[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The Governor’s Water Resilience Portfolio Initiative underscores the need for communities to maintain and diversify water supplies and to...
Sea Grant is a federal state partnership between NOAA and 34 university based programs in every coastal and Great Lakes states, including Puerto Rico and Guam. For over 50 years, Sea Grant has supported coastal communities through research, education, and...
Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley was largely a marshy wetland. In the springtime, the snowpack would melt, swelling the rivers beyond their banks and casting young fish out onto the floodplains where they would stay for...
Recently, the Department of Water Resources, Office of Floodplain Management launched a new safety initiative called Headwaters to Floodplains which applies an integrated regional watershed management approach to the realm of flood management. The initiative is intended to enhance public...
The San Francisco Estuary Partnership periodically reports on the health of the estuary, producing the State of the Estuary report which assesses the status of various parameters of the ecosystems of both the San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin...
Dr. Rachel Johnson discusses the interconnectedness of the San Francisco’s freshwater, estuarine, and marine systems The San Francisco Estuary is an important habitat for native fishes at different life stages. In order to understand the important role it provides for...
