🌿 World Wetlands Day 🌿

Through the Wetland Regional Monitoring Program, our Fish & Fish Habitat Team tracks how restored and natural tidal wetlands support fish communities over time—providing the science needed to evaluate restoration success and guide future management.

#WorldWetlandsDay #WRMP

Our team was out sampling fish and habitat in the restored tidal wetlands of Eden Landing — one of the South Bay’s largest restoration in the bay
#WRMP #FishAndHabitat #SanFranciscoBay #EdenLanding #WetlandRestoration #SouthBay #UCDFishLab #OGFL #SFEI #TidalMarsh #FishInTheBay

obligatory high marsh-transition zone selfie. I’m in a ridiculous hat, standing in front of coyote bush, gumplant, and pickleweed

The marsh plain at Sonoma Baylands

Chris adding feldspar to a plot. The feldspar helps us measure marsh accretion.

blooming pickleweed - male flowers on the bottom, female flowers on the top

Got out to Sonoma Baylands for some #WRMP fieldwork and got mud-stuck within MINUTES. Not sure if I was an asset or a liability to @janousekwild.bsky.social but I sure learn a lot when I’m in the field with him!! 🌾🌱🌼

Three kayakers at high tide in a tidal slough near the Napa River.

A vegetation plot showing a square quadrat, tall vegetation, and a small chalk board with a plot name enscribed on it.

I can’t complain when this was my office for the day! We are conducting plant surveys for San Francisco Bay’s #WRMP (Wetland Regional Monitoring Program).

We were out at Wildcat Creek Marsh today sampling fishes for the #WRMP catch was light but found some favorites

A tidal benchmark on a bent metal rod protrudes out of a salt marsh

A corroded disk that was an old tidal benchmark

Eden Landing in South San Francisco Bay used to have a tidal station in the 1970s. I had been wondering where the tidal benchmarks might be. Found one 😂 #wrmp

Soft birds beak flowers growing among salt marsh succulents

Bright pink five petals flowers of Zeltnera growing in brown grass

An inflorescence of purple pea flowers

I had a few days of field work in San Francisco Bay tidal marshes this week, and while my focus wasn’t plants, I came across several rare and unusual beauties: soft birds beak, Delta tule pea, and Zeltnera. #estuary #wrmp

First survey of the #WRMP @sfestuaryinstitute for the ogfishlab.com @ucdavis @ucd_wfcb #teamfish #cawater #wetland

Tidal marsh landscape with brown pickleweed, green gumplants, and a line of clouds low on the horizon

Tidal marsh landscape with a shallow marsh pond and clouds low on the horizon

Lowering a small black pressure sensor into a groundwater well in a tidal marsh

Fortunate to have a near-perfect field day in San Francisco Bay. Set up some tidal marsh vegetation plots and started some groundwater level time series. #estuary #wrmp

A tidal marsh landscape with GPS bipod, groundwater well and protective fence.

A field team member working on a fence protecting a groundwater station in a tidal marsh.

Field adventures today in Suisun Marsh, San Francisco Estuary. The groundwater stations got small fences because wild pigs run free here. #wrmp #estuary

Adding a data logger into a groundwater well in a tidal marsh

A salinity meter shows hyperaline conditions in a tidal marsh groundwater well

Scientific equipment set up at the edge of San Francisco Bay

Landscape image of a tidal marsh with tidal channel and clouds on the horizon

Beautiful day for field work in San Francisco Bay. Today’s tasks: start groundwater time series, collect elevation data, and establish new vegetation plots for sampling in the summer. #wrmp #osufwsc

A reasonably balanced view on #water & #wastewater issues, but highlighting that the water supply challenges & a programme of solutions are set out in the regional & company Water Resources Management Plans would have been helpful #WRMP