- Author: Carole Hom
Alison Whipple spoke about how historical ecology research can help in restoring California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday". Whipple, a first-year graduate student in Hydrologic Sciences at UC Davis and trainee in the Climate Change, Water, and Society (CCWAS) IGERT, and Robin Grossinger from the San Francisco Estuary Institute examined old diaries, photographs, and hand-drawn maps to gain insight into the landscape of the Delta in the 19th century.
According to Grossinger, their goal was "not to go back, but to understand how this landscape worked so we can re-establish ecologically functional and cost-effective habitats within the contemporary landscape.”
For more information on the project, see http://www.sfei.org/DeltaHEStudy