FEATURE: Wetland Responses to Restoration and Management Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceEcosystems May 5, 2022Dr. John Durand is a research scientist at UC Davis, where he studies estuarine food webs and fishes. He has...
INFO SHEET: Emergency Drought Barriers Delta Stewardship Council Fact Sheets/Tools/InfoScience April 23, 2022Produced by the Delta Science Program for the Delta Salinity Management Workshop, April 26-27, 2022. Tags Delta Delta | Delta 101 | Delta inflows...
INFO SHEET: Franks Tract Futures Delta Stewardship Council Fact Sheets/Tools/InfoPlanning and management April 23, 2022Produced by the Delta Science Program for the Delta Salinity Management Workshop, April 26-27, 2022. Tags Delta Delta | Delta inflows &...
ESTUARY PEARLS: Possible futures for a Delta island; Ag and urban water use; Estimating freshwater flows; fish monitoring; and more … Estuary News Group Delta scienceScience April 15, 2022This issue explores possible futures for a Delta island, and features research from the latest issue of San Francisco Estuary...
DELTA INDEPENDENT SCIENCE BOARD: An update on the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and FeaturesWater quality March 23, 2022State Water Board staff provide an overview of the Bay Delta Plan and the progress to date At the March...
THIS JUST IN … Reclamation and DWR seek temporary changes to Delta outflow requirements to preserve water storage amid extreme drought conditions Bureau of Reclamation News Water project operations March 18, 2022From the Bureau of Reclamation and the Department of Water Resources: Today, the Bureau of Reclamation and California Department of...
DELTA INDEPENDENT SCIENCE BOARD: Central Valley Project operations overview Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesWater project operations February 17, 2022At the January meeting of the Delta Independent Science Board, the board members heard a series of presentations on water...
CCST BRIEFING: Drought in the Delta Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceEcosystems January 12, 2022What are the cascading, overlapping, and compounding events caused by drought in the Delta? In early December, the California Council...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Managed flow pulses as food web support; Synthesis of food web data; Overview of the Science Action Agenda; and more … Maven Delta scienceEcosystems December 21, 2021At the December meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Laurel Larsen, Delta Lead Scientist, spotlighted an article on the...
STATE WATER BOARD: Bay Delta Water Quality Control Plan update: Completed and implemented by 2023? Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesWater quality December 15, 2021Board staff give an update on the progress on the Bay Delta Water Quality Control Plan, including an potential timeline...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Survival thresholds for Chinook salmon smolts in the Sacramento River Maven Best of the NotebookDelta science December 2, 2021In California’s Central Valley, studies have found that increased streamflow can improve the survival of imperiled juvenile salmon populations during...
DELTA CONVEYANCE PROJECT: State Water Project operations and Delta modeling Maven Delta Conveyance ProjectNotebook News and FeaturesWater project operations July 28, 2021Where does the State Water Project get its water? How does DWR model Delta water operations? Informational webinar features presentations...
ESTUARY PEARLS: Delta smelt monitoring, new research on salmon survival and flow volume Estuary News Group Delta scienceScience June 3, 2021This month, Pearls digs into some nuances of Delta smelt monitoring—and how we can get more bang from our sampling...
EXPLAINER: Bay Delta Hydrology 101 Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceHydrologyNotebook News and FeaturesScience May 26, 2021X2, OMR, Gates, Barriers, and more: Dr. Ted Sommer sorts out the hydrodynamics of the Delta At the 2021 Bay-Delta...
AG ALERT: Farmers grapple with implications of water cuts Ag Alert Agriculture May 12, 2021By Christine Souza, Ag Alert In water-stressed farming areas of California, farmers removed productive trees and idled other land to...
