NOTEBOOK NEWS ARTICLES Archives ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK

ACWA CONFERENCE: Commissioner Brenda Burman: “We are keeping our promises, and we are doing what we said we would do. And we are not done.”

August 6, 2020

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At the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) virtual conference last week, one of the keynote speakers was the Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman. Commissioner Burman has more than 25... Read More...

ACWA CONFERENCE: Chair Esquivel and Director Nemeth discuss their plans for 2020

Maven

August 5, 2020

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At the ACWA's virtual conference held last week, the second keynote speaker session featured Joaquin Esquivel, Chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, and Karla Nemeth, Director of the Department of... Read More...

MET BAY DELTA COMMITTEE: Delta Conveyance update

Maven

August 5, 2020

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At the end of July, Metropolitan Water District's Special Committee on the Bay-Delta held a meeting; the main agenda item was an update on the Delta Conveyance Project. In this update, Bay Delta Initiatives ... Read More...

ACWA CONFERENCE: Secretary Wade Crowfoot highlights the principles and priorities of the Water Resilience Portfolio

Maven

August 4, 2020

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Wade Crowfoot has been the Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency since January 2019 and oversees an agency of 19,000 employees charged with protecting and managing California's natural resource... Read More...

GUEST COMMENTARY: How to Use Climate Change in California Water Resource Litigation

Maven

July 30, 2020

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Guest commentary written by Robert Shibatani: Insofar as climate change and water resources is concerned, there are many related issues, but don’t let that lead you astray. Stay focused on the fundamental wat... Read More...

DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST REPORT: New research papers focus on habitat, flow, predation

Maven

July 30, 2020

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At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. John Callaway updated the Council on the latest scientific developments, discussing three papers that highlight the multi-faceted... Read More...

DPIIC: The CVPIA and the state’s Incidental Take Permit: Ecosystem-based Management in the Delta

Maven

July 29, 2020

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The Delta Stewardship Council established the Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee (DPIIC) after the adoption of the Delta Plan in 2013. The Committee is comprised of high-ranking members of 18 ... Read More...

GSA SUMMIT: Setting Sustainable Management Criteria: It’s easy, isn’t it?

Maven

July 22, 2020

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The details of how a groundwater sustainability plan will be implemented are defined by the setting of sustainable management criteria (or SMC). With several undesirable results to consider, a range of tech... Read More...

TIM QUINN: Forty Years of California Water Policy: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Lessons for the Future

Maven

July 16, 2020

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Tim Quinn spent more than ten years as the executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies and more than twenty years as the Deputy General Manager of the Metropolitan Water District of South... Read More...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Understanding the human dimensions of social agro-ecological systems: What motivates farmer decision-making and policy change?

Maven

July 15, 2020

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Sea Grant is a federal-state partnership between NOAA and the 34 university-based programs in every coastal and Great Lakes states, including Puerto Rico and Guam. For over 50 years, Sea Grant has supported co... Read More...

GUEST COMMENTARY: California Almonds and Salmon – Contrasts in Sustainability

Maven

July 15, 2020

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Guest commentary written by David Zeff, a native of the Central Valley, a Marin County attorney, an avid salmon fisherman and a board member of the Golden State Salmon Association: Earlier this year, the Calif... Read More...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Building Socioecological Resilience by Confronting Environmental Injustice: A Participatory Approach

Maven

July 9, 2020

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Sea Grant is a federal-state partnership between NOAA and the 34 university-based programs in every coastal and Great Lakes states, including Puerto Rico and Guam. For over 50 years, Sea Grant has supported co... Read More...

GSA SUMMIT: Lessons learned from the 2020 GSPs: Perspectives from the critically overdrafted basins

Maven

July 8, 2020

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The implementation phase of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act has now begun for the basins designated as critically-overdrafted. Getting to this point has been an unparalleled journey as communities, f... Read More...

GSA SUMMIT: Reflections on the 2020 GSP process

Maven

July 7, 2020

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At the end of January of this year, the state’s critically overdrafted groundwater basins submitted their adopted groundwater sustainability plans (or GSPs), meeting an important deadline in the Sustainable Gro... Read More...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Engaging Diverse Communities around Water, Climate, and the Environment

Maven

July 2, 2020

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Sea Grant is a federal and state partnership between NOAA and 34 university-based programs in every coastal and Great Lakes state, including Puerto Rico and Guam. For over 50 years, Sea Grant has supported coas... Read More...

New report synthesizes what is known - and not known - about the life of a Delta smelt

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Understanding the human dimensions of social agro-ecological systems: What motivates farmer decision-making and policy change?

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Building Socioecological Resilience by Confronting Environmental Injustice: A Participatory Approach

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Engaging Diverse Communities around Water, Climate, and the Environment

DELTA SCIENCE NEEDS, PART 2: What do managers need to know to effectively make decisions in the future Delta?

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Franks Tract Futures: Using map based public surveys to inform a participatory multi-benefit design project

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: From Measurements, Models and Maps to Management

PANEL DISCUSSION: Implementing SGMA - How Are We Getting There?

GSA SUMMIT: Setting Sustainable Management Criteria: It’s easy, isn’t it?

TIM QUINN: Forty Years of California Water Policy: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Lessons for the Future

GSA SUMMIT: Lessons learned from the 2020 GSPs: Perspectives from the critically overdrafted basins

FEATURE: The state of California’s environment

GROUNDWATER 101: The basics

CA WATER COMMISSION: Preparing California’s Water System for Climate Extremes

ACWA CONFERENCE: Commissioner Brenda Burman: “We are keeping our promises, and we are doing what we said we would do. And we are not done.”

ACWA CONFERENCE: Chair Esquivel and Director Nemeth discuss their plans for 2020

MET BAY DELTA COMMITTEE: Delta Conveyance update

ACWA CONFERENCE: Secretary Wade Crowfoot highlights the principles and priorities of the Water Resilience Portfolio

GUEST COMMENTARY: How to Use Climate Change in California Water Resource Litigation

DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST REPORT: New research papers focus on habitat, flow, predation

DPIIC: The CVPIA and the state’s Incidental Take Permit: Ecosystem-based Management in the Delta

GSA SUMMIT: Setting Sustainable Management Criteria: It’s easy, isn’t it?

TIM QUINN: Forty Years of California Water Policy: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Lessons for the Future

GUEST COMMENTARY: California Almonds and Salmon – Contrasts in Sustainability

GSA SUMMIT: Lessons learned from the 2020 GSPs: Perspectives from the critically overdrafted basins

GSA SUMMIT: Reflections on the 2020 GSP process