Category: Science Features

SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY & WATERSHED SCIENCE: Water wasted to sea?; Is extinction inevitable for Delta and longfin smelt?; Adaptive management in the Delta; and more …

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The July 2017 issue of the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science is now available online. In this month’s edition: ESSAYS: Water Wasted to the Sea? James E. Cloern, Jane Kay, Wim Kimmerer, Jeffrey Mount, Peter B. Moyle, and Anke Mueller–Solger Is Extinction Inevitable for Delta Smelt and Longfin Smelt? An Opinion and Recommendations for Recovery James A. Hobbs, Peter B. […]

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FLOWS SYMPOSIUM, Part 4: Examples of Managed Flow Regimes – Possible Models for the Delta?; Panel Discussion

Conferences and Seminars, Science Features

In January of 2013, a symposium hosted by Delta Science Program and the UC Davis Center for Aquatic Biology and Aquaculture (CABA) titled, What is a Natural Hydrograph in Regulated Rivers? The Science of Natural Flows to the Delta, explored how the hydrologic regime of Delta inflows are impacted by land-use changes, diversions from the watershed, and climate change. In […]

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FLOWS SYMPOSIUM, PART 3: Hydrographs and Ecological Functions in the Present-day Landscape of the Sacramento River; Ecological Response to the Unregulated Spring Flow Regime in the Sierra Nevada

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In January of 2013, a symposium hosted by Delta Science Program and the UC Davis Center for Aquatic Biology and Aquaculture (CABA) titled, What is a Natural Hydrograph in Regulated Rivers? The Science of Natural Flows to the Delta, explored how the hydrologic regime of Delta inflows are impacted by land-use changes, diversions from the watershed, and climate change. In […]

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FLOWS SYMPOSIUM, PART 2: What Do We Mean by “Natural Functional Delta Inflow” in a Regulated and Modified System?; Delta Inflows of the Past: Lessons for Connecting Landscape Elements

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In January of 2013, a symposium hosted by Delta Science Program and the UC Davis Center for Aquatic Biology and Aquaculture (CABA) titled, What is a Natural Hydrograph in Regulated Rivers? The Science of Natural Flows to the Delta, explored how the hydrologic regime of Delta inflows are impacted by land-use changes, diversions from the watershed, and climate change. In […]

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FLOWS SYMPOSIUM, PART 1: The science of natural functional flows to the Delta: In-stream flow science for sustainable river management

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In January of 2013, a symposium hosted by Delta Science Program and the UC Davis Center for Aquatic Biology and Aquaculture (CABA) titled, What is a Natural Hydrograph in Regulated Rivers? The Science of Natural Flows to the Delta, explored how the hydrologic regime of Delta inflows are impacted by land-use changes, diversions from the watershed, and climate change. These […]

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BROWN BAG SEMINAR: The Delta as Changing Landscapes

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Letitia Grenier is the principal investigator for the San Francisco Estuary Institute’s Delta Landscapes project, which recently completed an in-depth analysis on the change in the Delta overtime and is now offering science-based guidance on how the Delta’s ecosystem health can be recovered as part of a working landscape.  Ms. Grenier is one of a number of authors on the […]

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BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Flow Dynamics and Transport of Water-Quality Constituents in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta

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Dr. David Schoellhamer, Research Hydrologist for the USGS, earned his bachelors degree in civil engineering from UC Davis and a doctorate in Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering from University of Florida.  He has studied sediment transport in the San Francisco Estuary since 1993.  He was the lead author for the chapter on flow dynamics and transport of water quality constituents in […]

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Mercury and rice in the Delta: Lessons linking wetlands to water and wildlife

Best of the Notebook, Science Features

Dr. Lisamarie Windham-Myers is an ecosystem ecologist specializing in wetlands.  As an ecosystems ecologist, she works across a broad spectrum of wetland types on issues related to carbon, nutrient, and mercury cycling.  While her focus on mercury began in New Jersey meadowlands, Lisa is an active researcher in the biogeochemistry on all U.S. coasts, and for the past 12 years, […]

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Special issue of San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science focuses on the Central Valley Joint Venture

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The latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science journal is now available online.  This special issue focuses on the Central Valley Joint Venture. Despite massive losses of habitat, the Central Valley’s wetlands, riparian forests, and grassland–oak savannah woodlands still provide some of the most important bird habitat in North America. Nearly three million ducks, two million geese, […]

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Science Enterprise Workshop proceedings report now available online

Science Features

The Science Enterprise Workshop was held on November 1-2, 2016, at UC Davis and brought together scientists and science-policy experts from across the country to share information about how collaborative science is funded, managed, and communicated in several high-profile and complex ecosystems: the California Bay-Delta; the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed; Coastal Louisiana; the Great Lakes; the Greater Everglades Ecosystem; and […]

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