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
- Bronwen Stanford – The Nature Conservancy
- Daniel Schultz – State Water Resources Control Board
- Eric Stein – Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
- 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 (erics@sccwrp.org)
- Sarah Yarnell (smyarnell@ucdavis.edu)
- Ted Grantham (tgrantham@berkeley.edu)
- Julie Zimmerman (julie.zimmerman@tnc.org)
For correspondence regarding CEFF datasets and tools, please contact the following:
- California stream hydrologic classification, eflows.ucdavis.edu
- Belize Lane (belize.lane@usu.edu)
- Sam Sandoval (ssandoval@ucdavis.edu)
- Natural Flows database, rivers.codefornature.org
- Julie Zimmerman (julie.zimmerman@tnc.org)
- Bronwen Stanford (bronwen.stanford@tnc.org)
- Natural functional flow metric predictions
- Ted Grantham (tgrantham@berkeley.edu)
- Belize Lane (belize.lane@usu.edu)
- Functional flow calculator, eflows.ucdavis.edu
- Belize Lane (belize.lane@usu.edu)
- Sam Sandoval (ssandoval@ucdavis.edu)
- California regional geomorphic classifications, eflows.ucdavis.edu
- Sam Sandoval (ssandoval@ucdavis.edu)
- Belize Lane (belize.lane@usu.edu)
- Regional native fish assemblages
- Alyssa Obester (alyssa.obester@wildlife.ca.gov)
- Robert Lusardi (ralusardi@ucdavis.edu)
- Sarah Yarnell (smyarnell@ucdavis.edu)
- Statewide benthic macroinvertebrate analyses
- Eric Stein (erics@sccwrp.org)
- Robert Lusardi (ralusardi@ucdavis.edu)
- Sarah Yarnell (smyarnell@ucdavis.edu)
For correspondence regarding CEFF coordination with agency requirements and actions:
- California State Water Board
- Dan Schultz (Daniel.Schultz@waterboards.ca.gov)
- California Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Robert Holmes (Robert.Holmes@wildlife.ca.gov)
- Alyssa Obester (Alyssa.Obester@wildlife.ca.gov)
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.
