Program: Central Valley FloodplainsSummary: The McCormack-Williamson Tract is a North Delta island located immediately downstream of the confluence of the Cosumnes and Mokelumne Rivers.Owned by The Nature Conservancy California, the island offers opportunities for restoration of of critical tidal freshwater marsh and floodplain habitat. There is also the potential that the island could be managed in such a way as to moderate flood flows in the North Delta. In 2000, the Watershed Center began the research and baseline studies necessary to inform restoration planning and design, and the monitoring of restoration success. This study included analysis of historic geomorphic conditions, characterization of the modern hydrologic and sedimentologic regime, and baseline studies of aquatic and riparian resources. Project Contact: Carson Jeffres Collaborators: Joshua ViersWilliam Fleenor Publications Dynamic river processes drive variability in particulate organic matter over fine spatiotemporal scales Nakamoto, B. J., Fogel M. L., Jeffres C. A., & Viers J. H. (2020). Dynamic river processes drive variability in particulate organic matter over fine spatiotemporal scales. Freshwater Biology. 65(9), 1569-1584. Source Water Apportionment of a River Network: Comparing Field Isotopes to Hydrodynamically Modeled Tracers Tomkovic, L. A., Gross E. S., Nakamoto B. J., Fogel M. L., & Jeffres C. A. (2020). Source Water Apportionment of a River Network: Comparing Field Isotopes to Hydrodynamically Modeled Tracers. Water. 12(4), 1128. Natural and anthropogenic geochemical signatures of floodplain and deltaic sedimentary strata, Sacramento Delta, CA Brown, K., & Pasternack G. (2005). Natural and anthropogenic geochemical signatures of floodplain and deltaic sedimentary strata, Sacramento Delta, CA. Environmental Pollution. 141(2), The geomorphic dynamics of an upper deltaic floodplain tract in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, USA Brown, K., & Pasternack G. (2004). The geomorphic dynamics of an upper deltaic floodplain tract in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 29,
Dynamic river processes drive variability in particulate organic matter over fine spatiotemporal scales Nakamoto, B. J., Fogel M. L., Jeffres C. A., & Viers J. H. (2020). Dynamic river processes drive variability in particulate organic matter over fine spatiotemporal scales. Freshwater Biology. 65(9), 1569-1584.
Source Water Apportionment of a River Network: Comparing Field Isotopes to Hydrodynamically Modeled Tracers Tomkovic, L. A., Gross E. S., Nakamoto B. J., Fogel M. L., & Jeffres C. A. (2020). Source Water Apportionment of a River Network: Comparing Field Isotopes to Hydrodynamically Modeled Tracers. Water. 12(4), 1128.
Natural and anthropogenic geochemical signatures of floodplain and deltaic sedimentary strata, Sacramento Delta, CA Brown, K., & Pasternack G. (2005). Natural and anthropogenic geochemical signatures of floodplain and deltaic sedimentary strata, Sacramento Delta, CA. Environmental Pollution. 141(2),
The geomorphic dynamics of an upper deltaic floodplain tract in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, USA Brown, K., & Pasternack G. (2004). The geomorphic dynamics of an upper deltaic floodplain tract in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 29,
