California Water Science Center scientists Dina Saleh and Joseph Domagalski discuss water-quality data collected in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. By...
It can be a bit hard for some to comprehend, but it is true: Here in the 21st century, California...
Dr. Flora Cordoleani is a project scientist with UC Santa Cruz and NOAA fisheries, where she conducts research to understand better the dynamics of threatened populations of spring-run chinook salmon in the Central Valley’s highly modified environment, with the objective...
What are the cascading, overlapping, and compounding events caused by drought in the Delta? In early December, the California Council...
Successful management of California’s freshwater resources requires balancing consumptive and non-consumptive water use with fish species that depend critically on...
At the December meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Laurel Larsen, Delta Lead Scientist, spotlighted an article on the North Delta flow action for Delta smelt, discussed the partnership between the Delta Science Program and the National Center for...
New ways to boost fish nutrition and identify species, a new bird atlas raises red flags, preparing for a snowless...
ESSAY Use Care When Interpreting Correlations: The Ammonium Example in the San Francisco EstuaryJames E. Cloernhttps://doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2021v19iss4art1 RESEARCH Patterns of Water...
From the Delta Science Program:...
by Robin Meadows Mountains are the foundation of water in the western United States, natural infrastructure that captures snowfall during...
Natural variability dominates modeled uncertainty in California precipitation By Beth Mundy, PNNL Over the past 40 years, winters in California...
Plants that grow under the water surface are known as submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV). Some species of SAV have been introduced from other regions of the world and outcompete many native species. These invasive species of SAV often disrupt waterways...
In California’s Central Valley, studies have found that increased streamflow can improve the survival of imperiled juvenile salmon populations during...
At the November meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council during the Delta Lead Scientist report, Dr. Laurel Larsen spotlighted recent...
Researchers find that maintaining genetic variation is critical to allowing wild populations to survive, reproduce, and adapt to future environmental changes. From NOAA Fisheries: A new paper shows that genetic variation is crucial to a population’s short- and long-term viability....