THE REVELATOR: The Trinity River: Lessons in restoration The Revelator Ecosystems July 15, 2025Science has helped improve management and restoration, but advocates say there still isn’t enough water to go around. By Juliet...
NPS: Saving the salmon: Restoring native fish populations on Lower Clear Creek Maven Ecosystems February 25, 2025By the National Park Service The Legacy of Salmon and the Impact of Human Activity on Clear Creek For millennia,...
USGS: New maps identify legacy mercury contamination in the Sierra Nevada USGS Ecosystems October 30, 2024A series of USGS interactive maps have recently been published. The maps identify locations and levels of mercury contamination resulting...
NEWS RELEASE: Reclamation funding helps heal a river scarred by Gold Rush legacy Bureau of Reclamation News Ecosystems December 5, 2023Multiyear project rejuvenates key stretch of salmon and steelhead habitat A degraded stretch of the Yuba River in Northern California...
SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT: What role do mercury-contaminated floodplains play in methylmercury contamination in the Delta? Maven Delta scienceEcosystems October 18, 2023For the September Delta Lead Scientist report, Lead Scientist Dr Laurel Larsen spotlighted the study, Effects of vegetation on methylmercury...
KNOWABLE MAGAZINE: Reviving a famously polluted California lake Knowable Magazine Water quality August 10, 2023Clear Lake, the state’s largest freshwater body of water, is fouled each year by algal blooms, one of many assaults...
DR. BRUCE HERBOLD: Hydrographs and Ecological Functions in the Present-day Landscape of the Sacramento River Maven Delta scienceEcosystems July 16, 2017Dr. Bruce Herbold, Estuarine Ecology consultant, now retired from USEPA, began by saying he would be focusing on the Sacramento...
Removal of mercury from surface waters using coagulation Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceWater quality August 25, 2016Dr. Tamara Kraus with the USGS presents the latest laboratory and field test results using metal-based salts as a coagulant...
