| Healthy Watersheds and Thriving Cities |
Healthy Watersheds & Thriving Cities, building upon SFEI’s previous work in the Santa Clara… |
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| McCosker Creek Restoration and Public Access Project |
SFEI partnered with EBRPD to restore and daylight 3,000 feet of Alder and Leatherwood Creeks and… |
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| Stream and Riparian Area Condition Metrics |
SFEI supported the East Bay Regional Park District in assessing stream and riparian health across… |
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| Petaluma River Watershed Riparian Assessments |
SFEI assessed riparian ecosystem conditions and functions in the Petaluma River watershed, how… |
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| Future Climate Impacts to Riparian Condition & Functions in the Petaluma River Watershed |
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| North Bay Indicators |
This project identified indicators of watershed condition and stewardship, and management action… |
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| South Bay Landscape Vision Workshop |
On June 7, SFEI, in partnership with the Santa Clara Valley Water District and South Bay Salt Ponds… |
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| Stream & Riparian Health |
Modifications to watersheds, streams, and rivers over the past 200 years have caused significant… |
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| Vision from the Skies: Using UAS Surveys to Monitor a Key Restoration Project |
At the McCosker Creek Restoration site, 3,000 linear feet of creek channel that previously had been… |
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| Restoration Plan for the Laguna de Santa Rosa |
The Laguna de Santa Rosa, an expansive freshwater wetland complex located in the Russian River… |
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| EcoAtlas Toolset Training and Outreach Plan |
EcoAtlas contains tools for mapping and tracking, rapid conditional assessment, linkages to… |
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| Sediment Solutions |
Sediment Solutions is a timely and innovative project that builds on SFEI’s past work,… |
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| Where creeks meet baylands: opportunities to re-establish freshwater and sediment delivery to the baylands of San Francisco Bay |
As baylands restoration and climate change alter the ecosystems of the Bay, novel restoration… |
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| Conceptual Understanding of Fine Sediment Transport in San Francisco Bay |
The Conceptual Understanding of Fine Sediment Transport in San Francisco Bay report… |
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| Restoration Plan for the Laguna de Santa Rosa Completed! |
SFEI completed a Restoration Plan for the Laguna de Santa Rosa in the Russian River watershed. SFEI… |
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| Recently completed “Sycamore Alluvial Woodland Restoration and Enhancement Suitability Study” |
The “Sycamore Alluvial Woodland Restoration and Enhancement Suitability Study” addresses… |
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| Central California Coast Steelhead Regional Temperature Study |
SFEI worked with Valley Water and the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board to… |
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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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| “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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| Salmon Habitat Quantification Development |
The Chinook salmon habitat quantification tool is a science-based approach for use by restoration… |
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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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| 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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| 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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| EcoAtlas |
EcoAtlas is a set of tools for visualizing, sharing, summarizing, and reporting on standardized… |
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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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| 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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| Upper Penitencia Creek: Resilient Landscape Vision |
The San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center and the Santa Clara Valley Water… |
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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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| Preparing for the Storm |
Catalyzed by the extensive damages caused by the Winter 2016-2017 storms and the… |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Healthy Watersheds Resilient Baylands |
Through the EPA-funded Healthy Watersheds Resilient Baylands project, SFEI and sixteen partner… |
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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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| 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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| 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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| "SF Expert Warns King Tides, El Nino Pose Flood Risk" |
SFEI's Jeremy Lowe speaks to NBC reporter Stephanie Chuang about the opportunity the Bay Area… |
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| Novato Creek Historical Ecology GIS Data |
This dataset includes reconstructed habitat types and ecological characteristics of the Novato… |
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| KQED Forum: Bay Area Infrastructure, Communities at Risk Without Wetlands Restoration |
On KQED Forum, Michael Krasny interviewed SFEI's Letitia Grenier and the State Coastal… |
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| Baylands Ecosystem Habitat Goals Project |
SFEI's Letitia Grenier served as lead scientist of the Baylands Ecosystem Habitat Goals… |
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| Our Bay on the Brink: SFEI's Jeremy Lowe explains the urgency for sea-level-rise adaptation |
SFEI's senior scientist Jeremy Lowe has appeared in a video with the Coastal Conservancy's Amy… |
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| RipZET: A GIS-based Tool for Estimating Riparian Zones |
The Riparian Zone Estimator Tool (RipZET) is a decision support tool developed by the San Francisco… |
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| Flood Control 2.0 |
Flood Control 2.0 is an ambitious regional effort aimed at helping restore stream and wetland… |
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| Flood Control 2.0 in Bay Nature |
The April 2015 issue of Bay Nature features an article about Flood Control 2.0, an ambitious… |
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| Lower Salinas River Historical Ecology Reconnaissance |
This report summarizes the results of an initial study of historical conditions (i.e., prior to… |
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| Lower Laguna de Santa Rosa and Mark West Creek: Changes in Historical Channel Alignment |
This study reconstructed the historical channel alignment of lower Mark West Creek, lower Laguna de… |
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| Delta: McCormack-Williamson Tract |
The McCormack-Williamson Tract (MWT) was purchased in 1999 by The Nature Conservancy with CALFED… |
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| Head of Tide |
SFEI completed a pilot study focused on creating a framework for a rapid protocol that can be used… |
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| Historical Tidal-Terrestrial Transition Zone in South SF Bay |
This study, funded by the California Coastal Program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, seeks… |
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| East Contra Costa County Historical Ecology Study |
SFEI conducted a historical ecology assessment of natural resources in East Contra Costa County in… |
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| Ventura County Historical Ecology Study |
This project investigated the historical ecological patterns and hydrological dynamics of most of… |
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| Upper Penitencia Creek: Historical Ecology Assessment |
Upper Penitencia Creek, on the eastern side of Santa Clara Valley, has locally significant… |
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| Ballona Creek |
The Ballona Creek project supports historical research conducted by the Southern California Coastal… |
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| Wildcat Creek Landscape History |
People have lived along Wildcat Creek since 3,000 to 4,000 BP. By that time, Sea level rise had… |
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| Rodeo Lagoon (Marin County) |
This report is submitted in the context of transportation planning and improvement of public access… |
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| San Gabriel River Historical Ecology Project |
The goal of this project was to use a variety of historical resources to answer the following… |
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