Freshwater Labs

Members of the Freshwater Lab had a great time at the Salmonid Restoration Federation conference in Santa Cruz in early May! Gabe organized an incredible session on Foodscapes and members of the lab gave presentations in multiple sessions. Great exchange of ideas about salmon life history diversity, non-natal rearing, food webs, fire and flow!

Sooyeon Yi, postdoc in the Freshwater Lab, presented her work titled “Defining Environmental Flow Needs for California’s Central Valley Rivers” at the European Geophysical Union (EGU) in Session HS3.5. Her presentation focused on designing rulesets for calculating functional flow targets and shared preliminary results showing how well these targets were met across different river basins

Congratulations to Avi who flowed through his qualifying exam today and is o-fish–ally a PhD candidate! Dam-fine work! He has reached a new stage in his PhD life cycle, proving that any-fin is possible! He looked in the mirror this morning, and said, “Avi, don’t trout yourself, you won’t be schooled.” With a head of steel,

Several current and former members of the Carlson Lab group recently published a paper, Anatomy of a range contraction: Flow–phenology mismatches threaten salmonid fishes near their trailing edge, that shows the effects of an extreme hydroclimatic event on salmon and steelhead populations in streams along the North Coast of California. Extremely late rains and low

Congratulations to Freshwater Lab postdoc Hank Baker on a new paper in Ecology Letters, Variation in salmon migration phenology bolsters population stability but is threatened by drought! The research team used over a decade of movement data to characterize variation in the rearing strategies of juvenile coho salmon, which are endangered on the central California coast. They