Wetland restoration has been identified as a key management tool for increasing food availability for at-risk fishes in the San...
At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, the agenda included an informational briefing on the Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project, also known as the Big Notch. The project will create critical floodplain habitat for...
What are the cascading, overlapping, and compounding events caused by drought in the Delta? In early December, the California Council...
At the December meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Laurel Larsen, Delta Lead Scientist, spotlighted an article on the...
The Montezuma Wetlands Project is a multi-phase restoration project that uses dredged sediment to raise elevations in diked, subsided baylands to restore ~2,000 acres of a tidal wetland ecosystem. This project is unique, as it receives most of its revenue...
Wetlands painstakingly created with millions of dollars are the most devastating victims of the Huntington Beach oil spill. The trio...
The Delta pelagic food web no longer adequately supports native species, and developing management strategies for foodweb support and habitat...
Dr. John Durand is a senior scientist at UC Davis who, along with his colleagues, Teejay O’Rear and Dr. Peter Moyle, run the Suisun Marsh fish study, a project founded over 40 years ago. In this presentation from the Bay-Delta...
Written by John Brennan Late in 2015 two sisters contacted me to help sell their family farm property in Solano...
Governance of cross-scale dependent systems such as estuaries requires integrating knowledge about biophysical and ecological connectivity in its multiple forms...
A new DRI pilot study finds severe water repellency in sand samples after treatment with both hot and cold smoke. By Kelsey Fitzgerald, Desert Research Institute After a wildfire, soils in burned areas often become water repellent, leading to increased...
New understanding of relationship between stream flows and salmon survival provides a critical tool for balancing water needs in the...
From the US Fish & Wildlife Service: Phase 3C of the Lower Clear Creek Floodway Rehabilitation Project has been completed,...
At the April meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Laurel Larsen spotlighted a research article that studied ecological metrics for conservation planning and monitoring, introduced the new Sea Grant Science Fellows, and updated the Council on the...