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Regional Monitoring Program 1997 Annual Report
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1997 RMP Annual Report
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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Parameters analyzed in water, sediment, and bivalve tissues during the 1997 RMP Sampling of the San Francisco Estuary.
1.2 Summary of RMP 1997 sampling stations and activities.
1.3 1997 RMP contractors and principal investigators
   
Chapter 2: 1997 Review Implementation
2.1 Recommendations in the Five Year Review report that can be implemented simply and directly.
2.2 Five Year Review report that suggest specific studies or activities to be undertaken by the RMP.
2.3 Recommendations in the Five Year Review report that suggest more fundamental activities to be undertaken by the RMP.
   
Chapter 3: Water Monitoring
3.1 Summary of RMP episodic toxicity testing pilot project, 1996-1997.
3.2 Summary of RMP episodic toxicity testing, 1997-1998.
3.3 Dates of USGS water quality sampling in the San Francisco Bay-Delta.
3.4 Summary of hydrographic/water quality conditions in the San Francisco Estuary around the periods of RMP water sampling, 1993-1997.
3.5 Statistical analysis of suspended-solids concentration data, December 1996-March 1997.
3.6 Statistical analysis of suspended-solids concentration data, April-August 1997.
3.7 Water quality guidelines used for evaluation of 1997 RMP results.
3.8 Summary of trace elements that were above water quality guidelines for 1997 RMP water samples.
3.9 Summary of organic contaminants that were above water quality guidelines for 1997 RMP water samples.
 
Chapter 4: Sediment Monitoring
4.1 The most common and abundant species in each benthic assemblage.
4.2 List of indicator species.
4.3 Tolerance limits for four toxicity test protocols.
4.4 Stations-surveys.
4.5 Sediment thresholds.
4.6 Summary of testing conducted on River stations during 1996-1997.
4.7 Results of metals analysis for elutriate samples.
4.8 Sediment quality guidelines for evaluation of chemical concentrations in sediment.
4.9a Sediment trace element concentrations above Effects-Range guidelines during the wet- and dry-sampling periods.
4.9b Sediment trace organic concentrations above Effects-Range guidelines during the wet- and dry-sampling periods.
4.10a Sediment trace element concentrations above Ambient Sediment Criteria during the wet- and dry-sampling periods.
4.10b Sediment trace organic concentrations above Ambient Sediment Criteria during the wet- and dry-sampling periods.
4.11 Summary of sediment quality guideline exceedances and sediment toxicity.
   
Chapter 5: Bivalve Monitoring
5.1 ANOVAs for differences among sites and years in concentrations of four contaminants in mussels.
5.2 Comparison of temporal trends using adjusted and unadjusted bivalve data.
5.3 ANOVAs for differences among sites and years in concentrations of four contaminants in oysters.
5.4 ANOVAs for differences among sites and years in concentrations of four contaminants in clams.
   
Chapter 6: Pilot and Special Studies
6.1 Flows at the gauging stations on the EIP streams and tributaries.
6.2 Pearson correlation coefficients (r).
6.3 Fish contamination core monitoring program sampling design.
6.4 Summary statistic by species for mercury and organochlorines.
6.5 Summary of concentrations above screening values for each species. ----------------------------------------------------
   
Chapter 7: Related Monitoring Activities
7.1 Common and minor foraminiferal species recovered in the RMP samples.
7.2 Speciation and concentration of nickel in San Francisco Bay.
   
Chapter 8: Other Monitoring Activities
8.1 Preliminary fish tissue mercury and organochlorine results for the 1997 SRWP.
   

 

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