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The largest tidal wetland restoration project on the West Coast is unfolding at the edge of Silicon Valley, ushering ecosystem service benefits like natural flood control and wildlife habitat. USGS scientists are working closely with project leaders, guiding their adapative management actions with critical research and monitoring efforts.



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    List of USGS principle investigators leading restoration research projects
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Josh Ackerman studies predatory gulls --Photographer: Josh Ackerman/USGS

USGS RESEARCH TEAM

Research support for the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project is provided by a number of USGS science centers, lead by principle investigators with expertise spanning hydrology, ecology to toxicology.

The following is a list of USGS principle investigators whose team of field and laboratory researchers contribute to the South Bay restoration research, and who receive support from the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project.

Search the South Bay restoration Technical Documents list for research products by each researcher.

Also visit the Science & Monitoring page on the project's official website to see how USGS research complements the overal science program for the restoration.


USGS Western Ecological Research Center
http://www.werc.usgs.gov

Laura Valoppi, laura_valoppi@usgs.gov
Project lead scientist and research coordinator

Josh Ackerman, jackerman@usgs.gov
Mercury effects on avian health; gull predation on nests

Michael Casazza, mike_casazza@usgs.gov
Endangered clapper rail demographics and survival

John Takekawa, john_takekawa@usgs.gov
Mud flat invertebrate fauna; habitat use by wading birds and
waterfowl; mapping sea level rise impacts on marsh habitat; endangered salt marsh harvest mouse studies


USGS California Water Science Center
http://ca.water.usgs.gov/

David Schoellhamer, dschoell@usgs.gov
Sediment transport monitoring, modeling and forecasts

Gregory Shellenbarger, gshellen@usgs.gov
Sediment flux and transport, water quality


USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/

Bruce Jaffe, bjaffe@usgs.gov
Bathymetry surveys and mudflat erosion/accretion studies


USGS National Research Program - Western Region
http://water.usgs.gov/nrp/

Mark Marvin-DiPasquale, mmarvin@usgs.gov
Legacy mercury methylation, fate and transport

Jan Thompson, jthompso@usgs.gov
Benthic invertebrate communities



The following are USGS principle investigators whose independent research have contributed to the South Bay restoration effort:

Brent Topping (NRP), Jim Kuwabara (NRP), Francine Mejia (Western Fisheries Research Center), Michael Saiki (WFRC), Keith Miles (WERC), Kevin Lafferty (WERC), Jessica Lacy (PCMSC)




Top Image: A California gull with tracking tag attached by USGS researchers. Image Credit: Josh Ackerman/USGS


Updated 2012.08.02

 

 

 

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