Cruising the Bay for over 50 years, USGS monitors San Francisco Bay temperature, salinity, turbidity, and other conditions by raising and lowering this CTD device and Niskim bottle into the water. In the Delta, some of this data is collected remotely by similar devices strapped to stationary posts in the water (flow stations). Photo: USGS
Delta Science Shallows Net
Delta Science Otter Trawl
Measuring a juvenile leopard shark and other catch from monthly fish surveys, via otter trawl, of the Lower Estuary by UC Davis OG fish lab. Surveys have been going on for more than 12 years. Photo: James Ervin
Delta Science Nutrients
Social distancing on the barge enabling the collection of sediment cores to assess nitrogen inputs to the South Bay during the pandemic. Photo: Ariella Chelsky, SFEI
Delta Science Flow Station
Delta Science Crisper
Swab used in a new fish ID test that allows scientists to distinguish between similar looking Delta species in the field as quickly and simply as a rapid Covid test. The CRISPR technique used to edit DNA has been formulated into a tool called SHERLOCK. Photo: Alisha Goodbla/UC Davis.
