 | A Practical Guidebook to the Control of Invasive Aquatic and Wetland Plants of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Region. | |
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 | The Creosote Piling Project assesses the potential removal of creosoted pilings from San Francisco Bay. | |
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| USEPA has selected SFEI to conduct a test of LDI as an indicator of environmental stress at the watershed scale throughout California. LDI is based on the concept that the more a given land use type converts materials and energy from one form to another, the more likely it is to have downstream negative environmental impacts. | |
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| Plan and conduct workshops to standardize nomenclature for benthic invertebrate taxonomy and chemical names. | |
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| SFEI will summarize in the form of two white papers existing knowledge of the potential role of 1) pyrethroid insecticides, and; 2) aquatic herbicides for contributing to the pelagic organism decline in the upper San Francisco estuary (Suisun Bay and the Delta). | |
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| SFEI continued to assist SFEP in revising the first edition of the CCMP (1993) by assisting with the development of performance measures and making priority actions more specific based on the most recent scientific information. | |
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| A suite of ecosystem indicators has been approved by the Implementation Committee for the San Francisco Estuary. | |
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| A collaborative project with SFEI and UC Davis to assess the possible impact of contaminants on Sacramento splittail. SFEI’s contribution is coordination of sampling and chemical analysis, and interpreting concentrations of contaminants measured in splittail caught in the Delta. | |
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| Indicators were selected to assess the overall health of San Pablo Bay. An extensive set of potential indicators was tested, including chemical, biochemical and ecological variables. | |
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| The purpose of this project is to provide research, writing, and graphical assistance to the IEP Coordinators and the CALFED Science Program for the development of a long-term ecological and water quality monitoring program to implement the CALFED Bay-Delta Program's aquatic monitoring mandates. | |
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| The purpose of the meeting was to bring together agencies involved in the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) and others that have collected oil spill-related environmental samples, to share information on the samples collected, identify potential data gaps, and discuss potential restoration and mitigation opportunities. | |
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| This project monitors in SF Estuary ambient waters concentrations of California Toxics Rule priority pollutants not previously measured by RMP. | |
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| The purpose of this project is to develop analytical methods to measure multiple pesticides at “environmentally relevant concentrations” (low ppt) in the San Francisco Estuary. | |
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 | The aims of the Fish Mercury Project were to examine mercury and other chemicals in fish in the Bay-Delta watershed, to increase public awareness of fish contamination issues and to monitor potential changes in mercury concentrations from marsh restoration projects in the Delta. | |
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| Develop a set of environmental indicators of the condition of San Francisco Estuary, for SFEP. | |
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| The purpose of this project is to evaluate pyrethroids in sediments and their potential impact on benthic organisms. | |
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| The intention of the Keep the Delta Clean Program – Phase II (KDC) provide information to the public and
expand environmental services for boaters that reduce potential pollution related to recreational boating
activities including installation of marina-based Oil Recycling Centers to collect used oil, oil filters, marine batteries, and oil absorbents from the boaters and local residents in the San Francisco Delta region. | |
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| SFEI staff was contracted for a literature review and identification of data gaps. | |
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| Collaborators are studying mercury and methyl mercury processes in marshes of the Petaluma Riverwatershed along the salinity gradients to characterize the potential for wetland processes and restoration activities to impact the threatened California black rail and other resident species | |
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| SFEI is participating in West Coast EMAP studies, including planning, coordination of SF Estuary benthic voucher collection taxonomy, and data conversion to EMAP formats. | |
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