SCIENCE FEATURE: Structured Decision Making for Delta Smelt Habitat: Synthesizing Multiple Streams of IEP Data to Inform Management Maven Delta scienceScience May 4, 2023 173Our native species face numerous threats, including climate change, habitat loss, and invasive species. Therefore, effective management strategies must be...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Sea level rise and the Delta’s wetlands Maven Delta scienceScience April 6, 2023 210This article has been updated to reflect feedback from the study’s authors. Wetlands an ‘important battle partner’ in managing sea...
CDFW Testing ‘Parentage-Based Tagging’ of Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Department of Fish and Wildlife Delta scienceNews March 16, 2023 109By the Department of Fish & Wildlife: Under cover of darkness and with a series of cold, late-winter storms building,...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Implementing equity in water management; Upcoming modeling workshop; 2022 State of Bay-Delta Science; and more … Maven Delta scienceScience February 16, 2023 161At the January meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen’s article spotlight report focused on...
NOW AVAILABLE: The State of Bay Delta Science 2022: primary production, invasive aquatic vegetation, remote sensing, harmful algal blooms, carbon sequestration, and more … Maven Delta scienceScience February 9, 2023 48The State of Bay-Delta Science (SBDS) is a collection of papers that represents the state of scientific knowledge on relevant...
California Environmental Flows Framework: The Ways Good Science Gets Watered Down Maven Delta science January 14, 2023 148By Paul Stanton Kibel In the field of natural resources policy, there is a longstanding tendency for good science to...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Advances in mapping invasive aquatic vegetation Maven Delta scienceMeetings and Events December 22, 2022 140At the December meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen discussed Council-funded research that will...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: The role of water quality in salmon predation Maven Delta scienceMeetings and EventsScience December 6, 2022 248At the November meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Laurel Larsen spotlighted research funded by the Council...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Wetlands and food production, longfin smelt proposed listing, and the activities of the Delta Science Program Maven Delta science November 9, 2022 113At the October meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen highlighted Council-funded research that studied whether...
WEBINAR SUMMARY: Adaptive governance in the Delta Maven Delta scienceScience November 2, 2022 136On May 5 of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted the third and final session of a webinar series focusing...
ESTUARY PEARLS: Beavers, climate impacts, harmful algal blooms, juvenile salmon, phytoplankton production, and more … Estuary News Group Delta scienceScience September 2, 2022 79California will spend big bucks on beavers to try to boost their numbers and reap some of the benefits—including slowing...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Analyzing Delta fish data using multiple fish surveys Maven Delta scienceScience August 25, 2022 168At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen presented the results of a...
WEBINAR SUMMARY: Collaborative governance in the Delta Maven Delta scienceScience August 24, 2022 143In the spring of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted a series of lunchtime webinars focused on governance in the...
USBR NEWS: Innovative Technology Offers Non-Invasive, Efficient Way to Monitor Fish Populations and Their Habitat Bureau of Reclamation News Delta science August 21, 2022 45From the Bureau of Reclamation: In an ecosystem as complex and altered as the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, determining the abundance...
WEBINAR SUMMARY: Environmental governance in the Delta Maven Delta scienceScience August 4, 2022 139In the spring of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted a series of lunchtime webinars focused on governance in the...