TWENTIETHANNUALMEETINGOFTHE CALIFORNIAAQUATICBIOASSESSMENT WORKGROUP

DAVIS, CALIFORNIA OCTOBER29 and30

MEETINGAGENDA

TUESDAYOCTOBER29ARC Ballroom,UCDavisCampus

8:30 – 9:00Registration

9:00 -9:10Welcome andObjectivesof theMeeting– Jim Harrington,California Department ofFish andWildlife(CDFW), Officeof SpillPrevention and Response(OSPR), Aquatic Bioassessment Laboratory (ABL),Rancho Cordova

9:10 -9:30Overview of the CDFW’s Officeof Spill Prevention and ResponseNew Challenges–DaveCrane, Laboratory Program Manager, OSPR Scientific Branch, Rancho Cordova

9:30 -10:00Update on Developingthe Biological Objectives RegulatoryFramework – KarenLarsen, StateWater Resources Control Board (SWRCB), Sacramento

10:00 -10:30 TheHealthyStreams Partnership and theCalifornia HealthyWatershed

Initiative – LoriWebber, SWRCB, Sacramento

10:30 – 11:00Break

11:00 -11:30 Dry, Dustyand Determined: Nevada’sBioassessment Program Duringa Drought Year – MarianneDenton, BioassessmentProgram Coordinator Nevada Division of EnvironmentalProtection, Bureau ofWater Quality Planning

11:30 – 11:40Overview ofBioassessment Activities in theStateof Arizona– Patti

Spindler, Arizona DEQ

11:40 – 12:00 Update on theCollegeof Bioassessment and Plans forthe 2014 Session–

Jim Harrington, ABL

12:00 – 12:20 CDFW’s New ScientificCollection PermitProcess – Daniel Kratville, CDFWFisheries Branch, Sacramento

12:20 – 2:00Lunch

2:00 – 2:10Introduction to theSpecial Session on Addressing Non-perennial Streams–

Pete Ode, ABL

2:10 – 2:40 Development of Modelsto Predict Expected Flowin California Streams– Daren M Carlisle, Ph.D., Ecological Studies Coordinator National Water- QualityAssessment Program U.S. Geological Survey

2:40 – 3:10AnIntermittent Stream Bioassessment Tool forthe Arizona-New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion ofArizona – David C. Richards, Cramer Fish Sciences,West Sacramento, CA and PatriceSpindler, Arizona DEQ

3:10 – 3:30 DevelopingAssessmentTools forArid, EpisodicStreams– Christopher Solek, Southern California CoastalWater Research Project(SCCWRP), Costa Mesa

3:30 – 4: 00New Tools and Videosfrom theSWRCBClean WaterTeam– Erick

Burres, SWRCB

WEDNESDAYOCTOBER30ARC Ballroom,UCDavisCampus

9:00 – 9: 20ManagementImplications and Analytical Methodologyof Cyanobacteria in California – KimWard, SWRCB and David Crane,CDFWOSPR

9:20 – 9: 40Cyanotoxins Discoveredin Different Water BodyTypes ThroughoutSouthern California– CareyNagoda and Lilian Busse, San Diego RegionalWater Quality Control Board

9:40 – 10:10California’sBioassessment ProgramforDepressional Wetlands– Eric

Stein, SCCWRP

10:10 – 10:40DevelopinganIndexof PhysicalIntegrity– Raphael Mazor, SCCWRP

10:40 – 11:00Break

11:00 -11:20 Bioassessment of the SanJoaquin River: Implications forChinook Salmon

Habitat Restoration– AmyKrisch, CDFW, Fresno

11:20 – 11: 40Useof Bioassessment in DevelopingTMDLforMalibu Creek–Cindy

Lin, US EPA, Santa Monica

11:40 – 12: 00EvaluatingtheEffects ofSpawning Bed Enhancement on WaterQuality and BenthicCommunities in Deer Creek, NevadaCounty, California– Rachel Durben, JeffLauder and Justin Wood, SierraStreamsInstitute, NevadaCity

12:00 – 12: 30A New Tool forDetectingStress in AquaticInsects at theMetabolic Level– ScottJohnsonWendyWillis, AquaticBioassay and Consulting Laboratories, Ventura, CA; Jesus ReyesRichGossett, Institutefor Integrated Research in Materials, Environments, and Society(IIRMES); Kristy Morris, CouncilforWatershed Health, Los Angeles

12:30 – 1:30Lunch

1:30 – 1: 50EnvironmentalImpacts of MarijuanaCultivation; Scenes from the

Trenches– ScottBauer,CDFW, Eureka

1:50 -2:20Plans forMonitoringtheAquaticEffects of MarijuanaCultivation in a Central ValleyWatershed–Jim Harrington, ABL and Patricia Bratcher, CDFW, Red Bluff

2:20 – 2: 40Impacts of SurfaceWater DiversionsforMarijuanain Four Northwestern California Streams– Adam Cockrill,Jennifer Olson and ScottBauer, CDFW, Eureka

2:40 – 4: 00FirstMeeting oftheCalifornia ChapteroftheSociety ofFreshwater

Science (SFS)