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 | This study will assess watershed conditions prior to significant Euro-American modification, as a basis for understanding subsequent changes in watershed structure and function, and potential options for future environmental management. | |
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 | Alameda Creek is the largest watershed in the Bay area draining approximately 650 square miles of the East Bay interior hills and valleys, including the Livermore-Amador and Sunol valleys. | |
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 | Cyanobacterial blooms and their associated toxins have become increasingly problematic globally. Until recently, Microcystis (and associated Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Bloom (CyanoHAB) genera) blooms and microcystin intoxication were considered a public health issue solely of freshwater ponds, lakes, reservoirs, public water supplies and rivers. However, over the last several years UCSC researchers have routinely detected biotoxins in SF Bay using Solid Phase Adsorption Toxin Tracking (SPATT). | |
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 | The Ballona Creek project supports historical research conducted by the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project and CSU-Northridge on the historical ecology of the Ballona Creek watershed | |
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 | BAARI is a base map of the Bay Area's aquatic features: wetlands, open water, streams, ditches, tidal marshes and flats, and riparian areas. | |
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| Developing a Bay-wide numerical model that can be used by the RMP, the Regional Board, and stakeholders to inform environmental management decisions has been identified as an important need for several initiatives. | |
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 | Forgotten landscapes reappear on commercial billboards | |
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 | A map of historical habitats and channels in the South Bay. | |
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 | The RMP conducts triennial monitoring of cormorant and tern eggs for mercury, selenium, and trace organics. | |
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| This project is intended to enable California Wetlands Portal to be the common data management system for the State’s primary wetland protection policies and programs. | |
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| Water quality monitoring provides important information to environmental managers, regulators, and citizen groups about the condition of the State's Coastal Waters. However, since there are many individual programs which currently exist, each providing information, it has been difficult to find who is monitoring what, and where. | |
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 | Through the ASC, SFEI is working with a team of technical advisor to provide the breadth and depth of
scientific understanding about wetlands and riparian areas needed to assure the scientific
credibility of the new state policy to protect California's Wetlands. | |
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 | Comprehensive information on California wetlands | |
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| Where are California's wetlands? The California Wetlands Portal is a tool designed to answer this question. | |
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 | An online resource that promotes and facilitates coordination of water monitoring across the Central Valley basin. | |
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 | The RMP has recently completed a synthesis document summarizing the occurrence of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in San Francisco Bay (Klosterhaus et al. 2012). This report will inform a CEC strategy, where the the RMP to prioritize CECs and make recommendations for monitoring. In order to keep the CEC strategy document relevant, funds are needed to review new results, track relevant work being conducted elsewhere and develop potential collaborations. | |
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| In 2007, the CCMP was updated to reflect continuing and new needs and opportunities for protecting and restoring valuable ecosystem components, to more strongly link the Estuary itself to its surrounding watersheds, and to refine and adjust education, outreach, and progress tracking activities | |
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 | Sportfish Monitoring informs management and restrictions on sportfish consumption from the Bay. | |
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 | Historical condition, Landscape change and restoration potential in the Eastern Santa Clara Valley, California | |
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 | Phase II of the CCA Program is designed to build on the preliminary assessment conducted under Phase I,
which was completed in 2007. A key goal is to demonstrate the validity and applicability of various predictive tools to local government and other implementers of Best Management Practices (BMPs) under each set of applicable Management Measures. | |
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 | Management Tools for Landscape-Scale Restoration of Ecological Functions | |
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 | Aquatic Science Center supports the Central Valley and State Water Boards in the development of the Delta Regional Monitoring Program. | |
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 | Aquatic Science Center supports U.S. EPA in developing an Action Plan for a cleaner, healthier Delta. | |
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 | While there are regulations in place for monitoring specific CECs and other regulated chemicals, there is currently not much being done to discover new CECs in water or assess whether the presence of the CECs may adversely affect aquatic biota. If these experiments are successful, we should be able to start to develop methods to integrate results from in vitro assays into monitoring programs and determine how they relate to in vivo adverse effects. | |
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 | This project will develop land use classifications (e.g., urban, open space, industrial, etc.) for the Bay Area, in order to identify the highest priority land use types to be monitored in the future. | |
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