Estuary News

October 26, 2021 158

Written by Elyse De Franco Writing in the June 2021 issue of San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science, a group...

FEATURE: Agricultural Pesticides Accumulate in Fish Prey Species in the Delta

Elyse De Franco

Delta science Notebook News and Features

October 12, 2021 146

Written 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

October 5, 2021 435

Written 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

September 22, 2021 186

Written 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

August 4, 2021 172

By 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

June 24, 2021 228

By 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

June 3, 2021 205

This 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

May 3, 2021 109

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

April 29, 2021 103

ESTUARY 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

April 26, 2021 152

Estuary 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

April 22, 2021 97

“People underestimate the risk of staying the same,” said Melissa Jones, environmental equity activist and director of a coalition of...

ESTUARY PEARLS: Bay-Delta research from the most recent issue of San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. Plus: Can otters thrive in San Francisco Bay?