Integrated Science and Engineering

The Division of Integrated Science and Engineering  (DISE) ensures we comply with extensive federal, state, and local regulations. With science as our foundation, the information we gather is used to support water and resource management throughout California; assist in balancing both human and environmental needs; and inform management decisions, the science community, and general public. Funding comes from a mixture of federal cost shares and special and State Water Project funds.

Our work includes:

• Developing the best available science
• Investigating multiple subject areas
  • Fish
  • Food web species ­
  • Waterfowl
  • Water quality
  • Habitat
  • Connections between topics

• Performing research, ongoing monitoring, and assessments primarily in the Feather River, Yolo Bypass, Suisun Marsh, and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
  • Water quality
  • Biological species (fish, birds, invertebrates, and harmful algal blooms, plants, and cultural resources)

• Restoring habitats and mitigating State Water Project impacts to the natural environment through restoration programs
  • Delta Pumping Plant Fish Protection Agreement (known as the Delta Fish Agreement)
  • Fish Restoration Program Agreement
  • Yolo Bypass Habitat Restoration Program
  • Habitat Expansion Agreement

• Collaborating with the Interagency Ecological Program (IEP), a consortium of State and federal agencies which seeks to provide integrated, relevant, and timely ecological information for management of the Bay Delta ecosystem and the water that flows through it
  • Monitoring
  • Research
  • Modeling
  • Synthesis efforts for various aspects of the aquatic ecosystem

Find data relevant to our work in the California Open Data Portal, California Data Exchange Center (CDEC), and Water Data Library.