NEW!

Volume 3, Issue 2 of the online journal is now available. In this issue, a featured research paper gives a critical assessment of the delta smelt population of the San Francisco Estuary, California.

San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (http://www.estuaryscience.org) is an open access, peer-reviewed, electronic journal on science and resource management of San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, and the upstream watersheds.

The journal sponsored by the CALFED Science Program and the U.C. Davis John Muir Institute of the Environment. The Science Consortium encourages its members and associated scientists to publish in the journal, as part of its efforts to foster collaboration and interdisciplinary science practices in the San Francisco Bay-Delta region.

In it's first year of publication, the journal has offered a variety of scholarly content. The first issue featured an edited volume on "Issues in San Francisco Tidal Wetlands Restoration." The second issue featured a monograph on "Open Water Processes" of the San Francisco Estuary. The third issue featured three research papers: two on the aspects of sediment transport in the Sacramento River and interior Delta, and one on the biology of an endemic species, the Sacramento splittail.

View the journal's companion archive, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Archive (http://www.estuaryarchive.org). The archive is intended to provide electronic access to legacy documents, including: historical accounts and surveys; project, planning and strategic reports; and non-peer-reviewed environmental information resources. An initial focus of the archive is to digitize, index, and post historically important collections of papers and books that are now out of print.