Presentations

Conference presentations, invited seminars, lectures, and other research talks. The map shows the locations where I have presented my work.

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2026

Aug 2026
Kinship analysis and otolith geochemistry to track the homing of invasive Pink salmon
24th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species
Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
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2025

Nov 2025
Naturens biologiske arkiver
NINA Dagan
Trondheim, Norway
Conference presentation
Oct 2025
Genetic and geochemical tools to study the homing of invasive pink salmon
4th International Seminar on Pink Salmon in the Barents Region and Northern Europe
NIBIO Svanhovd, Svanvik, Norway
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2024

Sep 2024
Shifting baselines of Chinook salmon life histories through the ages
154th AFS Annual Meeting
Honolulu, HI, USA
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2023

Oct 2023
Tracking the Pink Salmon Invasion via Otoliths
3rd International Seminar on Pink Salmon in the Barents Region and Northern Europe
NIBIO Svanhovd, Svanvik, Norway
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Jul 2023
Otoliths Reveal the Hidden Diversity of Threatened Californian Salmon Across the Ages
FSBI 2023 International Annual Symposium
University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Conference presentation

2022

Aug 2022
Historic otoliths tell tales of lost life histories
152nd AFS Annual Meeting
Spokane, WA, USA
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Aug 2022
Strontium isotopes: From rocks to critters (and back again)
SPATIAL
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Invited presentation
May 2022
Historic otoliths provide a window into lost life histories of Chinook Salmon
56nd Annual Meeting AFS Cal-Neva Chapter
Folsom, California, USA
Conference presentation

2021

Apr 2021
What Ancient Salmon Bones Can Teach Us About Recovering California’s Salmon Populations
Virtual Salmonid Restoration Conference
Virtual
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Mar 2021
Restoration on a Small Stream Provides Home for Chinook Salmon
55th Annual Meeting, California-Nevada Chapter of the American Fisheries Society
Virtual
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2020

Sep 2020
Reconstructing ancient salmon life history strategies to support modern conservation
Interagency Ecological Program 2020 Annual Workshop
Virtual
Apr 2020
Chinook Salmon: Return to Putah Creek
Creek Speak
Winters, CA, USA
Invited talk

2019

Oct 2019
Conservation implications of otolith geochemical discoveries for California's imperiled migratory fishes
Australian Society for Fish Biology Annual Conference 2019
Canberra, ACT, Australia
Sep 2019
Building strontium isoscapes for archaeological provenance studies
Dating, Isotopes and Human Evolution
Brisbane, Australia
Invited talk
Sep 2019
Tracing human and animal movements using laser-ablation strontium isotope analyses
Dating, Isotopes and Human Evolution
Brisbane, Australia
Invited talk
Jul 2019
Strontium isotopes reveal new insights into the complex life history of modern and ancient fish in California
INQUA 2019
Dublin, Ireland
Conference presentation
May 2019
Rocks, Bones, and Teeth: New frontiers and old problems in strontium isotope analysis in ecology and archaeology
North American Workshop on Laser Ablation 2019
Austin, Texas, USA
May 2019
Rocks, bones, and isotopes Tracing California’s salmon through space and time
Science Uncorked
Bodega, CA, USA
Invited presentation
Apr 2019
Isoscapes in a dynamic system: Advancing tools to reconstruct salinity and temperature life histories of fishes in the San Francisco Estuary
Interagency Ecological Program Workshop
Folsom, California, USA
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2018

Sep 2018
Otoliths and Isoscapes: Reconstructing Thermal Life History of California’s Endangered Delta Smelt
2018 Bay-Delta Science Conference
Sacramento, California, USA
Poster
Aug 2018
Validating Thermal Life History Reconstructions from Otolith Oxygen Isotope Analyses of California’s Critically Endangered Delta Smelt
148th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society
Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
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Apr 2018
Reconstructing life history and thermal resilience of a small endangered fish in California from strontium and oxygen isotope ratios
6th International Otolith Symposium
Keelung, Taiwan
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Apr 2018
In search of refuge: Investigating the thermal life history of Delta Smelt through in-situ oxygen isotope ratio analysis of otoliths
Interagency Ecological Program Workshop
Folsom, California, USA
Conference presentation
Mar 2018
“One ear to the ground”: Using isotopic analysis of otoliths to investigate the life history of Delta Smelt.
52nd Annual Meeting AFS Cal-Neva Chapter
San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Conference presentation

2017

Oct 2017
Thermal Resilience of Delta Smelt: What Can We Learn from Otoliths?
13th Biennial State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference
Oakland, California, USA
Aug 2017
The use of strontium isotopes to unravel the life history of fish in California
Environmental Futures Research Seminar
Brisbane, Australia
Invited talk
Apr 2017
Are Wild Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Headed Towards Extinction in the Central Valley, California?
51st Annual Meeting, California-Nevada Chapter of the American Fisheries Society
Eureka, California, USA
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2016

Nov 2016
Identifying Hatchery Versus Wild Origin of Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) on the Feather River Spawning Grounds using Otolith Strontium Isotope Ratios
2016 Bay-Delta Science Conference
Sacramento, California, USA
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Nov 2016
Phenotype variability of Chinook Salmon on the Feather River Spawning Grounds: Using otolith strontium isotope ratios to determine run-timing and natal origins
CMSI
Davis, California, USA
Poster

2014

Apr 2014
Oxygen and strontium isotope tracing of human migration at the Bell Beaker site Le Tumulus des Sables, France
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014
Vienna, Austria
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2013

Apr 2013
Least destructive sampling of human remains using laser drilling for Sr isotope analysis by TIMS
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013
Vienna, Austria
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Apr 2013
The IRHUM database - bioavailable strontium isotope ratios of France for geochemical fingerprinting
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013
Vienna, Austria

2012

Dec 2012
Isotopic reconstruction of ancient human migration (IRHUM): A bioavailable Sr isotope reference database for France and case study at the Bell Beaker site Tumulus de Sables, south-western France
Australian Archaeological Association
Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Conference presentation
Aug 2012
The bioavailable Sr isotope reference database of France - a tool for archaeology and forensic sciences
34th International Geological Congress
Brisbane, Australia
Apr 2012
Isotopic reconstruction of ancient human migrations: A comprehensive Sr isotope reference database for France and the first case study at Tumulus de Sables, south-western France
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012
Vienna, Austria
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2011

Sep 2011
Crater retention ages of the ice-dust mantle deposit in Malea Planum, Mars
11th Australian Space Science Conference
Canberra, ACT, Australia

2009

Sep 2009
Malea Planum and Utopia Planitia, Mars: Absolute model ages of latitude-dependent mantle deposits
European Planetary Science Congress 2009
Potsdam, Germany
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Apr 2009
Absolute model ages of mantled surfaces in Malea Planum and Utopia Planitia, Mars
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009
Vienna, Austria