SWAMP - OIMA Brown Bag Seminar Series
The Office of Information Management and Analysis (OIMA) is pleased to announce that it has organized a monthly Brown Bag Seminar series for 2018. All staff and the public interested in water quality data analysis and monitoring are invited to attend. The seminars can be attended either in person or via GlobalMeet, an online webcast of the Water Boards. The seminar dates, location, and GlobalMeet details will be distributed via email and posted on this webpage. Email announcements will be sent out every month three weeks before the seminar date.
Subscribe to the SWAMP, California Water Quality Monitoring Council, or Citizen Monitoring Program/Clean Water Team email list to receive the announcements.
| Date/Time | Title |
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| The California Environmental DNA (CALeDNA) Program: Give a Tube, Get an Ecosystem |
| Date/Time | Title |
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Cancelled |
| Data Legacy of the Recent California Drought - Not Conducted Due to Technical Difficulties, will be Rescheduled in the Next Few Months | |
| Open Data Resolution & Water Board Data Management | |
| 2018 Water Quality Status Report: The Status of California's Surface Waters | |
| Monitoring Water Quality via Novel bio-Optics Platform for Ecosystem Services | |
| Recreational Beneficial Use Assessment: Central Valley Water Board’s Monitoring in Freshwater Swimming Areas | |
| CA Collaborative Fisheries Research Program (CCFRP): Monitoring Nearshore Fishes in CA’s MPAs with Community Help | |
| PFAS in Groundwater & Surface Waters: Why Should We Care? | |
| Helping Contaminants Emerge: Non-targeted Analysis and Passive Sampling for Assessing Water Quality | |
| An Introduction to eDNA for Bioassessment | |
| The Ecological Flows Tool: Using a Multi-species Approach to Evaluate Water Management Operations on the Sacramento River & the Delta | |
| Laboratory Analysis Methodology, Report Interpretation and Permitting |
| Date/Time | Speaker | Title | Location | GlobalMeet |
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| Thursday, January 26 12:00-12:30 PM |
Dr. Andrew B. Gray Assistant Professor University of California Riverside |
Suspended Sediment and Sediment Associated Contaminants in the Aquatic Environment | CalEPA Building 1001 “I” St Sacramento, CA 95814 Conference Room 1510, 15th Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 434385 Join the meeting Download the Flyer | Video |
| Thursday, February 23 12:00-12:30 PM |
Dr. Martice Vasquez, Ph.D.
Senior Environmental Scientist Supervisor CA Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, Office of Spill Prevention & Response, Laboratory Program |
Continuous Low Level Aquatic Monitoring (C.L.A.M.) Samplers for Pesticide Screening in Urban Runoff: Development and Validation of an Analytical Approach | CalEPA Building
1001 "I" St
Sacramento, CA 95814 Training Room 2 East/West, 2nd Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the meeting Download the Flyer | Video |
| Thursday, March 30 12:00-12:30 PM |
Jonathan Todd, John Todd Ecological Design |
Ecological Strategies for Water Remediation and Toxic Algae Control | CalEPA Building 1001 "I" St Sacramento, CA 95814
Training Room 2 East/West, 2nd Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the meeting |
| Thursday, April 27 12:00-12:30 PM |
Jeff Kapellas, GIS Specialist State Water Board, Div. of Information Technology, GIS Unit |
Data Resources for GIS Analysis at the Water Boards | CalEPA Building 1001 "I" St Sacramento, CA 95814 Conference Room 1610, 16th Floor |
Phone (toll free):
1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the meeting Download the Slides | Video |
| Thursday, May 25 12:00-12:30 PM |
Dr. Karen McLaughlin Senior Scientist SCCWRP Biogeochemistry Department |
Monitoring Acidification in Coastal and Estuarine Waters | CalEPA Building 1001 "I" St Sacramento, CA 95814 Conference Room 1510, 15th Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the meeting Download the Flyer | Video |
| Thursday, June 29 |
Canceled due to OIMA's Water Quality Health Indicator & Data Science Symposium | |||
| Thursday, July 27 12:00-12:30 PM |
Diego Davis Xylem, Inc. |
Continuous Flow Monitoring - Latest Tools and Techniques Using Acoustic Doppler Instruments | CalEPA Building 1001 "I" St., Sacramento, CA 95814 Conference Room 1610, 16th Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the meeting Download the Flyer | Video |
| Thursday, August 31 12:00-12:30 PM |
Andrew Hill State Water Board, Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program |
Computer Vision: Building an Image-based Search Engine for Image Classification | CalEPA Building 1001 "I" St Sacramento, CA 95814
Training Room 2 East/West, 2nd Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the meeting Download the Flyer | Video |
| Thursday, September 28 12:00-12:30 PM |
Marie Stillway ATL Laboratory Manager Aquatic Health Program Laboratory |
Sub-lethal Effects of Herbicides and their Adjuvants on Delta Smelt | CalEPA Building 1001 "I" St Sacramento, CA 95814
Training Room 1 East/West, 1st Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the meeting Download the Flyer | Video |
| Thursday, October 26 12:00-12:30 PM |
Alicia Gilbreath Environmental Scientist, Clean Water Program San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) |
From Trickle to Flood: Measuring Pollutant Loads to Margin Areas and the San Francisco Bay | CalEPA Building 1001 "I"St Sacramento, CA 95814 Room 1610, 16th Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the meeting |
| Thursday, November 30 12:00-12:30 PM |
Robin Stewart, Ph.D. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) |
Research triad of monitoring, process studies and modeling: how it led to transformative science to inform policy and regulation of selenium in Northern San Francisco Bay | CalEPA Building 1001 "I"St Sacramento, CA 95814 Training 1 East/West, 1st Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the meeting Download the Flyer | Video |
| Thursday, December 28 12:00-12:30 PM |
Jim Glatzhofer, Senior Formulation Chemist, Wilbur-Ellis Company |
Using Adjuvants to Improve Weed Control Performance & Provide Better Environmental Stewardship | CalEPA Building 1001 "I" St Sacramento, CA 95814 Training 2 East/West, 2nd Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the meeting Download the Flyer | Video |
| Date/Time | Speaker | Title | Location | GlobalMeet |
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Thursday, January 28 12:00-12:30 PM |
Beverley Anderson-Abbs (State Water Resources Control Board) |
California Assessment and Support Strategy for Freshwater Harmful Algal Blooms |
CalEPA Building 1001 “I” St Sacramento, CA 95814 Training 2 East/West, 2nd Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 434385 Join the meeting Download the flyer | Video |
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Thursday, February 25 12:00-12:30 PM |
Keith Maruya, Ph.D., Principal Scientist Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP) | Enhancing Water Quality Monitoring to Address Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) | TBA | Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the meeting Download the flyer | Video |
| Wednesday, March 30 12:00-12:30 PM |
Scott Dusterhoff, Ph. D., Lead Geomorphologist San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) | RipZET: A GIS-based Decision Support Tool for Determining Functional Riparian Width | CalEPA Building 1001 “I” St Sacramento, CA 95814 Training 2 East/West, 2nd Floor |
Phone (toll free): |
| Thursday, April 28 12:00-12:30 PM |
Karen Worcester, Senior Environmental Scientist Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board |
Healthy Watershed Assessment Tools for the Central Coast of California | CalEPA Building 1001 “I” St Sacramento, CA 95814 Conference Room 1510, 15th Floor |
Phone (toll free): |
| Thursday, May 26 12:00-12:30 PM |
Bryn Phillips, Research Specialist Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Davis |
Interpretation of Toxicity and Contaminant Monitoring Data: Case Studies from the Stream Pollution Trends Program (SPoT) | CalEPA Building 1001 “I” St Sacramento, CA 95814 Training 2 East/West, 2nd Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the Meeting Download the flyer | Video |
| Thursday, June 30 12:00-12:30 PM |
Calvin Yang Environmental Scientist State Water Resources Control Board |
Overview of Calculating California Stream Condition Index (CSCI) Scores using GIS and R |
CalEPA
Building 1001 "I" St Sacramento, CA 95814 Training 2 East/West, 2nd Floor |
Phone (toll free):
1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the Meeting Download the flyer | Video |
| Thursday, July 28 12:00-12:30 PM |
Rebecca Sutton, Ph.D. Senior Scientist San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) |
Microplastic Contamination in San Francisco Bay | CalEPA
Building 1001 "I" St Sacramento, CA 95814 Training 2 East/West, 2nd Floor |
Phone (toll free):
1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the Meeting Download the flyer | Video |
| Thursday, August 25 12:00-12:30 PM |
Eric Stein, Principal Scientist, Biology Department Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP) | Setting Instream Flow Targets in California Using Biological Community Health Indices | CalEPA Building 1001 "I" St Sacramento, CA 95814 Training 2 East/West, 2nd Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the Meeting Download the flyer | Video |
| Thursday, September 29 12:00-12:30 PM |
Anne-Cooper Doherty, Ph.D. Environmental Scientist Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) |
DTSC’s Safer Consumer Products Program: Asking the Question | CalEPA Building 1001 "I" St Sacramento, CA 95814 Training 2 East/West, 2nd Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the Meeting Download the flyer | Video |
| Thursday, October 27 12:00-12:30 PM |
Terry McNabb CLM, Aquatic Biologist Aquatechnex | The Growing Threat of Toxic Algae and Management Solutions | CalEPA Building
1001 "I" St
Sacramento, CA 95814 Training 2 East/West, 2nd Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the Meeting Download the flyer | Video |
| Wednesday, November 30 12:00-12:30 PM |
Andrew Rehn Aquatic Entomologist CA Dept. of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) |
Bioassessment of CA Streams: An Overview of Statewide Programs & the Use of Biological & Habitat Indices Together for Better Understanding of Stream Health | CalEPA Building 1001 “I” St Sacramento, CA 95814 Conference Room 1510, 15th Floor |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the Meeting Download the flyer | Video |
| Thursday, December 29 12:00-12:30 PM |
Melissa Morris Senior Environmental Scientist SWAMP Information Management & Quality Assurance, SWRCB |
Good Data: Exploring Quality Assurance for Open Environmental Data | CalEPA Building Training 2 |
Phone (toll free): 1-877-820-7831 Guest Passcode: 378390 Join the Meeting Download the flyer | Video |
