If you had the ability to influence the story of an ecosystem as it was being penned, how would you write it? This is the core question behind this episode of the Delta Dispatch that discusses the history and future...
Biologists Michael Eakin (Cal Fish & Wildlife), and Brian Schreier (Department of Water Resources) offer a quick overview of what Californians should know about longfin smelt, an estuarine fish recently added to the federal endangered species list. Is this fish...
The San Francisco Estuary watershed is characterized by periods of both wet and dry. But the dry seems to be occurring more frequently and intensely than in the past. Researcher Rosemary Hartman led a collaborative team that looked at nearly...
For as long as humans have been upright, we’ve been digging, logging, and building along waterways. Over time, these alterations change the ways that water flows in and out of spaces. Our understanding of this movement is ever more imperative...
Scientist Sam Bashevkin spends his time making the millions of data points collected by Delta researchers — where the fish are, how fast the water is flowing, what’s the salinity on a certain day and time on a particular river...
