Monthly Lunch-MAR Webinars
Lunch-MAR webinars take place the first Wednesday of each month from 12:30 – 1:30 pm Pacific Time. In these webinars, network members and invited guests present on and discuss a wide range of topics relevant to Flood-MAR, ranging from water rights to geophysics.
To join a Lunch-MAR Session, please use this link [Note: The link was updated on 01.06.2025 for sessions occurring from February 2025 – December 2027. Registration is no longer needed to join.]
Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 12:30PM -1:30PM PT
An Overview of the Groundwater Accounting Platform
Presenter: California Water Data Consortium
Sneak Peek: The Groundwater Accounting Platform is an open-source tool that helps California water managers, landowners, and water users track water budgets and usage more easily in near real-time. The California Water Data Consortium and Environmental Defense Fund have partnered to expand the Platform to new regions, and to provide additional features and functionalities to help more groundwater agencies and growers track water use allocations under SGMA. Come and learn more about new updates to the tool and a vision for the future on August 6, 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 12:30PM -1:30PM PT
How Much Water is Available for Recharge in the Central Valley?
Presenter: Public Policy Institute of California
Sneak Peek: Coming soon!
Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 12:30PM -1:30PM PT
Managed Wetlands and Managed Floodplains: Adapting to a Changing Climate
Presenter: Cliff Feldheim, Ducks Unlimited
Sneak Peek: In California’s Central Valley, if there is water on the landscape, someone put it there. This is true for the majority of wetland habitat in the state. In the face of less snow and changing timing and intensity of rain, wetland managers need to develop water management systems and strategies that take advantage of rainfall and surface water when it is available, hold it, and distribute it to wetland habitats with ecological goals driven by the water year type..
*There is no Lunch-MAR in November this year. We will see you at the biannual Flood-MAR Forum event on November 5th instead! https://cvent.me/7MBr32
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 12:30PM -1:30PM PT
To be confirmed