News/Noticias: Colorado River Delta / Delta Del Rio Colorado

April 09

April, 2009. Tim P. Barnett,1 and David W. Pierce. Sustainable water deliveries from the Colorado River in a changing climate. Article abstract and full PDF text available here

February 09

January, 2009. Richard Cudney-Bueno, et al. Rapid Effects of Marine Reserves via Larval Dispersal ( Puerto Peñasco/Upper Gulf of California used as a case study). open-access article from PLoS ONE.

December 08

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States, launched a strategy to support Mexico’s efforts to recover the world’s most-endangered marine mammal. The North American Conservation Action Plan (NACAP) for the Vaquita (Phocoena sinus), vital cooperative initiative that is the result of contributions from scientists, academics, environmental groups and officials in the three countries.

November

Osvel Hinojosa-Huerta et al. Population Trends Of Yuma Clapper Rails In The Colorado River Delta, Mexico. / Tendencias Poblacionales Del Palmoteador De Yuma En El Delta Del Río Colorado, México. Studies in Avian Biology No. 37:69–73. 2008.

Osvel Hinojosa-Huerta et al. Densities, Species Richness And Habitat Relationships Of The Avian Community In The Colorado River, Mexico. / Densidades, Riqueza De Especies y Relaciones de Hábitat de La Comunidad de Aves en el Río Colorado, México. Studies in Avian Biology No. 37:74–82. 2008.

Sue McClurg. Water Education Foundation. Colorado River Project Report. How is the Colorado River Shortage Agreement Working?.Fall 2008 12pp.

October

Commission for Environmental Cooperation launches the North American Conservation Action Plan (NACAP) for the Vaquita (Phocoena sinus), Cooperation key to rescuing the vaquita, a small porpoise exclusively found in the Upper Gulf of California, currently the planet’s most-endangered marine mammal

A Publication of the Water Education Foundation: Just Add Water? Restoring the Colorado River Delta. Western Water Magazine. September/October 2008. 13pp. Download publication here

September

L. W. Daesslé., K. C. Lugo-Ibarra., et. al. Accumulation of As, Pb, and Cu Associated with the Recent Sedimentary Processes in the Colorado Delta, South of the United States-Mexico Boundary. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2008. August 2008 13pp.

Gerardo Rodríguez Quiroz, Álvaro Bracamonte Sierra. Pertinencia de las ANP como política de conservación y mejoramiento de la calidad de vida. Análisis de percepción en la Reserva de la Biosfera del Alto Golfo de California y del Delta del Río Colorado. Revista de Investigación Científica. Estudios Sociales. CIAD. Julio Diciembre 2008. Vol., XVI. No.32. Hermosillo Sonora. 37 pp.

Francisco Zamora, Osvel Hinojosa, et. al. Collaboration in Mexico: Renewed Hope for the Colorado River Delta. Spring 2008. Nevada Law Journal. Vol. 8, Num. 3. . pp. 871-889

August

Stephanie Doster. Bilingual report addresses water supply needs in U.S.-Mexico borderlands. July 9, 2008. By A new, quarterly report is available today that provides citizens, resource managers, and policy makers in the United States-Mexico border areas with climate summaries and forecasts—essential information for making decisions about water supply and agriculture in a time of climate change and rapid growth.

Virginia Morell. Conservation Biology: Can the Vaquita Be Saved?. August 2008. Science 8 . Vol 321. No. 5890,p 767 DOI: 10.1126/science.321.5890.767

Jhon Swett, Laura Vecerina, and Terry Fulp. TheLower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program. July/ August 2008. Southwest Hydrology 7: 26-27; 33.

July

EJ Feirstein, JF Zamora, LB Vionnet, T Maddock III. Report: Simulation of Groundwater Conditions in the Colorado River Delta, Mexico. University of Arizona. May 2008. 173pp.

June

Hae-Myung Hyun,K. Ecosystem-Based Management in the Colorado River Delta . Doctor in Philosophy in Marine Affairs. University of Rhode Island, 2008. 258pp.

May

G.J. McCabe and D. M. Wolock, 2007,Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 34,Warming may create substantial water supply shortages in the Colorado River basin.

April

The Southern Nevada Water Authority has Published a Report on Colorado Augmentation Ideas. Here Is a summary of Augmentations options. Full report available soon.

Rowell, K., True, C., Flessa. And Dettman, D.L., Ciencias Marinas (2008), 34(1): 55–68. Fish without water: Validation and application of δ18O in Totoaba macdonaldi otoliths. Bilingual.

Rowell, K. Flessa, K., Dettman D,L., Roman,M,J. Gerber L,R., Findley L.T., Biological Conservation 141 (2008) 1138-1148. Diverting the Colorado River leads to a dramatic life history shift in an endangered marine fish.

Saunders, S, C Montgomery, et al. March 2008. Hotter and Drier. The West's Changed Climate. Rocky Mtn Climate Organization and NRDC publication. 54 pgs.

March

Robertson D, R. and Smith –Vaniz W, F. ( 2008). Rotenone: An Essential but Demonized Tool for Assessing Marine Fish Diversity. Bioscience Magazine. Vol. 58. No. 2. 165-170

Sanjurjo Rivera E. y Cortés Islas I. (2007) Revista del COLSON Región y Sociedad. Valoración Económica de la actividad recreativa en el Río Colorado.Vol XIX,No. 40

Hong-Chun Li; Chen-Feng You, et al. (2008) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Isotopic and geochemical evidence of palaeoclimate changes in Salton Basin, California, during the past 20 kyr: 2. 87Sr/86Sr ratio in lake tufa as an indicator of connection between Colorado River and Salton Basin 259 (2008) 198–212.

Jaramillo-Legorreta A. et.al. (2007) Conservation Biology. Saving the Vaquita: Immediate Action, Not More Data. more informationon vaquita here.

February

Sagarin, D.R., Gilly,William F. Ch., Baxter,N. B., and Christensen. ( 2008). Remembering the Gulf: Changes to the marine communities on the Sea of Cortez since the Steinbeck and Ricketts expedition of 1940. Frontiers inEcololgy Enviroment 2008; 6, doi; 6, doi:10.1890/070067

Colorado River Project River Report. Winter 2007-2008 Preparing for uncertain future: Climate Change and Colorado River Basin. Water education Fundation.

January, 2008

Lozano-Montes,H.M; Pitcher, T.J., Haggan, N., (2008) "Shifting environmental and cognitivebaselines in the upper Gulf of California". Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2008: 6, doi:10.1890/070056

December

Hernandez Morlan Xochitl Itzel. (2007)
"Citizen’s Attitudes to Re-Establish a permanent Water Flow for theColorado River Delta, North Western Mexico". Thesis for the Master of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo

November

McCabe, G.J., and Wolock, D.M. (2007) "Warming may create substantial water supply shortage in the Colorado River basin." Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 34

October

The Sonoran Institute- Island Press. (2007) “Case study of the Lower Colorado River Basin and the Delta based on the UN's Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) framework.” Also you can read about the study in the article recently appeared in the Los Angeles Times “ A trickle of water might save the estuary”

Webb, R.H., Leake, S. A., and Turner, R. M. (2007) “The Ribbon of Green . Change in Riparian Vegetation in the Southwestern Unites States” The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 412pp.

September

Lercari,D., Chavez, E. A., (2007). “Possible causes related to historic stock depletion of the totoaba, Totoaba macdonaldi (Perciformes: Sciaenidae), endemic to the Gulf of California” Fisheries Research 86 (2007) 136–142

Rojas-Bracho, L.; Pitman, R. L., (2007) “ How Now, Little Cow?” The vaquita, the worlds smallest porpoise, often drowns in fishing nets as bycatch. Can the species be saved?. Natutal History July/August 2007. pp.28-32

July
Glenn, E. et al. (2007). "Just Add Water and the Colorado River Still Reaches the Sea." Environmental Management 40 (1):1-6.

All, J.D. (2007). "Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing: Using Geoinformatics to Inform Resource Policy in the Gulf of California, Mexico." Environmental Management 40 (1):7-11.

All, J.D. (2006). "Colorado River Floods, Droughts, and Shrimp Fishing in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico." Environmental Management 37 (1): 111-125.

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