Collaboratory Archives

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: COEQWAL and Just Transitions: Innovative projects tackle California’s water future

Maven

Notebook News and Features Planning and management

June 3, 2025

Second series of workshops for the Just Transitions project to take place on June 7 and June 9 California is...

SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT: “Prototyping Structured Decision Making for Water Resource Management in the San Francisco Bay-Delta

Maven

Planning and management Science

July 11, 2024

At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Deputy Executive Officer for Science Henry DeBey filled in for Delta...

UC BERKELEY: Plans for water equity in a warming world

UC Berkeley

Water rights and water law

March 21, 2024

By Janet Byron, UC California As 2021 drew to a close, residents and community leaders in Kettleman City were getting...

FEATURE: Dr. Laurel Larsen’s stint tackling with the wicked problems ends

John Hart

Delta science Planning and management

January 18, 2024

An Interview with Dr. Laurel Larsen, the Delta Stewardship Council’s Former Lead Scientist by John Hart Since the turn of...

Q & A: Today’s data and past history could add up to a more equitable way to divvy up California’s water

Janet Byron

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Water rights and water law

January 9, 2024

Project aims to develop new tools to allocate limited water supplies By Janet Byron Joan Didion wrote in the 1970s...

SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT: Pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and contaminants of emerging concern in wastewater discharges to San Francisco Bay

Maven

Delta science Water quality

November 16, 2023

The issue of water quality in the Delta has become increasingly important in recent years. The drought has made the...

SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT: Yolo Bypass floodplains and fish food

Maven

Delta science Science

June 7, 2023

The Yolo Bypass was originally designed as a flood control measure to protect the city of Sacramento. It is also...

DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Implementing equity in water management; Upcoming modeling workshop; 2022 State of Bay-Delta Science; and more …

Maven

Delta science Science

February 16, 2023

At the January meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen’s article spotlight report focused on...

DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: The role of water quality in salmon predation

Maven

Delta science Fish and wildlife

December 6, 2022

At the November meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Laurel Larsen spotlighted research funded by the Council...

DELTA SCIENCE UPDATE: Juvenile Chinook salmon antipredator behavior; Science Action Agenda, Review of the Delta monitoring enterprise

Maven

Delta science Notebook News and Features

May 11, 2022

At the April meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen highlighted research on juvenile salmon...

FEATURE: Three Delta Agencies: Who they are and what they have planned for 2022

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

March 3, 2022

Over the years, the state has established three Delta-focused agencies, each with different missions and responsibilities: The Delta Stewardship Council,...

DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST REPORT: Delta fish surveys, A busy month for workshops, Delta science proposal solicitation, and call for abstracts for the 2021 Bay Delta Science Conference

Maven

Delta science

November 6, 2020

At the October meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Laurel Larsen began the Delta Lead Scientist report by spotlighting...