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Restoring Sediment Pathways: A Resilient Landscape Vision for the Adobe Creek Baylands
Author(s): Emma Sevier | Katie McKnight | Kendall Harris | Scott Dusterhoff | Ruth Askevold | Ben Satzman
2026
Restoring Sediment Pathways: A Resilient Landscape Vision for the Adobe Creek Baylands synthesizes science and community priorities into a nature-based approach for improving the resilience and ecological functioning of, and community and Tribal access to, the Adobe…
Author(s): Sarah Pearce | Sarah Lowe | David Peterson | Denise Walker | Pete Kauhanen | Zooey Diggory | Douglas Titus
2024
The baseline survey of ecological condition of streams within the Guadalupe River watershed was completed in 2012, and this reassessment survey was completed ten years later in 2022. The survey focuses upon stream conditions in the watershed as a whole, and in two primary…
Author(s): Scott Dusterhoff | Alison Whipple | Sean Baumgarten | April Robinson | Samuel Shaw | Kyle Stark | Ruth Askevold
2023
The Laguna de Santa Rosa is an expansive freshwater wetland complex that hosts a rich diversity of plant and wildlife species, and is also home to a thriving agricultural community. Since the mid-19th century, modifications to the Laguna and its surrounding landscape have…
Author(s): Amy Richey | Scott Dusterhoff | Sean Baumgarten | Emily Clark | Matthew Benjamin | Samuel Shaw | Ruth Askevold | Katie McKnight
2020
The Laguna de Santa Rosa, located in the Russian River watershed in Sonoma County, CA, is an expansive freshwater wetland complex that hosts a rich diversity of plant and wildlife species, many of which are federally or state listed as threatened, endangered, or species…
Building Ecological Resilience in Highly Modified Landscapes
Author(s): Erin Beller | Erica Spotswood | April Robinson | Mark Anderson | Eric Higgs | Richard Hobbs | Katharine Suding | Erika Zavaleta | Letitia Grenier | Robin Grossinger
2018
Ecological resilience is a powerful heuristic for ecosystem management in the context of rapid environmental change. Significant efforts are underway to improve the resilience of biodiversity and ecological function to extreme events and directional change across all types of…
Author(s): Samuel Safran | Sean Baumgarten | Erin Beller | D. Bram | Jeff Crooks | Shawna Dark | Robin Grossinger | Travis Longcore | Julio Lorda | Eric Stein
2018
This talk was given at the 2018 Restore America's Estuary Conference in Long Beach, CA as part of a special session titled "Restoration Perspectives from the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve." It is based on information from the…
Author(s): Sean Baumgarten | Emily Clark | Scott Dusterhoff | Robin Grossinger | Ruth Askevold
2018
This study reconstructs the historical landscape of the Petaluma River watershed and documents the major landscape changes that have taken place within the watershed over the past two centuries. Prior to Spanish and American settlement of the region, the Petaluma River…
Historical Ecology and Landscape Change in the Central Laguna de Santa Rosa
Author(s): Sean Baumgarten | Robin Grossinger | Erin Beller | Wendy Trowbridge | Ruth Askevold
2017
This study synthesizes a diverse array of data to examine the ecological patterns, ecosystem functions, and hydrology that characterized a central portion of the Laguna de Santa Rosa during the mid-19th century, and to analyze landscape changes over the past 150 years. The…
Re-Oaking Silicon Valley: Building Vibrant Cities with Nature
Author(s): Erica Spotswood | Robin Grossinger | Steve Hagerty | Erin Beller | Letitia Grenier | Ruth Askevold
2017
In this report, we investigate how re-integrating components of oak woodlands into developed landscapes — “re-oaking” — can provide an array of valuable functions for both wildlife and people. Re-oaking can increase the biodiversity and ecological resilience of urban…
Author(s): Samuel Safran | Sean Baumgarten | Erin Beller | Jeff Crooks | Robin Grossinger | Julio Lorda | Travis Longcore | D. Bram | Shawna Dark | Eric Stein | Tyler McIntosh
2017
The Tijuana River Valley Historical Ecology Investigation addresses a regional data gap by reconstructing the landscape and ecosystem characteristics of the river valley prior to the major modifications of the late 19th and 20th centuries. The research presented here…
Author(s): Samuel Safran | Letitia Grenier | Robin Grossinger
2016
The physical and ecological environment of the upper San Francisco Estuary has been profoundly altered since the early 1800s. Recent efforts have utilized maps of the upper estuary’s historical habitat types to infer associated changes in desired ecosystem processes and…
Author(s): Erin Beller | P.W. Downs | Robin Grossinger | B.K. Orr | Micha Salomon
2016
Context Effective river restoration requires understanding a system’s potential to support desired functions. This can be challenging to discern in the modern landscape, where natural complexity and heterogeneity are often heavily suppressed or modified.…
Mission Bay Historical Ecology Reconnaissance Study: Data Collection Summary (Technical Report)
Author(s): Samuel Safran | Emily Clark | Erin Beller | Robin Grossinger
2016
The goals of the Mission Bay Historical Ecology Reconnaissance Study were to collect and compile high-priority historical
data about the Mission Bay landscape, identify sources that could help to develop a deeper understanding of early
ecological conditions,…
Author(s): James Cloern | April Robinson | Amy Richey | Letitia Grenier | Robin Grossinger | Katharyn Boyer | Jon Burau | Elizabeth Canuel | John DeGeorge | Judith Drexler | Chris Enright | Emily Howe | Ronald Kneib | Anke Mueller-Solger | Robert Naiman | James Pinckney | Samuel Safran | David Schoellhamer | Charles Simenstad
2016
To evaluate the role of restoration in the recovery of the Delta ecosystem, we need to have clear targets and performance measures that directly assess ecosystem function. Primary production is a crucial ecosystem process, which directly limits the quality and quantity of…
San Francisquito Creek Baylands: Landscape Change Metrics Analysis
Author(s): Micha Salomon | Scott Dusterhoff | Ruth Askevold | Robin Grossinger
2016
Major Findings
Over the past 150 years, lower San Francisquito Creek and the adjacent baylands have been modified for the sake of land reclamation and flood control. This study focused on developing an understanding of the magnitude of habitat change…
Author(s): Goals Project
2015
- Baylands Ecosystem Habitat Goals Science Update 2015, Complete Report
- Science Foundation Chapters
- Appendix A: Process for Updating the Baylands Goals
- Appendix B: Change in the Extent of Baylands Habitat
- Appendix C: Changes in the Configuration of Baylands Habitats
- Appendix D: Future Scenarios Evaluated
- Appendix E: Habitat Types
Author(s): Micha Salomon | Sean Baumgarten | Scott Dusterhoff | Erin Beller | Ruth Askevold
2015
Project Background
Over the past century and a half, lower Novato Creek and the surrounding tidal wetlands have been heavily modified for flood control and land reclamation purposes. Levees were built in the tidal portion of the mainstem channel…
Shifting Shores: Marsh Expansion and Retreat in San Pablo Bay
Author(s): Julie Beagle | Micha Salomon | Robin Grossinger | Sean Baumgarten | Ruth Askevold
2015
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
As sea level rise accelerates, our shores will be increasingly vulnerable to erosion. Particular concern centers around the potential loss of San Francisco Bay’s much-valued tidal marshes, which provide natural flood protection to…
Author(s): Samuel Safran
2015
Hot springs in the Tijuana River? Antelope by the beach? Zip-lines over the international border?
Come find out what the Tijuana River Valley looked like in the not-so-distant past and how the river, estuary, and surrounding areas have changed over the past two…
Natural Flow Hydrodynamic Modeling Technology Support Phase 1 Technical Memorandum
Author(s): SFEI | Samuel Safran
2014
This technical memorandum summarizes the work to date carried out by the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) to generate a bathymetric-topographic digital elevation model (DEM) of the historical Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (representative of early 1800s conditions).…
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Investigation: Exploring Pattern and Process
Author(s): Alison Whipple | Robin Grossinger | D. Rankin | B. Stanford | Ruth Askevold
2012
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has been transformed from the largest wetland system on the Pacific Coast of the United States to highly productive farmland and other uses embodying California’s water struggles. The Delta comprises the upper extent of the San Francisco…
Author(s): B. Stanford | Robin Grossinger | Ruth Askevold | Alison Whipple | R. Leidy | Erin Beller | M Salomon | Chuck Striplen
2011
- East_Contra_Costa_Historical_Ecology_Study_Final_(lowres).pdf
- Part_1_East_Contra_Costa_Historical_Ecology_Study_Final(highres)_FM_Pages_1to26.pdf
- Part_2_East_Contra_Costa_Historical_Ecology_Study_Final(highres)_Pages_27to70.pdf
- Part_3_East_Contra_Costa_Historical_Ecology_Study_Final(highres)_Pages_71to118.pdf
Author(s): Alison Whipple | Robin Grossinger | F. Davis
2010
For centuries humans have reduced and transformed Mediterranean-climate oak woodland and savanna ecosystems, making it difficult to establish credible baselines for ecosystem structure and composition that can guide ecological restoration efforts. We combined historical data…
Author(s): Robin Grossinger | Erin Beller | Micha Salomon | Alison Whipple | Ruth Askevold | Chuck Striplen | E. Brewster | R. Leidy
2008
- SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_CompleteReport_LowResolution.pdf
- Executive_Summary_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy.pdf
- 1_2_Intro_GeneralMethods_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_HighResolution.pdf
- 3_landusehistory_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_HighResolution.pdf
- 4_streams_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_HighResolution.pdf
- 5_wetlands_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_HighResolution.pdf
- 6_oaks_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_HighResolution.pdf
- 7_landscape_patterns_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_HighResolution.pdf
Author(s): Robin Grossinger | Erin Beller | Micha Salomon | Alison Whipple | Ruth Askevold | Chuck Striplen | E. Brewster | R. Leidy
2008
- SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_CompleteReport_LowResolution.pdf
- Executive_Summary_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy.pdf
- 1_2_Intro_GeneralMethods_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_HighResolution.pdf
- 3_landusehistory_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_HighResolution.pdf
- 4_streams_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_HighResolution.pdf
- 5_wetlands_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_HighResolution.pdf
- 6_oaks_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_HighResolution.pdf
- 7_landscape_patterns_SouthSantaClaraValleyHEStudy_HighResolution.pdf