Managing California’s Groundwater for Drought, Clean Water, Food Security, and Ecosystems Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceNotebook News and Features September 16, 2015 1268Dr. Thomas Harter on the importance groundwater – a critical source of drinking water and drought insurance for 40% of...
Landscape-scale planning for ecological resilience in the Bay and Delta Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features July 30, 2015 363Senior Scientist Robin Grossinger discusses the latest research working to develop tools and to understand how to build landscapes resilient...
Tidal marshes: Adapting to sea level rise, carbon sequestration Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features July 29, 2015 871Dr. Jim Morris on the mechanisms of how tidal marshes keep pace with sea level rise, and Dr. John Callaway...
Projecting inundation in the San Francisco Bay: Sea level and tides Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features July 28, 2015 1074UC Berkeley’s Dr. Mark Stacey with the latest research on the impacts of sea level rise on the Bay Area...
Climate change and the Delta: What do we know about climate driven variability of the Bay-Delta ecosystem? Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features July 27, 2015 638Dr. Jim Cloern briefly reviews what we know and what we don’t know about how climate change will impact the...
Latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science Journal looks at water storage, water rights, hatcheries and more … Maven Delta science June 29, 2015 194Articles in the peer-reviewed journal look at water storage and snowpack in drought, Central Valley water rights in a changing...
Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee, Pt. 1: Actionable Delta Science & a very brief update on Cal Water Fix and Cal Eco Restore Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features June 1, 2015 458The interagency committee charged with implementation of the Delta Plan endorses a list of high priority science actions for the...
Delta challenges workshop, part 4: Fish, birds, and habitat Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features April 24, 2015 657Panel of experts looks at historical ecology and critical ecological functions of the Delta, the complexities of fish management, and...
Delta challenges workshop, part 3: The Delta ecosystem: Hydrodynamics, water quality, salinity, nutrients, and the food web Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features April 23, 2015 529Panel of experts discuss the Delta’s complex hydrodynamics and how flow interacts with salinity, nutrients, contaminants, and the food web...
Delta challenges workshop, part 2: Water supply reliability and its challenges Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features April 22, 2015 466Panelists discuss water operations and supply, climate change, the regulatory environment, water conservation, and water supply economics Earlier this year, ...
Delta Challenges Workshop, part 1: Delta land use, levees, and agricultural economics Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features April 21, 2015 587Four former Delta lead scientists take on a challenge: Describe the Delta’s challenges, complexities, and controversies in just 20 pages...
Latest issue of San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science looks at the status of salmon in the Central Valley in 2100 and modeling in the Delta Maven Delta science April 6, 2015 83In this issue: Forecasting the Status of Wild Salmon in the Central Valley in 2100, Three-Dimensional Modeling of Hydrodynamics and...
The Delta Landscapes project: Creating a spatial framework to inform restoration planning Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features March 16, 2015 591A new report uses landscape metrics in both the historical and contemporary Delta to help define, design, and evaluate functional,...
Managing turbidity for Delta smelt Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features March 3, 2015 710Metropolitan’s David Fullerton and Paul Hutton say there’s a relationship between turbidity and Delta smelt, and demonstrate that by cutting...
Yolo Bypass Symposium, Part 3: Farms, flood, fish, and fowl: Putting the puzzle together Maven Best of the NotebookDelta science February 20, 2015 747Stakeholders discuss how to integrating the multiple plans and processes in the Yolo Bypass Land use in the Yolo Bypass...
