The Delta Reform Act of 2009 established the Delta Independent Science Board (or Delta ISB), whose ten members are appointed by the Delta Stewardship Council. The members appointed to the Delta ISB are nationally or internationally prominent scientists with appropriate...
Correcting for the double-ITCZ bias, a persistent error in many climate models, reveals that future U.S. Southwest winters will be drier than expected By Brendan Bane, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory California and other areas of the U.S. Southwest may see...
At the October meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Laurel Larsen began the Delta Lead Scientist report by spotlighting an article that recently came out in San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science Journal by Dylan Stompe, Peter Moyle, Avery...
Fisheries Biologist Cyril Michel discusses recent predator manipulation studies done in the Delta and efforts to develop a predictive model for predation Over the past century, populations of salmon in Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have declined drastically, with at least one...
A new model that combines sea-level rise scenarios and information about associated groundwater level responses shows that coastal water tables will rise as groundwater levels are pushed up by landward intrusions of seawater due to sea-level rise. By the USGS...
