2020 RMP Annual Meeting
Date:
October 6, 2020 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
2020 RMP Annual Meeting
This 27th Annual Meeting broke new ground as the first entirely virtual meeting in the Program’s history. The meeting included an excellent lineup of speakers from all over the US, including RMP Science Advisors, new RMP staff, and other invited experts. We heard about and discussed lessons from monitoring Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound, monitoring coronavirus and disinfectant chemicals in wastewater, managing sediment quality and supply, and monitoring CECs in stormwater and PFAS in the Bay, among other topics. The usual limit on the number of attendees did not apply this year, so the meeting had over 300 attendees. If you missed the meeting or any specific sessions, recordings of the meeting and presenter slides can be found below.
Welcome & Session 1: Wastewater
- Welcome and Introduction; Tom Mumley, San Francisco Bay Water Board, RMP Steering Committee Chair
- Nutrient Management in Chesapeake Bay; Peter Tango, US Geological Survey, Nutrient Management Strategy (NMS) Science Advisor
- Monitoring Coronavirus in Wastewater; Alexandria Boehm, Stanford University
- Quaternary Ammonium Disinfectant Chemicals in Wastewater and the Bay; Miguel Mendez, San Francisco Estuary Institute
- Discussion - Moderated by Eileen White, East Bay Municipal Utility District, NMS Steering Committee
Session 2: Sediment
- Sediment Quality Monitoring in Puget Sound; Maggie Dutch, Washington State Department of Ecology, RMP Science Advisor
- Sediment Supply and Coastal Resilience; Pat Wiberg, University of Virginia, RMP Science Advisor
- Managing Sediment in San Francisco Bay; Xavier Fernandez, San Francisco Bay Water Board
- Discussion: Moderated by John Coleman, Bay Planning Coalition, RMP Steering Committee
Session 3: Contaminants of Emerging Concern
- Identifying CECs through Non-targeted Analysis; Lee Ferguson, Duke University, RMP Science Advisor
- Predictive Toxicology to Prioritize CECs for Monitoring and Management; Dan Villenueve, USEPA, RMP Science Advisor
- PFAS in San Francisco Bay; Ezra Miller, San Francisco Estuary Institute
- Discussion: Moderated by Luisa Valiela, USEPA, RMP Technical Review Committee
Session 4: Stormwater
- CECs in Stormwater; Ed Kolodziej, University of Washington
- Green Stormwater Infrastructure in the Bay Area; Josh Bradt, San Francisco Estuary Partnership
- Watershed Modeling to Estimate Contaminant Loads from Stormwater; Tan Zi, San Francisco Estuary Institute
- Discussion: Moderated by Richard Looker, San Francisco Bay Water Board, RMP Technical Review Committee
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Bay Regional Monitoring Program