Rivers provide about 60 percent of the nation’s drinking water and irrigation water and 10 percent of the nation’s electric power needs. The multiple and sometimes incompatible services demanded of…

Evaluating the scientific and technical readiness to move ahead with the establishment of a research-driven ocean observatory network, this book highlights outstanding issues. These issues include the status of planning…

A way to assess the impact of ocean noise on marine animals, is to consider whether it causes behavioural changes that affect an animal’s ability to grow, survive, and reproduce…

National interests in greater energy independence, concurrent with favorable market forces, have driven increased production of corn-based ethanol in the United States and research into the next generation of biofuels…

California’s Bay-Delta estuary is a biologically diverse estuarine ecosystem that plays a central role in the distribution of California’s water from the state’s wetter northern regions to its southern, arid…

The San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary is a large, complex estuarine ecosystem in California. It has been substantially altered by dikes, levees, channelization, pumps, human development, introduced species, dams on…

The Water Institute of the Gulf is a not-for-profit, independent research institute dedicated to advancing the understanding of coastal, deltaic, river and water resource systems, both within the Gulf Coast…

In this context, assessments are the vehicles by which the scientific community translates its technical findings into a form that policy makers can understand and make use of. This study…