Land Subsidence (Delta) Archives ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK

July 1, 2025

By Holly Heyser Delta Protection Commission Rice acreage is growing rapidly in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta’s agricultural core. It nearly...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Partnering with tribes to restore a Delta wetland: Benefits go both ways

Robin Meadows

Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

June 19, 2025

By Robin Meadows Five years ago, Plains Miwok cultural practitioner Don Hankins got a surprising invitation from Russ Ryan, a...

EOS: Rising concerns of climate extremes and land subsidence impacts

American Geophysical Union

Climate change Groundwater News Science

June 10, 2025

Increasing interplay among extreme events and land subsidence impacts calls for urgent mitigation and policy action to reduce detrimental ramifications...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: How a new wetland restoration could expedite transforming the Delta from a carbon source to a carbon sink

Robin Meadows

Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

April 23, 2025

By Robin Meadows Staten Island lies in the heart of California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, and exemplifies the woes of...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Save the peat, save the planet, save the Delta?

John Hart

Delta science Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

December 16, 2024

By John Hart, Estuary News In the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, an invisible fire is burning. Peat soils, laid down...

DELTA DISPATCH: The Land Below Sea

Estuary News Group

Science Podcasts

November 1, 2024

Did you know that some areas of the Sacramento San-Joaquin Delta are literally below sea level? Land that used to...

SCIENCE IN SHORT: Reversing Delta land subsidence with Steven Deverel

Ashleigh Papp

Science Podcasts

March 18, 2024

Rice to the Rescue: Reversing land subsidence and carbon emissions Thousands of years ago, the plants of California’s Delta began...

FEATURE: Checking Up on Montezuma Wetlands: Mud on the Rise

Mary K. Miller

Ecosystems Science

January 31, 2024

By Mary K. Miller The drive down Fire Truck Road to the Montezuma Wetlands Project, where the Delta and Suisun...

FEATURE: Wetland Responses to Restoration and Management

Maven

Best of the Notebook Delta science Ecosystems

May 5, 2022

Dr. John Durand is a research scientist at UC Davis, where he studies estuarine food webs and fishes. He has...

DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: Briefing on the 2019 update to the State of the Estuary Report

Maven

Notebook News and Features Planning and management

January 15, 2020

The San Francisco Estuary Partnership periodically reports on the health of the estuary, producing the State of the Estuary report...

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Restoration Planning for the Sacramento –San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Marsh: Considering the Implications of Climate Change

Maven

Delta science Ecosystems

January 31, 2019

The Delta Reform Act requires ‘taking into consideration the physical changes that have occurred in the past and the future...

PANEL DISCUSSION: Making the Delta a Better Place for Native Fishes

Maven

Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

June 27, 2018

Dr. Peter Moyle, Lead Scientist Dr. John Callaway, and OC Coastkeeper’s Garry Brown discuss recent white paper In March of...