Tag Archives: Delta

For a change in Delta perspective, move a few feet

Posted on September 9, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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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Ten realities for managing the Delta

Posted on July 23, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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 →

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Q & A on survival of California’s delta smelt 

Posted on May 17, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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 →

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Board game wakens Delta islanders on flood risks

Posted on November 18, 2013 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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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New suspense flick on Delta

Posted on November 6, 2013 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

_____________ Postcard from the Sacramento Delta (2013) 5 min 40 sec — Rated G — Suspense Director: Todd Dayton Cast: Jay Lund, Daniel Wilson The sea is rising and the land is sinking. Aging levees are giving way. Island communities find … Continue reading →

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‘North Delta Arc’ lifts hope for recovery of native fish

Posted on October 26, 2013 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By John Durand Matt Young and Denise De Carion thought they had seen about all there is of fish communities in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. They had surveyed nearly the entire web of channels using electrofishing boats in their years … Continue reading →

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The Delta won’t rise again

Posted on June 17, 2013 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Jay R. Lund Much of the western and central Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has sunk deeply below sea level, and it continues to subside as its marsh soils erode from being drained and farmed. At the same time, sea level … Continue reading →

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UC Davis speakers series: Critical problems for California water policy

Posted on April 10, 2013 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Chris Austin California’s water future is at a critical juncture. The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is declining, both as a reliable hub for exporting water for millions of Californians and millions of farmed acres, and as an ecosystem supporting a … Continue reading →

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Ten realities for managing the Delta

Posted on February 26, 2013 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Peter Moyle I have been working on Delta fishes for about 40 years. Increasingly, I have curmudgeonly thoughts about what is needed to make the ecosystem work better. Here I present these thoughts as “Ten Realities” – statements of … Continue reading →

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Knowing Delta’s past offers new ideas forward

Posted on September 26, 2012 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Alison Whipple San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center Teetering atop a haystack to get his bearings, Sacramento County Surveyor Edwin Sherman observed “dense tules and willows” lining the sloughs that wove through “large tule plains and some grass.” The … Continue reading →

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