Science on the Notebook

July 27, 2015

Dr. Jim Cloern briefly reviews what we know and what we don’t know about how climate change will impact the...

Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee, Pt. 1: Actionable Delta Science & a very brief update on Cal Water Fix and Cal Eco Restore

Meetings

June 1, 2015

The interagency committee charged with implementation of the Delta Plan endorses a list of high priority science actions for the...

Delta challenges workshop, part 4: Fish, birds, and habitat

April 24, 2015

Panel of experts looks at historical ecology and critical ecological functions of the Delta, the complexities of fish management, and...

Delta challenges workshop, part 3: The Delta ecosystem: Hydrodynamics, water quality, salinity, nutrients, and the food web

April 23, 2015

Panel of experts discuss the Delta’s complex hydrodynamics and how flow interacts with salinity, nutrients, contaminants, and the food web...

Delta challenges workshop, part 2: Water supply reliability and its challenges

April 22, 2015

Panelists discuss water operations and supply, climate change, the regulatory environment, water conservation, and water supply economics Earlier this year, ...

Delta Challenges Workshop, part 1: Delta land use, levees, and agricultural economics

April 21, 2015

Four former Delta lead scientists take on a challenge: Describe the Delta’s challenges, complexities, and controversies in just 20 pages...

Droughts, climate change, and dams: Reconciling a future for California’s native fishes

April 1, 2015

Dr. Peter Moyle lays out a statewide aquatic conservation strategy for saving California’s native fishes in the face of climate...

The Delta Landscapes project: Creating a spatial framework to inform restoration planning

March 16, 2015

A new report uses landscape metrics in both the historical and contemporary Delta to help define, design, and evaluate functional,...

Managing turbidity for Delta smelt

Meetings

March 3, 2015

Metropolitan’s David Fullerton and Paul Hutton say there’s a relationship between turbidity and Delta smelt, and demonstrate that by cutting...

Yolo Bypass Symposium, Part 3: Farms, flood, fish, and fowl: Putting the puzzle together

February 20, 2015

Stakeholders discuss how to integrating the multiple plans and processes in the Yolo Bypass Land use in the Yolo Bypass...

Yolo Bypass Symposium part 2: Fish, fowl, and the mercury conundrum

February 19, 2015

Restoration efforts have succeeded in restoring waterfowl populations in the Yolo Bypass; can the same happen now for fish? Plus...

Yolo Bypass Symposium, part 1: A flood of plans and possibilities

February 18, 2015

Symposium focuses on how to integrate agriculture, wildlife, and public access on the managed floodplain In between Sacramento and Davis...

New report synthesizes what is known – and not known – about the life of a Delta smelt

Meetings

February 5, 2015

The Interagency Ecological Program releases the peer-reviewed report, An updated conceptual model of Delta smelt biology: our evolving understanding of...

Michael Anderson, State Climatologist: Climate, Drought, and Change

January 26, 2015

The state climatologist discusses the current drought and the signs of climate change. Is the current drought a harbinger of...

Heather Cooley: The Untapped Potential of California’s Water Supply: Efficiency, Reuse, and Stormwater