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DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST REPORT: New research papers focus on habitat, flow, predation

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Delta scienceNotebook News and Features

July 30, 2020

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. John Callaway updated the Council on...

DPIIC: The CVPIA and the state’s Incidental Take Permit: Ecosystem-based Management in the Delta

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Delta scienceNotebook News and Features

July 29, 2020

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The Delta Stewardship Council established the Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee (DPIIC) after the adoption of the Delta Plan...

GSA SUMMIT: Setting Sustainable Management Criteria: It’s easy, isn’t it?

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Best of the NotebookGroundwater NewsNotebook News and Features

July 22, 2020

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The details of how a groundwater sustainability plan will be implemented are defined by the setting of sustainable management...

TIM QUINN: Forty Years of California Water Policy: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Lessons for the Future

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Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

July 16, 2020

Tim Quinn spent more than ten years as the executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies and more...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Understanding the human dimensions of social agro-ecological systems: What motivates farmer decision-making and policy change?

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Delta scienceGroundwater NewsPolicy and regulation

July 15, 2020

Sea Grant is a federal-state partnership between NOAA and the 34 university-based programs in every coastal and Great Lakes states,...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Building Socioecological Resilience by Confronting Environmental Injustice: A Participatory Approach

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Delta science

July 9, 2020

Sea Grant is a federal-state partnership between NOAA and the 34 university-based programs in every coastal and Great Lakes states,...

GSA SUMMIT: Lessons learned from the 2020 GSPs: Perspectives from the critically overdrafted basins

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Best of the NotebookGroundwater NewsNotebook News and Features

July 8, 2020

The implementation phase of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act has now begun for the basins designated as critically-overdrafted. Getting to...

GSA SUMMIT: Reflections on the 2020 GSP process

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Groundwater NewsNotebook News and Features

July 7, 2020

At the end of January of this year, the state’s critically overdrafted groundwater basins submitted their adopted groundwater sustainability plans...

Happy Fourth of July!

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Website announcements

July 3, 2020

Happy 4th of July!Wishing you a peaceful and enjoyable holiday … Maven’s Notebook is going to take a pause for...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Engaging Diverse Communities around Water, Climate, and the Environment

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Delta science

July 2, 2020

Sea Grant is a federal and state partnership between NOAA and 34 university-based programs in every coastal and Great Lakes...

FEATURE: The state of California’s environment

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Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

July 1, 2020

Friends of the River co-founder Mark Dubois and current Executive Director Eric Wesselman discuss the protections for California rivers and...

NOW AVAILABLE: Nitrate Control Program: Final Community Engagement Guidance Document

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Fact Sheets/Tools/InfoPolicy and regulation

July 1, 2020

From the Central Valley Regional Water Board: Below is the final version of the State Water Board Office of Public...

DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: Delta Watermaster Update: Litigation in the Delta, Term 91, SB-88 implementation, and more …

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Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

June 30, 2020

At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Watermaster Michael George gave his quarterly update where he discussed...

LEGAL BRIEFS: Judge denies motion for injunction over Shasta operations; San Joaquin County alleges misrepresentations by Westlands in CVP contract

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Water project operationsWater rights and water law

June 26, 2020

The Eastern District Court has issued a ruling in a lawsuit brought by Pacific Coast Federation Of Fishermen’s Associations  over...

DELTA SCIENCE NEEDS, PART 2: What do managers need to know to effectively make decisions in the future Delta?

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Delta science

June 25, 2020

Jennifer Pierre, Paul Souza, and Campbell Ingram discuss what their needs are for managing the Delta into the future:  Will...