Projects – Page 3 – 34 North

Real Time Fisheries Decision Support Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta

Accessing more than 48 disparate datasets, the Bay-Delta Live (BDL) decision support and data dashboards for fisheries provide the Delta Operations for Salmonids and Sturgeon and Smelt Working Group technical teams with a platform for visualizing, comparing and analyzing data from surveys and real-time monitoring. The dashboard moves beyond real time data analysis real-time data to real-time synthesis by providing an interactive and collaborative tool for developing and testing new hypotheses about fishery responses to water operations in the San Francisco Estuary.

Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Modeling

This collaborative project aims to reconstruct the historical ecology of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta. The final product provides stakeholders with visualization tools to better understand and assess historical ecology and ecological function within the native California landscape. The tools are used to benefit future landscape planning for the State of California.

Web-based Decision Support for Stakeholder Implementation of Real-Time, Basin-scale Salinity Management (Publication)

34 North CEO, Amye Osti, co-authors publication researching the development of software tools for the implementation of real time salinity management in the San Joaquin River Basin. Real-time salinity management increases annual average salt export from the agriculture-dominated and salt-impacted San Joaquin Basin. This strategy also reduces the likelihood of potential fines associated with exceedances of monthly and annual salt load allocations which could exceed $1 million per year based on average year hydrology and State-mandated, TMDL-based salt load export limits. The essential components of this program include the establishment of telemetered sensor networks, a web-based information system for sharing data, a basin-scale salt load assimilative capacity forecasting model and institutional entities tasked with performing weekly forecasts of River salt assimilative capacity and coordinating west-side drainage return flows. San Joaquin River (SJRRTM) Online (SJRO) is a new web portal that combines WARMF-Online a dedicated web portal for sharing model input data and salt assimilative capacity forecasts with an informational website for increasing stakeholder awareness of the unique characteristics and opportunities for enhanced water and water quality resource management in the River Basin.