Through the Proposal Solicitation Packages (PSP's) and CALFED Science Fellows projects the Science Program has funded over 57 research projects totaling over $21 million; the 2004 and 2006 PSP's resulted in a combined funding of 27 proposals for a total of over $16 million while the Science Fellows effort has resulted in a total of 36 fellows projects for a total of $5 million.
The information from this research has already provided critical information to management on a variety of high priority items including POD, Delta Vision, salmonids, environmental water, restoration, climate change, drinking water quality, etc. Check back regularly for grant updates.
| 2006 PSP |
| P.I. |
Lead Institution |
Funding |
Title |
Products |
| May |
UC Davis |
$430,870.00 |
Predicting
the Effects of Invasive Hydrozoa (Jellyfish) on Pelagic Organisms Under
Changing Salinity and Temperature Regimes |
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| Parker |
CSU
San Francisco |
$646,848.00 |
Climate
Change Impacts to San Francisco Bay-Delta Wetlands: Links to Pelagic Food
Webs and Predictive Responses Based on Landscape Modeling |
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| Kueltz |
UC
Davis |
$700,000.00 |
Quantitative
Indicators and Life History Implications of Environmental Stress on Sturgeon |
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| Dugdale |
CSU
San Francisco |
$500,000.00 |
Do
Low Phytoplankton Growth Rates Signal the "Bad" Habitat Conditions
in Suisun Bay Driving the Pelagic Organism Decline |
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| Guerin |
Contra
Costa Water District |
$116,927.00 |
The
Consequences of Operational Decisions on Water Quality: Reconciling Delta
Smelt, Salmon, and Human Needs |
|
| Stacey |
UC
Berkeley |
$390,869.00 |
A
Calibration-Free Approach to Modeling Delta Flows and Transport |
|
| Castillo |
US
Fish and Wildlife Services |
$670,000.00 |
Pilot Mark-Recapture Study to
Estimate Delta Smelt Pre-screen Loss and Salvage Efficency |
|
| Stacey |
UC
Berkeley |
$200,975.00 |
The Transport
and Dispersion of Rafting Vegetation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta |
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| Lehman |
DWR |
$150,000.00 |
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 |
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| Torres |
University
of South Carolina |
$790,000.00 |
A
Non-Point Source of Contaminants to the Estuarine Food Web |
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| Brandes |
US
Fish and Wildlife Services |
$483,903.00 |
Estimating
Juvenile Chinook Salmon Spring and Winter Run Abundance at Chipps Island |
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| Cloern |
USGS |
$299,422.00 |
TRoUBLE?
Trends of Rising and Unexpected Bloom Levels in the Estuary |
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| Messer |
DWR |
$219,822.00 |
Analysis
of Archived Samples to Assess Patterns of Historic Invasive Bivalve Biomass |
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| Messer |
DWR |
$395,700.00 |
Spatial
and Temporal Quantification of Pesticide Loadings to the Sacramento River,
San Joaquin River, and Bay-Delta to Guide Risk Assessment for Sensitive
Species |
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| 2004 PSP |
| P.I. |
Lead Institution |
Funding |
Title |
Products |
| Sedlak |
UC
Berkeley |
$ 1,167,149.00 |
Identifying
Causes of Feminization of Chinook Salmon |
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| Ingram |
UC
Berkeley |
$197,689.00 |
Chinook
salmon rearing in the San Francisco Bay-Delta system: Identification of
geochemical markers to determine Delta use |
|
| Mangel |
UC
Santa Cruz |
$ 1,014,596.00 |
Life
History Variation in Steelhead Trout and the Implications for Water Mangement |
|
| Klimley |
UC
Davis |
$ 1,500,000.00 |
Survival
and Migratory Patterns of Central Valley Juvenile Salmonids |
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| Kimmerer |
CSU
San Francisco |
$ 1,170,000.00 |
Foodweb
Support for the Delta Smelt |
|
| Cloern |
USGS |
$ 1,662,870.00 |
CASCADE:
Computational Assessments of Scenarios of Change for the Delta Ecosystem |
|
| Anke Mueller-Solger |
DWR |
$159,158.00 |
Phytoplankton
communities in the San Francisco Estuary: monitoring and management using a
submersible spectrofluorometer |
|
| Kimmerer |
CSU
San Francisco |
$997,027.00 |
Modeling
Delta Smelt in SF Estuary |
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| Dunne |
UC
Santa Barbara |
$ 1,400,000.00 |
How
Abiotic Processes, Biotic Processes, and Their Interactions Sustain Habitat
Characteristics and Functions in River Channels and their Floodplains: An
Investigation of the Response of a Gravel-Bed Reach of the Merced River to
Restoration |
|
| Lehman |
DWR |
$500,000.00 |
Biomass
and toxicity of a newly established bloom of the cyanobacteria Microcystis
aeruginosa and its potential impact on beneficial use in the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta |
|
| Brandes |
US
Fish and Wildlife Services |
$ 83,100.00 |
Review
of four juvenile salmon coded wire tag experiments conducted in the Delta |
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| May |
UC
Davis |
$143,735.00 |
Are
"Apparent" Sex Reversed Chinook Salmon A Sympton of Genotoxicity? |
|
| Hendrix |
UC
Davis |
$679,631.00 |
A
Statistical Model of Central Valley Chinook Incorprating Uncertainty |
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| 2007 Fellows |
| P.I. |
Lead Institution |
Funding |
Title |
Products |
| Alex Fremier |
University
of Syracuse, NY |
$228,750.00 |
Modeling Physical Drivers and Age Structure of Cottonwood Forest Habitat: An Integrated Systems Approach |
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| Susanne Brander |
UC
Davis |
$129,124.00 |
Endocrine Disruption in the Delta: Confirming Sites' Known Estrogenicity with Outplants, Histology, and Choriogenin Level Measurements |
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| Susan Lang |
Scripps
Institution of Oceanography |
$215,759.00 |
Investigating the Lower Trophic Levels of Suisun Bay Food Web: A Biomarker-Specific Isotope Approach |
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| Lisa Schile |
University
of California, Berkeley |
$125,750.00 |
Tidal wetland vegetation response to climate change in the San Francisco Bay-Delta |
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| Sarah Hughes |
UC
Santa Barbara |
$114,063.00 |
Environmental Water: Developing Indicators and Identifying Opportunities |
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| Heidi Weiskel |
UC
Davis |
$107,812.00 |
Nutrients and Benthic Invasion Dynamics in San Francisco Bay |
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| 2006 Fellows |
| P.I. |
Lead Institution |
Funding |
Title |
Products |
| Sullivan, Lindsay |
San
Francisco State University |
$152,500.00 |
Prey
slection of larval and juvenile planktivorous fish in the San Francisco
Estuary |
|
| Sardella, Brian |
UC
Davis |
$139,963.00 |
Temperature
and salinity effect on the physicology of white sturgeon |
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| Whitcraft, Christine |
San
Francisco State University |
$123,285.00 |
Role
of exotics as ecosystem engineers affecting estuarine food webs in suisun
marsh |
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| Woodley, Christa |
UC
Davis |
$191,875.00 |
The
Impacts of global climate change on delta fishes: predicting fish abundance,
distribution and community changes |
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| Schroeter, Robert |
UC
Davis |
$200,625.00 |
Temporal
and spatial patterns in abundance and production of pelagic organisms in the
low salinity zone (susun marsh, bay and delta) of the S.F. Estuary with
insight into trophic position and impacts of alien invasive species. |
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| Perry, Russel |
University
of Wahsington |
$129,365.00 |
Estimating
route-specific survival and distribution of juvenile salmonids migrating
through the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta |
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| Parker, Alexander |
San
Francisco State University |
$152,500.00 |
Heterotrophic
bacteria and the foodweb of the low salinity zone and salt marsh habitats of
the San Francisco estuary |
|
| Luengen, Allison |
UC
Davis |
$191,439.00 |
Mercury
interactions with algae: effects on mercury biovailability in the S.F. bay
delta |
|
| Seavy, Nathaniel |
UC
Davis |
$228,750.00 |
Measuring
and predicting the success of riparian restoration for wildlife populations:
accommodating uncertainty and complexity |
|
| Clemento, Anthony |
UC
Santa Cruz |
$129,375.00 |
Validation
of a new method for population assessment of pacific salmonids using genetic
markers |
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| 2005 Fellows |
| P.I. |
Lead Institution |
Funding |
Title |
Products |
| Annjanette Dodd |
California
State University, Humbolt |
$200,125.00 |
Development
of a Simulation Model of Juvenile Salmon Movemen in the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta |
|
| John Harrison |
UC
Davis |
$228,750.00 |
Modeling
Nutrient and Organic Carbon Loads and Soures in Central Valley Watersheds:
Taking Existing Monitoring Data to the Next Stage |
|
| James Hobbs |
UC
Davis |
$228,750.00 |
The
Application of Otolith Geochemistry to Determine Stock Structure, Survival
and the Relative Impact of Water Exports on the Threatened Delta Smelt |
|
| Margaret Andrew |
UC
Davis |
$111,750.00 |
Determining
the Factors Controlling Site Invasibility to Lepidium latifolium |
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| Walter Heady |
UC
Santa Cruz |
$129,375.00 |
Effects
of Water Temperature, Streamflow and Flood Availability on the Growth. |
| Suzanne Langridge |
UC
Santa Cruz |
$129,239.00 |
Addressing
Stakeholder Concerns: Pests and Pest Control in the Sacramento River
Conservation Area |
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| J. Toby Minear |
UC
Berkeley |
$107,679.00 |
Long-term
Geomaorphic Effects of Dams on Rivers in the Central Valley of California. |
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| John Stella |
UC
Berkeley |
$228,750.00 |
Restoring
Non-Equilibrium Riparian Communities in Disturbance-Altered Ecosystems:
Implications for River Management and Climate Change |
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| 2003 Fellows |
| P.I. |
Lead Institution |
Funding |
Title |
Products |
| Sandra Clinton |
UC
Berkeley |
$280,851.00 |
Terrestrial
carbon in aquatic foodwebs |
|
| John Stella |
UC
Berkeley |
$93,491.00 |
A
Mechanistic Model to Evaluate and Improve Riparian Restoration Success |
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| Frances Malamud-Roam |
UC
Berkeley |
$205,600.00 |
Sediment
Supply and Marsh Development in the San Francisco Estuary |
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| Jeff Opperman |
UC
Davis |
$232,815.00 |
An
investigation of floodplain habitat for California's native fish species |
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| Gretchen Rollwage-Bollens |
Washington
State University |
$231,840.00 |
Protistan
microzooplankton in the Suisun Bay Food Web. |
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| Noah Snyder |
Boston
College |
$164,136.00 |
Using
Stratigraphic and Hydrologic Data from the Yuba River System to Develop
Reliable Sediment Transport Predictions |
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