Science on the Notebook

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: The Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program: A regional vision for coordinated monitoring

Maven

February 6, 2020

140

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: Green Infrastructure Implementation Challenges and Opportunities: Navigating Constraints and Issues of Scale

Maven

January 30, 2020

253

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: Microplastics Everywhere: Understanding Microplastics in the Bay and Recommended Actions

Maven

January 16, 2020

201

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: Underappreciated Effects of Sea-Level Rise on Groundwater Levels

Maven

January 9, 2020

1049

STATE OF ESTUARY: Vital signs of the San Francisco Estuary fish community

Maven

December 19, 2019

278

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: CA’s Safer Consumer Products Program: Overview and efforts to protect aquatic health

Maven

December 12, 2019

203

In 2013, the Department of Toxic Substances Control’s Safer Consumer Products regulations outlined a framework for the Department to regulate product-chemical combinations that require manufacturers to evaluate... Read More...

STATE OF ESTUARY: Standing too close to the elephant: addressing scales in restoration and fisheries conservation

Maven

December 5, 2019

460

Dr. Rachel Johnson discusses the interconnectedness of the San Francisco's freshwater, estuarine, and marine systems The San Francisco Estuary is an important habitat for native fishes at different life stages... Read More...

DR. GEETA PERSAD: Climate change and the future of California’s water

Maven

November 7, 2019

727

Minimal snow was found at the Phillips Station meadow at the first snow survey of 2018. (Photo by DWR) Climate change is already transforming California’s water cycle, putting stress on the state's rigidly engineered water infrastructure as well as our uni... Read More...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Managing water quality across boundaries

Maven

September 26, 2019

191

Bay Bridge at night; photo by David Yu There are numerous agencies involved in water quality issues that are focused on the San Francisco Bay and the Delta. In this brown bag seminar, Stephanie Fong, Inter... Read More...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Viewing estuaries from a ‘macroscope’: How global, regional, and local processes affect the San Francisco Bay and Delta

Maven

September 18, 2019

436

Photo by duluoz cats There has been an ongoing conversation about the importance of thinking about the San Francisco Estuary holistically as a connected system, rather than siloing the Bay, Delta, and water... Read More...

METROPOLITAN BAY-DELTA COMMITTEE: Salmon predation in the Delta

Maven

August 29, 2019

634

Study results suggest removing predators won't address the problem, but removing submerged aquatic vegetation might At the May meeting of Metropolitan's Special Committee on the Bay-Delta, Alison Collins, Senior Resource Specialist for Metropolitan, presented... Read More...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Synthesis within the Interagency Ecological Program: Growing to Meet Increasing Needs

Maven

August 22, 2019

104

The Interagency Ecological Program (IEP) is a consortium of State and federal agencies that has been conducting cooperative ecological investigations since the 1970s. The IEP relies upon multidisciplinary teams... Read More...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: It’s Vital: Delta Smelt Reproduction and Resilience

Maven

August 15, 2019

293

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Open Data: Making Connections for Better Science, Synthesis, and Service

Maven

August 8, 2019

165

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Adventures in Decision-oriented Ecosystem Services Modeling

Maven

July 25, 2019

131

Ecosystem services are the many and varied benefits that humans gain from the natural environment - things such as food, water, wood, fish, and wildlife. While the concept of ecosystem services has been aro... Read More...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Ecosystem services, conservation, and the Delta

Maven

July 18, 2019

179

Second part of a three part series investigating ecosystem services and what it means for science in the Delta Ecosystems are the communities that are formed by the interaction between living things such as ... Read More...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Towards multi-functional resilient landscapes: environmental heterogeneity as a bridge among diverse ecosystem services

Maven

July 11, 2019

183

Ecosystem services are the many and varied benefits that humans freely gain from the natural environment and from properly-functioning ecosystems that provide things such as food and fiber, timber, fish, and wildlife. Studies in ecosystem services estimate the... Read More...

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FORUM, Part 4: Case studies from the Bay Delta system

Maven

April 25, 2019

259

Presentations highlight the Montezuma Wetlands Project and the Nigiri Project Adaptive management is widely regarded as an effective approach to environmental management in the face of uncertainty because the ... Read More...

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FORUM, Part 3: Challenges and lessons learned with adaptive management in the Bay-Delta

Maven

April 18, 2019

383

Panel of Delta project managers discuss how they apply adaptive management in their projects Adaptive management is defined in the Delta Reform Act as “a framework and flexible decision making process for ongo... Read More...

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FORUM, Part 2: How adaptive management is applied in other ecosystems

Maven

April 11, 2019

307

Presentations highlight structured decision making, collective action on invasive species, and a scoring system for restoration projects Adaptive management is a strategy for making management decisions under uncertain conditions using the best available scie... Read More...

California Water Fix Aquatic Science Peer Review, Part 1: Overview of the project and the endangered species consultation process

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: The Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program: A regional vision for coordinated monitoring

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: Green Infrastructure Implementation Challenges and Opportunities: Navigating Constraints and Issues of Scale

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: Microplastics Everywhere: Understanding Microplastics in the Bay and Recommended Actions

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: Underappreciated Effects of Sea-Level Rise on Groundwater Levels

STATE OF ESTUARY: Vital signs of the San Francisco Estuary fish community

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: CA’s Safer Consumer Products Program: Overview and efforts to protect aquatic health

California Water Policy Seminar Series: Jay Lund: Insurmountable Opportunities

CA WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: Federalism and Water under the Trump Administration: Has the Long Peace Come to an End?

WATER ASSOC. OF KERN COUNTY: The nuts and bolts of the CV-SALTS program

SGMA IMPLEMENTATION: Groundwater Sustainability Plan evaluation and State Water Board intervention

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: Microplastics Everywhere: Understanding Microplastics in the Bay and Recommended Actions

ANECITA AGUSTINEZ, DWR TRIBAL POLICY ADVISOR: The Language of Water

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: Underappreciated Effects of Sea-Level Rise on Groundwater Levels

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: The Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program: A regional vision for coordinated monitoring

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: Green Infrastructure Implementation Challenges and Opportunities: Navigating Constraints and Issues of Scale

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: Microplastics Everywhere: Understanding Microplastics in the Bay and Recommended Actions

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: Underappreciated Effects of Sea-Level Rise on Groundwater Levels

STATE OF ESTUARY: Vital signs of the San Francisco Estuary fish community

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: CA’s Safer Consumer Products Program: Overview and efforts to protect aquatic health

STATE OF ESTUARY: Standing too close to the elephant: addressing scales in restoration and fisheries conservation

DR. GEETA PERSAD: Climate change and the future of California’s water

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Managing water quality across boundaries

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Viewing estuaries from a ‘macroscope’: How global, regional, and local processes affect the San Francisco Bay and Delta

METROPOLITAN BAY-DELTA COMMITTEE: Salmon predation in the Delta

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Synthesis within the Interagency Ecological Program: Growing to Meet Increasing Needs

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: It’s Vital: Delta Smelt Reproduction and Resilience

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Open Data: Making Connections for Better Science, Synthesis, and Service

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Adventures in Decision-oriented Ecosystem Services Modeling

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Ecosystem services, conservation, and the Delta

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Towards multi-functional resilient landscapes: environmental heterogeneity as a bridge among diverse ecosystem services

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FORUM, Part 4: Case studies from the Bay Delta system

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FORUM, Part 3: Challenges and lessons learned with adaptive management in the Bay-Delta

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FORUM, Part 2: How adaptive management is applied in other ecosystems