ESSA’s Cedar Morton and Jimena Eyzaguirre  have been working with GIZ to articulate how nature-based solutions can be harnessed to help “climate-proof” water infrastructure like dams, irrigation canals, pumping facilities, and more. Watch Cedar’s recent overview presentation to the GIZ community about Ecosystem-based Adaptation for water infrastructure […]

This April 6-9, 2021, more than 1,000 scientists, managers, and policymakers gathered virtually for the 11th Biennial Bay-Delta Science Conference. Broadly, this conference seeks to provide new information and tools to the large community of scientists, engineers, resource managers, and stakeholders working on issues in […]

For the past few years, ESSA has been supporting a collaboration among five governments to explore solutions and make progress towards the reintroduction of salmon into the upper Columbia River. Now the broader team behind Bringing the Salmon Home: The Columbia River Salmon Reintroduction Initiative […]

ESSA’s Darcy Pickard recently had her term as co-chair of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s Technical Advisory Committee on Science and Knowledge renewed for an additional two years. The Committee’s focus in 2019 was to provide advice and input to support development of initial guidance […]

On November 17, 2020 Oregon, California, the Yurok and Karuk Tribes and the Klamath Dam owner Berkshire Hathaway-PacifiCorp agreed to provide additional resources and support for dam removal to advance the largest dam removal, river and fish population restoration project in US history. This involves […]

Originally established in 2016 as an annually funded award, the Paul Higgins Simon Fraser University (SFU) Resource and Environmental Management Graduate Award was endowed this year. Paul was committed to environmental management and sustainable development in BC. With 30 years of experience working on the impacts […]