Understanding Food Web Dynamics from the San Francisco Estuary to the Pacific Ocean

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Please join the UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute and the Delta Science Program for a one-day symposium exploring the current state of research on food webs from the San Francisco Estuary to the Pacific Ocean.

Ecosystem-based fisheries management is a holistic approach that emphasizes habitat and food webs. However, understanding how habitat and food webs can support multiple species of management interest requires rich data sets for ecological modeling and hypothesis-driven observational studies and experiments. These efforts are often challenging due to complex food web interactions that vary across habitat types, salinity gradients, and hydrodynamic features, and over time. There is a growing effort to understand relationships and feedbacks among food webs in the San Francisco Estuary and Pacific Ocean. This symposium aims to convene food web experts to discuss ongoing research, find synergies in approaches and findings, and identify information gaps, with the goal of improving ecosystem-based fisheries management.

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About the Event:

The symposium will be divided into three topic areas:

  1. Modeling will address ways of using data to capture complexity, uncovering hidden relationships, and generating predictions across large scales
  2. Empirical Studies will feature recent site-specific studies that provide generalizable insights and inform modeling
  3. Management Strategies will feature applied research that offers novel solutions to food web management

Confirmed Speakers (more to follow):

  • Brian Bergamaschi, USGS
  • Denise Colombano, Delta Science Program
  • Kiva Oken, NOAA NWFSC
  • Kyle Phillips, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences  
  • Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Delta Stewardship Council and USGS
  • Matt Young, USGS
  • Megan Pagliaro, UC Berkeley
  • Robert Naiman, Delta Independent Science Board and University of Washington
  • Sam Bashevkin, California State Water Resources Control Board

The symposium will run from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM on 5/31/2024 on the UC Davis campus and will also be live-streamed and recorded. This is a ticketed event for in-person and remote attendees.

Accessibility Requests:

If you require any special accommodations to fully enjoy the event, please contact Moose O’Donnell, mjodonnell@ucdavis.edu

Planning Team:

  • Fernanda Valdovinos, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis
  • John Durand, Center for Watershed Sciences, UC Davis
  • Mikaela Provost, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, UC Davis
  • Adrianne Smits, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis
  • Denise Colombano, Delta Science Program, Delta Stewardship Council
  • Edmund Yu, Delta Science Program, Delta Stewardship Council
  • Maggie Christman, Delta Science Program, Delta Stewardship Council
  • Miranda Tilcock, Delta Science Program, Delta Stewardship Council
  • Moose O'Donnell, Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute, UC Davis
  • Sophia Simon, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis

For more information, contact Moose O’Donnell, mjodonnell@ucdavis.edu

View past CMSI/Delta Science Program Symposia here

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