At the October meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen highlighted Council-funded research that studied whether...
On May 5 of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted the third and final session of a webinar series focusing on governance in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The goal of the series was to shed light on the social, political,...
How habitats used by chinook salmon and Sacramento splittail would be impacted by climate change, harmful algal blooms in San...
The Delta Science Program has published a new issue of its Delta Breeze newsletter. This edition features a message from...
California will spend big bucks on beavers to try to boost their numbers and reap some of the benefits—including slowing wildfire—these ecosystem engineers can provide. After years of advocacy by beaver “believers,” the state has allocated funding for a beaver...
At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen presented the results of a...
Simple filtration columns along roads can remove toxic substances and save fish. By NOAA Fisheries Stormwater runoff containing a toxic...
In the spring of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted a series of lunchtime webinars focused on governance in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The second webinar, held in April, focused on collaborative governance. The panelists: Dr. Andrea Gerlak is a...
From the Bureau of Reclamation: In an ecosystem as complex and altered as the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, determining the abundance...
In the spring of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted a series of lunchtime webinars focused on governance in the...
SFEWS is the primary applied research publication for the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. In this issue: Climate Change Impacts on San Francisco Estuary Aquatic Ecosystems: A ReviewBruce Herbold, Eva Bush, Gonzalo Castillo, Denise Colombano, Rosemary Hartman, Peggy...
At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Laurel Larsen’s report focused on the effects of...
By Alexandra K. Scammell, American Geophysical Union Extreme precipitation from hurricanes and atmospheric rivers can lead to increased flooding in...
Written by Brandon Honig When Austin Demarest and his team started looking for white sturgeon to tag in the San Joaquin River in March, he knew some days would be uneventful — on the boat at dawn for a full...