Freshwater Science & Management
Yes it does! Read our recent publication in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management led by Gabe Rossi: Flow augmentation from off-channel storage improves salmonid habitat and survival.
The Collaboratory for Equity in Water Allocations (COEQWAL) project was launched in the fall. To learn more about the project, visit coeqwal.berkeley.edu and read this Q+A article with Maven’s Notebook journalist Janet Byron.
Excited to announce that our project, entitled “COEQWAL: Equitable stewardship of California’s water in a changing climate”, has been funded through the University of California’s Climate Action Grant Program. The two-year, $9M project aims to create tools, data, public education,
This summer, Brian filed his dissertation entitled, “Ecological thresholds in a water-scarce, warming world: Informing instream flow conservation for endangered salmon.” Brian is now working as an ORISE Fellow with the US EPA, where is he contributing to the development of
This summer, research scientist Gabe Rossi and postdoc Phil Georgakakos, together with partners at California Trout, Stillwater Sciences, California Department of Fish and Game, and the Wiyot Tribe, led installation of an experimental fish weir to control pikeminnow on the
There are thousands of aging dams in the U.S. that are no longer serving their intended function and/or pose a safety risk to downstream communities. In many cases, the removal of old dams is more cost-effective than retrofitting or rebuilding
In a new paper in Journal of Environmental Management, Molly Oshun explores how we can make better use of existing biodiversity data in California to inform conservation planning and management. Read more here.
The Spring 2023 issue of Breakthroughs focuses on “The Future of Water” and spotlights research in the Carlson, Ruhi, and Grantham labs to advance understanding of California’s threatened freshwater ecosystems. Read the story here.
A new paper led by Hana Moidu in Freshwater Biology explores the environmental factors that affect the distribution and composition of stream vertebrates in an intermittent stream. Using a long-term monitoring data from Coyote Creek in northern California, Hana and
In this opinion piece, published in Land Use Policy, we explore the barriers that cannabis cultivators face in complying with California’s cannabis regulations post-legalization.