CA WATER COMMISSION: California Water Plan 2023 Update Maven Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation February 2, 2022The California Water Plan is the state’s strategic plan for sustainably managing and developing water resources for current and future...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Effects of stressors on native fish communities Maven Delta scienceFish and wildlife January 31, 2022At the January meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen began a series of reports...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Sources and Sinks! What’s Going on With Mercury in Sacramento Valley Tidal Wetlands? Maven Best of the NotebookDelta science January 27, 2022Legacy mercury contamination is problematic in California waterways due to historic gold and mercury mining. Even today, mercury from abandoned...
CCST BRIEFING: Remote Sensing Technologies and Water Resilience Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and Features January 26, 2022Can we look to the sky to address California’s water challenges? As California continues to grapple with frequent drought and...
CA WATER COMMISSION: Update on the Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project (Big Notch) Maven Ecosystems January 25, 2022At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, the agenda included an informational briefing on the Yolo Bypass Salmonid...
BAY-DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: A new model to address legacy Gold Rush mercury in the Delta Maven Best of the NotebookDelta science January 20, 2022It can be a bit hard for some to comprehend, but it is true: Here in the 21st century, California...
FEATURE: Water Justice: Linking local, regional, and state responses for implementing the Human Right to Water Maven Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation January 19, 2022In the fall of 2021, the Delta Stewardship Council held a series of four webinars focusing on the social and...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Years in their Ears: What can Fish Earbones Tell Us About Spring-Run Chinook Salmon Success in an Increasingly Volatile Climate? Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceFish and wildlife January 13, 2022Dr. Flora Cordoleani is a project scientist with UC Santa Cruz and NOAA fisheries, where she conducts research to understand...
CCST BRIEFING: Drought in the Delta Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceEcosystems January 12, 2022What are the cascading, overlapping, and compounding events caused by drought in the Delta? In early December, the California Council...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Applying the winter-run life cycle model to pressing hydromanagement questions in the Central Valley Maven Delta scienceFish and wildlife January 6, 2022Successful management of California’s freshwater resources requires balancing consumptive and non-consumptive water use with fish species that depend critically on...
DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: The potential of deep carbon capture and storage in the Delta and Central Valley Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and Features January 5, 2022As California works towards reducing greenhouse gases to address climate change, carbon capture and storage have been presented as options...
Happy New Year! Maven Website announcements January 1, 2022We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book...
It’s not too late to support Maven’s Notebook – and get a tax deduction for 2021! Maven Website announcements December 26, 2021Dear readers, As part of the California water community, you know Maven’s Notebook and the California Water Library are all...
Happy holidays from Maven’s Notebook! Maven Website announcements December 24, 2021Happy holidays to you and yours! As I reflect back on the past year, I am truly grateful for your...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Managed flow pulses as food web support; Synthesis of food web data; Overview of the Science Action Agenda; and more … Maven Delta scienceEcosystems December 21, 2021At the December meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Laurel Larsen, Delta Lead Scientist, spotlighted an article on the...
