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DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Analyzing Delta fish data using multiple fish surveys

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Delta scienceFish and wildlifeScience

August 25, 2022

At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen presented the results of a...

WEBINAR SUMMARY: Collaborative governance in the Delta

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Delta scienceScience

August 24, 2022

In the spring of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted a series of lunchtime webinars focused on governance in the...

STATE WATER BOARD: California making steady progress on recycled water use

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Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulationWater supply augmentation

August 17, 2022

At the August 2 meeting of the State Water Board, Rebecca Greenwood, Engineering Geologist with the Recycled and Desalination unit...

NOW AT THE CALIFORNIA WATER LIBRARY: A Century of Delta Conveyance Plans

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Delta Conveyance Project

August 10, 2022

Gavin Newsom’s Delta tunnel plan is out, rekindling a century-old debate about the diversion of Sacramento River water to the...

WEBINAR SUMMARY: Environmental governance in the Delta

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Delta scienceScience

August 4, 2022

In the spring of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted a series of lunchtime webinars focused on governance in the...

WATER STORAGE INVESTMENT PROGRAM: The Road to Final Funding

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Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

July 27, 2022

The first of seven projects could see final funding awarded by the end of the year; other projects not until...

DELTA COUNTIES FORUM: Delta tunnel opponents express their concerns, push for alternatives

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Delta Conveyance ProjectNotebook News and Features

July 26, 2022

The Delta Counties​ Coalition (DCC) is an alliance of the California Counties of Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, and...

ACWA CONFERENCE: Water Law “Update” Or Revolution?

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Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulationWater rights and water law

July 21, 2022

Panel discusses recommendations to update California water laws to address drought and climate change California’s prolonged drought and the increasing...

FIVE QUESTIONS: Jon Rosenfield, Senior Scientist at the Baykeeper and longtime Delta scientist

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Delta Conveyance ProjectEcosystemsNotebook News and Features

July 19, 2022

After completing degrees from Cornell University, University of Michigan, and the University of New Mexico, Dr. Jon Rosenfield returned to...

SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY & WATERSHED SCIENCE: Climate change impacts, Juvenile production estimate, Entrainment of salmonids at the pumps; and more …

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Science

July 18, 2022

SFEWS is the primary applied research publication for the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. In this issue: Climate...

SCIENCE IN SHORT: Finding Her Way to Fish

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Science Podcasts

July 18, 2022

Denise Colombano is investigating how climate change could impact future habitat suitability and fish communities in the San Francisco Estuary....

DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Drivers of and trends in Delta water temperature

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Delta scienceNotebook News and Features

July 14, 2022

At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Laurel Larsen’s report focused on the effects of...

STATE WATER BOARD: Update on the Strategy to Optimize Resource Management of Stormwater (STORMS) program

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Notebook News and FeaturesWater qualityWater supply augmentation

July 13, 2022

Traditionally, stormwater was viewed as a flood management problem in which the runoff needed to be conveyed as quickly as...

FIVE QUESTIONS: Jerry Meral, director of the California Water Program at the Natural Heritage Institute, and former Deputy Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency (among other things)

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Climate changeDelta Conveyance ProjectNotebook News and Features

July 12, 2022

Dr. Gerald (Jerry) Meral is the director of the California Water Program at the Natural Heritage Institute. He works on...

FIVE QUESTIONS: Hydrologist Robert Shibatani

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Climate changeNotebook News and Features

July 5, 2022

Robert Shibatani is a hydrologist with 38 years of collective experience in physical hydrology, watershed resource management, and operational water...