Researchers from the Center for Watershed Sciences recently hosted over 30 scientists attending the USDA sponsored International Seminar on Climate Change and Natural Resources Management at the Cosumnes River Preserve. While much of the three-week USDA International Programs seminar focused on aspects of climate change and resource management in the Sierra Nevada, attention turned to lessons learned as part of interdisciplinary science conducted by the Center for Watershed Sciences over the last decade. Hydrological reconnection of seasonal floodplains through intentional levee breaching has long been a focus of the Center's investigative research into process-based ecosystem restoration. Benefits to humans and ecosystems alike, such as groundwater recharge and flood modulation, were shared with the group. The positive response of native and non-native fish assemblages to floodplain access and flow regimes was also a focus of a day long excursion to the field, where doctoral candidate Jacob Katz showed off a prized catch from the ongoing monitoring program at the Preserve (pictured). This monitoring effort, led by Associate Director Joshua Viers, is a multi-year project that will quantify the synergistic benefits of process-based restoration to groundwater, aquatic and riparian habitats, and ecosystem services. For further information, please contact Joshua Viers (jhviers@ucdavis.edu).