FEATURE: Knocking Out Yellow Starthistle Can Boost Groundwater Supplies Robin Meadows Best of the NotebookGroundwater NewsNotebook News and Features July 6, 2022Written exclusively for Maven’s Notebook by Robin Meadows The litany of harms from yellow starthistle, California’s most aggressive invasive weed...
AG ALERT: Salinas County: Landowners safeguard river but get stuck with fees Ag Alert Agriculture June 22, 2022By Norm Groot, executive director of the Monterey County Farm Bureau Farming in the Salinas Valley, the Salad Bowl of...
ESTUARY NEWS: Living with a Novel Landscape: Suisun Evolves Estuary News Group Science June 14, 2022by Michael Hunter Adamson, Estuary News Group Morning at Suisun Marsh is a living watercolor with a soundtrack. Miles of...
EXPLAINER: Delta fishes: Introduction to a dynamic fauna Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceFish and wildlifeNotebook News and Features June 2, 2022Dr. Peter Moyle is a distinguished professor emeritus and Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. ...
FEATURE: Wetland Responses to Restoration and Management Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceEcosystems May 5, 2022Dr. John Durand is a research scientist at UC Davis, where he studies estuarine food webs and fishes. He has...
USGS: Environmental DNA research sheds light on invasive species Maven EcosystemsScience March 4, 2022USGS Science is Refining eDNA Techniques and Developing New Applications More than 6,500 nonindigenous species are now established in the...
CCST BRIEFING: Drought in the Delta Maven Best of the NotebookDelta scienceEcosystems January 12, 2022What are the cascading, overlapping, and compounding events caused by drought in the Delta? In early December, the California Council...
BAY-DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Ecosystem Engineering Impacts of Invasive Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) in the Delta Maven Best of the NotebookDelta science December 9, 2021Plants that grow under the water surface are known as submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV). Some species of SAV have been...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: The Science of Non-native Species in a Dynamic Delta Maven Best of the NotebookDelta science October 28, 2021The San Francisco Bay-Delta is one of the most invaded estuaries in the world, with non-native species now a large...
REPORT: The Science of Non-native Species in a Dynamic Delta Maven Delta scienceReports June 10, 2021The Delta Independent Science Board (Delta ISB), which provides scientific oversight of programs that support adaptive management, has finished its...
DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: Non-native species in the Delta, Contemplating the future of the DISB, and Regional San treatment plant upgrade Maven Delta scienceNotebook News and FeaturesScience June 3, 2021At the May meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Steve Brandt, Chair of the Delta Independent Science Board, provided...
CAL MATTERS: Unwelcome and tough to evict: California’s costly, uphill battle against invasive species Cal Matters Ecosystems April 12, 2021Like house guests overstaying their welcome, foreign crabs have been nearly impossible to boot out of California. A new strategy,...
UC DAVIS: When ‘Eradicated’ Species Bounce Back With a Vengeance UC Davis Science March 15, 2021Lessons From a Failed Experiment Mark New Way Forward By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis ome invasive species targeted for total...
SCIENCE IN SHORT: Wall-to-Wall Sampling Via Remote Sensing Maven Science Podcasts February 12, 2021Invasive plants – the submerged and floating kind – clog nearly a third of the Delta’s waterways today. These alien...
US FWS: Water hyacinth acts like ‘plastic wrap’ on the Delta US Fish and Wildlife Service Ecosystems July 16, 2020Looking at the water hyacinth’s lovely lavender flowers and lush green leaves, it’s easy to see why it was brought here...
