Functional flows Archives

April 7, 2022

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] California water is a seemingly unending battle of allocating an often scarce resource among cities, farms, and the environment. ...

COMMENTARY: The true fish story: How farmers are helping salmon

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Agriculture Commentary Fish and wildlife

September 22, 2021

By Danny Merkley, California Farm Bureau Federation As a fourth-generation Sacramento Valley farmer and the California Farm Bureau’s director of...

TED GRANTHAM: The evolution of environmental flows in California

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Best of the Notebook Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

April 15, 2020

Ted Grantham is a Cooperative Extension Specialist at UC Berkeley and the CalTrout Ecosystem Fellow with the Public Policy Institute...

GUEST COMMENTARY (REBUTTAL): Ecologists see little difference between unimpaired and (truly) functional approaches to flow

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Commentary

February 4, 2020

This guest commentary was written by Julie Zimmerman, Jeanette Howard, Jon Rosenfield, and Rene Henery in response to The Final...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: California floodplains and the fish that use them

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Delta science

June 18, 2018

How restoring functional flows to floodplains could help restore native fish Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley...

PANEL DISCUSSION: The Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan Update: Now What Happens?

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Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

May 24, 2018

Panel at ACWA Conference discusses unimpaired versus functional flows and the potential for voluntary settlements The State Water Board is...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Development of Recommended Flow Targets to Support Biological Integrity Based on Regional Flow-Ecology Relationships for Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Southern California Streams

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Delta science

May 1, 2018

Dr. Eric Stein is the principal scientist at Southern California Coastal Water Research Project where he oversees a variety of...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Developing Tiered Environmental Flow Criteria Using a Functional Flows Approach for California Streams

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Delta science Notebook News and Features

April 1, 2018

Establishing environmental flow targets to protect aquatic communities is a priority for numerous programs in California including in the Delta....

FLOWS SYMPOSIUM, PART 1: The science of natural functional flows to the Delta: In-stream flow science for sustainable river management

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Delta science Notebook News and Features

July 17, 2017

In January of 2013, a symposium hosted by Delta Science Program and the UC Davis Center for Aquatic Biology and...

CHRIS ENRIGHT: What Do We Mean by “Natural Functional Delta Inflow” in a Regulated and Modified System?

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Science

July 16, 2017

“The issue here for the day is really what do we mean by natural functional flows,” began Chris Enright, Senior...

THE SCIENCE OF NATURAL FUNCTIONAL FLOWS TO THE DELTA

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Delta science

July 16, 2017

In January of 2013, a symposium hosted by Delta Science Program and the UC Davis Center for Aquatic Biology and...

PANEL DISCUSSION: The science of natural functional flows to the Delta

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Delta science

July 16, 2017

“Some would argue that more storage in the system would actually benefit native species and our ability to provide environmental...

DR. SARAH YARNELL: Ecological Response to the Unregulated Spring Flow Regime in the Sierra Nevada

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Science

July 16, 2017

Dr. Sarah Yarnell is Associate Project Scientist at the Center for Watershed Sciences, and her presentation was drawn from research...

ROBIN GROSSINGER: Delta Inflows of the Past: Lessons for Connecting Landscape Elements – Hydrograph Variability and Functions from the Historical Landscape

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Delta science

July 16, 2017

Robin Grossinger, Senior Scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute, began by saying he felt well-set up by the first...

THIS JUST IN … ACWA, California Farm Water Coalition say State Water Board’s San Joaquin River flow proposal is the wrong approach

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Policy and regulation

March 17, 2017

The organizations advocate a ‘functional flows’ approach Today was the deadline for comments to be submitted to the State Water...