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5/24/2018 | 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | ANADROMY IN THE DESERT: BALANCING GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT AND MIGRATION OF ENDANGERED STEELHEAD IN A LARGE SPATIALLY INTERMITTENT WATERSHED | 321
ANADROMY IN THE DESERT: BALANCING GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT AND MIGRATION OF ENDANGERED STEELHEAD IN A LARGE SPATIALLY INTERMITTENT WATERSHED
Quantifying ecosystem services can be challenging, particularly in the context of groundwater and surface water management—as human populations expand, droughts increase in severity and duration, and costs for water resources climb, determining the degree that freshwater ecosystem health will be traded for water security becomes increasingly contentious. Adding endangered species to the mix further muddies the waters, particularly when the basic natural history needs are poorly parameterized. In the Santa Clara River watershed of southern California, steelhead face a variety of challenges as they complete their anadromous life cycle, including a spatially intermittent mainstem, substantial year-to-year variation in the timing and availability of contiguous flows, physical barriers to fish passage, as well as water diversion for human use. Unlike the rest of southern California, which relies on imported water, local rainfall (and subsequent natural and human-mediated infiltration to groundwater) provides the majority of water budget for the Santa Clara watershed. This talk will address initial efforts and challenges to understanding the life history needs of downstream migrating juvenile steelhead smolts used to inform the development of balanced instream flow budgets for fish migration and groundwater management.
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- Environmental Regulation
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Michael Booth
(), University of Cincinnati, michael.booth@uc.edu;
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