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 science December 21, 2021 230At the December meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Laurel Larsen, Delta Lead Scientist, spotlighted an article on the...
ESTUARY PEARLS: New ways to boost fish nutrition and identify species, a new bird atlas raises red flags, preparing for a snowless future, and more Estuary News Group Delta scienceScience December 17, 2021 188New ways to boost fish nutrition and identify species, a new bird atlas raises red flags, preparing for a snowless...
BAY-DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Managed Floodplain Fish Food: Bringing Dry Side Food Webs to Wet Side Fish Maven Best of the NotebookDelta science November 10, 2021 513Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley was primarily a marshy wetland. In the springtime, the snowpack would...
BAY-DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Loss, and Potential Recovery of Primary Production from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Maven Best of the NotebookDelta science July 29, 2021 294Landscape transformation in the Delta has far-reaching implications, including the loss of primary production that forms the basis for the...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST REPORT: Primary production in the Delta Maven Delta science June 29, 2021 175At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen spotlighted recent research on the...
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...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST REPORT: Farm to Fish: Lessons from a Multi-Year Study on Agricultural Floodplain Habitat, plus an update on activities of the Delta Science Program Maven Delta science March 4, 2021 156At the February meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Laurel Larsen discussed a new report on the...
DELTA ISB: What we know and don’t know about the Delta food web Maven Delta science January 14, 2021 364The Delta Reform Act of 2009 established the Delta Independent Science Board (or Delta ISB), whose ten members are appointed...
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 Delta scienceMeetings and Events January 14, 2016 432Stephanie Fong discusses what we know and don’t know about contaminants; Dr. Wim Kimmerer on Delta food web changes; and...
Delta challenges workshop, part 3: The Delta ecosystem: Hydrodynamics, water quality, salinity, nutrients, and the food web Maven Delta scienceMeetings and Events April 23, 2015 524Panel of experts discuss the Delta’s complex hydrodynamics and how flow interacts with salinity, nutrients, contaminants, and the food web...
