The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is undergoing continual and often rapid change. This poses challenges in predicting and preparing for the...
By Jacoba Charles, Estuary News Group Aquatic plants tend to hide in plain sight, overlooked other than the occasional striking...
By Jacoba Charles, Estuary News Group What is three inches long, nearly transparent, and holds sway over much of northern California’s water politics? The answer, of course, is the diminutive Delta smelt—a secretive, federally threatened fish that was once abundant...
Funding Supports Studies to Advance Understanding of San Francisco Bay, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Upper Watersheds From the State Water...
by Robin Meadows This year is a classic example of the way California’s water system was designed to work. Winter...
The Delta’s ecosystem and native species are in decline, despite the considerable efforts and resources devoted to reversing the trend. In his plenary presentation at the Interagency Ecological Program’s Annual Meeting, Dr. Jay Lund emphasizes the need for proactive planning...
From the American Geophysical Union In the parched west, reusing water is a must. But scientists are still working to...
From the Delta Science Program: The Delta Science Program is pleased to announce the release of the 2023 Integrated Modeling...
By Robin Meadows As a New York Times columnist once quipped, “California’s water system might have been invented by a Soviet bureaucrat on an LSD trip.” The system was engineered in the 1900s to capture winter rain and spring snowmelt...
At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen spotlighted an article on the...
The Delta is constantly changing and predicting these changes has become a difficult task. As California’s climate changes in sometimes...
By DWR News Delta smelt are a fish that have gone from vast abundance to the brink of extinction. After seeing some positive results with releasing hatchery-raised Delta smelt into the wild in 2022, the Department of Water Resources (DWR)...
Dozens of adult sturgeon and hundreds of other large fish including threatened Chinook salmon have moved safely from receding floodwaters...
The Yolo Bypass was originally designed as a flood control measure to protect the city of Sacramento. It is also...
Written by Robin Meadows Sturgeon have been around far longer than humans—a jaw-dropping 200 million years to our comparatively short 6 million—and survived the cataclysm that terminated the age of dinosaurs. But can these ancient fish survive the age of...