The impact of climate change on flood risk in the Delta varies by location, which means the fixes will too. “It’s not one Delta, it’s many different regions and they’re each going to need different adaptation strategies,” said Andrew...
Estuary News sent reporters to the 11th Biennial Bay-Delta Science Conference, held virtually earlier this month. The theme of this year’s conference was Building Resilience Through Diversity in Science. In this second of four special editions of Pearls we highlight...
Although the 2009 Delta Reform Act now legally requires adaptive management for all restoration efforts in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; implementation remains somewhat challenging. While adaptive management has been successfully implemented in some projects, for others, success has remained elusive....
In this issue: RESEARCHStatistical Evaluation of Behavior and Population Dynamic Models Predicting Movement and Proportional Entrainment Loss of Adult Delta Smelt in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River DeltaJosh Korman, Edward S. Gross, Lenny F. Grimaldo[DOI] [URL] Leveraging Delta Smelt Monitoring for...
North America’s largest and most ancient freshwater fish species, white sturgeon, hang out in some kinds of Estuary waterways more than others, scientists find. Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey found that adult and sub-adult white sturgeon occupy deep open-water...
