ESTUARY NEWS: Atmospheric Rivers Intensifying as World Warms: How the West Will Know What’s Coming Robin Meadows Best of the Notebook April 14, 2022Article written by Robin Meadows, Estuary News In just a few years, tracking the West Coast’s atmospheric rivers by airplane...
Hatchery Delta Smelt Released to Wild Maven Science News February 15, 2022From Estuary News: On a mild day between rainstorms in mid-December, wildlife biologists outfitted in rubber boots and orange lifejackets...
Will Salmon Simmer Again? Maven Science News February 10, 2022From Estuary News: After two critically dry years that coincided with Trump-era rollbacks to environmental protections, some iconic Delta fish...
West Coast Salmonids All Tired Out? Maven Science News February 2, 2022From Estuary News: West Coast salmon and steelhead populations have declined steeply in the past century – a plight that...
FEATURE: Mountain Atmospheric Observatory Will Help Track Colorado River Water Maven News and Features January 11, 2022The Colorado River flows 1,450 miles from the Rocky Mountains to Mexico, forming the border between California and Arizona along...
FEATURE: How the West Can Survive Smaller Snowpacks and Bigger Atmospheric Rivers Robin Meadows Best of the Notebook December 15, 2021by Robin Meadows Mountains are the foundation of water in the western United States, natural infrastructure that captures snowfall during...
FEATURE: Preparing Scientists and Policy Makers for a Future Under Climate Change Elyse De Franco Science on the Notebook October 26, 2021Written by Elyse De Franco Writing in the June 2021 issue of San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science, a group...
FEATURE: Unifying Restoration Across the San Francisco Estuary: A Profile on Ecologist Letitia Grenier Robin Meadows Science on the Notebook October 19, 2021Written by Robin Meadows San Francisco Estuary Institute ecologist Letitia Grenier has already led projects on working with nature toward...
FEATURE: Agricultural Pesticides Accumulate in Fish Prey Species in the Delta Elyse De Franco Science on the Notebook October 12, 2021Written by Elyse DeFranco The toxic effects of insecticides sprayed on Delta farmlands don’t stop at the pests they seek...
FEATURE: First Field-Based Assessment of Levee Risk in the Delta Robin Meadows News and Features October 5, 2021Written by Robin Meadows Like other islands in the central Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Bacon Island has subsided below sea level...
FEATURE: During Drought, Massive Rock Wall Spanning Delta Channel Wards off the Salty Sea Nate Seltenrich Science on the Notebook September 22, 2021Written by Nate Seltenrich, Estuary News Group The creeks are desert-dry, the reservoirs are frighteningly low, and now 150,000 tons...
SCIENCE FEATURE: Tracking Sturgeon in the San Francisco Estuary Nate Seltenrich Science on the Notebook August 4, 2021By Nate Seltenrich White sturgeon may not typically be considered “charismatic megafauna,” but Veronica Larwood thinks they deserve the recognition....
FEATURE: Farming For Carbon, Wildlife and Profit Sierra Garcia Science on the Notebook June 24, 2021By Sierra Garcia, Estuary News On the San Joaquin Delta’s Staten Island, where the Mokelumne River snugly encircles miles of...
ESTUARY PEARLS: Delta smelt monitoring, new research on salmon survival and flow volume Estuary News Group Estuary Pearls June 3, 2021This month, Pearls digs into some nuances of Delta smelt monitoring—and how we can get more bang from our sampling...
ESTUARY PEARLS: Climate change takeaways from the Bay Delta Science Program Estuary News Group Estuary Pearls May 3, 2021 The impact of climate change on flood risk in the Delta varies by location, which means the fixes will...
