Tue, Nov 10 2020 - Fri, Mar 5 2021

Big problem, small size: Improving methods in microplastics research

When it comes to plastic pollution, that candy wrapper half buried in the dirt is only the tip of the iceberg. Plastic bags, cigarette butts, and bottle caps are not just an eyesore, but over time they break down in the environment, creating small pieces of debris known as microplastics.

Mon, Aug 31 2020

Cities and Covid-19 Analysis Featured at The Nature of Cities

Mon, Jul 13 2020

Bay RMP Non-Targeted Analysis Fact Sheet

In 2016, the RMP launched a novel investigation to detect new or unexpected contaminants in Bay waters, as well as treated sewage (or wastewater) discharged to the Bay.

Tue, Jul 7 2020

United Nations Global Urban Lecture Released on Making Nature's City

SFEI's Urban Nature Lab and the UN-Habitat Global Urban Lectures series have produced a video on SFEI's Making Nature's City report. The lecture demonstrates why urban conservation planning is an essential component of urban design...

Thu, May 7 2020

Assessing Five Watersheds in Santa Clara County

A new synthesis report characterizing the amount, distribution, and diversity of streams and wetlands within the County employing CARI, and an ambient survey of the overall ecological condition of streams employing CRAM.

Thu, May 7 2020

PFAS Stays in San Francisco Bay

SFEI senior scientist, Dr. Rebecca Sutton, published a new study in the journal Chemosphere showing that it will take almost 50 years for PFOA concentrations in water to stabilize in San Francisco Bay. This pales in comparison to the trajectory of PFOS concentrations that will not stabilize in sediment and fish for 500 years. PFOS and PFOA are harmful to humans, causing liver damage, endocrine disruption, fertility decrease, and cancer.

Wed, Apr 29 2020

New Interactive Map Helps Delta Governments and Communities Plan for Adaptation by Understanding Flood Risks from Rising Sea Level and Storms

The Adapting to Rising Tides program of the SF Bay Conservation & Development Commission (ART BCDC), Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) and the San Francisco Estuary Institute / Aquatic Science Center (SFEI) are unveiling the

Wed, Apr 22 2020

This Earth Day, SFEI's Letitia Grenier describes the challenges we face in the Mercury News

SFEI's Letitia Grenier appears in a San Jose Mercury News article by Paul Rogers, describing the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and the challenges we still face:

Wed, Apr 22 2020

Restoration Vision for the Laguna de Santa Rosa Completed!

SFEI completed a long-term Restoration Vision for the Laguna de Santa Rosa in the Russian River watershed.

Tue, Apr 7 - Thu, Apr 30 2020

SF Estuary Wetlands Regional Program Plan Released!

The Wetland Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) Plan has been released! The WRMP will improve wetland restoration project success by putting in place regional-scale monitoring increasing the impact, utility and application of permit-driven monitoring to inform science-based decision-making.

Mon, Mar 30 2020 - Mon, Mar 1 2021

Care in the Time of Corona

We offer you a simple tool that we created for our 75-person “work community” to help each other that yours might also find helpful. This is a mapping tool, which we call Care in the Time of Corona. It helps us locate and efficiently provide the support that our SFEI staff might offer one another. Quite simply, it facilitates assistance within our organization so that people can help their colleagues deal with challenges of this unprecedented situation. The errands, food, medicine, or even compassionate discussion they need can be addressed through a convenient and filterable map. We hope this guidance and the spirit behind it will help support your community and sustain a sense of well-being as we meet this challenge head on together.

Tue, Feb 25 2020

Accounting Clerk

The San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) is seeking an Accounting Clerk to assist the Accountant and the Finance and Contracts Director with day to day activities regarding accounting, accounts reconciliation, expense tracking and data entry, and contracts management.

Thu, Jan 23 2020

California Rapid Assessment Method for Wetlands (CRAM) Updates

CRAM Training sessions for 2020 have been posted on the CRAM website.

Wed, Jan 22 2020

Project Tracker assists with regional reporting

More and more groups rely on Project Tracker to assist with their reporting. Why? Because Project Tracker standardizes project data across programs so it is easier to summarize information for reporting purposes.

Thu, Nov 21 2019

Featured in Forbes: Drones And Artificial Intelligence Help Combat The San Francisco Bay’s Trash Problem

In a partnership with Kinetica, a data analytics start-up, and Oracle, SFEI and SCCWRP leveraged public funding from the California Ocean Protection Council to advance automated trash detection capabilities. The team deployed servers in the @Oracle Cloud to increase performance dynamically.

Wed, Nov 13 2019

Newark considering controversial 469-home development at the edge of the Baylands

SFEI scientist Julie Beagle was consulted to discuss the value of wetlands at the Bay's edge in Newark, where a controversial new development is planned for an area adjacent to critical marshland.

Fri, Nov 1 - Fri, Dec 13 2019

Request for Qualifications to Provide Aquatic Toxicity Testing Services

The Delta Regional Monitoring Program is seeking a contractor to provide laboratory services for aquatic toxicity testing of ambient water. Qualified laboratories are invited to submit their qualifications. Please refer to the attached Request for Qualifications (link below). 

Fri, Oct 4 2019

The Guardian publishes on article on SFEI's microplastics study, further extending the report's reach

Maanvi Singh from the US edition of the Guardian, based in the UK, writes, “It was basically everywhere we looked,” said Rebecca Sutton, an environmental scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute, a local institution that led the three-year, $1.1m research effort.

Fri, Oct 4 2019

Wired Magazine: A new report shows an astounding amount of microplastics, largely from car tires, are tainting the watershed

Matt Simon from Wired Magazine writes:

Thu, Oct 3 2019

Groundbreaking SFEI and 5 Gyres microplastics study featured in multiple media outlets

Concurrent with a sold-out symposium on Oct 2nd, media outlets, including the Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, and Los Angeles Times, have released the articles relating the alarming findings regarding the pervasive presence of microplastics in our surface waters.

Wed, Oct 2 2019

San Jose Mercury News highlights the findings of an SFEI microplastics report

Paul Rogers released an article in the San Jose Mercury News regarding this microplastics study, sharing its findings with the public.

Wed, Oct 2 2019

In LA Times: The SF Bay Microplastics study called "the most comprehensive study to date on microplastics in California."

Rosanna Xia with the LA Times relates some important findings from the new microplastics study, released today by SFEI and 5 Gyres:

Wed, Oct 2 2019

SF Chronicle: Huge amounts of plastic, much of it from car tires, washing into SF Bay, SFEI study finds

The San Francisco Chronicle highlighted some of the surprising and alarming findings produced by the Microplastics project:

Mon, Sep 30 2019

Newly published study shows rain gardens can filter PCBs, metals — and microplastics

A new study from SFEI assessing the ability of rain gardens to remove contaminants from urban stormwater has shown that nature-based filtration may also be a solution

Thu, Sep 26 2019

RMP Annual Meeting and Pulse of the Bay Report

With a planned release of October 10th, the 2019 edition of The Pulse of the Bay will feature articles on the four major pollutant pathways that are the primary focus of Bay water quality managers: municipal wastewater, industrial wastewater, s

Thu, Sep 26 2019

SFEI Provides Science Leadership and Support for State of the Estuary Report and Conference

The San Francisco Estuary Partnership (SFEP) brings together the estuarine community every two years at the State of the Estuary Conference and, periodically, SFEP also reports on the State of the Estuary, summarizing the latest scientific findings about ecosystem health.

Mon, Sep 9 2019 - Fri, Jan 31 2020

Take the RMP Data Exploration Challenge!

Help us learn about the Bay! Millions of measurements of water quality have been made in the Bay. These data reside in a publicly accessible database (cd3.sfei.org). We have learned a lot from these data but not all of the data have been analyzed. 

Wed, Aug 28 2019

Associate Environmental Scientist

The San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) seeks an environmental scientist or engineer to join the Clean Water program.  We are an interdisciplinary team investigating environmental contaminants, nutrient biogeochemistry and ecosystem responses, emerging contaminants, green infrastructure,

Wed, Jul 17 2019

Nutrients Scientist

1. Add a paragraph description and a link to the Job Posting page created for the position
2. Change the "Publishing Option" - Select "Published" and "Promote to the front page"

See the example below

Fri, Jun 21 2019

Planned maintenance for SFEI's online tools

This Friday morning (6/21/2019) from 6am to 9am, there will be planned internet downtime at SFEI to improve our organization's bandwidth and service capacity for the many things we do for you. 



The early-morning outage will impact the following sites/tools: