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Tidal wetland restoration potential using dredged sediments: a methodology for assessment with examples from the North Bay Area. SFEI Contribution No. 305.
. 1996. 
1994 Annual Report: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances. SFEI Contribution No. 189. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
. 1996. 
CALFED's Fish Mercury Project. SFEI Contribution No. 531. San Francisco Estuary Institute and CALFED.
. 2007. 
1993 Executive Summary: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances. SFEI Contribution No. 5. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
. 1994. 2008 RMP Annual Monitoring Results. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
. 2010. 
Riparian Zone Estimation Tool: Hydrologic Connectivity Module Field Plan. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
. 2013. 
1995 Executive Summary: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances. SFEI Contribution No. 196. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
. 1997. 
CALFED's FIsh Mercury Project FACT SHEET-- Monitoring and Reducing Methylmercury Exposure in the Bay Delta Watershed. SFEI Contribution No. 538. SFEI.
. 2007. 1995 Annual Report: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances. SFEI Contribution No. 21. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
. 1997. 
Wetland Tracker Factsheet, Bay Area, Level 1: Landscpae Assessment. SFEI Contribution No. 568. SFEI. p 2, front and back.
. 2008. 
1999 Annual Results: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances. SFEI Contribution No. 351. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
. 2001. 
. 1998.
RipZET: The Riparian Zone Estimation Tool version 2.0. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
. 2015. 
2002 Annual Results. SFEI Contribution No. 318.
. 2004. 
2009 Annual Monitoring Results. SFEI Contribution No. 629. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Oakland, CA.
. 2011. 
2016 Regional Monitoring Program Update. SFEI Contribution No. 790. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
. 2016. 
2017 Margins Microplastics Cruise Report. SFEI Contribution No. 848. Coastal Conservancy & Research: Moss Landing, CA.
2017. 
Implementation Manual for the San Leandro Creek Watershed Awareness Program, 1993-1994. SFEI Contribution No. 177. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, Ca. p 75.
1994. Metal contamination in San Francisco Bay waters: Historic perturbations, contemporary concentrations, and future considerations. San Francisco Bay: The Ecosystem(J.T. Rollibaugh, ed.)American Association for the Advancement of Science 173-188 . SFEI Contribution No. 12.
1996. Temporally variable freshwater sources of dissolved chromium to the San Francisco Bay estuary. Environmental Science and Technology 31, 3455-3460 . SFEI Contribution No. 197.
1997. Groundwater seepage into northern San Francisco Bay: implications for dissolved metals budgets. Wate Resources Research . SFEI Contribution No. 54.
2002. The biogeochemical cycling of manganese in San Francisco Bay: Temporal and spatial variations. SFEI Contribution No. 52. Vol. 54, pp 227-239.
2002. Decadal decline of anthropogenic silver in San Francisco Bay: Comparison with lead. Environmental Science and Technology . SFEI Contribution No. 53.
2002. Decadal trends of silver and lead contamination in San Francisco Bay surface waters. Environmental Science and Techology 36, 2379-2386 . SFEI Contribution No. 276.
2002. The estuarine cycles of cobalt in San Francisco Bay and the New York Bight. Limnology and Oceanography . SFEI Contribution No. 297.
2003. Mercury speciation in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Marine Chemistry . SFEI Contribution No. 56.
2003. Anthropogenic sources of lead in the Sacramento and San Joaquin drainage basins. Environmental Science and Technology . SFEI Contribution No. 289.
2003. 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. Organic complexation and total dissolved trace metal analysis in estuarine waters: Comparison of solvent-extraction GFAAS and chelating resin flow injection ICP-MS Analysis. Analytica Chimica Acta . SFEI Contribution No. 294.
2003. Mercury Contamination from Historic Mining in Water and Sediment, Guadalupe River and San Francisco Bay, CA. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis . SFEI Contribution No. 298.
2003. Distribution of Colloidal trace metals in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 60, 4933-4944 . SFEI Contribution No. 194.
1996. Sequential Extraction of Mercury from Sediments in San Francisco Bay Estuary. Environmental Science and Technology . SFEI Contribution No. 126.
2002. Quality Assurance in Environmental Analysis Applied to the San Francisco Estuary. SFEI Contribution No. 168. San Francisco Estuary Project: Oakland, CA.
1991. Dissolved trace element cycles in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Marine Chemistry 36, 329-363 . SFEI Contribution No. 163.
1991. Mercury deposition in a tidal marsh downstream of the historic New Almaden mining district, CA. SFEI Contribution No. 286.
2003. 
Comparable levels of trace metal contamination in two semi-enclosed embayments: San Diego Bay and South San Francisco Bay. Environmental Science and Technology 27, 1934-1936 . SFEI Contribution No. 173.
1993. 1993.
Benthic lead fluxes in San Francisco Bay, California, USA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 58, 3307-3313 . SFEI Contribution No. 180.
1994. Chromium speciation in San Francisco Bay: Superposition of geochemical processes causes complex spatial distribution of inorganic species. Marine Chemistry 49, 189-200 . SFEI Contribution No. 183.
1995. Diagnostic modeling of trace metal partitioning in South San Francisco Bay. Limnology and Oceanography 40, 345-358 . SFEI Contribution No. 187.
1995. Mercury concentrations in coastal California precipitation: Evidence of local and trans-Pacific fluxes of mercury to North America. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres . SFEI Contribution No. 58.
2003. Trace metal concentrations in the surf zone and in coastal waters off Baja California, Mexico. Environmental Science and Technology 30, 1575-1580 . SFEI Contribution No. 195.
1996. Microtechniques for the determination of nanomolar concentrations of trace elements in 10 ml of sediment porewater. Analytica Chimica Acta 328, 13-17 . SFEI Contribution No. 193.
1996. Silver contamination in aquatic environments. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 148, 139-162 . SFEI Contribution No. 192.
1996. The role of colloids in the transport of trace metals in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 60, 4933-4944 . SFEI Contribution No. 15.
1996. Particulate sources and sinks of dissolved chromium in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Environmental Science and Technology . SFEI Contribution No. 25.
1997. Past leaded gasoline emissions as a nonpoint source tracer in riparian systems: A study of river inputs to San Francisco Bay. Environmental Science and Technology 34, 1211-1215 . SFEI Contribution No. 267.
2000. Lead levels in the oceans. Encyclopedia of Environmental Analysis and Remediation(H. Ben-Zvi, editor)John Wiley & Sons, Inc. In press . SFEI Contribution No. 24.
1997. Physicochemical speciation of lead in South San Francisco Bay. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 44, 649-658 . SFEI Contribution No. 26.
1997. Porewater gradients and diffusive benthic fluxes of Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Cd in San Francisco Bay. Croatica Chemica Acta 70, 389-417 . SFEI Contribution No. 215.
1997. Pore-water silver concentration gradients and benthic fluxes from contaminated sediments of San Francisco Bay, California, U.S.A. Marine Chemistry 56, 15-26 . SFEI Contribution No. 216.
1997. Benthic fluxes of silver in San Francisco Bay. Marine Chemistry 56, 15-26 . SFEI Contribution No. 214.
1997. Stable lead isotopic analyses of historic and contemporary lead contamination of San Francisco Bay estuary. Marine Chemistry 64, 71-83 . SFEI Contribution No. 331.
1999. Indirect reduction of hexavalent chromium by copper in the presence of superoxide. Marine Chemistry 69, 33-41 . SFEI Contribution No. 335.
2000. 2019 Bay RMP Multi-Year Plan. SFEI Contribution No. 940. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
2019. 
DRAFT - 2020 RMP Multi-Year Plan. SFEI Contribution No. 959. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
2019. 
2018 RMP Sediment Sampling and Analysis Plan. SFEI Contribution No. 904. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
2018. 
Mercury Isotopes Link Mercury in San Francisco Bay Forage Fish to Surface Sediments. Environmental Science and Technology.
2011. Sources of mercury to San Francisco Bay surface sediment as revealed by mercury stable isotopes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75 (3), 691-705.
2011. A test of the Environmental Kuznets Curve using long-term watershed inputs. Ecological Applications 14 (2), p.555-570.
2004. 
Pollutants of Concern Reconnaissance Monitoring Water Years 2015, 2016, and 2017. SFEI Contribution No. 840. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
2018. 
Monitoring and Results for El Cerrito Rain Gardens. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
2012. 
Sunset Circle Vegetated Swale and Infiltration System (Case Study Site and Technical Reports). SFEI Contribution No. 796.
2014. 

Fremont Tree Well Filters: LID Performance on a Redeveloped Urban Roadway (Case Study Site and Technical Reports). SFEI Contribution No. 772.
2015. 


San Francisco State University Site 1 Vegetated Infiltration Basin (Case Study Site and Technical Reports). SFEI Contribution No. 794.
2014. 

San Francisco State University Site 3 Basin and Swale System (Case Study Site and Technical Reports). SFEI Contribution No. 795.
2014. 

Newcomb Avenue Green Street (Case Study Site and Technical Reports). SFEI Contribution No. 793.
2014. 

Hacienda Avenue Bio-Infiltration Basins (Case Study - Fact Sheet). San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
2016. 
Cesar Chavez Streetscape Improvement Project (Case Study Site and Technical Reports). SFEI Contribution No. 797.
2015. 

Multi-year water quality performance and mass accumulation of PCBs, mercury, methylmercury, copper and microplastics in a bioretention rain garden. Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment 5 (4) . SFEI Contribution No. 872.
2019. A multiyear water quality performance study of a bioretention rain garden located along a major urban transit corridor east of San Francisco Bay was conducted to assess the efficacy of bioretention rain gardens to remove pollutants. Based on data collected in three years between 2012 and 2017, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and suspended sediment concentrations (SSCs) were reduced (>90%), whereas total mercury (Hg), methylmercury (MeHg), and copper (Cu) were moderately captured (37%, 49%, and 68% concentration reduction, respectively). Anthropogenic microparticles including microplastics were retained by the bioretention rain garden, decreasing in concentration from 1.6 particles/L to 0.16 particles/L. Based on subsampling at 50- and 150-mm intervals in soil cores from two areas of the unit, PCBs, Hg, and MeHg were all present at the highest concentrations in the upper 100 mm in the surface media layers. Based on residential screening concentrations, the surface media layer near the inlet would need to be removed and replaced annually, whereas the rest of the unit would need replacement every 8 years. The results of this study support the use of bioretention in the San Francisco Bay Area as one management option for meeting load reductions required by San Francisco Bay total maximum daily loads, and provide useful data for supporting decisions about media replacement and overall maintenance schedules.


Concentrations and loads of PCBs, dioxins, PAHs, PBDEs, OC pesticides and pyrethroids during storm and low flow conditions in a small urban semi-arid watershed. Science of the Total Environment 526, 251-261 . SFEI Contribution No. 650.
2015. Urban runoff has been identified in water quality policy documents for San Francisco Bay as a large and potentially controllable source of pollutants. In response, concentrations of suspended sediments and a range of trace organic pollutants were intensively measured in dry weather and storm flow runoff from a 100% urban watershed. Flow in this highly urban watershed responded very quickly to rainfall and varied widely resulting in rapid changes of turbidity, suspended sediments and pollutant concentrations. Concentrations of each organic pollutant class were within similar ranges reported in other studies of urban runoff, however comparison was limited for several of the pollutants given information scarcity. Consistently among PCBs, PBDEs, and PAHs, the more hydrophobic congeners were transported in larger proportions during storm flows relative to low flows. Loads for Water Years 2007-2010 were estimated using regression with turbidity during the monitored months and a flow weighted mean concentration for unmonitored dry season months. More than 91% of the loads for every pollutant measured were transported during storm events, along with 87% of the total discharge. While this dataset fills an important local data gap for highly urban watersheds of San Francisco Bay, the methods, the uniqueness of the analyte list, and the resulting interpretations have applicability for managing pollutant loads in urban watersheds in other parts of the world.
Pollutants of concern reconnaissance monitoring final progress report, water years 2015 and 2016. SFEI Contribution No. 817.
2017. 
Pollutants of concern (POC) loads monitoring progress report, water years (WYs) 2012, 2013, and 2014. SFEI Contribution No. 741.
2016. 
Bay Area Green Infrastructure Water Quality Synthesis. SFEI Contribution No. 922. San Francisco Estuary Institute : Richmond, CA.
2018. 

Concentrations and Loads of Trace Contaminants in a Small Urban Tributary, San Francisco Bay, California. SFEI Contribution No. 650. SFEI: Richmond, CA. p 40.
2012. 
Pollutants of Concern Reconnaissance Monitoring Progress Report, Water Years 2015-2018. SFEI Contribution No. 942. San Francisco Estuary Institute: Richmond, CA.
2019. 