outreach
Heart of Santa Cruz: Updates from the State of the San Lorenzo Symposium— Flashback Friday
This Flashback Friday, check out the State of the San Lorenzo Symposium of 2020, and learn how Santa Cruz County manages water, flora, fauna, and even fire in the San Lorenzo Watershed. In the shade of the redwoods, a mere stone’s throw away from Lompico Creek, interested citizens, agencies, and organizations gathered on February 29, 2020, for the State of the San Lorenzo Symposium. This annual meeting provides an update on research, conservation, and management in Santa Cruz’s local watershed. Since last year’s meeting was held near where the San Lorenzo River meets the sea, this year’s symposium took place Read More…
River Clean Up, School Clean Up — Flashback Friday
In this week’s Flashback Friday, learn how one project left a lasting impact on two villages in Lao PDR. Our staff in Laos have recently helped transform two primary schools in Lao PDR as part of a project to promote environmental education and awareness. The one-year project called “Clean Schools, Clean Rivers,” is funded by the U.S. Embassy to Laos’ Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program and focuses on one school in Phalath Village, Vientiane Province, and another in and Houaykhualuang Village, Xaiyabouri Province. The three main activities of the project are to 1) conduct a school environmental awareness presentation related Read More…
Communicating for Conservation: A Review of Environmental Outreach Strategies
Stories, imagery, and engagement can play a powerful role in helping people connect with and appreciate the natural world. This inspiration can in turn lead to action to protect nature, which is why outreach and communication are often central pieces of conservation initiatives. FISHBIO helps facilitate communications activities for the multidisciplinary Wonders of the Mekong project in Cambodia funded by USAID, which seeks to raise awareness about the unique value of the Mekong River and its “wonders,” such as diverse species and habitats, as well as threats to those wonders. As part of the project, FISHBIO staff led a review Read More…
Supporting Women in Fisheries Science — Flashback Friday
In today’s Flashback Friday, we reflect on the many instrumental roles women have played in the fisheries science industry. Women have been forging careers in fisheries science since the early 1900s, following in the footsteps of early pioneers such as Rosa Mabel Lee, the first woman employed as fisheries scientist by the British government who studied the growth rings of fish scales, and Frances Clark, a marine researcher with the California Department of Fish and Game who was one of the first female fisheries scientists to receive worldwide acclaim. Many of these women were lone ground-breakers during much of their careers in a Read More…
Heart of Santa Cruz: Updates from the State of the San Lorenzo Symposium
In the shade of the redwoods, a mere stone’s throw away from Lompico Creek, interested citizens, agencies, and organizations gathered on February 29, 2020, for the State of the San Lorenzo Symposium. This annual meeting provides an update on research, conservation, and management in Santa Cruz’s local watershed. Since last year’s meeting was held near where the San Lorenzo River meets the sea, this year’s symposium took place in the upper watershed in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Presentations described new developments within the watershed, ongoing efforts to manage and restore habitats, challenges with invasive species, insights from monitoring programs, and Read More…
FISHBIO Highlights of 2019
As we wrap up another busy year at FISHBIO, we wanted to share a few of our highlights – in written and video form. In 2019 we continued our long-term salmon and trout life-cycle monitoring on the Stanislaus, Tuolumne, and Calaveras rivers, with the notable addition of PIT tag antennas on our Stanislaus and Tuolumne weirs to help track fish movements. Our fieldwork kicked into high gear this spring, with two large-scale studies occurring on the San Joaquin and Stanislaus rivers. We conducted a mark-recapture survey of striped bass and other fish using four large fyke traps on the San Read More…