DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Managed flow pulses as food web support; Synthesis of food web data; Overview of the Science Action Agenda; and more … Maven Science on the Notebook December 21, 2021At the December meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Laurel Larsen, Delta Lead Scientist, spotlighted an article on the...
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...
BAY-DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Loss, and Potential Recovery of Primary Production from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Maven Best of the Notebook July 29, 2021Landscape transformation in the Delta has far-reaching implications, including the loss of primary production that forms the basis for the...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST REPORT: Primary production in the Delta Maven Science on the Notebook June 29, 2021At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen spotlighted recent research on the...
ESTUARY PEARLS PART 3: Pesticides, HABs, New Neural Network, Ship Channel, Tule Red, Quake Risk Levees and more Estuary News Group Estuary Pearls April 29, 2021ESTUARY News sent reporters to the first virtual Bay-Delta Science Conference in April 2021. This special edition of Pearls shares...
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...
DELTA ISB: What we know and don’t know about the Delta foodweb Maven Best of the Notebook January 14, 2021The Delta Reform Act of 2009 established the Delta Independent Science Board (or Delta ISB), whose ten members are appointed...