Dr. Joshua N. Collins

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  www.sfei.org/staff_pubs/JCpubs2000.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2000    Last Visited: 3/13/2007  

  Joshua Newman Collins, Ph.D
  
  Environmental Scientist

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  Monitor Water Quality Impacts of Wetland Restoration, Josh Collins, SFEI
  
  Emerging Problems?

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  Joshua CollinsRobert and Patricia Switzer Foundation Directory
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  Joshua Collins
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  Dr. Collins received his Ph.D. in Entomological Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley and has done post-doctoral studies in Geography and Ecology at the University of California at Berkeley and Davis.Dr. Collins is a landscape ecologist and regional ecological planner with special expertise in the evolution and natural maintenance of streams and wetlands.Dr. Collins has been a professional ecologist in the Public Utilities Industry and a consulting ecologist in private practice for design and review of stream and wetland restoration projects.Since Dr. Collins joined the staff of San Francisco Estuary Institute in 1993, he has been the principal author and lead scientist for the Bay Area Wetlands Monitoring Plan, the Bay Area watersheds Science Plan, the Bay Area EcoAtlas, and the Bay Area Regional Wetlands Ecosystem Goals Project.Dr. Collins oversees the SFEI Wetlands Science Program and GIS laboratory, and co-manages the Watersheds Science Program.

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  Josh Collins, Envt'l Scientist, SF Estuary Institute
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  Josh Collins, 510.746.7365, email: josh
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  San Francisco Estuary Institute . 2nd Floor, 7770 Pardee Lane, Oakland, CA 94621 . Ph 510.746.7334 . Fax 510.746.7300. www.sfei.org Josh Collins would be at this number, not at the San Francisco Estuary Project, below.

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  Published on: 11/30/1995    Last Visited: 2/1/2003  

  Joshua Collins (SFEI) A Working Model of Tidal Marsh Development A tidal marsh is a landscape that tends toward an average form in dynamic equilibrium with regional changes in sediment and water supplies, as affected by climate and land use.It is a highly organized landscape with well-defined features that are predictably distributed through space and over time.It is almost equally maintained by abiotic and biotic processes that vary in relative geomorphic influence along the tidal energy gradient, useful proxies for which include tidal elevation or distance from tidal source.The importance of biotic controls increases with tidal elevation, distance upstream within drainage networks, and distance away from channel banks.For example, vertical accretion of the marsh plain away from channels is dominated by peat production, whereas the form of channels in cross-section and plan-view is controlled by tidal deposition and scour of inorganic sediments.Within the Unit Landscape, and under conditions of a rising sea, the tidal marsh form is maintained through a compensatory relationship between natural losses and gains in channel length.Near the headward end of tidal channels, abiotic and biotic controls fluctuate in dominance.

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  Published on: 7/25/2008    Last Visited: 7/25/2008  

  Josh Collins, PhD, San Francisco Estuary Institute Geographic information systems; spatial data integration and analysis

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  Albany City Chamber of Commerce - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/19/2004    Last Visited: 10/15/2005  

  Josh Collins, a Landscape Ecologist with the San Francisco Estuary Institute, presented a hypothetical map of the Bay Area prior to cultural and environmental intervention by Europeans.
  
  Collins said the map was based on research that included soil and bay mud sampling, historical records, interviews with surviving Native Americans at the time the Spanish first arrived here, and a host of other sources.
  
  Emphasizing that all maps change, Collins compared the South Bay with what is now Emeryville, Berkeley, and Albany, both in terms of the shoreline then, plant and animal life, and settlements.
  
  A Virtual Paradise
  
  Collins said the South Bay was a "virtual paradise," with a warm climate, wide, open spaces and plenty of water and food.The middle East Bay, by contrast, offered less living space given the nearby hills, was often cold and foggy, and provided less extensive sources of food and water.
  
  Yet Collins speculated the area was a perfect spot for trade, providing an easy journey to what is now San Francisco just across the Bay, and other settlements.Though such issues are "out of the area of my expertise," Collins said living close to the Berkeley Hills may have provided other advantages to the people who lived here as well.
  
  There is some evidence to suggest ancient peoples living near the shellmounds may have managed the growth of plants in marshes, wetlands, and ponds, Collins said.He speculated that such work may have been done in an effort to increase the amount of fish and fowl that gathered there, and to support native species in the Bay.
  
  Such technology could play an important part in protecting the eco-systems of the entire Bay, Collins said.

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  April 19, 2000 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/19/2000    Last Visited: 3/13/2003  

  "Even after 10 years of research of various kinds looking at wetlands around the bay, we find that we don't know very much," San Francisco Estuary Institute wetlands scientist Josh Collins said yesterday."The reserve provides . . . a backbone of research that takes the long view of the function of wetlands.There's nothing like that now."

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  April 19, 2000 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/19/2000    Last Visited: 3/27/2001  

  ``Even after 10 years of research of various kinds looking at wetlands around the bay , we find that we don't know very much , ' San Francisco Estuary Institute wetlands scientist Josh Collins said yesterday. ``The reserve provides . . . a backbone of research that takes the long view of the function of wetlands.There's nothing like that now.''.

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  Burning Questions for the Grant Proposal to CalFed for... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/1/1999    Last Visited: 12/2/2006  

  Josh Collins, San Francisco Estuary Institute Geographic information systems; spatial data integration and analysis for conservation and planning applications

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