Status & Trends Monitoring

The Status and Trends (S&T) monitoring program is composed primarily of five program elements:

1. long-term water, sediment, and bivalve monitoring
2. episodic toxicity monitoring
3. sport fish monitoring
4. the USGS hydrographic and sediment transport studies
   1. Factors Controlling Suspended Sediment in San Francisco Bay
   2. Hydrography and Phytoplankton
5. triennial bird egg monitoring (cormorant and tern)

Status & Trends Monitoring Projects