Presentation by Dr. Ted Sommer, Lead Scientist at the Department of Water Resources, for the 2021 Bay-Delta Science Conference.
Dr. Ted Sommer’s recommended reading list
General
Ariyama, J., Boisramé, G. F, & Brand, M. R. (2019). Water Budgets for the Delta Watershed: Putting Together the Many Disparate Pieces. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 17(2). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z21c397
Atwater, B. F., S.G. Conard, J. N. Dowden, C.W. Hedel, R.L. MacDonald, and W. Savage. 1979. History, landforms and vegetation of the estuary’s tidal marshes. Pages 347-385 in T.J. Conomos, ed. San Francisco Bay: the ecosystem. Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, CA. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286937972_History_landforms_and_vegetation_of_the_estuary%27s_tidal_marshes
Brown, Larry R. and Marissa L. Bauer. 2009. Effects of hydrologic infrastructure on flow regimes of California’s Central Valley rivers: Implications for fish populations. River Research and Applications, online edition. Abstract access: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122508164/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Fox, P., P.H. Hutton, D.J. Howes, A.J. Draper, and L. Sears. 2015. Reconstructing the Natural Hydrology of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Watershed. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 4257-4274. https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/california_waterfix/exhibits/docs/petitioners_exhibit/dwr/part2/DWR-1153.pdf
FWS. 2008. OCAP Biological Opinion for Delta Smelt. https://www.fws.gov/sfbaydelta/CVP-SWP/index.htm
Kelley, R. L. 1989. Battling the inland sea: Floods, public policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1985-1986. University of California Press, California. 395 pp. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520214286/battling-the-inland-sea
Kimmerer, W. J. 2002a. Physical, biological, and management responses to variable freshwater flow into the San Francisco Estuary. Estuaries 25: 1275-1290. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02692224
Mount. J. F. California’s rivers and streams: the conflict between fluvial process and land use. University of California Press, Berkeley CA. 359 pp. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520202504/california-rivers-and-streams
Nichols, F. H., J. E. Cloern, S. N. Luoma, and D. H. Peterson. 1986. The modification of an estuary. Science 231:567-573. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6089352_The_Modification_of_an_Estuary
Reis, G. J, Howard, J. K, & Rosenfield, J. A. (2019). Clarifying Effects of Environmental Protections on Freshwater Flows to—and Water Exports from—the San Francisco Bay Estuary. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 17(1). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mh3r97j
Whipple AA, Grossinger RM, Rankin D, Stanford B, Askevold RA. 2012. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Investigation: Exploring Pattern and Process. A Report of SFEI-ASC’s Historical Ecology Program, Publication #672, San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center, Richmond, CA. http://www.sfei.org/DeltaHEStudy
San Francisco Estuary Institute. 2014. A Delta Transformed. http://ebooks.sfei.org/DeltaLandscapes/#page/11
Salinities & X2
Feyrer, F., M. Nobriga, and T. Sommer. 2007. Multi-decadal trends for three declining fish species: habitat patterns and mechanisms in the San Francisco Estuary, California, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64:723-734 Abstract access: http://rparticle.web-p.cisti.nrc.ca/rparticle/AbstractTemplateServlet?calyLang=eng&journal=cjfas&volume=64&year=0&issue=4&msno=f07-048
Gross, E. S, Hutton, P. H, & Draper, A. J. (2018). A Comparison of Outflow and Salt Intrusion in the Pre‑Development and Contemporary San Francisco Estuary. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 16(3). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/78m2c73z
Hutton, P. H, & Roy, S. B. (2019). Characterizing Early 20th Century Outflow and Salinity Intrusion in the San Francisco Estuary. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 17(2). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jn0f55k
Jassby AD, Kimmerer WJ, Monismith SG, Armor C, Cloern JE, Powell TM, Schubel JR, Vendlinski TJ. 1995. Isohaline position as a habitat indicator for estuarine populations. Ecol Appl 5(1):272–289. https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/deltaflow/docs/exhibits/swrcb/swrcb_jassby1995.pdf
Kimmerer, W. J, MacWilliams, M. L, & Gross, E. S. (2013). Variation of Fish Habitat and Extent of the Low-Salinity Zone with Freshwater Flow in the San Francisco Estuary. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 11(4). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3pz7x1x8
Sommer, T., W.C. Harrell, and T. R. Swift. 2008. Extreme hydrologic banding in a large-river Floodplain, California, U.S.A. Hydrobiologia 598:409-415. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-007-9159-1
Sommer, T.R., W.C. Harrell, A. Mueller-Solger, B. Tom, and W. Kimmerer. 2004. Effects of flow variation on channel and floodplain biota and habitats of the Sacramento River, California, USA. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 14:247-261. https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/california_waterfix/exhibits/docs/COSJ%20et%20al/part2sur_rebuttal/SJC_511.pdf
Sommer, T., B. Harrell, M. Nobriga, R. Brown, P. Moyle, W. Kimmerer, and L. Schemel. 2001. California’s Yolo Bypass: evidence that flood control can be compatible with fisheries, wetlands, wildlife, and agriculture. Fisheries 26:6-16.https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70175036
Circulation
Schoelhamer, D.H. and J.R. Burau. Summary of findings about circulation and the estuarine turbidity maximum in Suisun Bay, CA.USGS Fact Sheet FS-047-98. https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1998/0047/report.pdf
Diversions & Effects
Grimaldo LF, Sommer T, Ark NV, Jones G, Holland E, Moyle PB, Herbold B, Smith P. 2009. Factors affecting fish entrainment into massive water diversions in a tidal freshwater estuary: can fish losses be managed? N Am J Fish Management 29(5):1253–1270. https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/docs/cmnt081712/srcsd/grimaldo2009.pdf
Herren, J. R. and S. S. Kawasaki. 2001. Inventory of water diversions in four geographic areas in California’s central valley. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin 179:343-355. https://qhj126.p3cdn2.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/InvOfWaterDiversionsInFourGeographicAreas.pdf
Kimmerer, Wim J. and Matthew L. Nobriga. 2008. Investigating Particle Transport and Fate in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Using a Particle Tracking Model. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. Vol. 6, Issue 1 (February), Article 4. Full article access: http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews/vol6/iss1/art4
Kimmerer, Wim J. 2008. Losses of Sacramento River Chinook Salmon and Delta Smelt to Entrainment in Water Diversions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. Vol. 6, Issue 2 (June), Article 2. Full article access: http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews/vol6/iss2/art2
Monsen, N.E., J.E. Cloern, and J.R. Burau. 2007, Effects of flow diversions on water and habitat quality; examples from California’s highly manipulated Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 5, Issue 3 (July 2007), Article 2. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/04822861
Barriers
Kimmerer, W., Wilkerson, F., Downing, B., Dugdale, R., Gross, E. S, Kayfetz, K., et al. (2019). Effects of Drought and the Emergency Drought Barrier on the Ecosystem of the California Delta. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 17(3). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0b3731ph
Modeling
Bever, A.J., M.L. MacWilliams, B. Herbold, L.R. Brown, and F.V. Feyrer. 2016. Linking hydrodynamic complexity to Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) distribution in the San Francisco Estuary, USA. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 14(1). Available at: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2x91q0fr
Gross, E. S, MacWilliams, M. L, & Kimmerer, W. J. (2009). Three-dimensional Modeling of Tidal Hydrodynamics in the San Francisco Estuary. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 7(2). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rv243mg
Kimmerer, Wim J.; MacWilliams, Michael L.; & Gross, Edward S.(2013). Variation of Fish Habitat and Extent of the Low-Salinity Zone with Freshwater Flow in the San Francisco Estuary. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 11(4). jmie_sfews_13887. Retrieved from: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3pz7x1x8
MacWilliams, M. L, Ateljevich, E. S, Monismith, S. G, & Enright, C. (2016). An Overview of Multi-Dimensional Models of the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 14(4). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31r7x1js
MacWilliams, M., Bever, A. J, & Foresman, E. (2016). 3-D Simulations of the San Francisco Estuary with Subgrid Bathymetry to Explore Long-Term Trends in Salinity Distribution and Fish Abundance. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 14(2). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qj0k0m6
