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Digitizing Data: Tracking Harmful Algal Blooms in the San Francisco Estuary

Photo credit: California Department of Water Resources Earlier this month, I was working my way through my morning emails and…

1 year ago

Navigating the Unknown: Exploring the Use of Decision Making Under “Deep Uncertainty” Approaches

The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is undergoing continual and often rapid change.  This poses challenges in predicting and preparing for the…

1 year ago

How Old is the Water We Drink?

Photo: Cozine/Shutterstock Back in 2016, geologists from the University of Toronto announced they had discovered water at the bottom of…

1 year ago

USGS ARkStorm 1.0 study showed high risk of contamination from Tulare lake basin flooding

The US Geological Survey’s ARkStorm studies included extensive analyses of vulnerabilities to flooding.  In 2016, USGS Researchers Geoffrey Plumlee,  Charles…

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AGU: Many of California’s threatened species live in reused water — for better or worse

Photo: During the dry season, about 90% of the water flowing into the LA River is treated wastewater discharged from…

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PFAS-chomping bacteria kill some ‘forever chemicals,’ scientists say

Photo: University of California Riverside researchers Yujie Men and Bosen Jin have identified bacteria that's able to break down some…

1 year ago

Science Stories: Adventures in Bay-Delta Data

Our last post gave you an introduction to the water weeds of the Delta. Invasive submerged aquatic vegetation is taking…

1 year ago

Mapping Beaver Dams with Machine Learning

A new model deploys a neural network to spot beavers’ engineering exploits in aerial and satellite imagery, an approach that…

2 years ago

PFAS-chomping bacteria kill some ‘forever chemicals,’ scientists say

Photo: University of California Riverside researchers Yujie Men and Bosen Jin have identified bacteria that's able to break down some…

2 years ago

Sewage to sustenance: making reclaimed water ready for crops

A simple solution for cleaning out unhealthy chemicals Plant materials that would otherwise become trash may be the key to…

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