DELTA INDEPENDENT SCIENCE BOARD: The California Environmental Flows Framework Maven Best of the Notebook April 7, 2022[cmtoc_table_of_contents] California water is a seemingly unending battle of allocating an often scarce resource among cities, farms, and the environment. ...
TED GRANTHAM: The evolution of environmental flows in California Maven Best of the Notebook April 15, 2020Ted Grantham is a Cooperative Extension Specialist at UC Berkeley and the CalTrout Ecosystem Fellow with the Public Policy Institute...
GUEST COMMENTARY (REBUTTAL): Ecologists see little difference between unimpaired and (truly) functional approaches to flow Maven Guest contributors February 4, 2020This guest commentary was written by Julie Zimmerman, Jeanette Howard, Jon Rosenfield, and Rene Henery in response to The Final...
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...
PANEL DISCUSSION: The Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan Update: Now What Happens? Maven Event coverage May 24, 2018Panel at ACWA Conference discusses unimpaired versus functional flows and the potential for voluntary settlements The State Water Board is...
BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Development of Recommended Flow Targets to Support Biological Integrity Based on Regional Flow-Ecology Relationships for Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Southern California Streams Maven Science on the Notebook May 1, 2018Dr. Eric Stein is the principal scientist at Southern California Coastal Water Research Project where he oversees a variety of...
BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Developing Tiered Environmental Flow Criteria Using a Functional Flows Approach for California Streams Maven News and Features April 1, 2018Establishing environmental flow targets to protect aquatic communities is a priority for numerous programs in California including in the Delta....
FLOWS SYMPOSIUM, PART 1: The science of natural functional flows to the Delta: In-stream flow science for sustainable river management Maven Event coverage July 17, 2017In January of 2013, a symposium hosted by Delta Science Program and the UC Davis Center for Aquatic Biology and...
Broad group of farmers express concerns over State Water Board’s approach to flows Maven News and Features February 23, 2017The State Water Board should focus on functional flows, not unimpaired flows, they say In a letter to the State...