SCIENCE NEWS: Enhanced Delta smelt monitoring program helps fill the void; Sierra snowpack bigger than last 4 years combined; Report recommends integrated and community-based approaches to data and modeling for the Delta; and more ….
In science news this week: Wanted: More smelt data: Enhanced Delta smelt monitoring program helps fill the void; Sierra snowpack bigger than last 4 years combined; Report Recommends Integrated and Community-based Approaches to Data and Modeling for the Delta; Your comments requested on the draft 2017-2021 Delta Science Action Agenda; Tackling invasive iceplant; A decade of Delta research on juvenile salmon; A climatology of the California Current System from a network of underwater gliders; Study on impact of climate on snowpack loss in the Western US; and more … Wanted: More smelt data: Enhanced Delta smelt monitoring program helps fill the void: “Shortly after 6 a.m., boat crews with the U.S.
That’s enough snow to fill the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, nearly 1,600 times.
Please click here to read the Draft 2017-2021 Science Action Agenda.” Independent Review Panel posts report for California Water Fix Aquatic Science Peer Review: An Independent Review Panel was convened by select staff of the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Science Program to provide the National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S.
… ” Read more from the FishBio blog here: Tackling invasive iceplant A decade of Delta research on juvenile salmon: “California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is unique among large West Coast estuaries in that it supports four distinct runs of Chinook salmon (Onchorhynchus tshawytscha) as well as Central Valley steelhead (O. mykiss).
… ” Read more from the FishBio blog here: A Decade of Delta Research on Juvenile Salmon A climatology of the California Current System from a network of underwater gliders: “A paper by Rudnick et al. published in Progress in Oceanography includes a climatology of the California Current System, a current moving south along the U.S. West Coast.
… ” Read mroe from Science Daily here: Study on impact of climate on snowpack loss in the Western US New era of Western wildfire demand new ways of protecting people, ecosystems: “Current wildfire policy can’t adequately protect people, homes and ecosystems from the longer, hotter fire seasons climate change is causing, according to a new paper led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
… ” Read more from Science Daily here: Retreating Yukon glacier caused a river to disappear 7 science innovations that are changing conservation: “In our still relatively brief existence, humans have evolved our way to an era many are now calling the Anthropocene – a new geological epoch defined by human impact on Earth.
… ” Read more from Science Daily here: Next 10 years critical for achieving climate goals April ENSO Update: Conflicting signals from the Pacific Ocean: “The tropical Pacific Ocean has been giving mixed signals recently, making a forecaster’s job even more difficult!
About Science News and Reports: This weekly feature, posted every Thursday, is a collection of the latest scientific research and reports with a focus on relevant issues to the Delta and to California water, although other issues such as climate change are sometimes included.