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DELTA INDEPENDENT SCIENCE BOARD: The California Environmental Flows Framework, April 7, 2022, Maven's Notebook

  • At the March meeting of the Delta Independent Science Board, Dr. Sarah Yarnell and Dr. Julie Zimmerman gave a presentation on the state of the science of environmental flows, an overview of the California Environmental Flows Framework, and the opportunities and challenges for improving the science underpinning environmental flows.

Functional Flows can Improve Environmental Water Management in California, November 29, 2020, California Water Blog

  • Description of key attributes of CEFF’s functional flows approach and discussion of how it relates to past approaches and those recently adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board

Setting Aside Environmental Water for the San Joaquin River, October 26, 2020, Public Policy Institute of California

  • If stakeholders can find a way to restore the health of San Joaquin River while preserving the region’s social and economic vitality, it can be done anywhere in the state

New Approach Needed to Protect Health of California's Rivers, September 4, 2020, Calmatters

  • In the face of climate change, biodiversity loss, and conflict over water, California urgently needs to rethink how it manages water for the environment

Environmental Flows in California, March 18, 2020, California Water Blog

  • Update on the status of environmental flows in California, with an emphasis on CEFF and the 2020 California Water Resilience Portfolio

Ecologists See Little Difference Between Unimpaired and (Truly) Functional Approaches to Flow, February 4, 2020, Guest Commentary on Maven's Notebook

  • Guest commentary in response to 'The Final Demise of Unimpaired Flows', a guest commentary on Maven's Notebook, providing discussion of how a Functional Flows approach builds on natural flow patterns inherent to unimpaired flows

Functional Flows for Developing Ecological Flow Recommendations, December 9, 2018, California Water Blog

  • Overview of the Functional Flows approach and CEFF.

Developing Tiered Environmental Flow Criteria Using a Functional Flows Approach for California Streams, April 1, 2018, Maven's Notebook

  • Overview of Dr. Sarah Yarnell's CEFF presentation for the Delta Science Brown Bag Seminar, which summarizes an early draft version of CEFF.

A simplified method to classify streams and improve California’s water management, July 17, 2017, California Water Blog