SF ESTUARY & WATERSHED SCIENCE: Primary production in the Delta, Zooplankton, Delta outflow, and more from the State of Bay Delta Science Maven Delta science October 13, 2016 163The latest issue of San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science is now available online. In this edition: ESSAY Primary Production...
DR. PETER MOYLE & DR JASON BAUMSTEIGER: Assessing extinction in freshwater fishes Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceNotebook News and Features September 29, 2016 538Drs. Moyle and Baumsteiger lay out a proposal for determining when to declare a species extinct The extinction of a...
Getting to the Bottom of It: An Overview of the Environmental Monitoring Program’s Benthic Monitoring in the Delta Maven Delta science September 15, 2016 573DWR’s Dr. Betsy Wells takes a look at the creatures that live on the bottom of the Delta Creating a...
How the San Francisco Bay Regional Monitoring Program integrates research and monitoring of mercury and methylmercury Maven Delta science September 1, 2016 292Dr. Jay Davis highlights studies to determine where the greatest potential exists to address methylmercury in the San Francisco Bay...
Overview of control studies for the Delta methylmercury TMDL Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features August 30, 2016 263Dr. Stephen McCord discusses the progress made so far on the phase one control studies; final reports are due October,...
Removal of mercury from surface waters using coagulation Maven Best of the NotebookDelta science August 25, 2016 4569Dr. Tamara Kraus with the USGS presents the latest laboratory and field test results using metal-based salts as a coagulant...
Farms as floodplains: A summary after five years of experimental flooding of agricultural land Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceNotebook News and Features August 25, 2016 1651Studies show the rice-field fish are larger, healthier and more robust than those in the river at the same age...
Overview of mine remediation in the Bay-Delta Ecosystem Maven Delta science August 24, 2016 720California is making progress on remediating abandoned mine sites, says Carrie Austin, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Board The California...
The use – and misuse – of science in water resource policy and management Maven Best of the NotebookDelta science July 28, 2016 2610‘Normative science’ has a corrosive effect on the entire scientific enterprise, says Dr. Robert Lackey These days, scientists in environmental...
The latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science journal now available Maven Delta science July 21, 2016 183Special issue includes the first five chapters of the State of Bay Delta Science 2016 and more … The latest...
Delta smelt symposium, part 4: Panel discussion: What is the path forward among considerable uncertainty? Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features July 8, 2016 519Panel of experts share their visions and options for the future of the Delta and longfin smelt Coverage of the...
Delta smelt symposium, part 3: The path forward: Climate change, recovery planning, and restoration Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features July 7, 2016 495Presenters discuss climate change, extinction, artificial propagation and stocking, and tidal marsh restoration Coverage of the Delta and longfin smelt...
Delta smelt symposium, part 2: Causal links to population declines and data gaps Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features July 6, 2016 411Could it be water exports, predation, food web, contaminants, drought … ? Coverage of the Delta and longfin smelt symposium,...
Symposium coverage, part 1: Delta and longfin smelt: Is extinction inevitable? Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features July 5, 2016 913Part 1 of coverage of symposium covers what we know and don’t know about the Delta and longfin smelt Is...
Factors that influence salmon predation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceNotebook News and Features May 26, 2016 1767NOAA’s Dr. Sean Hayes reviews the results of studies of salmon predation in the San Joaquin River At the April...
