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Effects of salinity on olfactory toxicity and behavioral responses of juvenile salmonids from copper. Aquatic Toxicology 175.
2016. Dissolved copper is one of the more pervasive and toxic constituents of stormwater runoff and is commonly found in stream, estuary, and coastal marine habitats of juvenile salmon. While stormwater runoff does not usually carry copper concentrations high enough to result in acute lethality, they are of concern because sublethal concentrations of copper exposure have been shown to both impair olfactory function and alter behavior in various species in freshwater. To compare these results to other environments that salmon are likely to encounter, experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of salinity on the impairment of olfactory function and avoidance of copper. Copper concentrations well within the range of those found in urban watersheds, have been shown to diminish or eliminate the olfactory response to the amino acid, l-serine in freshwater using electro-olfactogram (EOG) techniques. The olfactory responses of both freshwater-phase and seawater-phase coho and seawater-phase Chinook salmon, were tested in freshwater or seawater, depending on phase, and freshwater-phase coho at an intermediate salinity of 10‰. Both 10‰ salinity and full strength seawater protected against the effects of 50μg copper/L. In addition to impairing olfactory response, copper has also been shown to alter salmon behavior by causing an avoidance response. To determine whether copper will cause avoidance behavior at different salinities, experiments were conducted using a multi-chambered experimental tank. The circular tank was divided into six segments by water currents so that copper could be contained within one segment yet fish could move freely between them. The presence of individual fish in each of the segments was counted before and after introduction of dissolved copper (<20μg/L) to one of the segments in both freshwater and seawater. To address whether use of preferred habitat is altered by the presence of copper, experiments were also conducted with a submerged structural element. The presence of sub-lethal levels of dissolved copper altered the behavior of juvenile Chinook salmon by inducing an avoidance response in both freshwater and seawater. While increased salinity is protective against loss of olfactory function from dissolved copper, avoidance could potentially affect behaviors beneficial to growth, survival and reproductive success.
Effects of Short-term Water Quality Impacts Due to Dredging and Disposal on Sensitive Fish Species in San Francisco Bay. SFEI Contribution No. 560. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, Ca.
2008. (2.79 MB)The Effects of Toxic Contaminants in Waters of the San Francisco Bay and Delta. SFEI Contribution No. 184. Prepared for Bay/Delta Oversight Council: Sacramento, CA. p 125 pp.
1995. ELEVATION AND OPPORTUNITY IN THE DELTA: Restoring the right thing in the right place. SFEI Contribution No. 1082. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, Ca.
2022. (11.1 MB) (1.24 MB)
A future Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Marsh (“Delta” herein) that supports healthy ecosystems and native species, while also meeting flood risk reduction, water supply, water quality, carbon sequestration, economic, and cultural objectives, requires that appropriate restoration and management actions be taken in the right place at the right time. Geographic setting affects the potential opportunities available—not all actions are suitable everywhere. Physical factors determining what types of activities are appropriate now and in the future include a site’s elevation, degree of tidal and fluvial influence, salinity, soil type, and local effects of climate change, which all vary spatially across the Delta. While there has been considerable progress over the last several decades, continued acceleration of the pace and scale of enhancement actions appropriate to landscape position is needed. Understanding the physical template is necessary for developing strategies that move beyond opportunistic restoration, support resilience over time, and have the potential to connect and magnify benefits across the larger landscape.
Emerging Contaminants: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs). RMP Regional Monitoring News, San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances 10, p.1-11 . SFEI Contribution No. 502.
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Empirical estimation of biota exposure range for calculation of bioaccumulation parameters. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 5 . SFEI Contribution No. 573.
2009. (452.29 KB)Enhancing the Vision for Managing California's Environmental Information. SFEI Contribution No. 792. Delta Stewardship Council: Sacramento, CA.
2015. (1.16 MB)The Environmental Data Summit, convened under the auspices of the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Science Program in June 2014, witnessed remarkable participation from experts across California, the nation, and even the world. Summit attendees from the public, private, federal, and non-profit sectors shared their views regarding the urgent needs and proposed solutions for California’s data-sharing and data-integration challenges, especially pertaining to the subject of environmental resource management in the era of “big data.” After all, this is a time when our data sources are growing in number, size, and complexity. Yet our ability to manage and analyze such data in service of effective decision-making lags far behind our demonstrated needs.
In its review of the sustainability of water and environmental management in the California Bay-Delta, the National Research Council (NRC) found that “only a synthetic, integrated, analytical approach to understanding the effects of suites of environmental factors (stressors) on the ecosystem and its components is likely to provide important insights that can lead to enhancement of the Delta and its species” (National Research Council 2012). The present “silos of data” have resulted in separate and compartmentalized science, impeding our ability to make informed decisions. While resolving data integration challenges will not, by itself, produce better science or better natural resource outcomes, progress in this area will provide a strong foundation for decision-making. Various mandates ranging from the California Water Action Plan to the President’s executive order demanding federal open data policies demonstrate the consensus on the merits of modern data sharing at the scale and function needed to meet today’s challenges.
This white paper emerges from the Summit as an instrument to help identify such opportunities to enhance California’s cross-jurisdictional data management. As a resource to policymakers, agency leadership, data managers, and others, this paper articulates some key challenges as well as proven solutions that, with careful and thoughtful coordination, can be implemented to overcome those obstacles. Primarily featured are tools that complement the State’s current investments in technology, recognizing that success depends upon broad and motivated participation from all levels of the public agency domain. Executive Summary
This document describes examples, practices, and recommendations that focus on California’s Delta as an opportune example likely to yield meaningful initial results in the face of pressing challenges. Once proven in the Delta, however, this paper’s recommended innovations would conceivably be applied statewide in subsequent phases.
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Environmental Endocrine Disruption in Wild Fish of San Francisco Bay. SFEI Contribution No. 643. SFEI: Oakland. p 128.
2009. Environmental Review and Mitigation of a Water Supply Project in California. A report for the Japanese Ministry of Construction, Tokyo.
1996. Environmental threats to tidal marsh vertebrates of the San Francisco Bay Estuary. Studies in Avian Biology 32, 176-339 . SFEI Contribution No. 489.
2006. (4.47 MB)Episodic Ambient Water Toxicity in the San Francisco Estuary. SFEI Contribution No. 51. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
2002. (2.11 MB)Episodic global dispersal in shallow water marine organisms: The case history of the European shore crabs Carcinus maenas and Carcinus aestuarii. Biogeography 30, 1809-1820 . SFEI Contribution No. 383.
2003. (344.4 KB)Establishing Critical Datum Elevations for Wetland Restoration. Coastal Zone . SFEI Contribution No. 484.
2001. Estimated Atmospheric Deposition Fluxes of Dioxins in the San Francisco Estuary. SFEI Contribution No. 661. SFEI: Richmond, CA.
2012. (1.31 MB)Estimated Sediment Contaminant Concentrations Associated with Biological Impacts at San Diego Bay Cleanup Sites. SFEI Contribution No. 584. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, Ca.
2009. (1.25 MB)Estimated Stock in Currently Standing Buildings in a San Francisco Bay Study Area and Releases to Stormwater during Renovation and Demolition. SFEI Contribution No. 651. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
2011. (1.49 MB)Estimates of suspended sediment entering San Francisco Bay from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta, San Francisco Bay, California. J. of Hydrology . SFEI Contribution No. 460.
2006. (497.13 KB)Estimates of suspended-sediment flux entering San Francisco Bay from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta. SFEI Contribution No. 65.
2002. (1.16 MB)Estimating Regional Pollutant Loads for San Francisco Bay Area Tributaries using the Regional Watershed Spreadsheet Model( RWSM): Year’s 3 and 4 Progress Report. San Francisco Estuary Institute - Aquatic Science Center: Richmond, CA.
2014. (9.5 MB)Estimation of Contaminant Loads from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to San Francisco Bay. Water Environment Research 87 (4), 334-346.
2015. Contaminant concentrations from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River watershed were determined in water samples mainly during flood flows in an ongoing effort to describe contaminant loads entering San Francisco Bay, CA, USA. Calculated PCB and total mercury loads during the 6-year observation period ranged between 3.9 and 19 kg/yr and 61 and 410 kg/yr, respectively. Long-term average PCB loads were estimated at 7.7 kg/yr and total mercury loads were estimated at 200 kg/yr. Also monitored were PAHs, PBDEs (two years of data), and dioxins/furans (one year of data) with average loads of 392, 11, and 0.15/0.014 (OCDD/OCDF) kg/yr, respectively. Organochlorine pesticide loads were estimated at 9.9 kg/yr (DDT), 1.6 kg/yr (chlordane), and 2.2 kg/yr (dieldrin). Selenium loads were estimated at 16 300 kg/yr. With the exception of selenium, all average contaminant loads described in the present study were close to or below regulatory load allocations established for North San Francisco Bay.
Estimation of Loads of Mercury, Selenium, PCBs, PAHs, PBDEs, Dioxins, and Organochlorine Pesticides from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to San Francisco Bay. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
2012. (1.26 MB)Estimation of Means, Totals, and Distribution Functions from Probability Survey Data. SFEI Contribution No. 110. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
2002. (907.38 KB)Estimation of Total Mercury Fluxes Entering San Francisco Bay from the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Watersheds (Technical Memo). SFEI Contribution No. 260. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
2002. (1007.25 KB)Estrogen Receptor In Vitro Assay Linkage Studies. SFEI Contribution No. 888. San Francisco Estuary Institute : Richmond, CA.
2018. (1.8 MB)Estuaries: Life on the edge. In Ecosystems of California. Ecosystems of California. University of California Press: Berkeley, CA. pp 359-388.
2016. Estuarine and scalar patterns of invasion in the soft-bottom benthic communities of the San Francisco Estuary. Biological Invasions 5, 85-102 . SFEI Contribution No. 292.
2003. The estuarine cycles of cobalt in San Francisco Bay and the New York Bight. Limnology and Oceanography . SFEI Contribution No. 297.
2003. The Estuarine Data Index. p 157.
. 1990. Estuarine Data Index: A Guide to Bay-Delta Research and Monitoring Programs, Volume 2. SFEI Contribution No. 158. AHI: RIchmond, CA. p 160.
. 1990. (7.04 MB)Estuarine Data Index: A Guide to Bay-Delta Research and Monitoring Programs, Volume I. SFEI Contribution No. 157. Aquatic Habitat Institute: RIchmond, CA. p 395.
. 1990. (18.32 MB)Estuarine Index: A Guide to Bay-Delta Research and Monitoring Programs: Volume I. Association of Bay Area Governments Urban Runoff Studies, Association of Bay Area Governments Environmental Protection Agency. p 395.
. 1990. The Estuary Interface Pilot Study: 1998 Progress Report. SFEI Contribution No. 49. San Francisco Estuary Institute.
2000. Estuary News RMP Insert 2000. Estuary News.
2000. (273.88 KB)Estuary News RMP Insert 2002. Estuary News.
2002. (1.08 MB)Estuary News RMP Insert 2004/2005. Estuary News.
2005. (381.81 KB)Estuary News RMP Insert 2005. Estuary News.
2005. (419.37 KB)Estuary News RMP Insert 2006. Estuary News.
2006. (1.71 MB)Estuary News RMP Insert 2007. Estuary News.
2007. (1.33 MB)Estuary News RMP Insert 2008. Estuary News.
2008. (1.82 MB)Estuary News RMP Insert 2009. Estuary News.
2009. (3.26 MB)Estuary News RMP Insert 2010. Estuary News.
2010. (4.04 MB)Estuary News RMP Insert 2012. Estuary News. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
2012. (1.51 MB)Estuary News RMP Insert 2013. Estuary News. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
2013. (5.93 MB)Evaluating impacts of Lake Sweeper plant control. J. of Aquatic Plant Management . SFEI Contribution No. 461.
2005. Evaluation of Benthic Assessment Methodology in Southern California Bays and San Francisco Bay. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project: Westminster. CA.
2004. (1.44 MB)An evaluation of bioaccumulation monitoring with transplanted bivalves in the RMP. SFEI Contribution No. 322. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA. pp 187-200.
1998. Evaluation of Episodic Suspended Sediment Transport in San Francisco Bay, California through Remote Sensing. SFEI Contribution No. 670. SFEI: Richmond, CA. p 18.
2012. (1.56 MB)Evaluation of immune responses as indicators of contamination in San Francisco Bay, Using a novel phagocytosis and phagocytic index method developed for mussels. Marine Environmental Research . SFEI Contribution No. 293.
2003. Evaluation of PCB Concentrations, Masses, and Movement from Dredged Areas in San Francisco Bay. SFEI Contribution No. 938. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
2019. (876.18 KB)Evaluation of Turbidity and Turbidity Related Effects on the Biota of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary. SFEI Contribution No. 169. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA. p 84.
1991. (10.03 MB)Evaluation of water hyacinth survival and growth in the Sacramento Delta, California following cutting. J. of Aquatic Plant Management . SFEI Contribution No. 440.
2006. (781.42 KB)Evidence for thyroid endocrine disruption in wild fish in San Francisco Bay, California, USA. Relationships to contaminant exposures. Aquatic Toxicology 96, 203-215.
2010. (551.68 KB)An Examination of the Benefits and Trade-offs of Visitation and Recreational Use of Public Open Space. SFEI Contribution No. 1020. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
2021. (9.33 MB)Executive Summary 2002 (Wetlands Science Program). SFEI Contribution No. 250. San Francisco Estuary Institute. p 4.
2002. (27.74 KB)Executive Summary of an Assessment of the Loading of Toxic Contaminants to the San Francisco Bay-Delta. SFEI Contribution No. 136. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, Ca. p 27.
1987. Executive Summary of the Monitoring of Toxic Contaminants in the San Francisco Bay-Delta: A Crtical Review. SFEI Contribution No. 151. San Francisco Estuary Institue: Richmond, CA. p 14.
1988. Executive Summary of Toxic Contaminats in the San Francisco Bay - Delta and Their Possible Biological Effects. SFEI Contribution No. 139. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA. p 15.
1987. Executive Summary: SFEI Component of the Integrated Regional Wetlands Monitoring Pilot Project. SFEI Contribution No. 251. San Francisco Estuary Institute. p 2.
2002. (75.19 KB)Exotic organisms; California's Emerging Environmental Challenges. California's Emerging Environmental Challenges; Proceedings of a Workshop, 5-9 to 5-13.
1998. (110.18 KB)Exotic organisms in southern California Bays and Harbors. Marine Bioinvasions Conference . SFEI Contribution No. 481.
2002. Exotic Organisms in Southern California Bays and Harbors. Page 22 in:. In Abstracts, Third International Conf. on Marine Bioinvasions, Mar. 16-19, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA. Abstracts, Third International Conf. on Marine Bioinvasions, Mar. 16-19, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA. p p. 22.
2003. An Exotic Species Detection Program for Puget Sound. SFEI Contribution No. 380. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland.
2004. (191.58 KB)