Prepared by
Applied Marine Sciences
for the San Francisco Estuary Institute
Authors: David Bell, Jordan Gold, Paul Salop, Applied Marine Sciences
Acknowledgments
This document was produced with the assistance from the following
Regional Monitoring Program participants:
Russell Flegal and Genine Scelfo
Institute of Marine Sciences
University of California at Santa Cruz
John Hunt and Bryn Phillips
Marine Pollution Studies
Wally Jarman Jocelyn Vedder
Energy and Geoscience Institute
University of Utah
Mike Kellogg
City and County of San Francisco
Table of Contents
1 Program Overview
1.1 RMP Rationale
1.2 RMP Objectives
1.3 RMP Organization and Management
1.3.1 Telephone and E-mail Contact
List
2 Cruise Scheduling
2.1 Water
2.2 Sediment
2.3 Bioaccumulation
2.4 Site Data
3 Sampling Methods
3.1 Water
Sampling
3.1.1 Overview and Objectives
3.1.2 Water Sampling Vessel Safety
3.1.3 Water Sampling Equipment
List
3.1.4 Sample Containers
3.1.5 Trace Elements Sampling
Equipment Preparation
3.1.6 Trace Organics Sampling
Equipment Preparation
3.1.7 CTD Preparation
3.1.8 Water Sampling Procedures
3.1.8.1 Water Trace Metals
Sampling
3.1.8.2 General Water Quality
Measurements
3.1.9 Water Organics Sampling
3.1.10 Water CTD Profiling
3.1.11 Water Toxicity Sampling
3.1.12 Watershed Water Sampling
3.1.13 Water Sample Handling
and Shipping
3.2 Sediment
Sampling
3.2.1 Overview and Objectives
3.2.2 Sediment Sampling Vessel
Safety
3.2.3 Sediment Sampling Equipment
List
3.2.4 Sample Containers
3.2.5 Sediment Sampling Equipment
Preparation
3.2.6 Sediment Sampling Procedures
3.2.6.1 Sediment Chemistry
3.2.6.2 Benthic Infauna
3.2.6.3 Sediment Pore Water
Analysis
3.2.6.4 Sediment CTD Profiling
3.2.6.5 Watershed Sediment Sampling
3.2.6.6 Sediment Sample Storage
and Handling
3.3 Bioaccumulation
Sampling
3.3.1 Overview and Objectives
3.3.2 Oyster Collection
3.3.3 Mussel Collection
3.3.4 Resident Clam Collection
3.3.5 Vessel Safety
3.3.6 Dive Safety
3.3.6.1 Dive Team Member
Responsibilities
3.3.6.2 Dive Equipment Use
and Maintenance
3.3.7 Dive Operations
3.3.7.1 Dive Records
3.3.7.2 Equipment
3.3.8 Dive Equipment Preparation
3.3.9 Bioaccumulation Sample
Handling
3.3.10 Bivalve Handling and
Storage
3.3.11 Bivalve Chain of Custody
List of Tables
Table 1. Principal Investigators
of the RMP.
Table 2. Telephone and e-mail
contacts for RMP researchers and staff.
Table 3. Water cruise activity
schedule.
Table 4. Sediment cruise activity
schedule.
Table 5. Bioaccumulation cruise
activity schedule.
Table 6. Site name, codes and
coordinates of RMP sample locations.
Table 7. Crew responsibilities
for RMP water sampling cruise.
Table 8. Equipment list for water
trace elements sampling.
Table 9. Equipment list for water
trace organics sampling.
Table 10. Miscellaneous support
equipment list for water toxicity sampling.
Table 11. Container list for
water sampling.
Table 12. Crew responsibilities
for RMP sediment cruise.
Table 13. Equipment list for
sediment sampling.
Table 14. Container list for
sediment sampling.
Table 15. Equipment list for
pore water sampling.
Table 16. Storage methods for
sediment samples.
Table 17. Dive operations task
list.
Table 18. Equipment list for
bivalve sampling cruise.
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