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##   USGS Scientists to Present at 58th Biennial American Fisheries Society (AFS) Cal-Neva Meeting

###   Pictured is the Arroyo Chub (Gila orcuttii), a species native to the western U.S. Photo taken by Fish Biologist, Kai Palenscar (formerly of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service), while working on a project with the USGS.

      By California Water Science Center      March 25, 2024    

Aquatic ecology scientists from the USGS California Water Science Center will be present their research at the 2024 AFS California-Nevada Chapter Meeting to be held April 9th through the 12th, in Redding, California.

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The theme for the event, "Breaching the Dam: Building Partnerships," will focus on the resilience of Native American tribes, competing interests in a water-limited environment, and of native ecosystems and fishes in the face of significant hydrologic perturbations and uncertainty.

**USGS California Water Science Center presentations are as follows:**

**Talk:**An Exploration of Multi-scale Drivers of Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax) Distribution in the San Francisco Estuary**Speaker:**Danielle Palm, Biological Science Technician

**Talk:**Best of both worlds: Leveraging open and closed sampling designs to expand sample size and correct for detection efficiency in Santa Ana River native fish surveys**Speaker:**Brock Huntsman, Fish Biologist

**Talk:**Decline of Fishes in North America’s Oldest Lake**Speaker:**Fred Feyrer, Research Fish Biologist

**Talk:**Development of a stream temperature model for the Santa Ana River, California, with application to Santa Ana Sucker conservation**Speaker:**Marissa Wulff, Biologist

**Talk:**Development of nonintrusive video sampling methodologies to monitor sensitive species and habitat conditions within wadable streams**Speaker:**Jordan Buxton, Biologist

**Poster:**Fish in the Yolo Bypass: Then, Now, and the Big Notch Future**Presenters:**Nicole Kwan (lead author), Environmental Scientist with California Department of Water ResourcesMatt Young, Research Fish BiologistBrock Huntsman, Fish Biologist

**Talk:**Pattern, Process, and Pomoxis: the role of Black Crappie and other understudied fishes in littoral food webs of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta**Speaker:**Matt Young, Research Fish Biologist

**Talk:**Piscivory of Native Fishes Within the Santa Ana River, California**Speaker:**Jeff Gronemyer, Biological Science Technician

**Poster:**Results from the post Carr Fire bioassessment, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Shasta County, California**Presenter:**Marissa Wulff, Biologist

**Talk:**What happens when you bring the seasons back: food-web and fish responses to flow restoration**Speaker:**Justin Clause, Biological Science Technician

**Talk:**What's going on down there? Observing fish during Delta Smelt experimental releases inferred from ARIS sonar**Speaker:**Veronica Violette, Biological Science Technician

 

**Learn more about the meeting by visiting the ****AFS Cal-Neva Chapter website****.**

**Learn more about the USGS California Water Science Center ****Aquatic Ecology Group****.**

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