NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Seizing a rare chance to keep tidal marsh ahead of sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Robin Meadows Delta scienceNotebook News and Features December 17, 2024 460By Robin Meadows The San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge, which hugs the northern arc of the San Francisco Bay,...
USBR: Returning a piece of the Delta to nature’s blueprint Bureau of Reclamation News Agency News November 14, 2024 172Reclamation funding spurs work on broad tidal habitat restoration project By Gary Pitzer, Bureau of Reclamation Standing on the levee...
DWR: Reclamation, DWR Celebrate Launch of Key Delta Habitat Restoration Project Department of Water Resources (DWR) Agency News November 14, 2024 109Tidal habitat restoration effort mobilizes after major funding milestones are met From the Department of Water Resources: The Bureau of...
DWR NEWS: Levee breach marks completion of the Delta’s largest-ever tidal wetland restoration project Department of Water Resources (DWR) Agency News September 19, 2024 2056Project Restores 3,400 acres of Habitat for Sensitive Fish Species While Also Reducing Flood Risk in the Central Valley From...
USGS: Study finds seasonal differences in marshland erosion in South San Francisco Bay USGS Delta scienceScience July 23, 2024 67By the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Erosion of marsh boundaries by waves is a major cause of...
KNEE DEEP TIMES: Marshes could save Bay Area half a billion dollars in floods Jacoba Charles Delta scienceScience July 18, 2024 108By Jacoba Charles, Knee Deep Times What, precisely, is the value of habitat restoration? While answers tend to aim for...
NOAA FISHERIES: New wetland monitoring guidelines in San Francisco Bay leverage data to improve science and restoration NOAA Fisheries Delta scienceScience April 8, 2024 87Collecting 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 145Wildlife 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 275By 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 199Partners 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 Notebook News and Features December 8, 2022 429Study 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 72Written 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 38By 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 Delta science June 10, 2022 5by 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 319Legacy mercury contamination is problematic in California waterways due to historic gold and mercury mining. Even today, mercury from abandoned...
