Delta ecosystem Archives

PRESS RELEASE: Conservation, tribal groups notify State Water Board: Trump’s Bureau of Reclamation is not a reliable partner, and is pushing the Bay’s endangered fish to extinction

May 17, 2025

From the San Francisco Baykeeper: A coalition of eight organizations today alerted the California Water Resources Control Board that the...

CAL MATTERS: Is a new plan for delivering Delta water worse than Trump’s rules? Environmentalists say yes.

Cal Matters

Ecosystems Water project operations

October 25, 2024

Growers support a federal and state proposal for operating California’s massive systems that send river water south. But it could...

DWR NEWS: A Summer of (Eco)Restoration

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Ecosystems

August 2, 2022

By DWR News Summer 2022 is a season of ecological restoration for the Department of Water Resources (DWR). From June 23 to July 14, 2022, DWR and partners celebrated four multi-benefit restoration projects taking place in California’s Central Valley including...

CCST BRIEFING: Drought in the Delta

Maven

Best of the Notebook Delta science Ecosystems

January 12, 2022

What are the cascading, overlapping, and compounding events caused by drought in the Delta? In early December, the California Council...

DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST REPORT: New research papers focus on habitat, flow, predation

Maven

Delta science Notebook News and Features

July 30, 2020

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. John Callaway updated the Council on...

DELTA SCIENCE NEEDS, PART 2: What do managers need to know to effectively make decisions in the future Delta?

Maven

Delta science

June 25, 2020

Jennifer Pierre, Paul Souza, and Campbell Ingram discuss what their needs are for managing the Delta into the future: Will this be the decade of flow? The Delta is changing much faster than we can respond to, and if rather...

DELTA SCIENCE NEEDS: Looking at climate change impacts

Maven

Climate change Delta science

June 2, 2020

Conditions in the Delta are changing at a rapid pace and the future is likely to look very different than...

NOTICE OF PREPARATION: Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment

Maven

Policy and regulation

May 26, 2020

On May 11, the Delta Stewardship Council issued a Notice of Preparation of a Program Environmental Impact Report for the...

PANEL DISCUSSION: Making the Delta a Better Place for Native Fishes

Maven

Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

June 27, 2018

Dr. Peter Moyle, Lead Scientist Dr. John Callaway, and OC Coastkeeper’s Garry Brown discuss recent white paper In March of 2018, the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences on behalf of Orange County Coastkeeper released an innovative report titled, Making...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: The Delta as Changing Landscapes

Maven

Delta science

June 21, 2017

Letitia Grenier is the principal investigator for the San Francisco Estuary Institute’s Delta Landscapes project, which recently completed an in-depth...

DELTA PLAN INTERAGENCY IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE: Ecosystem Restoration Progress Update

Maven

Delta science Ecosystems Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

January 11, 2017

Panel discusses the progress made on ecosystem restoration projects in the Delta At the Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee meeting...

CAL MATTERS: To save SF Bay and its dying Delta, state aims to re-plumb California

Cal Matters

Ecosystems Policy and regulation Water project operations

November 26, 2016

By Julie Cart, Cal Matters The report’s findings were unequivocal: Given the current pace of water diversions, the San Francisco Bay and the Delta network of rivers and marshes are ecological goners, with many of its native fish species now...

Getting to the Bottom of It: An Overview of the Environmental Monitoring Program’s Benthic Monitoring in the Delta

Maven

Delta science

September 15, 2016

DWR’s Dr. Betsy Wells takes a look at the creatures that live on the bottom of the Delta Creating a...

State of Bay Delta Science 2016, part 2: Water quality and contaminant effects on species and water supply; The Bay-Delta food web; Delta landscape restoration

Maven

Delta science Ecosystems Notebook News and Features Water quality

January 14, 2016

Stephanie Fong discusses what we know and don’t know about contaminants; Dr. Wim Kimmerer on Delta food web changes; and...

Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee, pt 1: Delta Challenges: Complex, Chaotic or Simply Cantankerous

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

December 1, 2015

The Committee discusses the challenges facing the Delta, and what their respective agencies are doing to address them As implementation of the first Delta Plan enters its third year, the Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee held the second of two...