2nd Stakeholder Meeting: Impacts of Population Growth on the SF Bay & Delta Ecosystems

Find below information including a tentative agenda for our second stakeholder meeting to be held on 27 May from 1000-1530 at the Bay Conference Center at the Romberg Tiburon Center.

The goal of this meeting is to promote a dialog between San Francisco Estuary scientists and stakeholders about the state of ecosystem modeling and specific end-user needs. We will present initial findings from our NASA funded project, including modeling and remote sensing analysis, as well as results of our analysis of ecosystem responses to the drought.

Please RSVP to Alex Parker ([email protected])

Impacts of Population Growth on the San Francisco Bay and Delta Ecosystem
(A NASA Funded Interdisciplinary Science Program)

Curtiss Davis (PI) and Nicholas Tufillaro, Oregon State University
Richard Dugdale, Frances Wilkerson and Alex Parker, RTC, San Francisco State University
Fei Chai, University of Maine
Yi Chao, Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc
Bay Conference Center (Bay Hall)
Romberg Tiburon Center
Tiburon, CA 94920 • USA
http://rtc.sfsu.edu/directions.htm
27 May 2015 – 10:00 AM – 3:30PM
Time              Agenda Item                                 Presenter
10:00  Welcome, Introductions of NASA SFE Team Curt Davis, Alex Parker, Dick Dugdale, Frances Wilkerson
10:10 Introduction of stakeholders and roles in the Sacramento River and San Francisco Bay water management All
10:30 NASA Project Overview / Project Update Davis, Chao, Dugdale
12:00 Lunch Bring your lunch or order lunch (sandwiches ordered in the morning, at participants expense)
12:45 Stakeholder Needs Part I All
13:15 Additional Modeling Efforts in the SFE TBD
13:45 Remote Sensing Tufillaro
14:15 Remote sensing applications in the SFE – CyanoHABs Taberski
14:45 Stakeholders Needs Part II and Wrap Up
All
15:30 Adjourn

Project Abstract: This project focuses on an investigation of human influence on freshwater, estuarine and coastal marine resources using remote sensing, in situ measurements and modeling in the San Francisco Estuary. The approach is to combine four components: (1) satellite observations, (MODIS, MERIS, HICO on the international space station, LDCM-OLI and in the future Sentinel-3 OLCI); (2) field observations (nutrients, phytoplankton, suspended sediments, CDOM and optical properties); (3) the CoSiNE ecological model integrated with (4) a SELFE hydrological model of SFE. This project builds upon long established remote sensing and field programs in the SFE and on the physical and biological models of the SFE being developed as part of the current NASA Interdisciplinary Science SESAME project to understand and predict variations in central California salmon populations.