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2007 Supplemental PSP

The CALFED Science Program made a small amount of supplemental funds available on a competitive basis to provide an opportunity for some of the 20+ existing Science Program Grantees to enhance their funded research while working on issuing a full PSP for 2008.

The CALFED Science Program considers funding scientific research to be a critical component in achieving its mission of establishing unbiased and authoritative knowledge directly relevant to CALFED actions. The goal of funding this research is to invest in knowledge that will fundamentally advance the understanding of the complex environments/systems within the CALFED jurisdiction to aid policy-makers and managers.



2007 Supplemental PSP Awarded Projects

Seventeen proposals were submitted in response to the 2007 Supplemental PSP that totaled over $4.2 million in requested funds. All proposals went through a rigorous independent review that resulted in the selection of the following 9 proposals totaling over $2 million:

2007 Supplemental PSP
P.I. Lead Institution Funding Title Products
Cloern (Stewart) USGS $166,117 CASCaDE: Computational Assessments of Scenarios of Change for the Delta Ecosystem  
Drexler USGS $283,063 Salinity Fluctuations During the Last 7000 years in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta  
Dugdale / Mueller- Solger San Francisco State University / DWR $338,377 Comparison of Nutrient Sources and Phytoplankton Growth and Species Composition in Two Rivers: Their roles in Determining Productivity and Foodweb Conditions in Suisun Bay and the Delta  
Dunne UC Santa Barbara $150,000 How Abiotic Processes, Biotic Proceses, and Their Interactions Sustain Habitat Characteristics and Functions in River Channels and Their Floodplains: An Investigation of the Response of How a Reach of the Merced Rivers Responds to Restoration.  
Hendrix R2 Resource Consultants, Inc $296,442 A Statistical Model of Central Valley Chinook Incorporating Uncertainty  
Ingram UC Berkeley $228,092 The Role of the San Francisco Bay Delta in juvenile Rearing for Winter and Spring Run Chinook Salmon, to be Determined by Otolith Microchemistry  
Kimmerer San Francisco State Univeristy $299,872 Foodweb support for the threatened delta smelt and other estuarine fishes in Suisun Bay and the western Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta  
Klimley UC Davis $256,676 Supplement: Survival and Migratory Patterns of Central Valley Juvenile Salmonids  
Mangel UC Santa Cruz $194,620 Life History Variation in Management: Supplemental Grant Application