San Francisco Bay-Delta Science Consortium History and Overview
A broad range of government, university and private agencies are currently conducting monitoring, research and outreach activities that focus on the health of the Bay-Delta. These activities are supported by existing and planned laboratories and field stations located throughout the Bay-Delta from Menlo Park in the South Bay to Sacramento. In the late 1990’s multiple agencies including the California Department of Fish and Game, the California Department of Water Resources, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey were faced with the prospect of relocating their Bay Area offices and laboratories. At the same time the CALFED Bay-Delta Science program was beginning to implement their goal of promoting the integration of multi-institutional Bay-Delta studies. The opportunity was seen to unify each of these objectives and the formation of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Consortium began to take shape.
Today the Consortium has expanded to include 15 member institutions and serves as a more structured arrangement than has existed previously to better facilitate collaboration and cooperation among its members. These institutions have each signed an MOU which unites them under a set of common goals in pursuit of world class Bay-Delta science.
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