CABA-Delta Science Program Seminar - Salmon Decline in California

Wed, May 5th 2010, 9:00am - 12:00pm
University of California, Davis Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center

Multiple Factors Influencing the Salmon Decline in California and the Pacific Northwest

Program

  • Introductory comments
    Loo Botsford, UC Davis 
  • Current status of California salmon stocks: ESA, fishery management and the recent downturn in fall run chinook.  
    Steve Lindley, National Marine Fisheries Service, Santa Cruz Laboratory 
  • Environmental influences on California Current salmon and the red light/green light predictor.  
    Bill Peterson, National Marine Fisheries Service, Newport Laboratory 
  • Our evolving understanding of Pacific basin-scale climate indicators and how they could affect salmon.  
    Manu DiLorenzo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 
  • Biological conditions in west coast estuaries (e.g., SF Bay) and the effects of ocean climate. 
    Jim Cloern, United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park

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