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Poster Abstracts 2017 October 10-11, Poster Abstracts 2017 Abstracts for posters presented at the 2017 State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference are compiled in this document. Abstracts are listed by Poster Topic. Though many posters have multiple authors, only the presenting author is listed in the table of contents. In the abstracts, names of presenting authors are underlined. Asterisks (*) indicate the poster is submitted by a student and eligible for the student poster awards competition. Contents A Fifty-Year Plan to Restore Aquatic Ecosystems with Green Infrastructure in Walnut Creek Watershed Jennifer Natali, A Fifty-Year Plan to Integrate Multi-Functional Green Infrastructure in Walnut Creek Watershed ............................................................................................................................ 1 Anneliese Sytsma, Infiltration Suitability Mapping for Cost-Effective, Watershed-Scale, Community-Based Green Infrastructure ........................................................................................ 2 Jennifer Natali, Land-Use Planning, Policy and Precedents for Integrating Green Infrastructure in Suburban Watersheds of SF Bay ..................................................................................................... 3 Conserving the Endangered Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse in the Modern San Francisco Estuary Katie Smith, Conserving the Endangered Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse in the Modern San Francisco Estuary ............................................................................................................................ 4 Laureen Barthman-Thompson, The Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse (SMHM; Reithrodontomys raviventris) Workgroup: Identifying Recovery Needs and Data Gaps ............................................ 5 Laureen Barthman-Thompson, Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse Survey Bias, New Results for China Camp State Park .............................................................................................................................. 6 Sadie Trombley, Nest Variation in the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse Offers Potential Resilience to Climate Change ............................................................................................................................... 7 Isa Woo, Drivers of Longterm Trends for Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris) at Crescent Unit, Suisun Marsh ................................................................................... 8 Anastasia G. Ennis, Characterizing Adaptive Immunogenetic Variation in the Endangered Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys raviventris .................................................................... 9 Katie Smith, Managing the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse in the Built Environment ....................... 10 Candice Rose, Diet Preferences of the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse .............................................. 11 Delta Narratives: The History and Culture of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Robert Benedetti, Changing Sense of Place in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ..................... 12 Philip Garone, Managing the Garden: Agriculture, Reclamation, and Restoration in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta ..................................................................................................... 13 William Swagerty, Stitching a River Culture: Trade, Transportation and Communication in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta ..................................................................................................... 14 Gregory Camfield, Literature and Visual Arts of the Delta, 1849-1975 ........................................ 15 2017 State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference, Poster Abstracts i Invasive Spartina Project Updates Peggy Olofson, Progress Toward Eradicating Invasive Spartina from the San Francisco Estuary – 2005-2016 ..................................................................................................................................... 16 Jennifer McBroom, California Ridgway's Rail Survey Results at Spartina-invaded Marshes from 2010-17 and Implications for Eradication of Invasive Spartina from the SF-Bay Estuary ............ 17 Gavin Archbald, Designing High Tide Refuge Islands for the California Ridgway’s Rail ............... 18 Jeanne Hammond, Enhancing Tidal Marsh Habitat to Support California Ridgway's Rail ........... 19 McCormack-Williamson Tract Monitoring and Restoration Preview Carson Jeffres, McCormack-Williamson Tract Research Project Overview ................................. 20 Nicholas Corline, Flooding of McCormack-Williamson Tract Creates High Zooplankton Biomass, a Distinct Zooplankton Community, and Subsidizes Downstream Habitat. ................................. 21 Bobby Nakamoto, High Frequency Monitoring of Isotopic Signatures in the Flooded McCormack-Williamson Tract Elucidates the Effect of Restoring Floodplain Habitat in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ..................................................................................................... 22 Lily Tomkovic, Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model of the McCormack-Williamson Tract .. 23 Alison Whipple, Hydrospatial Analysis for Evaluating Floodplain Restoration: Application to Sacramento Splittail Habitat on the Lower Cosumnes River, California ...................................... 24 Microcystis Blooms in San Francisco Estuary during Drought Conditions: Field and Laboratory Studies Associated with Microcystis spp from 2014 to 2016 Peggy Lehman, Microcystis Blooms and Controlling Factors during Two Successively Severe Drought Years in San Francisco Estuary ........................................................................................ 25 Melissa Bolotaolo, Spatiotemporal Dynamic Changes in Cyanobacteria Assemblages and Emerging Cyanotoxins in the San Francisco Estuary .................................................................... 26 Tomofumi Kurobe, Biodiversity of Cyanobacteria and Presence of Multiple Microcystis Genotypes in the San Francisco Estuary ....................................................................................... 27 Chelsea Lam, Establishment of Pure Algal Cultures from the San Francisco Estuary for Testing Differing Water Qualities .............................................................................................................. 28 Melissa Bolotaolo, Detection of Microcystins in Tissue Samples via Gas Chromatography Coupled With MMPB Extraction ................................................................................................... 29 San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility: Sustaining & Improving Water Quality & Habitat of Lower South San Francisco Bay Bryan Frueh, Nutrients & Dissolved Oxygen in Lower South Bay: Seasonal & Tidal influence .... 30 2017 State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference, Poster Abstracts ii Jessica Donald, Benthic Invertebrate Composition & Abundance in Lower South San Francisco Bay Margins................................................................................................................................... 31 Ryan Mayfield, Phytoplankton Community in Lower Coyote Creek a tributary of Lower South San Francisco Bay .......................................................................................................................... 32 James Ervin, Fish Populations in Artesian Slough and Lower Coyote Creek ................................ 33 James Ervin, Bald Eagle Nesting in Lower South San Francisco Bay ............................................. 34 Simret Yigzaw, Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater at San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility ........................................................................................................................................... 35 Eric Dunlavey, Chronic Toxicity Testing at San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility: a 25-year history .............................................................................................................................. 36 Sears Point Tidal Wetland Restoration Michael Vasey, The Sears Point Experience: Early Returns on a State-Of-The-Art Tidal Wetland Restoration Project. ...................................................................................................................... 37 Julian Meisler, Laying the Groundwork for Large-Scale Tidal Wetland Restoration at Sears Point, Sonoma County ............................................................................................................................. 38 Stuart Siegel, Design Considerations of the Sears Point Tidal Marsh Restoration Project .......... 39 Renee Spenst, Construction Challenges of Translating the Sears Point Restoration Design from Paper to Mud ................................................................................................................................ 40 Margot Buchbinder, Strategies and Early Outcomes of Revegetating Marsh Mounds at the Sears Point Tidal Wetland Restoration Project ...................................................................................... 41 Michael Vasey, Preliminary Findings on Vegetation, Hydrology, And Geomorphic Processes at the Sears Point Tidal Wetland Restoration Project ...................................................................... 42 Daniel Edelstein, Documenting Increased Avian Richness And Abundance At The Sears Point Wetland Restoration Project Based On Point County Surveys That Include Citizen Science Monitoring ...................................................................................................................................
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