FishBio covered our recent work exploring the Central Valley hatchery steelhead portfolio, led by former student Eric Huber (now with the US Fish & Wildlife Service) and including contributions from Rachael Ryan and Stephanie along with our partners with UC Davis and NOAA-Fisheries. Similar to our earlier work with hatchery Chinook (Huber and Carlson 2015), we found a simplification of the Central Valley steelhead hatchery portfolio through time. You can find the blog post here: https://fishbio.com/enhancing-diversity-to-promote-steelhead-resilience/
Lab News
Congrats to Amy Fingerle on receiving a California Sea Grant Graduate Student Fellowship!
Huge congratulations to Amy Fingerle on her new California Sea Grant Graduate Student Fellowship! You can learn more about this important collaboration and research here: “Collaborative Conservation of Ishyâat in a Spring-Run Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Stronghold“.
Stephanie and Gabe join Curtis Knight on the CalTrout “Fish Water People” podcast
Stephanie and Gabe Rossi joined Curtis Knight, the Executive Director of California Trout, on CalTrout’s “Fish Water People” podcast for a fun and rambling conversation about the importance of science in salmon recovery efforts. You can listen to the full episode here: https://caltrout.org/podcast
Does dry season water augmentation in flow-impaired streams benefit fish?
Yes it does! Read our recent publication in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management led by Gabe Rossi: Flow augmentation from off-channel storage improves salmonid habitat and survival.
COEQWAL Project Launch
The Collaboratory for Equity in Water Allocations (COEQWAL) project was launched in the fall. To learn more about the project, visit coeqwal.berkeley.edu and read this Q+A article with Maven’s Notebook journalist Janet Byron.
“Wild Fry: A Conversation with Dr. Stephanie Carlson” featured by the Wild Salmon Center
A conversation with Stephanie was recently featured by the Wild Salmon Center, where Stephanie currently serves on the Science Advisory Board. Through the conversation, Stephanie highlights the importance of habitat mosaics, including “stop over” sites, for supporting a diversity of salmon migratory tactics and life histories. You can find the full conversation here!
New paper in Restoration Ecology
Great job Jessie Moravek on publishing the paper ‘Restored off-channel pond habitats create thermal regime diversity and refuges within a Mediterranean-climate watershed‘ in Restoration Ecology! Check it out if you’re interested in water and air temperature modeling — you can access the paper here.
Welcome to Dr. Hank Baker!
Dr. Hank Baker has recently joined the #BerkeleyFreshwater labs as a postdoc, advised by Stephanie and Ted. For his postdoc, Hank is part of a collabortive effort led by Mariska Obedzinski with California Sea Grant and supported by NOAA to explore movement tactics in juvenile coho salmon and the potential importance of lower Willow Creek as non-natal rearing habitat. Welcome, Hank!
COEQWAL Project Funded through UC Climate Action Grant Program
Excited to announce that our project, entitled “COEQWAL: Equitable stewardship of California’s water in a changing climate”, has been funded through the University of California’s Climate Action Grant Program. The two-year, $9M project aims to create tools, data, public education, and partnerships that will inform more open and transformative discussions about water operations and management in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River system in a changing climate. The project will also do deep dives into the multifaceted implications of water allocations scenarios for salinity management, drinking water for vulnerable communities, and Chinook salmon recovery. Stay tuned for more information!
Congratulations Dr. Brian Kastl!
This summer, Brian filed his dissertation entitled, “Ecological thresholds in a water-scarce, warming world: Informing instream flow conservation for endangered salmon.” Brian is now working as an ORISE Fellow with the US EPA, where is he contributing to the development of new temperature management policies for the conservation of salmon and steelhead in the Western US. Well done Brian!
