Monthly salinity reports for the Suisun Marsh from October through May of each year.

Monthly salinity reports for the Suisun Marsh from October through May of each year.

This log of operations includes: flashboard installation and removal dates, when tidal operations were started and stopped, and notes any technical issues. This current document is an Excel file that contains the data as a Table. The Table can be sorted or filtered, and can be read by scripting languages such as Python or R. The date and time are stored together in the DATETIME field. The GATE 1, GATE 2, and GATE 3 fields state whether each gate is operating in Tidal Mode, set to Open, or set to Closed. The ACTION field states what operational change has occurred. The timestamped records go back to May 5, 2018. If prior dates are needed, refer to the Historical (Archived) Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gates Log PDF, which contains records going back to November 1, 1998. This document replaces the Archived version because the Archived version did not contain a timestamp for every record. For the records that did have a timestamp, the timestamps were placed in the REMARKS field. This issue, along with the document being a PDF file, created a problem for reading the data into time-series analysis software.

This log of operations includes: flashboard installation and removal dates, when tidal operations were started and stopped, and notes any technical issues. This current document is an Excel file that contains the data as a Table. The Table can be sorted or filtered, and can be read by scripting languages such as Python or R. The date and time are stored together in the DATETIME field. The GATE 1, GATE 2, and GATE 3 fields state whether each gate is operating in Tidal Mode, set to Open, or set to Closed. The ACTION field states what operational change has occurred. The timestamped records go back to May 5, 2018. If prior dates are needed, refer to the Historical (Archived) Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gates Log PDF, which contains records going back to November 1, 1998. This document replaces the Archived version because the Archived version did not contain a timestamp for every record. For the records that did have a timestamp, the timestamps were placed in the REMARKS field. This issue, along with the document being a PDF file, created a problem for reading the data into time-series analysis software.

This log of operations includes: flashboard installation and removal dates, when tidal operations were started and stopped, and notes any technical issues. This current document is an Excel file that contains the data as a Table. The Table can be sorted or filtered, and can be read by scripting languages such as Python or R. The date and time are stored together in the DATETIME field. The GATE 1, GATE 2, and GATE 3 fields state whether each gate is operating in Tidal Mode, set to Open, or set to Closed. The ACTION field states what operational change has occurred. The timestamped records go back to May 5, 2018. If prior dates are needed, refer to the Historical (Archived) Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gates Log PDF, which contains records going back to November 1, 1998. This document replaces the Archived version because the Archived version did not contain a timestamp for every record. For the records that did have a timestamp, the timestamps were placed in the REMARKS field. This issue, along with the document being a PDF file, created a problem for reading the data into time-series analysis software.

The Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gates (SMSCG) have the potential to increase low-salinity-zone habitat for endangered Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus, California Endangered Species Act listed as Endangered, Federal Endangered Species Act listed as Threatened), and to allow them to more frequently occupy Suisun Marsh, especially Montezuma Slough, one of their most important rearing habitats. Operation of the SMSCG in summer and fall to improve Delta Smelt habitat are called for in the Biological Opinion and Incidental Take permit for the Central Valley Project and State Water Project. To support the adaptive management of the action, the California Department of Water Resources monitored the change in water quality, phytoplankton, zooplankton, fishes, and clams resulting from the action in 2018. This data package includes data collected by the Interagency Ecological Program’s (IEP) long-term monitoring programs supplemented with targeted sample collection where existing surveys lack spatial or temporal coverage. This package also includes modeling the change in Delta Smelt habitat based on area of open water with appropriate temperature, salinity, and turbidity. Monitoring during no-action years (2019 and 2020) will be used as a baseline for comparison during action years. This data package will be updated annually during both action years and non-action years.

The Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gates (SMSCG) have the potential to increase low-salinity-zone habitat for endangered Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus, California Endangered Species Act listed as Endangered, Federal Endangered Species Act listed as Threatened), and to allow them to more frequently occupy Suisun Marsh, especially Montezuma Slough, one of their most important rearing habitats. Operation of the SMSCG in summer and fall to improve Delta Smelt habitat are called for in the Biological Opinion and Incidental Take permit for the Central Valley Project and State Water Project. To support the adaptive management of the action, the California Department of Water Resources monitored the change in water quality, phytoplankton, zooplankton, fishes, and clams resulting from the action in 2018. This data package includes data collected by the Interagency Ecological Program’s (IEP) long-term monitoring programs supplemented with targeted sample collection where existing surveys lack spatial or temporal coverage. This package also includes modeling the change in Delta Smelt habitat based on area of open water with appropriate temperature, salinity, and turbidity. Monitoring during no-action years (2019 and 2020) will be used as a baseline for comparison during action years. This data package will be updated annually during both action years and non-action years.

This data release documents the spatial and temporal variability of nutrients and related water quality parameters at high spatial resolution in Suisun Marsh and Suisun Bay in the San Francisco Estuary of California, USA. The data set includes nitrate, ammonium, phosphate, dissolved organic carbon, temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, chlorophyll, blue-green algal pigments, and phytoplankton community structure. Data-collection cruises were conducted under three different environmental/flow conditions between July - September 2018 that coincided with conditions prior to, during, and following the Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gates Summer Action. The action is part of the Delta Smelt Resiliency Strategy and organized by the California Department of Water Resources and California Natural Resources Agency.

This data release includes monitoring data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Humboldt Bay Water Quality and Salt Marsh Monitoring Project. The datasets include continuous water levels collected at a 6-minute time step collected in two study marshes (Mad River and Hookton). Surface deposition, elevation changes and carbon storage (in marsh edge environments) measured in five USGS study marshes (Mad River, Manila, Jacoby, White and Hookton). The monitoring data presented in this data release represent fundamental datasets needed to manage blue carbon stocks, assess marsh vulnerability, inform sea-level rise (SLR) adaptation planning, and build coastal resiliency to climate change in Humboldt Bay, CA Additional documentation is provided in a companion report. Curtis et al, 2022 A Summary of Water-Quality and Salt Marsh Monitoring during Water Years 2013 to 2019, Humboldt Bay, CA.

We digitized water on the landscape for breeding waterfowl and other wetland-associated species within Suisun Marsh (California, USA) twice each year (spring and summer) during a 38-year period (1984-2021) with remote sensing methods that combined Landsat satellite imagery (composite images) and spectral mixture analysis using Google Earth Engine. This dataset contains the amount of flooded wetland area twice each year (spring and summer) at four spatial extents within Suisun Marsh along with corresponding data on precipitation, freshwater outflow from the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Delta, and the water year classification for the Sacramento River hydrological basin.