At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Campbell Ingram, Executive Officer of the Delta Conservancy, updated the council members on the Conservancy’s activities. Then, Bruce DiGennaro, program manager for the Collaborative Science and Adaptive Management Program and Principal...
In recent decades Americans’ attitudes about environmental issues have become polarized along partisan lines. Yet, while significant research demonstrates this...
Governance of cross-scale dependent systems such as estuaries requires integrating knowledge about biophysical and ecological connectivity in its multiple forms and scales. While scientists, managers, and policymakers increasingly recognize the importance of connectivity, ecosystems with strong cross-boundary dependencies challenge current...
Scientists tap PNNL’s rare ability to measure argon-39 for new insights into groundwater Stacie Jones, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Scientists...
By Sierra Garcia, Estuary News On the San Joaquin Delta’s Staten Island, where the Mokelumne River snugly encircles miles of cornfields, The Nature Conservancy is trying to prove that farmers can have it all: financial security, good habitat for wildlife,...
The Delta Independent Science Board (Delta ISB), which provides scientific oversight of programs that support adaptive management, has finished its review on the science of non-native species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta). The review highlights the importance of anticipation...
This month, Pearls digs into some nuances of Delta smelt monitoring—and how we can get more bang from our sampling buck—in three related articles from San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. Plus, new research on salmon survival and flow volume....
