DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: Update on the Science and Management of Aquatic Weeds in the Delta Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features January 3, 2017Panel highlights actions of multiple agencies to control the invasive aquatic weeds that clog the Delta’s waterways Invasive aquatic vegetation...
SF ESTUARY AND WATERSHED SCIENCE: Delta flow dynamics and water quality, levee system, nutrient dynamics, contaminants, and more … Maven Delta science January 2, 2017SPECIAL ISSUE: THE STATE OF BAY–DELTA SCIENCE 2016, PART 3 Recent Advances in Understanding Flow Dynamics and Transport of Water-Quality Constituents...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Phil Isenberg with ‘A guide for the perplexed’ Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation December 15, 2016Phil Isenberg is the former chair and vice chair of the Delta Stewardship Council. Prior to that, he served as...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Dr. Clifford Dahm on Data, Decisions, Delta Science Program, and Delta Directions Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features December 15, 2016Dr. Clifford Dahm is an internationally recognized expert in aquatic ecology, climatology, and restoration biology, and he is professor emeritus...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Felicia Marcus on the use of science in complex public policy decision making Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation December 8, 2016The Bay Delta Science Conference, held in November in Sacramento, brought together more than a thousand scientists, engineers and resource...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Dr. Peter Moyle on academic research, Delta smelt, and public policy: a personal history Maven Delta scienceFish and wildlifeNotebook News and Features December 7, 2016Protection of the Bay-Delta ecosystem is at a pivotal point. The system has endured devastating drought cycles and often competing...
Delta nutrients: Sources, sinks, sags, soups, and sensors Maven Delta scienceWater quality November 10, 2016Delta Lead Scientist Cliff Dahm discusses sources and effects of nutrients in the Delta Increasing clarity of waters, the emergence...
Deconstructing the current California drought Maven Best of the NotebookDelta science November 3, 2016Dr. Michael Dettinger takes a data dive into the impacts of the California drought California, currently in its fifth (and...
SF ESTUARY & WATERSHED SCIENCE: Primary production in the Delta, Zooplankton, Delta outflow, and more from the State of Bay Delta Science Maven Delta science October 13, 2016The latest issue of San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science is now available online. In this edition: ESSAY Primary Production...
DR. PETER MOYLE & DR JASON BAUMSTEIGER: Assessing extinction in freshwater fishes Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceFish and wildlifeNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation September 29, 2016Drs. Moyle and Baumsteiger lay out a proposal for determining when to declare a species extinct The extinction of a...
Getting to the Bottom of It: An Overview of the Environmental Monitoring Program’s Benthic Monitoring in the Delta Maven Delta science September 15, 2016DWR’s Dr. Betsy Wells takes a look at the creatures that live on the bottom of the Delta Creating a...
How the San Francisco Bay Regional Monitoring Program integrates research and monitoring of mercury and methylmercury Maven Delta scienceWater quality September 1, 2016Dr. Jay Davis highlights studies to determine where the greatest potential exists to address methylmercury in the San Francisco Bay...
Overview of control studies for the Delta methylmercury TMDL Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and Features August 30, 2016Dr. Stephen McCord discusses the progress made so far on the phase one control studies; final reports are due October,...
Removal of mercury from surface waters using coagulation Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceWater quality August 25, 2016Dr. Tamara Kraus with the USGS presents the latest laboratory and field test results using metal-based salts as a coagulant...
Farms as floodplains: A summary after five years of experimental flooding of agricultural land Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceFish and wildlifeNotebook News and Features August 25, 2016Studies show the rice-field fish are larger, healthier and more robust than those in the river at the same age...
