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Tag Archives: Delta
Microplastic Pollution: Impact on the SF Bay Delta and Remediation Strategies
“Microplastic Pollution: Impact on the SF Bay Delta and Remediation Strategies” Symposium with Delta Stewardship Council and Coastal Marine Sciences Institute By Miranda Bell-Tilcock In May, I had the privilege of attending the Microplastic Pollution: Impact on the SF Bay … Continue reading
The Big Impact of Small Waters: Zooplankton Density Trends in the North Delta
By Kim Luke & John Durand Zooplankton and their history in the San Francisco Estuary Zooplankton are tiny aquatic organisms unable to swim against currents; they include microscopic crustaceans, small jellyfish, and larval life stages of other organisms (Figure 1). … Continue reading
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Tagged Delta, John Durand, Kim Luke, restoration, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, San Francisco Estuary, zooplankton
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Science seen from different perspectives
by Jay Lund The awe-inspiring Phil Isenberg used to talk about differences in culture between science and policy as being akin to the two cultures of scholarship discussed by C.P. Snow – science and humanities. It is hard for one … Continue reading
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Tagged Agencies, Delta, Jay Lund, Science, Two-way thinking, water management
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Marsh on the move: bringing environmental education into the classroom
By Josie Storm, Christine Parisek, Brian Williamshen, Caroline Newell, Sarah Yarnell, Kim Luke, Jake Shab, and Erin Tracy This spring, a group of researchers and students at the Center for Watershed Sciences (“Watershed”) organized a community engagement event at a … Continue reading
Monster Fish: Lessons for Sturgeon Management in California
By Peter B. Moyle & Andrew L. Rypel If you ever watched National Geographic television and are interested fishes and rivers, you likely have some familiarity with Dr. Zeb Hogan. He hosted a series of shows on giant freshwater fishes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Rypel, dams, Delta, fish, fisheries, Green Sturgeon, habitat, HABs, hatcheries, Peter Moyle, Sturgeon, White Sturgeon, Zeb Hogan
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For a change in Delta perspective, move a few feet
By Jay Lund Each year my family takes a week’s vacation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on our old sailboat. We often follow some Delta veterans who show us new places. As an engineering professor working on California’s water problems, … Continue reading
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Tagged Delta, Jay Lund, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
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Ten realities for managing the Delta
This article was originally published Feb. 26, 2013 By Peter Moyle I have been working on Delta fishes for nearly 40 years. Increasingly, I have curmudgeonly thoughts about what is needed to make the ecosystem work better. Here I present … Continue reading
Q & A on survival of California’s delta smelt
Four years of severe drought and decades of huge water diversions appears to have pushed delta smelt to the point of no return. State biologists netted only a single smelt last month in trawl of 40 sites in San Francisco … Continue reading
Posted in Delta, Delta Smelt, Drought, Fish, reconciliation
Tagged Delta, Delta smelt, drought, extinction, Peter Moyle
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Board game wakens Delta islanders on flood risks
By Wouter Jan Klerk and Ties Rijcken The California Delta is one of the world’s most complex water systems. As a group of five Dutch students from Delft University of Technology, we were eager to visit the diked islands, or … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Delta, Delta island, flood protection, SimBethel, Ties Rijcken, Wouter Jan Klerk
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