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

Maven
July 30, 2020
221
At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. John Callaway updated the Council on the latest scientific developments, discussing three papers that highlight the multi-faceted... Read More...

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

Maven
June 25, 2020
327
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,... Read More...

DELTA SCIENCE NEEDS: Looking at climate change impacts

Maven
June 2, 2020
220
Conditions in the Delta are changing at a rapid pace and the future is likely to look very different than the present as climate change, sea level rise, a growing population, earthquakes and major flooding, new... Read More...

NOTICE OF PREPARATION: Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment

Maven
May 26, 2020
185
Project:  Preparation of environmental documents for the draft Amendments to Delta Plan, Chapter 4: Protect, Restore, Enhance, the Delta Ecosystem Documents: Notice of Preparation, available here. Draf... Read More...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: The Delta as Changing Landscapes

Maven
June 21, 2017
524
Letitia Grenier is the principal investigator for the San Francisco Estuary Institute's Delta Landscapes project, which recently completed an in-depth analysis on the change in the Delta overtime and is now off... Read More...

DELTA PLAN INTERAGENCY IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE: Ecosystem Restoration Progress Update

Maven
January 11, 2017
208
Panel discusses the progress made on ecosystem restoration projects in the Delta At the Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee meeting held in November, the last agenda item was an update on the res... Read More...

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

Maven
September 15, 2016
480
DWR's Dr. Betsy Wells takes a look at the creatures that live on the bottom of the Delta Creating a better understanding of bottom-dwelling, or benthic, invertebrate communities enhances our knowledge of the S... Read More...

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
January 14, 2016
422
Photo by Department of Water Resources Stephanie Fong discusses what we know and don't know about contaminants; Dr. Wim Kimmerer on Delta food web changes; and Robin Grossinger discusses restoration on a land... Read More...

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

Maven
December 1, 2015
385
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... Read More...

Landscape-scale planning for ecological resilience in the Bay and Delta

Maven
July 30, 2015
347
Senior Scientist Robin Grossinger discusses the latest research working to develop tools and to understand how to build landscapes resilient to climate change and able to support native species into the future ... Read More...

Fish Restoration Program update: Prospect Island, Decker Island, and more Delta restoration news

Maven
July 2, 2015
372
From the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW): Prospect Island EIR Progress FRP staff and consultants continue to develop the Prospect I... Read More...

Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee, part 3: Interagency Crackdown on Aquatic Invasive Weeds in the Delta

Maven
June 3, 2015
388
This past year, invasive weeds in the Delta were likely the worst it’s ever been, with the low flows due to the drought and lack of cold, freezing temperatures allowing the invasive  water hyacinth to proli... Read More...

Delta challenges workshop, part 4: Fish, birds, and habitat

Maven
April 24, 2015
652
Panel of experts looks at historical ecology and critical ecological functions of the Delta, the complexities of fish management, and terrestrial species and habitat Earlier this year,  the Delta Science Progr... Read More...

Delta challenges workshop, part 3: The Delta ecosystem: Hydrodynamics, water quality, salinity, nutrients, and the food web

Maven
April 23, 2015
502
Panel of experts discuss the Delta's complex hydrodynamics and how flow interacts with salinity, nutrients, contaminants, and the food web Earlier this year,  the Delta Science Program tasked the four former D... Read More...

The Connections, Resiliency, and Management of Flows in the Delta

Maven
October 29, 2014
398
At the end of September, the Friends of the San Francisco Estuary held a conference titled "Bay + Delta + Water: Better Together" in Antioch which brought together over 200 elected officials, agency leaders, an... Read More...
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