The Technical Team
This technical subcommittee is comprised of scientists from academia, agencies, research organizations, and non-governmental organizations and is focused on developing technical tools and products necessary to inform environmental flow management. The Technical team continues to communicate and collaborate with diverse partners at the state and local level engaged in flow management via the Environmental Flows Workgroup, a sub-group of the California Water Quality Monitoring Council.
Members of the CEFF Technical Team (in alphabetical order):
- Alyssa Obester – California Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Alex Milward – California Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Belize Lane – Utah State University
- Brionna Drescher – California Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Bronwen Stanford – The Nature Conservancy
- Daniel Schultz – State Water Resources Control Board
- Eric Stein – Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
- Ethan Baruch – California Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Jessi Ayers – United States Geological Survey
- Jeanette Howard – The Nature Conservancy
- Julie Zimmerman – Then Nature Conservancy
- Kris Taniguchi-Quan – Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
- Robert Holmes – California (CA) Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Rob Lusardi – CalTrout
- Sam Sandoval-Solis – UC Davis
- Samuel Cole – State Water Resources Control Board
- Sarah Yarnell – UC Davis
- Theodore Grantham – UC Berkeley
Correspondence
For correspondence regarding the CEFF guidance doc or CEFF implementation, please contact:
- Eric Stein ([email protected])
- Sarah Yarnell ([email protected])
- Ted Grantham ([email protected])
- Julie Zimmerman ([email protected])
For correspondence regarding CEFF datasets and tools, please contact the following:
- California stream hydrologic classification, eflows.ucdavis.edu
- Belize Lane ([email protected])
- Sam Sandoval ([email protected])
- Natural Flows database, rivers.codefornature.org
- Julie Zimmerman ([email protected])
- Bronwen Stanford ([email protected])
- Natural functional flow metric predictions
- Ted Grantham ([email protected])
- Belize Lane ([email protected])
- Functional flow calculator, eflows.ucdavis.edu
- Belize Lane ([email protected])
- Sam Sandoval ([email protected])
- California regional geomorphic classifications, eflows.ucdavis.edu
- Sam Sandoval ([email protected])
- Belize Lane ([email protected])
- Regional native fish assemblages
- Alyssa Obester ([email protected])
- Robert Lusardi ([email protected])
- Sarah Yarnell ([email protected])
- Statewide benthic macroinvertebrate analyses
- Eric Stein ([email protected])
- Robert Lusardi ([email protected])
- Sarah Yarnell ([email protected])
For correspondence regarding CEFF coordination with agency requirements and actions:
- California State Water Board
- Dan Schultz ([email protected])
- California Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Robert Holmes ([email protected])
- Alyssa Obester ([email protected])
Data Collection and Tool Development Partners
Data collection and tool development support has also been provided by Humboldt State University, CSU Monterey Bay, Stockholm Environmental Institute, and UC Riverside.
Acknowledgements
This work was funded by the State Water Resources Control Board under contract No. 16-062-300 and by The Nature Conservancy. These products reflect extensive discussion and input from all members of the California Environmental Flows Workgroup who provided countless hours to this effort. This collaborative effort would not have been possible without the dedication of the workgroup members, but it does not reflect any official policy of any of the participating agencies.
