Monitoring Archives ~ Page 2 of 4 ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK

April 8, 2025

The Delta is a vital water source, providing drinking water to over 27 million people and irrigating 3 million acres...

SCIENCE IN SHORT: Longfin smelt, the little fish that gets around

Ashleigh Papp

Fish and wildlife Science Podcasts

March 5, 2025

Near the bottom of the San Francisco Estuary’s food web is a small fish about the size of a herring...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Quantum leap in collecting and unifying regional metrics on wetland health

Estuary News Group

Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

January 23, 2025

By Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright & Ariel Rubissow Okamoto In 1999, regional managers vowed to restore 100,000 acres of tidal wetlands...

DELTA COUNCIL: Tackling Delta CHABs: A community-driven monitoring strategy

Maven

Delta science Water quality

January 8, 2025

Cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms (CHABs) have long been a persistent water quality issue in the Delta, affecting ecosystems and public...

EPA: How EPA scientists use fish eDNA to assess estuarine health

US Environmental Protection Agency

Fish and wildlife Science

November 8, 2024

By Sarah Whichello, Oak Ridge Associated Universities Research Participant with EPA. Estuaries are waterbodies where freshwater from the uplands mixes...

DWR: California aims to improve ability to measure how much water is flowing throughout the state, critical to managing water supplies

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Planning and management

August 16, 2024

New program will work with local partners to measure and plan for how much water is flowing in California rivers...

NASA: ‘Current’ Events: NASA and USGS Find a New Way to Measure River Flows

NASA/JPL

Hydrology

August 7, 2024

From NASA: A team of scientists and engineers at NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collaborated to see if...

NOAA FISHERIES: Teams and technology trace Klamath River Recovery by tracking new salmon returns

NOAA Fisheries

Ecosystems

August 6, 2024

Tribes and agencies join CalTrout to launch combined monitoring program. The removal of four dams on the Klamath River will reopen...

USBR: Advancing Water Management: Installation of eddy covariance stations in the Upper Colorado Basin

Maven

Colorado River

July 31, 2024

From the Bureau of Reclamation: Federal funding for Drought Contingency Plan-related activities in the Upper Colorado Basin is coming to...

USGS: Using mixed telemetry methods to measure soil moisture for improving runoff forecasting in the Sierra Nevada

USGS

Science Wildfires and watersheds

July 25, 2024

Wildfire, drought, and temperature are affecting soil moisture in California’s Sierra Nevada. To better understand this, USGS scientists recently began...

UC BERKELEY: Water in California’s streams is poorly monitored, impeding effective management

UC Berkeley

Planning and management

June 4, 2024

By UC Berkeley, Rausser College of Natural Resources California relies on its rivers and streams for a plethora of services—water...

USGS: A new strategy to help unleash USGS eDNA capabilities

USGS

Ecosystems Science

June 4, 2024

By the USGS: Imagine you could use just a few drops of water to know what sorts of animals and...

NIDIS: Emerging climate trends make monitoring drought more complex

NIDIS

Climate change

May 30, 2024

By NIDIS Drought management in the U.S. hinges on the quality of our drought monitoring, which is a challenge in...

NOAA FISHERIES: New wetland monitoring guidelines in San Francisco Bay leverage data to improve science and restoration

NOAA Fisheries

Delta science Planning and management Science

April 8, 2024

Collecting consistent wetland data supports large-scale insights. By NOAA Fisheries Conservation partners, including NOAA Fisheries, have created new guidelines for...

UC SANTA CRUZ: Closer water monitoring needed as wildfires increase

UC Santa Cruz

Water quality Wildfires and watersheds

March 26, 2024

By Mike Peña, UC Santa Cruz With climate change leading to increases in the size and frequency of wildfires, UC...