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This just in … Michael J. McGuire’s resignation letter from NAS Committee

Posted by: Maven on May 25, 2010 at 1:56 pm

This item is courtesy of Mark Grossi of the Fresno Bee’s twitter feed. Here’s the resignation letter of Michael J. McGuire to the National Research Council:

“Stephen D. Parker
Director, Water Science and Technology Board
National Research Council
500 5th Street, N W
Washington DC 20001

Dear Mr, Parker:

It is with deep regret that I find myself in the difficult position of having to resign from the Committee on Sustainable Water and Environmental Management in the California Bay-Delta (the Committee). Yesterday’s forced resignation of Dr. Patricia Glibert from the Committee is a mistake and silences an important voice in the Committee’s upcoming discussions of environmental stressors in the Bay Delta Estuary.

You have told me that the precipitating event that caused you to ask for her resignation was that Dr. Glibert has just published an important article in the journal Reviews in Fisheries Science which shoes strong evidence that the ammonium discharge from the Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant is a major, and likely overwhelming, factor impacting the food web in the Delta causing the decline of the Delta Smelt since 1982. I do not understand why Dr. Glibert’s publication is a precipitating event. From the first day of our deliberations and our mutual airing of potential conflicts of interest, Dr. Glibert made it clear that she was doing this research. In fact, she made a detailed presentation of her findings to the Committee at our meeting in Davis, California in January. She was informed at that time that the Committee could not fully consider her findings until they were published in a peer-reviewed journal. She has now done that and as a result she has been forced off the Committee. … “

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May 25, 2010 · Filed Under Delta Issues

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