Meetings and Events with Presentations and/or Posters

Maddy Schwarz with a red-tailed hawk in hand
Tue, 01/07/2025, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Learn the latest about one of the Restoration Project’s most charismatic megafauna, the threatened Western Snowy Plover, from Maddy Schwarz of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO). Snowy plovers nest and raise their chicks on stretches of dry ponds, where their eggs and young are vulnerable to predators from the ground and above.
Dr. Levi S. Lewis, Director of the UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry and Fish Ecology Laboratory
Tue, 12/10/2024, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Dr. Levi S. Lewis, Director of the UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry and Fish Ecology Laboratory, discusses studies of South Bay fish and fish habitats, highlighting key findings regarding their status and trends, and how these results have informed the development of bay-wide fish monitoring under the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program.
Drew Kerr on the Bay
Tue, 11/12/2024, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Drew Kerr of the Invasive Spartina Project discussed how managing invasive plants as tidal marshes develop and mature provides a critical foundation for successfully establishing diverse Restoration Project marsh plant communities.
Gavin Archbald
Tue, 10/08/2024, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Learn how restoration ecologists have helped Don Edwards Refuge maximize the amount of soil it obtains to build habitat and levees while ensuring that soil has low contaminant levels so wildlife and wetlands are protected. Gavin Archbald of H. T. Harvey & Associates discusses his work implementing and refining the regulator-required Refuge plan for sampling soil pollutants and managing which… Read More
Kevin Buffington,  USGS
Tue, 09/10/2024, 11:00am – 12:00pm
The Restoration Project launches its 2024-25 Brown Bag Science Speaker Series with a presentation on the latest research by Kevin Buffington of USGS on the potential sea level rise threat to South Bay tidal marshes and restoration sites.
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Tue, 05/28/2024, 9:30am – Wed, 05/29/2024, 7:00pm
Outstanding Environmental Project Award!Project managers are thrilled to once again receive a Friends of the Estuary Outstanding Environmental Project Award at San Francisco Estuary Partnership's State of the Estuary Conference, this time for our Phase 2 Ravenswood restoration on the shores of Menlo Park! 
Map of HEMP2 study area restoration units. Credit: Brian Fulfrost & Associates
Fri, 12/16/2022, 10:00am – 11:00am
As part of its Adaptive Management Plan, the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project tracks habitat evolution and change in South San Francisco Bay, with particular focus on changes to marsh vegetation and mudflat acreages.
Photo Credit: Julie Kitzenberger
Wed, 05/11/2022, 9:00am – Thu, 05/12/2022, 5:00pm
Learn about the science that undergirds the Restoration Project at our 2-day Symposium, featuring up-to-date presentations and discussion on tidal marsh and pond restoration, waterbirds, sediment,  exciting collaborations and more.
Map of study area. Credit: Brian Fulfrost & Associates
Fri, 05/21/2021, 10:00am – 11:00am
Project consulting scientist Brian Fulfrost of Brian Fulfrost & Associates shared information on his latest effort to use satellite imagery to map South Bay habitats. His background information on the project:
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Tue, 10/10/2017, 9:00am – Wed, 10/11/2017, 4:45pm
Outstanding Environmental Project Award!

Project managers are proud to have received the Friends of the Estuary Outstanding Environmental Project award at this year’s conference for our Phase 1 habitat and recreation work. The ten years of work improved 3,750 acres of habitat and created 7 miles of new trails, among other recreation improvements. As a result, endangered species and native fish… Read More
Computer History Museum Full Exterior
Thu, 10/22/2015, 9:00am – 5:00pm
The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project’s Biennial Science Symposium was held on Thursday, October 22, 2015 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
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Tue, 10/29/2013, 9:00am – Wed, 10/30/2013, 5:00pm
11th Biennial State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference
Symposium Photo, Photo Credit: Young Landis
Tue, 07/16/2013, 8:30am – 7:00pm
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Abstracts
10 Year Anniversary Science Tribute Video (15 minutes)
Bird being cleaned
Thu, 02/03/2011, 8:15am – 7:00pm
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Amy C. Foxgrover, Theresa A. Fregoso, Bruce E. Jaffe, Mark Marvin-DiPasquale
Laura Valoppi, John Bourgeois, Cheryl M. Strong
Laura Valoppi, John Bourgeois, Cheryl M. Strong