FEATURE: The Magic of the Mokelumne: How such a small river produces so many salmon Robin Meadows Best of the NotebookNewsScience March 28, 2023 11799Written by Robin Meadows for Maven’s Notebook The Mokelumne River is on the modest side, running 95 miles from the...
USBR NEWS: Keeping Folsom Reservoir’s cold water in the bank until it’s needed Bureau of Reclamation News NewsScience March 20, 2023 23By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation California’s winter storms have blasted the Sierra Nevada with a thick blanket of...
CDFW Testing ‘Parentage-Based Tagging’ of Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Department of Fish and Wildlife Delta scienceNews March 16, 2023 109By the Department of Fish & Wildlife: Under cover of darkness and with a series of cold, late-winter storms building,...
DFW NEWS: CDFW Using Winter Storms to Help Increase Survival of Hatchery Released Chinook Salmon Department of Fish and Wildlife Science March 15, 2023 13By CDFW News Anticipating good conditions for the survival of hatchery-produced Chinook salmon throughout the Sacramento River and tributaries, the...
DELTA INDEPENDENT SCIENCE BOARD reacts positively to the scientific basis report for the voluntary agreements Maven Meetings and EventsScience March 14, 2023 435DISB Board Chair Lisa Wainger: “This is worth doing. Just make sure you learn from it.” The Delta Independent Science...
UC SANTA CRUZ: Shrinking age distribution of spawning salmon raises climate resilience concerns UC Santa Cruz Science February 27, 2023 3Study suggests changes in hatchery practices could help increase population stability for Sacramento River fall-run Chinook salmon, the backbone of...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Implementing equity in water management; Upcoming modeling workshop; 2022 State of Bay-Delta Science; and more … Maven Delta scienceScience February 16, 2023 161At the January meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen’s article spotlight report focused on...
NOW AVAILABLE: The State of Bay Delta Science 2022: primary production, invasive aquatic vegetation, remote sensing, harmful algal blooms, carbon sequestration, and more … Maven Delta scienceScience February 9, 2023 47The State of Bay-Delta Science (SBDS) is a collection of papers that represents the state of scientific knowledge on relevant...
NOAA FISHERIES: Hemphill Dam Removal Puts California Salmon in Hot Pursuit of Cold Water NOAA Fisheries Science January 17, 2023 8Collaborative efforts reopen six additional miles of habitat to migrating and resident fish. By NOAA Fisheries California salmon are now...
California Environmental Flows Framework: The Ways Good Science Gets Watered Down Maven Delta science January 14, 2023 148By Paul Stanton Kibel In the field of natural resources policy, there is a longstanding tendency for good science to...
USBR NEWS: Modifying A River Channel To Boost Salmon Productivity Bureau of Reclamation News NewsScience January 3, 2023 33Central Valley Project Improvement Act Constructs Key Habitat Features on the Sacramento River By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Advances in mapping invasive aquatic vegetation Maven Delta scienceMeetings and Events December 22, 2022 140At the December meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen discussed Council-funded research that will...
NOAA FISHERIES: As Dam Removals Move Forward, NOAA Explores Next Steps for Habitat Restoration in Klamath Watershed NOAA Fisheries Science December 7, 2022 8NOAA and partners have released a plan for restoring habitat for salmon and steelhead in key areas of the Klamath...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: The role of water quality in salmon predation Maven Delta scienceMeetings and EventsScience December 6, 2022 247At the November meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Laurel Larsen spotlighted research funded by the Council...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Wetlands and food production, longfin smelt proposed listing, and the activities of the Delta Science Program Maven Delta science November 9, 2022 113At the October meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen highlighted Council-funded research that studied whether...