BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Dark Carbon and a Return to Abundance: How Detrital Floodplain Food Webs Can Help Recover Endangered Fish Maven Delta science March 7, 2019In the pre-development Central Valley, winter-spring flooding once created a vast mosaic of productive wetland habitats that teemed with fish...
DR. JAY LUND: Water Supply Reliability Estimation: An overview Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceNotebook News and Features March 6, 2019Water supply reliability. It’s a term often talked about in the realm of California water, but what does it really...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Monitoring and Managing Sea-Level Rise Impacts on Tidal Marshes in the San Francisco Estuary Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features February 28, 2019Once not all that long ago, the prevailing thought was that if tidal marsh remnants were protected and carefully managed,...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Science-Based Regulatory Permitting for Resilient Tidal Habitat Restorations Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation February 21, 2019The permitting of tidal restoration projects is most often a costly and time-consuming process, causing substantial delays in implementation while...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Restoration in the Cache Slough Complex: The Yolo Flyway Farms Restoration Project Maven Delta scienceEcosystems February 14, 2019The Yolo Flyway Farms Restoration Project involves restoring and enhancing approximately 278 acres of tidal freshwater wetlands at the southern...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Restoration Planning for the Sacramento –San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Marsh: Considering the Implications of Climate Change Maven Delta scienceEcosystems January 31, 2019The Delta Reform Act requires ‘taking into consideration the physical changes that have occurred in the past and the future...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Drought Resistance and Resilience in the Delta Fish Community for over 5 Decades Maven Delta science January 24, 2019The 2012-2016 California drought was unprecedented in severity. In the San Francisco Estuary, the drought was characterized by elevated nutrient...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Harvest, Hatchery Returns, and Straying of Salmon Released at Bay and Delta sites during California’s Drought Maven Best of the NotebookDelta Conveyance ProjectDelta science January 17, 2019The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Coleman National Fish Hatchery is the largest salmon hatchery in California, annually producing 12...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: A Review of Water Quality Science in the Delta: Chemical contaminants and nutrients Maven Delta scienceWater quality January 11, 2019As part of its charge to review science activities that support adaptive management in the Delta, the Delta Independent Science...
DR. JEFF MOUNT: Ecosystem Water Budgets: A Novel Approach to Managing Water for the Environment Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceNotebook News and Features January 9, 2019Dr. Jeff Mount has a long history of involvement with science issues in the Delta. As a professor at UC...
SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY AND WATERSHED SCIENCE JOURNAL: Analyses of large storms and atmospheric rivers; Evaluations of fish surveys; Impacts of predator species on juvenile salmon; Alternative juvenile salmon production estimate approaches Maven Delta science December 21, 2018RESEARCH Hourly Analyses of the Large Storms and Atmospheric Rivers that Provide Most of California’s Precipitation in Only 10 to...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Drought, climate change, and restoration resiliency Maven Climate changeDelta scienceNotebook News and Features November 29, 2018John Durand looks at the effects of the 2012-2016 drought on the Delta from the environmental, economic, and stakeholder perspectives...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Emergent groundwater and sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Area: the silent and largely unknown underground threat Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features November 8, 2018The threats that sea level rise poses to coastal development from direct inundation are better understood than the threats due...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Checking assertions with data: Untangling factors that constrain water exports from the San Francisco Bay estuary Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceNotebook News and Features November 7, 2018In recent years, media reports and editorials have suggested that environmental regulations have made Delta outflows increasingly large, project water...
SF ESTUARY & WATERSHED SCIENCE: Ecocultural equality and restoration, Use of captive-reared Delta smelt for species recovery, Outflow and salt intrusion in the Delta; and more … Maven Delta science October 31, 2018The latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science is now online. In this issue: ESSAY Ecocultural Equality...
