Projects

Exploring Landscape Change: the Wildcat Creek Watershed
Part of the creek and Watershed Map of Richmond and Vicinity Poster/Foldout Map

• Partners: Oakland Museum, William Lettis and Associates, The Bay Institute
• Funding: State Water Resources Control Board and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Pablo Bay Watershed Restoration Program

San Gabriel River Historical Ecology Project

• Partners: Southern California Coastal Water Research Project,California State University Northridge, University Of Southern California
• Funding: San Gabriel River and Mountain Conservancy

Ecological Connections between Baylands and Uplands
Examples from Marin County. Analysis of historical and modern landscape ecology and wildlife use patterns.

• Partners: Southern California Coastal Water Research Project,California State University Northridge, University Of Southern California
• Funding: San Gabriel River and Mountain Conservancy

Upper Pajaro River Restoration Strategy

• Partners: Philip Williams and Associates, HT Harvey and Associates
• Funding: The Nature Conservancy

Coyote Creek Historical Ecology Study
Historical Condition, Landscape Change, and Restoration
Potential in the Eastern Santa Clara Valley, California

• Funding: Santa Clara Valley Water District

Santa Clara Valley Historical Ecology for Stewardship
Historical ecology components in watershed stewardship plans for the Guadalupe, West Valley, and Lower Peninsula watersheds

• Partners: Tetra Tech, Philip Williams and Associates, Design Community and Environment, Eisenberg Oliveri and Associates
• Funding: Santa Clara Valley Water District, CALFED
  Watershed Program

Baylands and Creeks of South San Francisco Bay Map

• Partners: Oakland Museum, William Lettis and Associates, Santa Clara University Environmental Studies Institute, GIS Mapping and Analysis
• Funding: Santa Clara Valley Water District , cities of San Jose, Milpitas, Palo Alto, and Sunnyvale; Silicon Valley Pollution Prevention Center, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service San Francisco Bay Program, USEPA Region IX, San Francisco Estuary Project

South Bay Salt Pond Landscape Synthesis Report
Report to the South Bay Salt Pond Science Review Team and the SCVWD Watershed Stewardship Project

• Funding: USEPA Region IX, California Coastal Conservancy, Santa Clara Valley Water District

Bay Nature Salt Pond Article

• Partners: Bay Nature Magazine, Peter Baye
• Funding: California Coastal Conservancy

T.-Sheet User Guide
Guide to the application of the historical US Coast survey maps to environmental management in the San Francisco Bay area

• Partners: GIS Mapping and Analysis

• Funding: Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District
  

US Coast Survey Maps GIS and Web Site
Digital access to georeferenced versions of these exceptional maps of historical shoreline

• Partners: GIS Mapping and Analysis

• Funding: City of San Jose, Santa Clara Valley Water District, Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District
  

Morro Bay

• Partner: GIS Mapping and Analysis

• Funding: Morro Bay Estuary Project
  

BayBoards
Forgotten landscapes reappear on commercial billboards

• Partners: San Francisco Public Library, Lawrence Hall of Science, Viacom Outdoor Media, The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, City|Space, stillhere

• Funding: Creative Work Fund
  

Rodeo Lagoon (Marin County)
Wetland habitat changes to guide restoration planning

• Funding: National Park Service: Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Carneros Creek (Napa County)
Ecological, geomorphic, and land use history

• Partners: Napa County Resource Conservation District, Friends of Napa River

• Funding: CALFED Watershed Program
  

Sulphur Creek (Napa County)
Historical ecological and geomorphic change in the Sonoma Creek Watershed

• Partners: Napa County Resource Conservation District, Friends of Napa River

• Funding: CALFED Watershed Program
  

Sonoma Valley
Historical ecological and geomorphic change in the Sonoma Creek Watershed

• Partners: Sonoma Ecology Center
• Funding: San Francisco Bay Region Water Quality Control Board/Sonoma Water Agency

Alan K. Brown Lectures
The Bay Area in Historical Times: Landscape Historian Alan K. Brown Returns to the Region for Public Lectures on the Historical Ecology of the Santa Clara Valley and San Francisco Peninsula.

• Partners: National Park Service, Santa Clara University Environmental Studies Institute

Geographic History of the San Lorenzo Creek Watershed (Alameda County)

• Funding: Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District

Soda Creek (Napa County)
Analysis of historical changes in Soda Creek's channel as part of the report Napa River Sediment TMDL Baseline Study: Geomorphic Processes and Habitat Form and Function in Soda Creek

• Funding: San Francisco Bay Region Water Quality Control Board

Aero Foto: Surveying the Bay through Time with George E. Russell
An art/science exhibit using photographic prints and graphic stories to present previously-unseen work by one of the first aerial photographers of the region.

• Partners: Stillhere, SF Bureau of Urban Secrets, CA State Lands Commission, The Bancroft Library, the UC Berkeley Consortium for the Arts, with the support of the Berkeley Art Museum.
• Funding: UC Berkeley Consortium for the Arts
  

Seeing What the Land Remembers: Geography, Ecology,
and the History of Place
An interdisciplinary discussion panel at UC Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities.

• Partners:The Bancroft Library, CA State Lands Commission, UC Consortium for the Arts, and the Berkeley Art Museum

History, Maps, and Watersheds
Classroom materials about local landscape history

• Partners: West Contra Costa County Unified School District
• Funding: Center for Ecoliteracy

Wildcat Creek Landscape History
Landscape change-through-time, as part of the Wildcat Creek Landscape Change report.

• Funding: Contra Costa County Clean Water Program, Center for Ecoliteracy

Brackish Marshlands of South San Francisco Bay
Analysis of salinity gradients characterizing historical South Bay tidal marshlands

• Funding: City of San Jose

Historical View of San Francisco Bay's Baylands
Regional assessment of the distribution, diversity, and ecological function of the Bay's wetlands prior to Euro-American modification

• Partners: agencies and scientists of the Bay Area Wetland Habitat Goals Project
• Funding: various

Marin County Historical Baylands Margin

• Partners: Analysis of the accuracy of lines representing the historical/current Baylands boundary
• Funding: Marin County Community Development Agency