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Ecosystem Carbon Restoration, conservation, and climate-smart management can enhance carbon sequestration and reduce… Focus Area
Managing Open Space in Support of Net Zero Protecting carbon stocks and increasing carbon sequestration can support climate change mitigation… Project
Blue Carbon Science to Support Climate Action Working with other scientists, agency staff, and regional and state-level managers and planners, we… Project
Landscape Scenario Planning Tool Designed to inform climate change adaptation planning, the Landscape Scenario Planning Tool (LSPT)… Project
Delta Landscapes Primary Production Primary Production, the amount of tissue generated by photosynthetic organisms (e.g., plants and… Project

Publications

Title Abstract Year of Publication
Landscape Scenario Planning Tool User Guide v3.0 The Landscapes Scenario Planning Tool (LSPT) is a standardized, science-based resource for analyzing and comparing land-use scenarios in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Marsh. The tool… 2025
Managed wetlands for climate action: potential greenhouse gas and subsidence mitigation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta In the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta (Delta), widespread drainage of historical wetlands has led to extensive subsidence and peat carbon losses, as well as high ongoing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.… 2024
McCosker Creek Restoration and Public Access Project: Alder Creek Daylighting Additional Monitoring Elements - Final Report 2023
Adding Salinity Modifiers to CARI - Methods Brief 2023
Managing Open Space in Support of Net Zero: Carbon sequestration opportunities and tradeoffs in the Alameda Watershed 2023
An assessment of future tidal marsh resilience in the San Francisco Estuary through modeling and quantifiable metrics of sustainability Quantitative, broadly applicable metrics of resilience are needed to effectively manage tidal marshes into the future. Here we quantified three metrics of temporal marsh resilience: time to marsh… 2022
Leveraging Wetlands for a Better Climate Future: Incorporating Blue Carbon into California's Climate Planning The 2022 update to California’s climate change Scoping Plan incorporates management actions in the state’s forests, shrublands/chaparral, grasslands, croplands, developed lands, deltaic wetlands, and… 2022
Delta Wetland Futures: Blue Carbon and Elevation Change 2022
Delta Wetland Futures: Tidal Marsh Resilience to Sea Level Rise 2022
On the human appropriation of wetland primary production Humans are changing the Earth's surface at an accelerating pace, with significant consequences for ecosystems and their biodiversity. Landscape transformation has far-reaching implications including… 2021
Delta Landscapes Primary Production: Past, Present, Future This report describes the Delta Landscapes Primary Production project, which quantifies how landscape change in the Delta has altered the quantity and character of primary production. Combining… 2020
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