Now Available: The 2025 State of Bay-Delta Science

Now Available:

2025 State of Bay-Delta Science – Part 1

Part 1 of the 2025 State of Bay-Delta Science is now available online in the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (SFEWS) journal’s latest issue. In whole, this edition includes seven articles summarizing the state of the science on climate change and extreme events, social and ecological impacts, and climate governance and adaptation strategies in the Bay-Delta and its watershed. Articles will be released across multiple issues of SFEWS in 2025. Part 1 includes four articles: an introduction to the edition written by the editorial board, and three focused review articles covering climate governance, droughts, and heatwaves.

In the next release, planned for later this year, articles will address wildfires and water quality impacts, atmospheric rivers and floods, and perspectives from the editorial board on how science and management can adapt to rapidly changing conditions in the Bay-Delta. Read this information sheet and visit the SBDS website to learn more about this important ongoing synthesis effort.

READ PART ONE

A note from the Delta Lead Scientist

“The impacts of extreme weather events in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have accelerated,” says Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Lisamarie Windham-Myers. “Having access to and an understanding of the best available climate science directly links to our collective ability to respond to these challenges.”

One Delta, One Science

Led by the Delta Science Program, the Delta Science Strategy is a collaborative effort intended to guide and benefit the broad Delta community. This three-part planning, implementation, and reporting strategy comprises the Delta Science Plan, the Science Action Agenda, and the State of Bay-Delta Science. It establishes a foundation for One Delta, One Science – an open Delta science community that works together to build a common body of scientific knowledge.

Covers of the reports that make up the Delta Science Strategy

Science Communication

Communication is essential to building the Delta science community and delivering pertinent information to scientists, decision-makers, and the public. Effective science communication transforms information into knowledge and knowledge into action. One way the Delta Science Program supports science communication is by supporting publications, like SFEWS, highlighting research about the science and resource management of San Francisco Bay, the Delta, and upstream watersheds.

Delta Science Program

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Sacramento, CA 95814

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