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Fri, Jun 29 2018
Dashboards track cumulative benefits on the landscape
EcoAtlas dashboards are comprehensive views of qualified information provided by Project Tracker and the California Aquatic Resource Inventory (CARI). These dynamic visualizations help measure the cumulative benefits of public policies and programs for California's aquatic resources.
Fri, Mar 9 2018
SFEI Science at International Marine Debris Conference (March 12-16)
SFEI science will feature prominently at the Sixth International Marine Debris Conference in San Diego next week:
Tue, Feb 20 2018
These scientists want you to rethink how you use plastics: SFEI and 5 Gyres issue a new video
The short (3-min) video summarizes the goals of the SF Bay Microplastics Project, which aims to better understanding the di
Thu, Jan 25 2018
SFEI and Google share Award for Re-Oaking
SFEI and Google have won the Arnold Soforenko Award from the non-profit Canopy for significant contributions to the urban forest.
Mon, Jan 15 - Tue, Jan 30 2018
SFEI partner Canopy plants oaks in East Palo Alto
On Martin Luther King day, 170 volunteers came out to help plant oaks and other native landscaping at the St. Francis Assisi church in East Palo Alto.
Fri, Dec 29 2017
Non-Sticks Stick Around: Estuary News highlights findings from new RMP study
Estuary News writer Kristine Wong interviewed SFEI’s Meg Sedlak, lead scientist on the latest RMP
Tue, Dec 19 2017
Disrupt the Street Tree: Could trees help Silicon Valley find an identity?
As recently as a 1850, according to a recent report from the San Francisco Estuary Institute, 80 percent of the trees in Palo Alto, Mountain View and Cupertino were oak trees. Another 13 percent of the trees were those commonly found alongside oak trees in oak woodlands: buckeye, madrone, sycamore, and California bay laurel. Willows, alders, and redwoods rounded out the final 7 percent. Oaks created the place. Postcards from San Jose in the early 1900s show farmers standing in the shade of skyscraping oak trees. Spanish explorers called Silicon Valley the “plain of the oaks.” The Peninsula is still home to two Roblar Avenues, a Robles Drive, and a Robles Park, as well as the North Fair Oaks and Menlo Oaks neighborhoods of Menlo Park.
Thu, Nov 30 2017
RMP Completes Major Revision of its Strategy to Monitor Emerging Contaminants
Global leaders in the study of emerging contaminants, the stakeholders that make up the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) believe that preventing a pollution problem is safer and more cost-effective than cleaning one up.
Fri, Nov 24 2017
Local News: Scientists launch major study of microplastics pollution in San Francisco Bay
SFEI and The 5 Gyres Institute have launched an ambitious two-year research project to monitor San Francisco Bay for pollution in the form of tiny particles of plastic pollution, reports ABC7 News.
Wed, Nov 15 2017
Completed! Legacy datasets saved from the shelves and uploaded to estuary-wide data repository
SFEI worked in partnership with the Delta Conservancy to complete a two year project funded by a USEPA National Environmental Information Exchange Network (NEIN) grant to expand the existing San Francisco Bay Regional Data Center (RDC) to include the Sacra
Wed, Nov 15 2017
Russian River Watershed Atlas helps track and coordinate post-fire activities
Fire recovery in the Russian River Watershed will benefit from a common online platform for compiling, visualizing, and interpreting many kinds of environmental data available from diverse federal, state, regional, and local sources.
Wed, Nov 8 2017
RMP Study in the News: “Dog and cat flea treatments suspected of polluting San Francisco Bay”
As a result of summary information presented in the latest Pulse of the Bay (see below), the San Jose Mercury News published an article based
Tue, Oct 10 - Wed, Oct 11 2017
Flood Control 2.0 Wins an Outstanding Environmental Project Award!
The Flood Control 2.0 project team was presented with an Outstanding Environmental Project Award at the 13th Biennial State of the Estuary Conference in Oakland, CA.
Fri, Oct 6 2017
RMP Annual Meeting on Friday, October 6th, 2017
The Annual Meeting of the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) will be held on Friday, October 6th, 2017 at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, CA from 9 AM to 4:10 PM.
Fri, Oct 6 2017
Hard copies of the Pulse of the Bay disappearing fast
Hard copies of the 25th anniversary edition of the Pulse of the Bay are disappearing fast! This edition celebrates the 25th anniversary of the RMP with a look back at the history of the program, along with articles on emerging contaminants, nutrients, and the Bay margins.
Fri, Oct 6 2017
RMP Annual Meeting a Resounding Success
By all accounts, the celebration of the RMP’s 25th anniversary at the Annual Meeting on October 6 was a resounding success. From the start with our distinguished opening panel (Steve Weisberg, Jim Cloern, and Karin North) through to the inspiring f
Thu, Sep 21 2017
Hunting for Plastic in California’s Protected Ocean Waters
Rebecca Sutton, Meg Sedlak, and Diana Lin of SFEI, in partnership with Carolynn Box of 5 Gyres, conducted ocean water sampling associated with an ambitious project. The project is focused on determining the characteristics and fate of microplastics in the Bay and adjacent ocean waters. KQED reporter Lindsey Hoshaw published a story covering the team's activities along the California coast. After determinng that the Bay has greater than expected microplastic pollution, the science team, as reported by Hoshaw's story, is conducting further ground-breaking research.
Wed, Sep 13 2017
East Bay Express Insert for Coastal Cleanup Day
Just in time for California Coastal Cleanup Day, an insert in today’s East Bay Express provides readers with ways to help protect San Francisco Bay.
Tue, Sep 12 2017
Science Support for Resilient By Design Competition
The challenges of accelerating sea level rise and aging shoreline infrastructure are creating a once-in-a-century opportunity to redesign the Bay shore.
Fri, Sep 1 2017
The Healthy Watersheds Resilient Baylands project kicks off
The Healthy Watersheds Resilient Baylands project kicked off this summer.
Wed, Aug 2 2017
Announcing the release of Re-Oaking Silicon Valley: Building Vibrant Cities with Nature
Could restoring lost ecosystems to cities play a role in building ecological resilience across landscapes? In Re-oaking Silicon Valley, a new report by SFEI, we explore this opportunity in our region.
Fri, Jul 28 2017
New Manuscript on Pollutants in the Guadalupe River Addresses Key Questions
Guadalupe River is contaminated with mercury mining wastes from runoff associated with the historic New Almaden Mining District in the upper watershed that produced 40 million kilograms during its working life (1850-1975) and with PCB and other urban pollutants from a long history of urbanization
Thu, Jun 29 2017
SFEI’s Re-oaking Silicon Valley appears as a feature in Estuary News magazine
Over the past century, oaks have been lost from fertile valleys across California to make way for agriculture, and then for cities.
Thu, Jun 22 2017
A multi-partner project to create placed-based sea-level rise adaptation strategies
As sea level rise accelerates in the San Francisco Bay, scientists, planners, and decision makers will need to re-envision and adapt our complex shoreline to provide ecological and social resilience. Although there are many efforts currently underway in the region to assess climate change vulnerabilities, the region lacks a coherent science-based framework for guiding and evaluating climate adaptation strategies appropriate to our diverse shoreline settings.
Thu, Jun 22 2017
The Resilience Atlas is an interactive mapping platform that visualizes the past, present and future conditions of the Bay’s edge and surrounding watersheds by combining layers of information, such as shoreline infrastructure, shoreline change over time, and sea level rise.
Thu, Jun 22 2017
SFEI and several agency partners recently completed a multi-year, EPA funded project called Flood Control 2.0. The goal of the project was to develop information that is useful for integrating habitat restoration into flood management at the Bay edge. Project outputs are now available at floodcontrol.sfei.org.
Thu, Jun 22 2017
South Bay Landscape Vision Workshop
On June 7, SFEI, in partnership with the Santa Clara Valley Water District and South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project, hosted a landscape “visioning” workshop in San Jose.
Thu, Jun 15 2017
SFEI's Robin Grossinger helps to preserve San Jose's Coyote Valley using historical ecology
San Jose's Coyote Valley has come into focus as a key space to preserve as open space, even while faced with ever mounting pressures from land developers and local industry.
Thu, May 18 2017
Local coverage of RMP findings on flea control pesticide fipronil
A report from ABC7's Dan Ashley last night highlighted key findings from a recent RMP study on the pesticide fipronil. The study identified spot-on flea control products as likely to be an important source of this contaminant to the Bay.
Mon, May 15 2017
What might be missing from the stories on leopard shark deaths in SF Bay?
Many news outlets are reporting on a spike in leopard shark deaths and bat rays in S.F. Bay. Several theories related to pollution have been offered, but we want to offer an additional, under-reported factor that should be considered in the discussion...