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and (2) provide formulation guidance for management strategies that mitigate potential impacts due to changes in climate variability.</div> <div> Altered climate variability and probabilities of extreme weather events resulting from global climate change may threaten the agriculturally dependent economy and fragile water dependent ecosystem in the San Joaquin River Basin of California and the Delta into which the Basin drains.  This region is the focus of our study due to it environmental and economic importance:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Its river network feeds the San Francisco Bay-Delta, which is the source of drinking water for over 20 million people who reside in cities surrounding the S.F. Bay as well as coastal cities as far south as San Diego.  </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The San Francisco Bay-Delta ecosystem supports 25% of California's warm water and anadromous sport fishing species (including the endangered Winter Chinook salmon run), 80% of California's commercial fishing species, and millions of ducks and geese that use the Delta as an integral part of their “Pacific Flyway” migratory route.  The quality of this ecosystem is most dominantly impacted by agricultural subsurface drainage and discharges from managed wetlands, generated within the San Joaquin River Basin.  These discharges are contaminated with salts and potentially toxic trace elements.  </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">San Joaquin River Basin rural land ranks among the most important agricultural regions in the world, with over 2 million acres of irrigated cropland and an annual output valued at $2.5 billion. </div> <bR> <div> This project is funded by an <A HREF="http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa/fellow/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa/fellow/"><U>EPA/STAR grant</U></A>.  Award #R827448-01-0</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>