Monthly Archives: November 2015

Rising to El Niño’s challenges – and opportunities

Posted on November 29, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Nicholas Pinter The much-anticipated El Niño has now arrived, with increased potential for heavy rain and snowfall, including the possibility of localized flooding, mudslides and other hazards. While extreme storms, flooding and other natural disasters challenge society to protect … Continue reading →

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Keep California’s water ‘Maven’ afloat

Posted on November 24, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

The nonprofit Maven’s Notebook has become the daily go-to place for the latest California water news and information, including meeting summaries, keynote speeches and digests of ponderous documents. It’s a one-person operation, and that person, Chris Austin (aka “Maven”), needs your donations … Continue reading →

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Measuring the effectiveness of ‘environmental flows’

Posted on November 18, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Ann Willis and Andrew Nichols In the early fall of 2012, an unusually large number of Chinook salmon were returning to the Klamath River, straddling the California-Oregon border. Many of those fish were expected to swim upstream to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, California Water, Conservation, Fish, Planning and Management, reconciliation, Restoration, Salmon, Spring-Fed Streams, Tools, Uncategorized, Water Markets | Tagged | 5 Comments

Finally, a one-stop shop for locating California’s fishes

Posted on November 8, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Nick Santos “Where?” The question is foundational to conservation biology and policy. To take a conservation action, you need to know where to act. And, yet, for decades stewards and researchers of aquatic fauna have been sorely lacking in … Continue reading →

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