DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Wetlands and food production, longfin smelt proposed listing, and the activities of the Delta Science Program Maven Science on the Notebook November 9, 2022At the October meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen highlighted Council-funded research that studied whether...
WEBINAR SUMMARY: Adaptive governance in the Delta Maven Science November 2, 2022On May 5 of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted the third and final session of a webinar series focusing...
ESTUARY PEARLS: Beavers, climate impacts, harmful algal blooms, juvenile salmon, phytoplankton production, and more … Estuary News Group Estuary Pearls September 2, 2022California will spend big bucks on beavers to try to boost their numbers and reap some of the benefits—including slowing...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Analyzing Delta fish data using multiple fish surveys Maven Science August 25, 2022At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen presented the results of a...
WEBINAR SUMMARY: Collaborative governance in the Delta Maven Science August 24, 2022In the spring of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted a series of lunchtime webinars focused on governance in the...
Innovative Technology Offers Non-Invasive, Efficient Way to Monitor Fish Populations and Their Habitat Maven Science on the Notebook August 21, 2022From the Bureau of Reclamation: In an ecosystem as complex and altered as the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, determining the abundance...
WEBINAR SUMMARY: Environmental governance in the Delta Maven Science August 4, 2022In the spring of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted a series of lunchtime webinars focused on governance in 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 Maven Science on the Notebook July 18, 2022Written by Skylar Knight at Biographic Perhaps unsurprisingly, taking photographs from a doorless helicopter was proving more difficult than San...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Drivers of and trends in Delta water temperature Maven Meetings July 14, 2022At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Laurel Larsen’s report focused on the effects of...
USFWS: Tag and follow: Tracking sturgeon in the San Joaquin River Maven Science on the Notebook July 8, 2022Written by Brandon Honig When Austin Demarest and his team started looking for white sturgeon to tag in the San...
DR. JAY LUND: Smarter Gambling with Water – Review of Water Supply Reliability Estimation Maven Best of the Notebook June 30, 2022At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Jay Lund, the immediate past chair of the Delta Independent...
DR. PETER MOYLE: Delta fishes: Introduction to a dynamic fauna Maven Best of the Notebook June 2, 2022Dr. Peter Moyle is a distinguished professor emeritus and Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. ...
DELTA SCIENCE UPDATE: Juvenile Chinook salmon antipredator behavior; Science Action Agenda, Review of the Delta monitoring enterprise Maven Meetings May 11, 2022At the April meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen highlighted research on juvenile salmon...
Introducing the Landscape Scenario Planning Tool Version 2.0 Maven Science on the Notebook May 6, 2022From the San Francisco Estuary Institute: In partnership with the Delta Stewardship Council, the San Francisco Estuary Institute has developed...
FEATURE: Wetland Responses to Restoration and Management Maven Best of the Notebook May 5, 2022Dr. John Durand is a research scientist at UC Davis, where he studies estuarine food webs and fishes. He has...
