ESTUARY NEWS: Atmospheric Rivers Intensifying as World Warms: How the West Will Know What’s Coming Robin Meadows Best of the NotebookDelta scienceNews April 14, 2022 254Article written by Robin Meadows, Estuary News In just a few years, tracking the West Coast’s atmospheric rivers by airplane...
FEATURE: Mountain Atmospheric Observatory Will Help Track Colorado River Water Robin Meadows News January 11, 2022 143The Colorado River flows 1,450 miles from the Rocky Mountains to Mexico, forming the border between California and Arizona along...
FEATURE: How the West Can Survive Smaller Snowpacks and Bigger Atmospheric Rivers Robin Meadows Best of the NotebookDelta science December 15, 2021 800by Robin Meadows Mountains are the foundation of water in the western United States, natural infrastructure that captures snowfall during...
FEATURE: Preparing Scientists and Policy Makers for a Future Under Climate Change Elyse De Franco Delta science October 26, 2021 158Written by Elyse De Franco Writing in the June 2021 issue of San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science, a group...
FEATURE: Unifying Restoration Across the San Francisco Estuary: A Profile on Ecologist Letitia Grenier Robin Meadows Speeches and profiles October 19, 2021 198Written by Robin Meadows San Francisco Estuary Institute ecologist Letitia Grenier has already led projects on working with nature toward...
FEATURE: Agricultural Pesticides Accumulate in Fish Prey Species in the Delta Elyse De Franco Delta science October 12, 2021 144Written by Elyse DeFranco The toxic effects of insecticides sprayed on Delta farmlands don’t stop at the pests they seek...
FEATURE: First Field-Based Assessment of Levee Risk in the Delta Robin Meadows News October 5, 2021 432Written by Robin Meadows Like other islands in the central Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Bacon Island has subsided below sea level...
FEATURE: During Drought, Massive Rock Wall Spanning Delta Channel Wards off the Salty Sea Nate Seltenrich Delta science September 22, 2021 185Written by Nate Seltenrich, Estuary News Group The creeks are desert-dry, the reservoirs are frighteningly low, and now 150,000 tons...
SCIENCE FEATURE: Tracking Sturgeon in the San Francisco Estuary Nate Seltenrich Delta science August 4, 2021 172By Nate Seltenrich White sturgeon may not typically be considered “charismatic megafauna,” but Veronica Larwood thinks they deserve the recognition....
FEATURE: Farming For Carbon, Wildlife and Profit Sierra Garcia Delta science June 24, 2021 226By Sierra Garcia, Estuary News On the San Joaquin Delta’s Staten Island, where the Mokelumne River snugly encircles miles of...
ESTUARY PEARLS: Delta smelt monitoring, new research on salmon survival and flow volume Estuary News Group Delta scienceScience June 3, 2021 204This month, Pearls digs into some nuances of Delta smelt monitoring—and how we can get more bang from our sampling...
ESTUARY PEARLS: Climate change takeaways from the Bay Delta Science Program Estuary News Group Delta scienceScience May 3, 2021 105 The impact of climate change on flood risk in the Delta varies by location, which means the fixes will...
ESTUARY PEARLS PART 3: Pesticides, HABs, New Neural Network, Ship Channel, Tule Red, Quake Risk Levees and more Estuary News Group Delta scienceScience April 29, 2021 103ESTUARY News sent reporters to the first virtual Bay-Delta Science Conference in April 2021. This special edition of Pearls shares...
ESTUARY PEARLS: Thiamine deficiency in salmon; Restoration tradeoffs; Salmon life histories and strategies; Mudflats and shorebirds; Bird biodiversity Estuary News Group Delta scienceScience April 26, 2021 150Estuary News sent reporters to the 11th Biennial Bay-Delta Science Conference, held virtually earlier this month. The theme of this...
ESTUARY PEARLS: Diversity in Bay Delta science, Art and science, Delta smelt – a scapefish, Connectivity on all levels in the Delta, and Consensus on salmon Estuary News Group Delta scienceScience April 22, 2021 97“People underestimate the risk of staying the same,” said Melissa Jones, environmental equity activist and director of a coalition of...