NOAA FISHERIES: New wetland monitoring guidelines in San Francisco Bay leverage data to improve science and restoration NOAA Fisheries Delta scienceScience April 8, 2024 79Collecting consistent wetland data supports large-scale insights. By NOAA Fisheries Conservation partners, including NOAA Fisheries, have created new guidelines for...
USFWS: Don Edwards NWR relishes progress in San Francisco Bay recovery US Fish and Wildlife Service Agency News February 29, 2024 102Wildlife and people benefit from ongoing restoration By Susan Morse, US Fish & Wildlife Service Twenty years after a complex,...
FEATURE: Checking Up on Montezuma Wetlands: Mud on the Rise Mary K. Miller Science January 31, 2024 233By Mary K. Miller The drive down Fire Truck Road to the Montezuma Wetlands Project, where the Delta and Suisun...
USFWS: Historic levee breach opens 300 San Francisco Bay acres to tidal marsh restoration US Fish and Wildlife Service News December 19, 2023 183Partners celebrate 20th anniversary of South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project By the US Fish & Wildlife Service On December...
DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: How much habitat restoration has occurred in the Delta and Suisun Marsh since 2007? Maven Meetings and Events December 8, 2022 393Study sets the baseline for meeting the Delta Plan’s ecosystem restoration targets The Delta Reform Act of 2009 established the...
Past the Salt: In SF’s salty South Bay, an ambitious wetlands restoration project is seeking to balance a return to the ecological past with the realities of a changing future Guest Contributor Delta science July 18, 2022 70Written by Skylar Knight at Biographic Perhaps unsurprisingly, taking photographs from a doorless helicopter was proving more difficult than San...
Atmospheric rivers help coastal wetlands build up sediment American Geophysical Union Science July 13, 2022 36By Alexandra K. Scammell, American Geophysical Union Extreme precipitation from hurricanes and atmospheric rivers can lead to increased flooding in...
ESTUARY NEWS: Sniffing the Delta for Greenhouse Gases Estuary News Group News June 10, 2022 3by Janet Byron, Estuary News Group Dutch Slough in Oakley, on the southern edge of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, is...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Sources and Sinks! What’s Going on With Mercury in Sacramento Valley Tidal Wetlands? Maven Best of the NotebookDelta science January 27, 2022 313Legacy mercury contamination is problematic in California waterways due to historic gold and mercury mining. Even today, mercury from abandoned...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Montezuma Wetlands Project: Early Results and Lessens Learned from a Newly Breached Marsh Maven Delta science October 14, 2021 288The Montezuma Wetlands Project is a multi-phase restoration project that uses dredged sediment to raise elevations in diked, subsided baylands...
BAY-DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Floating wetlands: A potential solution for Delta food-web support and habitat Maven Best of the NotebookDelta science July 22, 2021 316The Delta pelagic food web no longer adequately supports native species, and developing management strategies for foodweb support and habitat...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Suisun Marsh: On the edge of resilience in an era of rapid change Maven Delta science July 15, 2021 211Dr. John Durand is a senior scientist at UC Davis who, along with his colleagues, Teejay O’Rear and Dr. Peter...
STATE OF THE ESTUARY: The Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program: A regional vision for coordinated monitoring Maven Delta scienceMeetings and Events February 6, 2020 248An update on the development of a regional plan to monitor the restoration of tidal marshes in the San Francisco...
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FORUM, Part 4: Case studies from the Bay Delta system Maven Delta science April 25, 2019 311Presentations highlight the Montezuma Wetlands Project and the Nigiri Project Adaptive management is widely regarded as an effective approach to...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Monitoring and Managing Sea-Level Rise Impacts on Tidal Marshes in the San Francisco Estuary Maven Delta scienceMeetings and Events February 28, 2019 205Once not all that long ago, the prevailing thought was that if tidal marsh remnants were protected and carefully managed,...
