downtown Streets Team)

Day 1

Wetland Restoration in the Estuary: The Long and Very Bumpy Road to Success

• Multi-Objective Restoration Projects: If Everyone Wants Them…Why Are They So Hard? Dave Halsing (South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project)
• Rising from the Mud: Restoration of North Bay Wetlands. Linda Tong (CA State Coastal Conservancy)
• Lessons from the Upper Estuary: Restoration Progress in the Delta and Suisun Marsh. Dylan Chapple (Delta Stewardship Council)
• Evaluating vegetation communities and elevation capital in some of the San Francisco Bay’s oldest restoration projects and comparison with west coast results. Christopher Janousek (Oregon State University) 

Navigating the Waters: Exploring the Nexus of Fish, Habitats, and Humanity across the San Francisco Estuary

• Beneath the Surface, Below the Delta: Expanding Our Knowledge of Aquatic Wetland Ecosystems Across the San Francisco Estuary. Levi Lewis (UC Davis)
• Leveraging Open Science, Synthesis, and Collaboration to Advance Fisheries and Food Web Knowledge in the Estuary. Denise Colombano (Delta Stewardship Council)
• Recognizing Indigenous Knowledge as a Foundational Principle of Fish and Fish Habitat Conservation. Anecita Agustinez (Dept of Water Resources)

Day 2

Integrating Knowledge and Best Practices into Scaling Up: Regionally Advancing Living Shoreline Projects

• Leading Edge Approaches in Collaborative Design and Implementation. Marilyn Latta, (State Coastal Conservancy)
• Science, Experimentation, and Workforce Development in Nature-Based Adaptation. Chela Zabin (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center)
• Engineering with Nature to Advance Nature-Based Adaptation in SF Bay. Julie Beagle (US Army Corps of Engineers)
• Linking Invasive Eradication with Native Plantings in a Changing Climate. Jeanne Hammond (Invasive Spartina Project/Olofson Environmental)

Day 1

• Delta Heritage and Landscape. Ivan Senock (Restore the Delta)
• Culture is Ecology: Native Hands on the Landscape. Don Hankins (CSU Chico / Indigenous Stewardship Network)
• Water Infrastructure, Flooding, and Inequities in Frontline Communities: A Cross-Generational Panel. Tess Byler (San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority), Miyko Harris-Parker (San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority), Tristan Ordaz (Estuary Youth Council), Deborah Castillo (Estuary Youth Council)

Day 2

Native Plant Nurseries around the Bay: Hubs for Community Engagement and Workforce Development in Habitat Restoration Projects

• Beyond Plants – How Nurseries Add Meaning to Our Lives. Leia Giambastiani (Point Blue Conservation Science), Alycia Matz (Point Blue Conservation Science)
• Growing Together – Restoration, Nurseries, and Community Engagement. Eric Lynch (San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory)
• Cultivating Community Through Affinity Based Volunteer Programming. Mille Calzada (Save The Bay)
• Local Plants and Local People. Dr. Hollis Pierce-Jenkins (Literacy for Environmental Justice), Nina Omomo (Literacy for Environmental Justice)

Day 1

Shaping the Future of Bay Area Adaptation through BCDC’s Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan (RSAP)

• Creating Consistent RSAP Guidelines for Local Sea Level Rise Adaptation Plans. Jaclyn Perrin-Martinez (San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission)

State Route 37 and Habitat Restoration: Chasing the Nature-Imposed Deadline for Climate Adaptation

• The Big Picture: San Pablo Baylands Overview. Jeremy Lowe (San Francisco Estuary Institute)
• SR 37 Planning and Environmental Linkages Study and Partnership Agreement. David Ambuehl (Caltrans), Larry Goldzband (San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission)
• SR 37 from Sears Point to Mare Island: A Compromise to Relieve Congestion and Restore Marshes. Kevin Chen (Metropolitan Transportation Commission), Xavier Fernandez (San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board)
• Novato Creek Baylands Strategy: Working Together to Achieve Infrastructure Resilience and Environmental Restoration. James Muller (San Francisco Estuary Partnership), Jeanette Weisman, (Metropolitan Transportation Commission)

Day 2

• California Resilience Bond. Elizabeth Forsburg Pardi (The Nature Conservancy)
• The New EPA San Francisco Bay Program. David Lewis (Save The Bay)
• Emerging Regional Strategies. James Cameron (Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority and Transportation Authority), Amy Hutzel (State Coastal Conservancy)

• Scaling up the Horizontal Levee Concept: The First Mile Project. Jackie Zipkin (East Bay Dischargers Authority), Anthony DeSalvo (UC Berkeley), Jonathan Uhler (University of California, Berkeley)
• Nature-based Solutions, Climate Resiliency, and Equity: How One Medium Sized Clean Water Agency in the Bay is Trying to Address all Three! Emily Corwin (Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District)

• Five Years of Evaluation and Studies of Nature-Based Solutions for Reverse Osmosis Concentrate Treatment. Medi Sinaki (Santa Clara Valley Water District), Nasi Basiri (Santa Clara Valley Water District)

Steering Committee

Committee Members

Aimee Good, NERR
Alex Tavizon, CIEA*
Alex Thomsen, SFEP*
Allison Brooks, BARC
Alyson Aquino, USDA, Natural Resource Conservation Science
Amanda Bohl, Delta Science Program*
Amanda Brown-Stevens, Greenbelt Alliance*
Andy Rogers, NBWA
Caitlin Sweeney, SFEP*
Jane Lavelle, SF Public Utilities Commission
Jay Davis, SFEI*
Jillian Burns, CDFW*
John Bourgeois, Valley Water
John Callaway, USF
John Coleman, BPC
Julian Wood, PRBO Conservation Science
Julie Beagle, USACE
Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Kanyon Konsulting
Karen McDowell, SFEP*
Lisa Horowitz McCann, RWQCB*
Liz Juvera, SFEP*
Lorien Fono, BACWA
Luisa Valiela, EPA Region 9*
Lynn Takata, Delta Science Program
Melissa Foley, SFEI*
Melissa Jones, BARHII*
Mike Vasey, NERR
Moira McEnespy, SCC*
Robin Freeman, Institute for Sustainable Policy Studies, Merritt College*
Sandra Scoggin, SF Bay Joint Venture
Shalini Kannan, SCC*
Steve Goldbeck, BCDC
Terrie Green, Urban Tilth
Tom Mumley, RWQCB
Tracy Greene, BARHII*
Vinita Goyal, BARHII*
Warner Chabot, SFEI*

*Member of Plenary Session Organizing Team

Full Poster Abstract Compendium

1. 1. Elkhorn Slough Restoration Science
   2. Revealing San Francisco Bay’s Natural and Constructed Rocky Shores: Ecological Insights to Inform Nature-Based Adaptation and Restoration
   3. Saving Salty: How Emerging Research on Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse Ecology – Beyond Habitat Preferences – Can Influence Recovery
   4. The Native Olympia Oyster: Status, Ecology, and Restoration
   5. The Tidal Parr Study
   6. Citizen Science/Volunteer Monitoring
   7. Climate Change
   8. Data/Tools
   9. Food Webs
   10. Habitat Restoration
   11. Habitat Restoration – Aquatic Species
   12. Habitat Restoration – Avian
   13. Habitat Restoration – Delta
   14. Habitat Restoration – Vegetation
   15. Invasive Species
   16. Public Education, Outreach, and Access
   17. Sediment
   18. Species and Communities – Aquatic
   19. Species and Communities – Avian
   20. Water Quality – General
   21. Water Quality – Stormwater Runoff
   22. Water Quality – TMDL Implementation
   23. Water Quality – Emerging Contaminants
   24. Water Quality – Nutrients
   25. Water Quality – Trash
   26. Watershed Management

Steering Committee

Committee Members

John Bourgeois, Environmental Science Associates*
Amanda Brown-Stevens, Greenbelt Alliance*
Jay Davis, San Francisco Estuary Institute (RMP)*
Warner Chabot, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Melissa Foley, San Francisco Estuary Institute*
Jim Ervin, “Fish in the Bay”
Matt Gerhart, CA Coastal Conservancy
Kathy Hieb, California Department of Fish and Wildlife*
John Krause, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Jane Lavelle, SF Public Utilities Commission
Moira McEnespy, Exploratorium, CA Coastal Conservancy*
Susan Schwartzenberg, Exploratorium*
Ron Melcer, Delta Science Program
Nir Oksenberg, Delta Science Program
Sandra Scoggin, SF Bay Joint Venture
Caroline Warner, SF Bay Joint Venture
Mike Vasey, SF Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve*
Aimee Good, SF Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Steve Goldbeck, SF Bay Conservation & Development Commission
Tom Mumley, Regional Water Quality Control Board*
Lisa Horowitz McCann, Regional Water Quality Control Board
Luisa Valiela, Environmental Protection Agency, Reg. 9*
Carol Mahoney, Zone 7 Water Agency
John Callaway, Delta Science Program-Delta Stewardship Council, University of San Francisco*
Alyson Aquino, USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Science*
Caitlin Sweeney, San Francisco Estuary Partnership*
Karen McDowell, San Francisco Estuary Partnership*
Liz Juvera, San Francisco Estuary Partnership*
Jillian Burns, San Francisco Estuary Partnership*

*Member of Session Organizing Team

Poster Chairs

Alyson Aquino, USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Science
Jim Ervin, “Fish in the Bay”

Student Judging Chairs

Sean Avent, WRA
Setenay Frucht, Regional Water Quality Control Board

Session Organizing Team Members

Heidi Nutters, San Francisco Estuary Partnership
Dave Halsing, South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project
Amanda Bohl, Delta Stewardship Council
Jessica Law, Delta Stewardship Council
Yumiko Henneberry, Delta Science Program-Delta Stewardship Council
Christina Toms, SF Bay Water Board
Shannon Fiala, Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Megan Hall, Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Amy Hutzel, State Coastal Conservancy
Kelly Moran, TDC Environmental
Eric Dunlavey, City of San Jose
Dave Senn, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Allison Brooks, Bay Area Regional Collaborative
Melissa Gunter, Regional Water Quality Control Board
Darcie Luce, San Francisco Estuary Partnership
Nadav Nur, Point Blue Conservation Science
Julie Beagle, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Chris Sommers, EOA Inc./Santa Clara Valley Urban Runoff Pollution Prevention Program
Melody Tovar, City of Sunnyvale
Josh Bradt, San Francisco Estuary Partnership
Matt Fabry, City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County
Lucas Patzek, Napa County Resource Conservation District
Wendy Rash, USDA-NRCS Solano County
Erica Spotswood, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Rachael Klopfenstein, Delta Science Program

Full Poster Abstract Compendium

1. A Fifty-Year Plan to Restore Aquatic Ecosystems with Green Infrastructure in Walnut Creek Watershed
2. Conserving the Endangered Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse in the Modern San Francisco Estuary
3. Delta Narratives: The History and Culture of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
4. Invasive Spartina Project Updates
5. McCormack-Williamson Tract Monitoring and Restoration Preview
6. Microcystis Blooms in San Francisco Estuary during Drought Conditions: Field and Laboratory Studies Associated with Microcystis spp from 2014 to 2016
7. San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility: Sustaining & Improving Water Quality & Habitat of Lower South San Francisco Bay
8. Sears Point Tidal Wetland Restoration
9. The Face of “Resiliency” — At the Forefront of Translating Climate Resiliency into Implementation Projects that Reconcile Past, Present, and Future
10. Variability in Land-Atmosphere Interactions of the SF Bay-Delta’s Restored and Natural Wetlands: Implications for Carbon, Methane, and Water Fluxes
11. Water Quality and Sediment Monitoring – State of the Art Plume Mapping Technology
12. Citizen Science
13. Climate Adaptation
14. Data and Tools
15. Emerging Contaminants
16. Habitat Restoration
17. Habitat Restoration – Flood Management/Levees/Dams
18. Habitat Restoration – Public Education, Outreach, and Access
19. Habitat Restoration – Sediment
20. Habitat Restoration – Species and Communities
21. Habitat Restoration – Water Quality
22. Invasive Species
23. Public Outreach
24. Sediment
25. Species and Communities
26. Species and Communities – Fish
27. Species and Communities – Sensitive Species
28. Storm Water
29. Water Management
30. Water Quality
31. Water Supplies and Instream Flows
32. Watershed Management

Steering Committee

Poster Chairs

Shakoora Azimi-Gaylon, Delta Conservancy*
Aimee Good, SF Bay NERR

Student Judging Chairs

Maya Hayden, Point Blue Conservation Science
Nir Oksenberg, Delta Science Program

Committee Members

Marina Brand, Delta Science Program
Allison Brooks, BARC*
John Callaway, Delta Science Program*
Warner Chabot, SFEI*
John Coleman, BPC
Natasha Dunn, SFEP
Jim Ervin, City of San Jose*
Naomi Feger, SF Bay Water Board*
Matt Gerhart, State Coastal Conservancy*
Steve Goldbeck, BCDC
Beth Huning, SF Bay Joint Venture*
Jane Lavelle, SF Public Utilities Commission*
Karen McDowell, SFEP*
Tom Mumley, SF Bay Water Board*
Heidi Nutters, SFEP*
Caitlin Sweeney, SFEP*
Luisa Valiela, US EPA*
Julian Wood, Point Blue Conservation Science *

*Member of Session Organizing Team

Session Organizing Team Members

Kate Anderson, Delta Stewardship Council
Colin Bailey, Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
Julie Beagle, SFEI
Dale Boywer, SF Bay Water Board
Josh Bradt, SFEP
John Bourgeois, South Bay Salt Pont Restoration Project
Mike Chotkowski, USGS
Cynthia Clark, Sustainable Silicon Valley
Jay Davis, SFEI
Nahal Ghoghaie, Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
Letitia Grenier, SFEI
Lenny Grimaldo, ICF
Robin Grossinger, SFEI
Andy Gunther, BAECC
Campbell Ingram, Delta Conservancy
Marilyn Latta, State Coastal Conservancy
Jessica Law, Delta Stewardship Council
Darcie Luce, SFEP
Jan O’Hara, SF Bay Water Board
Fraser Shilling, UC Davis
Chris Sommers, EOA, Inc.
Erica Spotswood, SFEI
Miriam Torres, BCDC
Lynne Trulio, SJSU
Peter Vorster, The Bay Institute
Kim Webb, USFWS

Full Poster Abstracts Compendium

1. Living Shorelines Projects
2. Partnerships for a Healthy Coyote Creek
3. Restoration Enhancement work by the Invasive Spartina Project
4. San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility Treating Wastewater and Enhancing the Bay
5. State of the Estuary Report 2015
6. The Key to Effective Decision-making through Science and Communication A Preview of the State of Bay-Delta Science, 2015
7. The Microcystis Bloom during the 2014 Drought
8. The Napa River Working Together to Build a Resilient Watershed and a Living River
9. Agriculture and Water Quality
10. At Risk Species Fish
11. At Risk Tidal Marsh Species
12. Biological Species
13. Biological Species Birds
14. Biological Species Invertebrates
15. Clean Vessel Act
16. Climate Change
17. Climate Change Habitat Restoration
18. Community Outreach
19. DataTools Mapping
20. DataTools Monitoring the Bay
21. DataTools Network
22. Environmental Cleanup
23. Fish Contamination
24. Habitat Restoration Fish
25. Habitat Restoration Salt Ponds
26. Habitat Restoration Seagrass
27. Habitat Restoration Tidal Marsh
28. Habitat Restoration Tools to Restore
29. Habitat Restoration Wetland and Riparian
30. Invasive Species
31. Nutrient Removal
32. Nutrients
33. Primary Productivity
34. Recycled Water
35. Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay
36. Reservoir Monitoring
37. Runoff Infrastructure
38. Sediment Transport
39. Watershed Management

Complete Book of 185 Poster Abstracts

Poster Clusters (Click on links for a PDF of abstracts on specific topics)

• Napa River Watershed Restoration
• San Jose Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility
• SFEP Watershed Program Small Grants Projects
• South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project 10 Years of Science

Individual Poster Topics (Click on links for a PDF of abstracts on specific topics)

• Birds
• Climate Change
• Fish
• Flood Control Habitat Restoration and Food Webs
• Habitat Restoration
• Invasive Species
• Nutrients
• Public Education Outreach
• Regional Habitat Monitoring and Assessment and Stormwater Runoff Contaminant Removal
• TMDL Implementation and Water Quality