| Big updates from Hidden Nature SF, including new interactive content! |
Hidden Nature SF seeks to uncover the natural history of San Francisco’s past landscape. At the… |
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| New article published in Nature Sustainability linking COVID-19 to nature equity, showing communities of color face starkest burden |
Erica Spotswood and a team of scientists published pioneering research in Nature Sustainability,… |
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| Sediment for Survival report released |
SFEI worked with local, state, and federal science experts to develop the new Sediment for Survival… |
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| Trees, Hydrology, Urban-Greening, and Nature-Based Solutions |
Two key reports support nature-based solutions. Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) and… |
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| “Towards a Coarse Sediment Strategy for the Bay Area” completed! |
The release of “Towards a Coarse Sediment Strategy for the Bay Area” represents a step forward… |
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| New article published in BioScience: Cities contribute more than we think to regional biodiversity |
Erica Spotswood and a team of scientists published a peer-reviewed scientific paper, just released… |
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| Next Generation Urban Greening |
SFEI is working with partners across the Bay Area to design tools to help cities achieve… |
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| Coyote Creek Native Ecosystem Enhancement Tool |
The Coyote Creek Native Ecosystem Enhancement Tool (CCNEET, neet.ecoatlas.org) is an online… |
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| Google Ecology Advising |
SFEI collaborates with the Google Ecology Program to advance the science and application of urban… |
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| Shallow Groundwater Response to Sea Level Rise |
Pathways Climate Institute and SFEI produced depth to groundwater maps to inform sea level rise… |
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| Special Study on Bulk Density |
Sediment bulk density is the total mass of mineral and organic sediment within a defined volume. It… |
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| Salmon Habitat Quantification Development |
The Chinook salmon habitat quantification tool is a science-based approach for use by restoration… |
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| Hidden Nature SF |
Hidden Nature SF brings a new perspective to our view of San Francisco, studying the city’s… |
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| United Nations Global Urban Lecture Released on Making Nature's City |
SFEI's Urban Nature Lab and the UN-Habitat Global Urban Lectures series have… |
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| Sunnyvale Moffett Park Specific Plan Urban Ecology |
The Moffett Park Specific Plan Urban Ecology Guidance shows how we can incorporate a… |
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| Integrating Planning with Nature |
Can we gain the benefits of restoring nature while making our cities denser and protecting natural… |
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| East Palo Alto Urban Forest Master Plan |
This innovative plan updated the street tree inventory, created a revised tree removal permit… |
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| Reconnecting Riverside with its River: Integrating Historical and Urban Ecology for a Healthier Future |
This study focuses on a segment of the Santa Ana River Parkway in and around the City of… |
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| Quail in Urban Parks |
SFEI is using bird observations from eBird to study habitat suitability and build occupancy models… |
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| Sports and Urban Biodiversity |
SFEI collaborated with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the… |
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| Sonoma Creek Baylands Strategy |
The Sonoma Creek Baylands Strategy is a comprehensive high-level plan for landscape-scale… |
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| Assessing Five Watersheds in Santa Clara County |
A new synthesis report characterizing the amount, distribution, and diversity of streams and… |
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| Restoration Vision for the Laguna de Santa Rosa Completed! |
SFEI completed a long-term Restoration Vision for the Laguna de Santa Rosa in the Russian River… |
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| Laguna de Santa Rosa Master Restoration Plan |
The first phase of the project was the creation of the Restoration Vision for the Laguna de Santa… |
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| This Earth Day, SFEI's Letitia Grenier describes the challenges we face in the Mercury News |
SFEI's Letitia Grenier appears in a San Jose Mercury News article by Paul Rogers, describing the… |
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| New Life for Eroding Shorelines |
The New Life for Eroding Shorelines project explores living shoreline approaches for sea… |
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| SF Estuary Wetlands Regional Program Plan Released! |
The Wetland Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) Plan has been released! The WRMP will improve… |
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| Delta Salmon Rearing |
The objective of this project is to summarize existing research and knowledge around suitable… |
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| Newark considering controversial 469-home development at the edge of the Baylands |
SFEI scientist Julie Beagle was consulted to discuss the value of wetlands at the Bay's edge in… |
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| Delta Landscapes Primary Production |
Primary Production, the amount of tissue generated by photosynthetic organisms (e.g., plants and… |
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| EcoAtlas |
EcoAtlas is a set of tools for visualizing, sharing, summarizing, and reporting on standardized… |
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| RMP Annual Meeting and Pulse of the Bay Report |
With a planned release of October 10th, the 2019 edition of The Pulse of the Bay will feature… |
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| Building Cities to Better Support Biodiversity |
Erica Spotswood and a team of other SFEI scientists have developed a framework outlining the key… |
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| Making Nature's City |
Making Nature’s City synthesizes global research to develop a science-based approach for supporting… |
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| Eleven years to save San Francisco Bay |
SFEI scientist Julie Beagle and SPUR-based collaborator Laura Tam co-authored an article featured… |
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| Urban Ecological Planning Guide for Santa Clara Valley |
SFEI partnered with Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority to create a guide on how to support… |
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| Urban Ecological Planning Guide for Santa Clara Valley published |
SFEI partnered with the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority to create a guide for how to… |
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| A New Atlas for Dealing With Rising Seas in the Bay Area |
SFEI's Julie Beagle penned a new article for Bay Nature, describing the importance of the new… |
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| SFEI's and SPUR's Adaptation Atlas shared by multiple media outlets |
The newly released Adaptation Atlas (adaptationatlas.sfei.org) has been making waves on… |
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| The Adaptation Atlas, a new report by SFEI and SPUR, featured in the SF Chronicle and SJ Mercury News |
On May 2, 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News described… |
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| Vision for Upper Penitencia Creek completed! |
SFEI recently completed a resilient landscape vision for Upper Penitencia Creek in… |
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| Upper Penitencia Creek: Resilient Landscape Vision |
The San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center and the Santa Clara Valley Water… |
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| Tracking Habitat Restoration Performance Measures |
This collaborative project was funded by the USEPA to enhance the functionality of EcoAtlas Project… |
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| Working with Nature to Adapt San Francisco Bay’s Shoreline for Sea Level Rise |
Impacts from sea level rise and combined flooding are increasing along S.F. Bay’s shoreline. To… |
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| Investigating the future of sediment in the San Francisco Bay |
SFEI scientists are currently working with regional partners and science advisors to assess the… |
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| SFEI is working with the Santa Clara Valley Water District to develop multi-benefit management tools |
In 2014, SFEI and the Santa Valley Water District launched a collaborative partnership aimed at… |
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| Using native ecological practices to manage California’s fire-prone landscape |
Current North Coast watershed steward and former SFEI staff scientist Chuck Striplen penned an… |
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| Global Climate Action Summit affiliate event: SFEI @ the Exploratorium |
As part of the global climate action summit, The Exploratorium, California State Coastal… |
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| Preparing for the Storm |
Catalyzed by the extensive damages caused by the Winter 2016-2017 storms and the… |
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| Vision for the Calabazas Creek, San Tomas Aquino Creek, and Pond A8 |
SFEI recently released a resilient landscape vision for the interface of Calabazas Creek, San Tomas… |
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| New Solutions: Traveling on Sunlight |
SFEI secured a grant from the Bay Area Air Quality District to partially fund SFEI’s installation… |
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| RMP Technical Report: Sediment Supply to San Francisco Bay, Water Years 1995 through 2016 |
Sediment delivered from watersheds is a precious and dwindling resource for the Bay. The goal for… |
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| Landscape Vision for Calabazas Creek, San Tomas Aquino Creek and Pond A8 |
SFEI released a resilient landscape vision for the interface of Calabazas Creek, San Tomas Aquino… |
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| San Francisco Bay Shoreline Adaptation Atlas |
In partnership with SPUR, The Operational Landscape Units project, funded by the… |
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| Petaluma Valley Historical Hydrology and Ecology GIS Data |
This geodatabase contains several feature classes depicting the historical ecological conditions of… |
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| Russian River Watershed Projects at the San Francisco Estuary Institute |
Our projects in the Russian River Watershed help us to understand our past, understand our present,… |
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| SFEI and Google share Award for Re-Oaking |
SFEI and Google have won the Arnold Soforenko Award from the non-profit Canopy… |
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| SFEI partner Canopy plants oaks in East Palo Alto |
On Martin Luther King day, 170 volunteers came out to help plant oaks and other native landscaping… |
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| Peninsula Watershed Historical Ecology Study |
The Peninsula Watershed, located in San Mateo County on the San Francisco Peninsula, is the site of… |
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| Disrupt the Street Tree: Could trees help Silicon Valley find an identity? |
As recently as a 1850, according to a recent report from the San Francisco Estuary Institute, 80… |
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| Resilient By Design: Science Advisors |
SFEI served as science advisors for the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, a collaborative… |
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| Science Support for Resilient By Design Competition |
The challenges of accelerating sea level rise and aging shoreline infrastructure are creating a… |
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| Petaluma Valley Historical Hydrology and Ecology Study |
This project reconstructs the historical hydrology and ecology of the Petaluma River… |
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| Flood Control 2.0 Wins an Outstanding Environmental Project Award! |
The Flood Control 2.0 project team was presented with an Outstanding Environmental Project Award at… |
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| Resilience Atlas |
The Resilience Atlas is a compilation of cutting-edge science, creative visions and… |
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| Healthy Watersheds Resilient Baylands |
Through the EPA-funded Healthy Watersheds Resilient Baylands project, SFEI and sixteen partner… |
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| Announcing the release of Re-Oaking Silicon Valley: Building Vibrant Cities with Nature |
Could restoring lost ecosystems to cities play a role in building ecological resilience across… |
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| SFEI’s Re-oaking Silicon Valley appears as a feature in Estuary News magazine |
Over the past century, oaks have been lost from fertile valleys across California to make way for… |
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| Flood Control 2.0 Completed! |
SFEI and several agency partners recently completed a multi-year, EPA funded project called Flood… |
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| Resilience Atlas |
The Resilience Atlas is an interactive mapping platform that visualizes the past, present and… |
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| A multi-partner project to create placed-based sea-level rise adaptation strategies |
As sea level rise accelerates in the San Francisco Bay, scientists, planners, and decision makers… |
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| Collaboration with California Academy of Sciences on Valley Oaks: an Ecological Journey through Time |
A collaborative program with the California Academy of Sciences produced an immersive… |
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| Historical Ecology and Landscape Change in the Central Laguna de Santa Rosa |
This study synthesizes a diverse array of data to examine the ecological patterns, ecosystem… |
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| Central Laguna de Santa Rosa Historical Ecology GIS Data |
These datasets depict the historical habitat types and channel alignment of central Laguna de… |
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| Sycamore Alluvail Woodland Habitat Mapping and Regeneration Study Released |
California sycamore (Platanus racemosa) is an iconic native tree species found in California and… |
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| Tijuana River Valley Histrical Ecology Investigation Published |
The Tijuana River Valley Historical Ecology Investigation—completed in January 2017—synthesized… |
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| New data layers and Landscape Profile mode added to EcoAtlas |
New data layers and Landscape Profile mode have been added to EcoAtlas (ecoatlas.org), an online… |
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| Sycamore Alluvial Woodland Habitat Mapping and Regeneration Study |
Sycamore alluvial woodland is a unique and relatively rare native vegetation community in… |
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| SFEI work on Landscape Resilience and Urban Biodiversity featured in Google Blog and Fast Company Story |
Our partnership with Google to enhance the ecological resilience of urban landscapes is featured in… |
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| Tijuana River Valley Historical Ecology Investigation GIS Data |
This dataset includes reconstructed habitat types and ecological characteristics of the Tijuana… |
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| Petaluma River Watershed Historical Aerial Photomosaic Image from 1942 |
Orthorectified historical aerial photography for the Petaluma River watershed was developed as a… |
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| Lower Walnut Creek Vision Just Released! |
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| San Joaquin River Historical Aerial Photomosaic Image from 1937 |
Orthorectified historical aerial photography for the San Joaquin River corridor was developed as a… |
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| Developing a Sustainable Business Model for the EcoAtlas Toolset |
This project is funded by a USEPA wetland development grant (2015-2017) to develop a… |
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| "A Delta Renewed" report released at the 2016 Bay-Delta Science Conference |
The San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) released A Delta Renewed – A Guide to Science… |
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| Lower Walnut Creek Historical Ecology GIS Data |
This dataset includes reconstructed habitat types and ecological characteristics of lower Walnut… |
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| How Creeks Meet the Bay: Current Sediment Dynamics |
The transition zones between our watersheds and the Bay are often occupied by flood control… |
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| Robin Grossinger interviewed at Grace Cathedral for a discussion about adapting to climate change |
On Sunday, October 30 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., SFEI’s Robin Grossinger appeared on a weekly, hour… |
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| Flood Control 2.0 : Sediment Loads |
This dataset contains information on the supply of sediment to major flood control channels… |
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| The Delta as Changing Landscapes - Presentation by Letitia Grenier |
The Delta Science Program, CDFW Watershed Restoration Grants Branch, and the Surface Water… |
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| South Bay sea level rise workshop features SFEI science |
The Bay Area Ecosystems and Climate Change Consortium (BAECCC) and UC Berkeley's The Climate… |
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| Evaluation of CRAM performance for assessing wetland stress, small wetlands, and wetland habitat development |
Caltrans funded this wetlands research to fill important gaps in knowledge about the ability of the… |
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| Native languages map of the Bay for the Exploratorium |
The Exploratorium is displaying a map and essay developed by SFEI depicting the diversity,… |
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| Mission Bay Historical Ecology Reconnaissance Study |
The Mission Bay Historical Ecology Reconnaissance Study, completed in February of 2016, collected… |
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| How to “ReWild” San Diego’s Mission Bay |
SFEI's Resilient Landscape Program recently completed a "reconnaissance" historical ecology study… |
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| San Francisquito Creek Baylands Landscape Change Analysis |
SFEI recently completed a landscape change analysis of lower San Francisquito Creek in the South… |
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| Native languages map of the Bay for the Exploratorium |
The Exploratorium is displaying a map and essay developed by SFEI depicting the diversity,… |
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| Warner Chabot details the value of wetlands in an appearance on American Public Media's Marketplace |
Interviewed by Molly Webster, host of Marketplace, SFEI's Executive Director Warner Chabot… |
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| SFEI featured in LA Times about earthquake risk to San Francisco |
A recent story in the LA Times by Ron Lin underscores the newly identified… |
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| Now Available: SF Bay Shore Inventory: Mapping for Sea Level Rise Regional Dataset |
SFEI and the San Francisco Estuary Partnership are proud to announce the release of the SF Bay… |
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