Conferences, Workshops and Training

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River Restoration Symposium

Skamania Lodge, 1131 SW Skamania Lodge Way, Stevenson, WA 98648

The intent of the Symposium is to convene, share information, and foster dialogue with a multi-disciplinary approach to stream restoration and related watershed and river sciences, hence a broad range of speakers and topics is encouraged. Conference participants typically include restoration planners, designers, engineers, biologists, hydrologists, geomorphologists, regulators, scientists and land/resource managers.

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Statewide Salmon Strategy Update Workshops

Olympia, WA

There will be a westside workshop in Olympia and an eastside workshop in Wenatchee with key stakeholders and partners involved with past and ongoing salmon recovery work. The intent of these workshops is to solicit input and engage in focused conversation on recommendations to update the current Statewide Salmon Strategy.

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Special Event: “Saving Tarboo Creek” with Scott Freeman

Transalta Commons 122 and Lobby, Centralia College, Centralia

Hear from regional landowner and author Scott Freeman about his family’s experience restoring their property for salmon. This event is sponsored by the Chehalis Lead Entity, The Chehalis Basin Partnership, Centralia College and the Chehalis River Basin Land Trust.

For more information contact Kirsten Harma

Pacific Northwest Native Freshwater Mussel Workgroup Symposium

Water Resources Education Center, 4600 SE Columbia Way, Vancouver, WA

Pacific Northwest Native Freshwater Mussel Workgroup presents “Freshwater Mollusk Updates from Across the West; Who’s Doing What, Where?” Registration is free but you must be registered to attend.

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Western Division and WA-BC American Fisheries Society Meeting

Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel, 1133 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6E 3T3, Canada

This year’s theme is Crossing boundaries and navigating intersections. Boundaries are divides that may include technology, methodology, mindsets, disciplines, environments, borders, politics, communications, values and the like.  Intersections represent pathways where these often-separate factors converge.  This meeting will highlight the myriad and successful ways boundaries have been crossed and intersections navigated in fisheries and aquatic sciences to achieve desired outcomes. 

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Columbia River Estuary Conference 2020

Liberty Theater, 1203 Commercial St, Astoria, OR 97103

The focus of the 2020 biennial conference is on the state of lower Columbia River plume and nearshore ocean. It has been 25 years since the lower Columbia was designates an “estuary of national significance” and roughly the same since NOAA’s Pacific Ocean transect monitoring and indicators system was established. The 2020 CREC will be a three day event with invited and contributed presentations. Audience participation will be encouraged. There will be a poster session during an evening social event. Abstracts are due February 7, 2020. 

Email abstracts to Catherine Corbett

Coastal Economic Resiliency Workshop

Grays Harbor College, 1620 Edward P Smith Dr, Aberdeen, WA 98520

This workshop is being convened by the Washington Coast Marine Advisory Council. The goal of the workshop is to define a collective future vision for economic resilience on the Washington coast and develop recommendations that will better equip communities to address this complex problem and advance alternative paths. 

Registration information coming soon.