After completing degrees from Cornell University, University of Michigan, and the University of New Mexico, Dr. Jon Rosenfield returned to the Bay Area in 2002, where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Moyle. He...
By the Department of Water Resources: Federal and state agencies broke ground today on a project that will become the single largest floodplain salmon rearing habitat restoration in California history. The Department of Water Resources (DWR) and U.S. Bureau of...
By Justin Fredrickson, Ag Alert Project operators recently explained unprecedented emergency plans for cold-water temperature management to support endangered salmon...
By Gary Pitzer, Bureau of Reclamation In addition to sufficient flows of cold water, chinook salmon migrating in the Sacramento River depend on having sufficient gravel in the riverbed to support spawning. In response to that need, Reclamation and its...
USGS Science is Refining eDNA Techniques and Developing New Applications More than 6,500 nonindigenous species are now established in the United States, and new species are still arriving. When an introduced, nonnative disease, parasite, plant, or animal begins to spread...
What are the cascading, overlapping, and compounding events caused by drought in the Delta? In early December, the California Council for Science and Technology brought together four experts who discussed the impact of drought on water quantity, water quality, ecosystem...
