BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: A Review of Water Quality Science in the Delta: Chemical contaminants and nutrients Maven Science on the Notebook January 11, 2019As part of its charge to review science activities that support adaptive management in the Delta, the Delta Independent Science...
DR. JEFF MOUNT: Ecosystem Water Budgets: A Novel Approach to Managing Water for the Environment Maven Best of the Notebook January 9, 2019Dr. Jeff Mount has a long history of involvement with science issues in the Delta. As a professor at UC...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Drought, climate change, and restoration resiliency Maven News and Features November 29, 2018John Durand looks at the effects of the 2012-2016 drought on the Delta from the environmental, economic, and stakeholder perspectives...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Emergent groundwater and sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Area: the silent and largely unknown underground threat Maven Event coverage November 8, 2018The threats that sea level rise poses to coastal development from direct inundation are better understood than the threats due...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Checking assertions with data: Untangling factors that constrain water exports from the San Francisco Bay estuary Maven Best of the Notebook November 7, 2018In recent years, media reports and editorials have suggested that environmental regulations have made Delta outflows increasingly large, project water...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Working With Nature Across the Land Use Spectrum: A Holistic Approach to Ecological Resilience Maven Science on the Notebook October 25, 2018Many approaches to ecological restoration and enhancement of ecosystem services focus on particular parts of the landscape, such as open...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Developing a Delta habitat restoration adaptive management program Maven News and Features October 11, 2018Presentation covers what is adaptive management, why is it important, and why an adaptive management program is needed Habitat restoration...
BROWN BAG SEMINAR: California floodplains and the fish that use them Maven Science on the Notebook June 18, 2018How restoring functional flows to floodplains could help restore native fish Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley...
BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Development of Recommended Flow Targets to Support Biological Integrity Based on Regional Flow-Ecology Relationships for Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Southern California Streams Maven Science on the Notebook May 1, 2018Dr. Eric Stein is the principal scientist at Southern California Coastal Water Research Project where he oversees a variety of...
BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Developing Tiered Environmental Flow Criteria Using a Functional Flows Approach for California Streams Maven News and Features April 1, 2018Establishing environmental flow targets to protect aquatic communities is a priority for numerous programs in California including in the Delta....
Credible Science in a Complex World Maven Science on the Notebook January 11, 2018The Science Enterprise Workshop, held in the fall of 2016, brought together scientists and science-policy experts from across the country...
DR. BRUCE HERBOLD: Delta Flows and the effects of water transfers Maven Event coverage September 21, 2017Dr. Bruce Herbold is a retired EPA fish biologist and now a consultant on the same issues. In this presentation...
Utilizing Bioassessments and Citizen Science for Stewardship in the Truckee River Watershed Maven Science on the Notebook September 14, 2017The Adopt a Stream program of the Truckee River Watershed Council has grown from a one-day monitoring event to quarterly...
FLOWS SYMPOSIUM, Part 4: Examples of Managed Flow Regimes – Possible Models for the Delta?; Panel Discussion Maven Event coverage July 20, 2017In January of 2013, a symposium hosted by Delta Science Program and the UC Davis Center for Aquatic Biology and...
FLOWS SYMPOSIUM, PART 3: Hydrographs and Ecological Functions in the Present-day Landscape of the Sacramento River; Ecological Response to the Unregulated Spring Flow Regime in the Sierra Nevada Maven Event coverage July 19, 2017In January of 2013, a symposium hosted by Delta Science Program and the UC Davis Center for Aquatic Biology and...
