tidal marsh restoration

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

July 18, 2022 66

Written by Skylar Knight at Biographic Perhaps unsurprisingly, taking photographs from a doorless helicopter was proving more difficult than San...

ESTUARY NEWS: Sniffing the Delta for Greenhouse Gases

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News and Features

June 10, 2022

by 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?

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Best of the Notebook

January 27, 2022 293

Legacy 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

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Science on the Notebook

October 14, 2021 216

The 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

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Best of the Notebook

July 22, 2021 242

The 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

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Science on the Notebook

July 15, 2021 193

Dr. 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

Event coverage

February 6, 2020 241

An 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

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Science on the Notebook

April 25, 2019 309

Presentations 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

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Event coverage

February 28, 2019 203

Once not all that long ago, the prevailing thought was that if tidal marsh remnants were protected and carefully managed,...

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Science-Based Regulatory Permitting for Resilient Tidal Habitat Restorations

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Event coverage

February 21, 2019 198

The permitting of tidal restoration projects is most often a costly and time-consuming process, causing substantial delays in implementation while...

Fish Restoration Program Update: Prospect Island Tidal Habitat Restoration Project, Real estate acquisition, Regional salinity monitoring, and Restoration RFP

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Press Release/Other

May 22, 2017 776

From the Department of Water Resources and the Department of Fish and Wildlife: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) and...

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Advancing Tidal Wetland Restoration in a Regional Adaptive Management Framework

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Event coverage

February 16, 2017 372

Dr. Gerrit Platenkamp: Adaptive management in a regional context faces challenges with monitoring, experimentation, and adaptation At the Bay Delta...

Tidal marshes: Adapting to sea level rise, carbon sequestration

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Event coverage

July 29, 2015 866

Dr. Jim Morris on the mechanisms of how tidal marshes keep pace with sea level rise, and Dr. John Callaway...

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

ESTUARY NEWS: Sniffing the Delta for Greenhouse Gases

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Sources and Sinks! What’s Going on With Mercury in Sacramento Valley Tidal Wetlands?

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Montezuma Wetlands Project: Early Results and Lessens Learned from a Newly Breached Marsh

BAY-DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Floating wetlands: A potential solution for Delta food-web support and habitat

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Suisun Marsh: On the edge of resilience in an era of rapid change

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: The Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program: A regional vision for coordinated monitoring

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FORUM, Part 4: Case studies from the Bay Delta system

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Monitoring and Managing Sea-Level Rise Impacts on Tidal Marshes in the San Francisco Estuary

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Science-Based Regulatory Permitting for Resilient Tidal Habitat Restorations

Fish Restoration Program Update: Prospect Island Tidal Habitat Restoration Project, Real estate acquisition, Regional salinity monitoring, and Restoration RFP

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Advancing Tidal Wetland Restoration in a Regional Adaptive Management Framework

Tidal marshes: Adapting to sea level rise, carbon sequestration

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PRESS RELEASE: DWR releases California Water Plan 2023 for public comment

STATELINE: Feds’ cash stream supports Colorado River conservation — but the money will dry up

AG ALERT COMMENTARY: Anti-farming agenda blocks vineyard in Napa Valley

DAILY DIGEST, 9/25: Water rights vs. fish goes to court today; Is groundwater trading the future of California water?; First atmospheric river of season to arrive today; Tracking sediment during the Klamath Dam removal; and more …

WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for Sept 17-22: First atmospheric river of the season in the forecast; El Niño getting stronger, odds tilting toward another wet winter; Will a pending water rights bill be a game changer?; and more …