CALFED Science Conference Archives

4th Biennial CALFED Science Conference 2006
Making Sense of Complexity: Science for a Changing Environment

The CALFED Science Conference is a forum for presenting scientific information and ideas relevant to the CALFED Bay-Delta Program’s goals and objectives in the California Bay-Delta, its watershed, and the adjacent coastal ocean. This, the 4th Science Conference, provided presentations in all four of the CALFED Program’s areas: ecosystem restoration, levee system integrity, water quality, and water supply reliability. The goal of the conference was to provide new information (i.e., results, models, syntheses, analyses) to the broad community of scientists, engineers, managers, and stakeholders working on Bay-Delta issues.

The conference program featured both oral and posterpresentations that provided scientific information and ideas relevant to the following general themes, as well as the overall conference theme, “Making Sense of Complexity: Science for a Changing Environment.”

• Fish Protection
• Habitats and Ecosystems
• Human Consequences
• Integrating Science and Management
• Levees
• Physical processes
• Species and Communities
• Water and Sediment Quality
• Watersheds
• Water Supplies

2006 Science Conference program

2006 Science Conference Abstracts

2006 Student Competition Winner - Best oral presentation:

Karin Tuxin for:

Change in Tidal Marsh Vegetation Measured by Spatial Landscape Metrics

Tuxen*¹, K.A., L. Shile², M. Kelly¹, S. Siegal^3
1  UC Berkeley - Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, 137 Mulford Hall #3114, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3114
²  San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132
³  Wetland and Water Resources, 1010 B Street, Suite 425, San Rafael, CA 94901

2006 Student Competition Winner - Best poster presentation:

Glen Leverich for:

Quantifying Channel Response to Variable Flow in a Meandering River Model

Leverich^*1, G., C. Braudrick², L. Sklar¹, W. Dietrich^2
1  Department of Geosciences, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 94132
²  Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

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Science Conference 2004

The goal of the 2004 conference, "Getting Results: Integrating Science and Management to Achieve System-Level Responses" was to provide new information to the broad community of scientists, engineers, managers, and stakeholders working on Bay-Delta Program-related issues. The conference featured presentations that provided scientific information and ideas relevant to the Bay-Delta Program, as well as the overall conference theme. 2004 Science Conference program

Summary Section 1: Introduction Section 2: Fish Protection Section 3: Watersheds and Levees Section 4: Ecosystems Section 5: Water Quality Section 6: Integrative Science Section 7: Appendix

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Science Conference 2003

The 2003 CALFED Science Conference, the 2nd biennial forum for presenting the latest findings and ideas regarding the Bay-Delta, its watershed, and the adjacent coastal ocean, was held January 14 through 16 at the Sacramento Convention Center. Nearly 1200 scientists and managers registered for the conference to hear six plenary talks and about 180 technical presentations, and to view more than 100 posters.
Summary - 2003 Science Conference

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Science Conference 2000

More than 800 scientists and managers attended the first CALFED Science Conference, held at the Sacramento Convention Center from October 3 through 5, 2000. The conference was designed as a forum to present research and ideas relevant to CALFED’s objectives in the San Francisco Bay, Delta, and watershed, particularly pertaining to ecosystem restoration, levee system integrity, and water quality.
Summary - 2000 Science Conference

State of the Estuary Conference Archives

State of the Estuary 2005 Summary

The 2006 State of the Estuary Report summarizes advocacy and stewardship efforts, and restoration and science recommendations drawn from the 44 presentations and 195 posters of the October 2005 State of the Estuary Conference and related research. The report also provides some vital statistics about changes in the Estuary’s fish and wildlife populations, pollution levels, and flows over the past two years, since the last State of the Estuary report was published.

Summary (12.3 mb) Introduction and Executive Summary Vital Statistics Big Picture, Warning Bells The Role Of Science Works In Progress Science, Learned & Needed Work To Be Done Bibliography

State of the Estuary 2001 Summary:
The State of the Estuary Conference was a three-day conference held in San Francisco in October 2001 which was co-sponsored by the CALFED Science Program and the S.F. Estuary Project, among others, and attended by nearly a thousand scientists, resource managers, activists and decision-makers.

State of the Estuary 2001 Conference & 2002 Report Management Cues
This document is a draft list of cues for resource and water managers suggested by the new science and research presented at the October 2001 State of the Estuary Conference in San Francisco.