Frolicking fat floodplain fish feeding furiously
Carson Jeffres, fish ecologist, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences Spring is here, temperatures are warming, and juvenile salmon have filled the floodplains—a link for them between the gravel...
View ArticleWoodman, spare that levee?
Jay Lund, the Ray B. Krone Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis Policy debates sometimes seem to tragically miss the big picture. The current debate on levee...
View ArticleThe benefits of floodplain reconnection
Jeffrey Mount, Professor of Geology, UC Davis For more than a century, California has sought to separate floodplains from rivers. An elaborate array of levees and dams usually confine, divert or...
View ArticleCan Sacramento Valley reservoirs adapt to flooding with a warmer climate?
Jay R. Lund, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis Ann Willis, Watercourse Engineering, Davis, California Much has been written on potential effects and adaptations for...
View ArticleAdaptive management and experimental island flooding in the Delta
Robyn J. Suddeth, Hydrology Graduate Student, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences Like many of the world’s deltas, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is in transition. A deteriorating native...
View ArticleSome curious things about water management
Jay R. Lund, The Ray B. Krone Chair of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis Water management is often very different from what we think intuitively, or what we have been taught....
View ArticleCan solid flood planning improve all California water planning?
Jay R. Lund, The Ray B. Krone Chair of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis “No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.” E.L. Kersten The best time to prepare for...
View ArticleWater and California’s Economy
Ellen Hanak, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), San Francisco, CA Jay Lund, Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California – Davis Buzz Thompson, Stanford School of Law Today, PPIC...
View ArticleEager for rain – and floods – on California’s floodplain playground: the...
By Andrew Nichols California’s drought plays on, and a recent series of storms to start the New Year have done little to change this broken record. However, promising weather conditions suggest a...
View ArticleSt. Helena, California: Dealing with a Field-of-Dreams Levee, Residual Risk,...
by Nicholas Pinter A new $37.2[1] million levee in the town of St. Helena, on the floodplain of the Napa River, has a colorful history and has been stirring local acrimony since its inception. This...
View ArticleThe Horror of a Salmon’s Wheel of Misfortune
By Miranda Tilcock Salmon in the Stream 10 little salmon eggs, resting in a redd 1 was covered in silt, now the egg is dead 9 little alevin, with their yolks attached, 1 was washed away, and never made...
View ArticleYolo Bypass: the inland sea of Sacramento
By Megan Nguyen Land or Sea? The recent rains early this year brought much needed relief from the five-year drought in California. Reservoirs are full, mountains are covered with snow, and flood...
View ArticleWhat do stream fish do during flood flows?
By Peter B. Moyle My local stream, Putah Creek, looks like a river these days. Water is pouring down the Glory Hole of Lake Berryessa and rushing in muddy turmoil from the ‘dry’ creeks that are its...
View ArticleEvading Dam-Nation to Build a Working Floodplain on the Cosumnes River
by Michelaina Johnson This winter’s barrage of rain storms has driven most Central Valley rivers to the point of near record-breaking flooding, and the Cosumnes River is no exception. On February 10th,...
View ArticleTrump Killed Obama’s Flood Protection Rule Two Weeks Ago
by Nicholas Pinter This post was originally published as an op-ed in Fortune. Whether or not you like President Donald Trump, the current administration has not been gifted with great timing. Just 10...
View ArticlePreliminary Analysis of Hurricane Harvey Flooding in Harris County, Texas
by Nicholas Pinter, Nicholas Santos, and Rui Hui Located in Harris County, Texas, Houston is the 4th most populous city in the US. The flooding now unfolding in the Houston area is a human and...
View ArticleFloodplains in California’s Future
by Peter Moyle, Jeff Opperman, Amber Manfree, Eric Larson, and Joan Florshiem The flooding in Houston is a reminder of the great damages that floods can cause when the defenses of an urban area are...
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