CALFED Science Program

Science Program 2006 Focused Proposal Solicitation Package (PSP):

The Science Program 2006 PSP resulted in 14 grants totaling $6 million and are focused on 4 high priority topic areas including: Environmental Water, Aquatic Invasive (Exotic) Species, Trends and Patterns of Populations and System Response to a Changing Environment, and Habitat Availability and Response to Change.

The CALFED Science Program considers funding scientific research to be a critical component in achieving its mission of establishing unbiased and authoritative knowledge directly relevant to CALFED actions. The goal of funding this research is to invest in knowledge that will fundamentally advance the understanding of the complex environments/systems within the CALFED jurisdiction to aid policy-makers and managers.

2006 PSP Funded Projects

Thirty-five proposals were submitted in response to the 2006 PSP that totaled over $24 million in requested funds. All proposals went through a rigorous independent review that resulted in the selection of the following 14 proposals totaling over $6 million:

Topic 1 - Environmental Water
PI	Lead Institution	Funding	Title (link to full proposal)	Products
Stacey	UC Berkeley	$390,869	A Calibration-Free Approach to Modeling Delta Flows and Transport
Castillo	USFWS	$670,000	An Experimental and Modeling Approach to Evaluate Environmental Water Effects on Threatened Delta Smelt
Torres	U. South Carolina	$790,000	A Non-Point Source of Contaminants to the Estuarine Food Web.
Topic 2 - Aquatic Invasive (Exotic) Species
May	UC Davis	$430,870	Predicting the Effects of Invasive Hydrozoa (Jellyfish) on Pelagic Organisms Under Changing Salinity and Temperature Regimes
Stacey	UC Berkeley	$200,975	The Transport and Dispersion of Rafting Vegetation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Messer	CA DWR	$219,822	Analysis of Archived Samples to Assess Patterns of Historic Invasive Bivalve Biomass
Topic 3 - Trends and Patterns of Populations and System Response to a Changing Environment
Cloern	USGS	$299,422	TRoUBLE? Trends of Rising and Unexpected Bloom Levels in the Estuary
Parker	CSU San Francisco	$646,848	Climate Change Impacts to San Francisco Bay-Delta Wetlands: Links to Pelagic Food Webs and Predictive Responses Based on Landscape Modeling
Brandes	USFWS	$483,903	Estimating Juvenile Chinook Salmon Spring and Winter Run Abundance at Chipps Island
Topic 4 - Topic 4 - Habitat Availability and Response to Change
Kueltz	UC Davis	$700,000	Quantitative Indicators and Life History Implications of Environmental Stress on Sturgeon
Guerin	Contra Costa Water District	$116,927	The Consequences of Operational Decisions on Water Quality: Reconciling Delta Smelt, Salmon, and Human Needs
Lehman	CA DWR	$150,000	Using FlowCAM Technology to Measure High Frequency Spatial and Temporal Variation in Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Species Composition and Develop State-of-the-Art Plankton Monitoring Programs
Messer	CA DWR	$395,700	Spatial and Temporal Quantification of Pesticide Loadings to the Sacramento River, San Joaquin River, and Bay-Delta to Guide Risk Assessment for Sensitive Species
Dugdale	CSU San Francisco	$500,000	Do Low Phytoplankton Growth Rates Signal the "Bad" Habitat Conditions in Suisun Bay Driving the Pelagic Organism Decline

Science Program 2006 Focused Proposal Solicitation Package (PSP):

2006 PSP Funded Projects

2006 PSP Support Information