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From site-scale to landscape-scale: stormwater benefits of urban trees with SWMM-Canopy
Author(s): Tan Zi | Alison Whipple | Pete Kauhanen | Melissa Foley
2025
Urban trees can reduce stormwater runoff through canopy interception and enhanced infiltration, yet their benefits are often underrepresented in conventional models. This study introduces Storm Water Management Model-Canopy (SWMM-Canopy), a process-based tool that simulates…
Future Climate Impacts to Riparian Condition & Functions in the Petaluma River Watershed
Author(s): Emma Sevier | David Peterson | Kyle Stark | Alison Whipple | Lydia Vaughn | Rachael Pentico | John Stella
2025
This technical memorandum describes an assessment of future climate impacts to riparian ecosystem conditions and functions in the Petaluma River watershed and adjacent drainages (the Petaluma Operational Landscape Unit). Four bias-corrected, downscaled global climate models…
Petaluma River Watershed Contemporary Riparian Condition Assessment
Author(s): David Peterson | Sean Baumgarten | Kyle Stark | Lydia Vaughn | Scott Dusterhoff
2024
This technical memorandum describes the current channel and riparian conditions and their drivers in the Petaluma River watershed and adjacent drainages (the Petaluma Operational Landscape Unit). We combine spatial analysis of current riparian zone characteristics with a…
Robertson Park and Medeiros Parkway sUAS Surveys for the Sycamore Pilot Implementation Project
Author(s): Katarina Palermo | Pete Kauhanen
2024
This memo summarizes the use of small Unoccupied Aerial Systems (sUAS) to survey Robertson Park and Medeiros Parkway and analysis of how this type of technology can be used to support site scale level mapping.
Author(s): Sarah Pearce | Julie Beagle | Katie McKnight | Alison Whipple
2023
The reach of ADLL between the Arroyo Del Valle confluence (at the Interstate 680 crossing) and Verona Road is currently experiencing significant changes to its channel morphology, namely incision and widening, leading to bank erosion and bank failures. Many of the parcels…
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…
Sycamore Alluvial Woodland Pilot Study Implementation Guidelines
Author(s): H.T. Harvey & Associates
2023
This document supports planting-based approaches for sycamore enhancement by providing site-level revegetation techniques for installing, maintaining and monitoring sycamore plantings.
Sycamore Alluvial Woodland Restoration and Enhancement Suitability Study
Author(s): Sarah Pearce | Alison Whipple | Kendall Harris | Vanessa Lee | Ryan Hegstad | Charles McClain
2023
The “Sycamore Alluvial Woodland Restoration and Enhancement Suitability Study” addresses distribution and regeneration patterns and restoration strategies of sycamore alluvial woodland (SAW) habitat, a unique and relatively rare native vegetation community adapted to…
Translating Sediment Science Into Action: Documenting Beneficial Sediment Reuse
Author(s): Sarah Pearce | Kyle Stark
2023
The Preparing for the Storm project, led by Zone 7 Water Agency (Zone 7) and funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Water Quality Improvement Fund, aims to develop science-based plans, strengthen existing and new partnerships, and pilot new methodologies for…
Green Stormwater Infrastructure Planning-level Analysis for Livermore-Amador Valley
Author(s): Tan Zi | Pete Kauhanen | Alison Whipple | Lester McKee
2021
This effort is intended to provide planning-level regional guidance for placement of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) in Livermore-Amador Valley. This work identifies potential GSI locations and quantifies contaminant load and stormwater runoff volume reduction benefits…
Author(s): Scott Dusterhoff | Katie McKnight | Letitia Grenier | Nate Kauffman
2021
This report analyses current data and climate projections to determine how much natural sediment may be available for tidal marshes and mudflats and how much supplemental sediment may be needed under different future scenarios. These sediment supply and demand estimates are…
Author(s): Tan Zi | Alison Whipple | Pete Kauhanen | Erica Spotswood | Letitia Grenier | Robin Grossinger | Ruth Askevold
2021
Effective implementation of urban greening strategies is needed to address legacies of landscape change and environmental degradation, ongoing development pressures, and the urgency of the climate crisis. With limited space and resources, these challenges will not be met…
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…
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): Katie McKnight | Scott Dusterhoff | Robin Grossinger | Ruth Askevold
2018
This report proposes a multi-faceted redesign of the South San Francisco Bay shoreline at the interface with Calabazas and San Tomas Aquino creeks. Recognizing the opportunities presented by changing land use and new challenges, such as accelerated sea-level rise, we explore…
Author(s): Scott Dusterhoff | Sarah Pearce | Lester McKee | Carolyn Doehring | Julie Beagle | Katie McKnight | Robin Grossinger | Ruth Askevold
2017
Over the past 200 years, many of the channels that drain to San Francisco Bay have been modified for land reclamation and flood management. The local agencies that oversee these channels are seeking new management approaches that provide multiple benefits and promote…
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): 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): Robin Grossinger | Scott Dusterhoff | Carolyn Doehring | Micha Salomon | Ruth Askevold
2015
This report explores the potential for integrating ecological functions into flood risk management on lower Novato Creek. It presents an initial vision of how ecological elements could contribute to flood protection, based on a broad scale analysis and a one day workshop of…
How Creeks Meet the Bay: Changing Interfaces (Interactive web map)
Author(s): Scott Dusterhoff | Carolyn Doehring | Gemma Shusterman
2014
San Francisco Bay’s connections to local creeks are integral to its health. These fluvial-tidal (F-T) interfaces are the points of delivery for freshwater, sediment, contaminants, and nutrients. The ways in which the F-T interface has changed affect flooding dynamics,…