Rice & salmon, what a match! Maven Science News February 13, 2022From the California Water Blog: Long-time followers of this blog may have tracked the evolution of our salmon-rice work for...
CA WATER COMMISSION: Update on the Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project (Big Notch) Maven Meetings January 25, 2022At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, the agenda included an informational briefing on the Yolo Bypass Salmonid...
BAY-DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Managed Floodplain Fish Food: Bringing Dry Side Food Webs to Wet Side Fish Maven Best of the Notebook November 10, 2021Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley was primarily a marshy wetland. In the springtime, the snowpack would...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST REPORT: Farm to Fish: Lessons from a Multi-Year Study on Agricultural Floodplain Habitat, plus an update on activities of the Delta Science Program Maven Science on the Notebook March 4, 2021At the February meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Laurel Larsen discussed a new report on the...
FEATURE: Reactivating our floodplains: A new way forward Maven Best of the Notebook August 21, 2019Panel of experts discuss how reactivating the floodplains can provide habitat and food for native fish and for migrating birds,...
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FORUM, Part 4: Case studies from the Bay Delta system Maven Science on the Notebook April 25, 2019Presentations highlight the Montezuma Wetlands Project and the Nigiri Project Adaptive management is widely regarded as an effective approach to...
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Dark Carbon and a Return to Abundance: How Detrital Floodplain Food Webs Can Help Recover Endangered Fish Maven Science on the Notebook March 7, 2019In the pre-development Central Valley, winter-spring flooding once created a vast mosaic of productive wetland habitats that teemed with fish...
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...
Farms as floodplains: A summary after five years of experimental flooding of agricultural land Maven Best of the Notebook August 25, 2016Studies show the rice-field fish are larger, healthier and more robust than those in the river at the same age...
