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EcoAtlas Essentials Webinar Showcases Practical Tools for Ecological Planning
Author(s): Cristina Grosso | Todd Hallenbeck | Lisa Beers | Sarah Pearce | Pete Kauhanen | Erica Johnson | Heidi Williams
2025
On October 1, 2025, the San Francisco Estuary Geospatial Workgroup (SFEGWG) hosted EcoAtlas Essentials: Practical Tools for Effective Ecological Planning, a webinar designed to guide participants in exploring how …
Lake Silveira CRAM Assessments: Mitigation Monitoring Report Post-Construction - Year 5 (2025)
Author(s): Sarah Pearce | Sarah Lowe | David Peterson
2025
The Santa Clara Valley Water District’s (Valley Water) Upper Llagas Creek Flood Protection Project (Project) aims to increase flood protection within the City of Morgan Hill and surrounding unincorporated areas. Project impacts are being mitigated by permittee-responsible…
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): Sarah Lowe | K. Huck | A. Misico | L. Scirbe | D. Sussman
2023
This 20-year water quality monitoring status and trends report for the Lahontan Water Board’s Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (Regional SWAMP) provides an overview of the environmental settings across the Region to give the reader a sense of the diverse ecological…
Author(s): Cristina Grosso | Sarah Lowe | Sarah Pearce | Kevin O'Connor | Lindsay Teunis | Eric Stein | Jennifer Siu | Melissa Scianni
2023
The goal of this Training and Outreach Plan is to increase the overall awareness and use of the WRAMP datasets and tools in support of wetland resource planning, management, and project performance tracking in California. Specifically, a near-term …
Building Capacity of the California Wetland Program Plan to Protect and Restore Vernal Pools
Author(s): Sarah Lowe | Sarah Pearce
2022
This report describes the updates to the vernal pool habitat map, the development of the ambient baseline ecological condition survey of vernal pool systems within the Central Valley, and the development and results of the habitat development curve. A fictional project…
Author(s): Sarah Lowe | Sarah Pearce | Pete Kauhanen | Josh Collins | Douglas Titus
2021
This report describes the amount and distribution of aquatic resources in the Coyote Creek watershed, Santa Clara County, California, and presents the first reassessment of stream ecosystem conditions using a watershed approach and the California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM…
Author(s): Pete Kauhanen | Sarah Lowe
2021
This document presents potential products and methods for monitoring a suite of tidal wetland habitat indicators designated for the Montezuma Wetlands Project using remote sensing technology. This document can also serve as a starting place for the Technical Advisory…
Author(s): Sarah Lowe | Sarah Pearce | Douglas Titus
2020
This technical report describes the ten-year ambient stream condition reassessment survey design and monitoring plan (or strategy) for the Coyote Creek watershed. Because the reassessment employed (and modified) the 2010 sample draw, essential background information about the…
Author(s): Sarah Lowe | Sarah Pearce | Micha Salomon | Josh Collins | Douglas Titus
2020
This report synthesizes the baseline assessments for Santa Clara County’s five watersheds to present similarities, differences, and compare ecological condition in streams across watersheds and their subregions, San Francisco Bay-Delta ecoregion, and statewide based on CRAM.…
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2019
The California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM) is a tool for assessing the condition of wetlands and streams at scales ranging from individual projects to watersheds, regions, and statewide. CRAM, alone or with other assessment methods, can be used to assess current conditions…
Author(s): Sarah Lowe | Pete Kauhanen
2019
This report describes the application of GreenPlan-IT’s Site Locator Tool to identify and rank candidate…
Author(s): Sarah Lowe | Micha Salomon | Sarah Pearce | Josh Collins | Doug Titus
2019
This report describes baseline information about the amount and distribution of aquatic resources, and evaluates the overall ecological conditions of streams using the California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM), for the West Valley watershed in Santa Clara County; consisting…
Author(s): Sarah Lowe | Micha Salomon | Sarah Pearce | Josh Collins | Douglas Titus
2018
This memorandum describes the steps taken by the D5 Project and SFEI project team to identify the
extent of the West Valley watershed study area, define the CRAM stream survey design parameters,
and complete the sample draw for the 2018 CRAM field assessment.
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2017
This report is an excerpt of the Santa Rosa Plain example from the full Evaluating Wetland Beneficial Uses At Project and Watershed Scales report.…
Author(s): Tony Hale | Cristina Grosso
2017
The following plan is intended to ensure the continued vitality of the toolset. The plan’s success will depend upon the continued collaboration of the public agencies that have supported the toolset thus far, but it must also integrate principles of resilience as it accounts…
Author(s): April Robinson | Julie Beagle | Samuel Safran | Katie McKnight | Letitia Grenier | Ruth Askevold
2017
A Delta Renewed User Guide aims to increase the accessibility of the technical findings in A Delta Renewed for easier application to restoration and conservation efforts across the Delta. The recommendations in A Delta Renewed focus on landscape-scale ecological guidance. We…
Author(s): Jing Wu | Pete Kauhanen | Sarah Lowe | Sarah Pearce | Josh Collins
2017
This summary memorandum presents technical recommendations to the 401 Certification and Waste Discharge Program (401 Program) of the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) for a coherent, scientifically sound, repeatable, watershed approach to wetland restoration…
- 1. Wetland Beneficial Use Protection: Pilot Demonstration Project
- 2. Synthesis of Literature on Wetland Assimilation Capacities, Models, and Pollutant Loads...
- 3.A. Simulating Wetland Assimilation Capacity in the Lower Santa Rosa Creek Watershed Pilot Demonstration Area Using HSPF Model
- 3.B. Demonstration of a Watershed Approach to Wetland Restoration Planning Using GreenPlan-IT
- 4. Evaluating Wetland Beneficial Uses At Project and Watershed Scales
Author(s): Sarah Lowe
2017
This memo summarizes the Sonoma County Water Agency's 2009 receiving water monthly monitoring results for the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board's NPDES Permit No. R1-2009-0050. The data were compiled, formatted and uploaded to SFEI’s…
Author(s): Sarah Lowe | Sarah Pearce | Josh Collins
2017
This report demonstrates a possible watershed-based approach to evaluating mitigation sites using the California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM). The Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) is leading the Llagas Creek Flood Control Project in the upper Pajaro River…
Author(s): Josh Collins | Sarah Lowe
2016
The emergence of comparable landscape approaches to wildlife conservation and water quality improvement through federal and California state regulatory and management programs provides an opportunity for their coordination to better protect California’s aquatic resources,…
Author(s): Tony Hale | Cristina Grosso
2016
This memo was developed by SFEI to introduce the EcoAtlas tools, their intended (target) user community, and the short- and long-term intended applications.
Author(s): Sarah Lowe | M. Salomon | Sarah Pearce
2016
In 2016 The Santa Clara Valley Water District and its consultants conducted a watershed wide survey to characterize the distribution and abundance of the aquatic resources within the Lower Peninsula watershed wtihin Santa Clara County, CA based on available GIS data…
Author(s): Sarah Lowe | M. Salomon | Sarah Pearce | Josh Collins | D. Titus
2016
In 2015 The Santa Clara Valley Water District and it's consultants conducted a watershed wide survey to characterize the distribution and abundance of the aquatic resources within the upper Pajaro River watershed wtihin Santa Clara County, CA based on available GIS…
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): Josh Collins | C. Solek | K. Connor | E Fetscher | C. Clark | K. Rey | S. Morrissette | A. Eicher | R. Pasquinelli | K. Ritter | A. Wiskind | Cristina Grosso | Sarah Pearce | Letitia Grenier | April Robinson | E. Stein | M. May | C. Roberts | J. Ross | M. Sutula | Meredith Williams | R. Clark
2009