CCST BRIEFING: Drought in the Delta Maven Best of the Notebook January 12, 2022What are the cascading, overlapping, and compounding events caused by drought in the Delta? In early December, the California Council...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST REPORT: New research papers focus on habitat, flow, predation Maven Meetings July 30, 2020[cmtoc_table_of_contents] At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. John Callaway updated the Council on...
DELTA SCIENCE NEEDS, PART 2: What do managers need to know to effectively make decisions in the future Delta? Maven Science on the Notebook June 25, 2020Jennifer Pierre, Paul Souza, and Campbell Ingram discuss what their needs are for managing the Delta into the future: Will...
DELTA SCIENCE NEEDS: Looking at climate change impacts Maven Science on the Notebook June 2, 2020Conditions in the Delta are changing at a rapid pace and the future is likely to look very different than...
NOTICE OF PREPARATION: Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment Maven Other News Item May 26, 2020On May 11, the Delta Stewardship Council issued a Notice of Preparation of a Program Environmental Impact Report for the...
PANEL DISCUSSION: Making the Delta a Better Place for Native Fishes Maven Event coverage June 27, 2018Dr. Peter Moyle, Lead Scientist Dr. John Callaway, and OC Coastkeeper’s Garry Brown discuss recent white paper In March of...
BROWN BAG SEMINAR: The Delta as Changing Landscapes Maven Science on the Notebook June 21, 2017Letitia Grenier is the principal investigator for the San Francisco Estuary Institute’s Delta Landscapes project, which recently completed an in-depth...
DELTA PLAN INTERAGENCY IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE: Ecosystem Restoration Progress Update Maven Meetings January 11, 2017Panel discusses the progress made on ecosystem restoration projects in the Delta At the Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee meeting...
Getting to the Bottom of It: An Overview of the Environmental Monitoring Program’s Benthic Monitoring in the Delta Maven Science on the Notebook September 15, 2016DWR’s Dr. Betsy Wells takes a look at the creatures that live on the bottom of the Delta Creating a...
State of Bay Delta Science 2016, part 2: Water quality and contaminant effects on species and water supply; The Bay-Delta food web; Delta landscape restoration Maven Event coverage January 14, 2016Stephanie Fong discusses what we know and don’t know about contaminants; Dr. Wim Kimmerer on Delta food web changes; and...
Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee, pt 1: Delta Challenges: Complex, Chaotic or Simply Cantankerous Maven Meetings December 1, 2015The Committee discusses the challenges facing the Delta, and what their respective agencies are doing to address them As implementation...
Landscape-scale planning for ecological resilience in the Bay and Delta Maven Event coverage July 30, 2015Senior Scientist Robin Grossinger discusses the latest research working to develop tools and to understand how to build landscapes resilient...
Fish Restoration Program update: Prospect Island, Decker Island, and more Delta restoration news Maven Other News Item July 2, 2015From the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW): Prospect Island EIR...
Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee, part 3: Interagency Crackdown on Aquatic Invasive Weeds in the Delta Maven Meetings June 3, 2015This past year, invasive weeds in the Delta were likely the worst it’s ever been, with the low flows due...
Delta challenges workshop, part 4: Fish, birds, and habitat Maven Event coverage April 24, 2015Panel of experts looks at historical ecology and critical ecological functions of the Delta, the complexities of fish management, and...