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Drowned California
By Lucia R. Levers, with special thanks to her brother, Paul D. Levers . . . I love this time of year. I’m sure the air above the reservoir is getting crisp, not that I have any use for crisp air anymore. But I can see that the people are getting closer. The rest of […] The post…
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Preparing for the storm
By Nicholas Pinter, Kallee Bareket-Shavit, and Indumati Roychowdhury . . . As California eyes a record-breaking El Niño winter, eyes have begun to turn from other recent crises towards the possibility of flooding. In recent years, wildfire has been the primary natural hazard…
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Just Transitions in the Delta: Drought, Salinity and Sea Level Rise – An invitation to the Project’s Final Exhibition and Public Workshop
By Brett Milligan . . . Managing salinity in the Delta is a wicked problem. It’s far from any simple solution. It’s inseparable from many interacting phenomena and becoming more challenging with climate change impacts. And the definition of the problem varies across a diverse…
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Resilient California Fishes: The Legendary Threespine Stickleback
By Peter Moyle and Tom Taylor . . . The fresh waters of California support a diverse, highly endemic fish fauna. Many of the fishes are on extinction trajectories. In this blog series, however, we discuss native fishes that have sufficient resiliency to keep populations large…
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A Summer of Opportunity at CWS
By Larisa Thacher and Miranda Bell Tilcock . . . Over the summer, the Center for Watershed Sciences (CWS) had the privilege of hosting three undergraduate research assistants in our “Opportunities in Watershed Sciences” program. Led by Junior Specialist, Larisa Thacher, this…
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It’s an Interesting Time in California Water
By Karrigan Börk . . . Editor’s Note: Center for Watershed Sciences Director Karrigan Bork gave the welcoming address at the California Water Policy Conference at UC Davis last week. His comments, edited and condensed for the blog, are reproduced below. . . . Thank you for the…
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Happy New Water Year 2027! – following three years of unusually average California hydrology
By Jay Lund . . . October 1 marks the beginning of California’s new Water Year (WY). Water years here run from October 1 until September 30 of the next calendar year and are named for the calendar year of the bulk of the water year (January – October). October 1 is also the…
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Are you going to the 2026 Bay-Delta Science Conference?
By CWS researchers . . . From September 28–30, researchers from the Center for Watershed Sciences (CWS) will join colleagues from across California at the 2026 Bay-Delta Science Conference in Sacramento. The conference brings together scientists, policymakers, engineers,…
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Old Readings on California Water
By Jay Lund . . . An earlier version of this post was published on the California WaterBlog in 2020. . . . Today’s water struggles have deep roots. Here is a small collection of older writings on California water, the youngest of which is still older than me. Beyond historical…
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A Guide for New California Water Wonks
by Jay Lund . . . An earlier version of this post was published on the California WaterBlog in 2023. . . . Water is a universal foundation for every problem and opportunity in California. Most people use it every day, yet even experts with decades of experience don’t know it…
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A secret to survival for California’s most endangered salmon
By Michael Milstein . . . Editor’s note: This post was originally published at: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/secret-survival-californias-most-endangered-salmon . . . Traditional field research combined with new technology has revealed a secret to the survival of…
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Tidal Restoration Round-Up: Insights from Two Studies in Suisun Marsh and the Delta
By Elsie Platzer & Lynette Williams Duman . . . A friendship forged in mud On an unseasonably warm day in February of 2022, after being acquainted for approximately eight hours, we found ourselves canoeing across Big Break near Antioch, California. As we paddled against the wind…
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Did the earliest human civilization have river basin management and reservoir operations? – Liangzhu Civilization of 3,100-2,300 BC
By Jay Lund, Shumin Liang, and Tingju Zhu . . . Every civilization had to organize the management of water across diverse populations and generations. Their histories offer perspective and relevance for water management today and in the future. Achieving human health, wealth,…
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Meet California’s preeminent fish squeezer – Dr. Peter B. Moyle
By Jeffrey Mount . . . [Editor’s note: This article first appeared on California Fly Fisher as “Profile: Dr. Peter B. Moyle — Meet California’s Preeminent Fish Squeezer.”] For those of us who work on rivers, we often have nicknames for each other’s professions. I’m a rock kicker…
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California’s “Lost Salmon” May Be Returning
By Rachael E. Ryan, Cho R. Adolfo, Emily K. Chen, Stephanie M. Carlson . . . California’s “Uncommon” Salmonid Amidst the decline of California’s salmonid populations is an unexpected uptick of pink salmon. In recent years, biologists monitoring California waterways have been…