From the Department of Water Resources: Since the 1950s, California’s salmon populations have dwindled due to lost habitat from a...
Floating wetlands sound like something straight out of a fairy tale, fanciful landscapes where the laws of nature are suspended. But these buoyant mats of peat and tall, spiky marsh plants called tules are very real. That said, floating wetlands...
The San Francisco Estuary watershed is characterized by periods of both wet and dry. But the dry seems to be...
The Delta and Suisun Marsh region is rich in biodiversity, offering numerous ecosystem services and significant cultural value for many...
The April Delta Lead Scientist’s Report included a presentation by Dr. Denise Colombano on a synthesis project that used eight different datasets from 40 years of monitoring data to explore the importance of various drivers of food web dynamics throughout...
From the Delta Independent Science Board: The Delta Independent Science Board is seeking input on its draft review, “Exploring scientific...
San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science (SFEWS) provides credible scientific information on California’s complex water issues, linking new science to...
When Steve Neader’s rice farm flooded last winter after three years of drought, a UC Davis research team checked to see what else had come in with the water. Neader grows rice in California’s Sutter Bypass, a huge leveed channel...
The Yolo Bypass was originally designed as a flood control measure to protect the city of Sacramento. It is also...
At the October meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen highlighted Council-funded research that studied whether...
Dr. John Durand is a research scientist at UC Davis, where he studies estuarine food webs and fishes. He has conducted multiple studies throughout the Delta and currently helps run a long-term monitoring project, the Suisun Marsh fish study, which...
Wetland restoration has been identified as a key management tool for increasing food availability for at-risk fishes in the San...
New ways to boost fish nutrition and identify species, a new bird atlas raises red flags, preparing for a snowless...
Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley was primarily a marshy wetland. In the springtime, the snowpack would melt, swelling the rivers beyond their banks and casting the young fish out onto the floodplains. There they would stay...