Monthly Archives: March 2025

Overlooked choices shape research outcomes: what do “researcher degrees of freedom” mean for how science informs policy?

By Jonathan A. Walter, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences Research results can depend not only on the data itself, but on how they are analyzed.1 This is importantly different from how stakeholders with different interests may interpret results differently, … Continue reading

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Glasses at 50% in California

by Jay Lund How do California’s engineers see a partially-full water glass?  Mostly the same as they did in the original 2012 version of this post, but we’ve added a few more perspectives over the years. Depending on your outlook, … Continue reading

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How Three (Fairly) Wet Winters Could Help California’s Salmon

By Sarah Bardeen This piece originally appeared on the PPIC Blog, here. California has just experienced its third reasonably wet winter in as many years. How unusual is this? And how might three such winters in a row affect salmon? We … Continue reading

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We’re Expanding! Follow the Center and WaterBlog on More Platforms

Great news! The Center for Watershed Sciences has expanded its social media presence, giving you more ways to stay connected and engaged with California WaterBlogs and our other new content.  Take a look at all the places you can connect … Continue reading

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