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PFAS in San Francisco Bay Water Scientists with the San Francisco Bay Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) detected PFAS, also known… News
The 29th RMP Annual Meeting This 29th Annual Meeting marked the partial return to an in-person meeting after meeting virtually… News
2022 Pulse of the Bay The Pulse of the Bay aims to make the most important information available on water quality in the… News
2021 RMP Annual Meeting 2021 RMP Annual Meeting The 28th RMP Annual Meeting was hosted on Thursday, October… Event
2021 RMP Annual Meeting 2021 RMP Annual Meeting The 28th RMP Annual Meeting was hosted on Thursday, October… Event
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RMP Sediment Workgroup Annual Meeting Link to pre-recorded presentations on Sediment Workgroup Special Studies Event
Vehicle Tires Threaten Water Quality Update: On October 1, 2023: California Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC) 6PPD… News
Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
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2020 RMP Annual Meeting 2020 RMP Annual Meeting Event
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Dr. Kelly Moran Joins SFEI Staff SFEI is excited to announce that veteran RMP contributor Dr. Kelly Moran has recently… News
Bay RMP Sediment Workgroup Meeting (November 24, 2020) Event
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Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
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… News
2020 RMP Annual Meeting This 27th Annual Meeting will break new ground as the first entirely virtual meeting in the Program… Event
Bay RMP Steering Committee & Multi Year Planning Meeting Event
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Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
RMP Annual Meeting 2019 October 10, 2019 To view a slideshow of meeting photos click here.  The 2019 RMP Annual… Event
2019 RMP Data Exploration Challenge In 2019 the Bay RMP hosted its second Data Exploration Challenge, a contest encouraging high school… Event
Special Study on Bulk Density Sediment bulk density is the total mass of mineral and organic sediment within a defined volume. It… Project
Bay RMP Non-Targeted Analysis Fact Sheet In 2016, the RMP launched a novel investigation to detect new or unexpected contaminants in Bay… News
Bay RMP PCB Workgroup Meeting Event
Bay RMP PCB Workgroup Meeting Event
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Bay RMP Selenium Workgroup Meeting Event
PFAS Stays in San Francisco Bay SFEI senior scientist, Dr. Rebecca Sutton, published a new study in the journal Chemosphere showing… News
SF Bay RMP Webinar: Introduction to Predictive Toxicology The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (Bay RMP) combines… Event
Bay RMP Sediment Workgroup May Meeting Event
Bay RMP Sediment Workgroup March Meeting To join the meeting remotely: https://join.me/sfei-conf-cw1 (Recommended browser: Chrome) To dial… Event
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2019 Status and Trends Monitoring In 2019, the Regional Monitoring Program monitored sport fish tissue and held its biennial Water… General Content
RMP Annual Meeting 2019 Slideshow To view more photos or download full resolution versions, click here. Project
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… News
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,… News
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… News
2019 Symposium on San Francisco Microplastics The San Francisco Estuary Institute and the 5 Gyres Institute have completed a first-of-its-kind,… Event
Bay RMP Emerging Contaminants Workgroup Meeting (Day 2) Event
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Take the RMP Data Exploration Challenge! Help us learn about the Bay! Millions of measurements of water quality have been made in the Bay.… News
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Bay RMP Annual Meeting 2018 For access to more photos for viewing and download, click here. RMP Annual Meeting 2018… Event
SFEI Expert Assists California’s Green Chemistry Program Green chemistry is a critical tool in efforts to prevent the pollution of our environment. By… News
Bay RMP Selenium Workgroup Meeting Join the meeting: https://join.me/sfei-conf-cw1 To dial in by phone: 1.415.594.5500 Conference ID:… Event
2019 Bay RMP Sediment Workgroup Meeting Event
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Medicating the Bay: RMP Science featured in Estuary News Highlighted in the December 2018 issue of Estuary News, a new report from the Bay’s Regional… News
The Latest RMP Emerging Contaminant Strategic Plans The SFEI Emerging Contaminant team, led by Dr. News
The new CD3 Data Download tool! SFEI has created many science-based mapping tools to help resource managers to access and visualize… News
The Bay Regional Monitoring Program’s 2018 Update Report and RMP Annual Meeting For over 26 years, the stewardship of San Francisco Bay’s water quality has been supported by a… News
San Francisco Bay Data Exploration Challenge Take the RMP Data Exploration Challenge! Help us learn about the Bay and submit your entry by… Event
RMP Annual Meeting 2017 The RMP Annual Meeting is held every year in the fall. In 2017 the Annual Meeting celebrated the… Event
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Regional Watershed Spreadsheet Model The Regional Watershed Spreadsheet Model (RWSM) was developed to estimate average annual regional… Project
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Publications

Title Abstract Year of Publication
Sources, Pathways, and Loadings: 5-Year Work Plan (2005-2009) 2005
Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in San Francisco Bay Sport Fish, 2003 2005
Methylmercury in San Francisco Bay Surface Sediments 2005
Monitoring Legacy and Emerging Pollutants at the Top of the San Francisco Bay Food Web 2005
Using a Spatially Balanced, Random Sampling Design to Assist Informed Management Decision 2005
Optimizing Transplanted Bivalve Studies for the Regional Monitorig Program for Trace Substances 2005
Fate of Contaminants in Sediment of San Francisco Estuary: A Review of Literature and Data - Final Report 2005
DRAFT REPORT: A Model of Long-Term PCB Fate and Transport in San Francisco Bay, CA 2005
Levels and Distribution of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Water, Surface Sediments, and Bivalves from the San Francisco Estuary 2005
Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances in the San Francisco Estuary 2005 Program Plan 2005
2003 Annual Results: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances 2005
2005 Pulse of the Estuary Fact Sheet 2005
2005 Pulse of the Estuary: Monitoring and Managing Water Quality in the San Francisco Estuary 2005
A Review of Factors Influencing Measurements of Decadal Variations in Metal Contamination in San Francisco Bay, California 2005
Concentratons and Loads of Organic Contaminants and Mercury associated with Suspended Sediment Discharged to San Francisco Bay from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, CA 2005
Emerging Contaminants: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) 2005
Estuary News RMP Insert 2004/2005 2005
Estuary News RMP Insert 2004/2005 2005
Estuary News RMP Insert 2005 2005
Estuary News RMP Insert 2005 2005
Re-design Process of the San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances (RMP) Status & Trends Monitoring Component for Water and Sediment 2005
Re-design Process of the San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances (RMP) Status & Trends Monitoring Component for Water and Sediment 2005
San Francisco Bay Atmospheric Deposition Pilot StudyPart 3: Dry Deposition of PAHs and PCBs 2005
San Francisco Bay Mercury News - an electronic newsletter of mercury research in the Bay Area 2005
Conceptual Framework and Rationale for the Exposure and Effects Pilot Study 2004
2004 Annual Meeting Presentations of the Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances 2004
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the San Francisco Estuary water column: Sources, spatial distributions, and temporal trends (1993-2001) 2004
2002 Annual Results 2004
2004 Pulse of the Estuary: Monitoring & Managing Contamination in the San Francisco Estuary 2004
2004 RMP Program Plan 2004
A PAH Fate Model for San Francisco Bay 2004
A Simple Mass Balance Model for PAH Fate in the San Francisco Estuary 2004
Assessing Historic Mercury Concentrations in Sediments, San Francisco Bay Estuary 2004
A test of the Environmental Kuznets Curve using long-term watershed inputs 2004
Cisnet Technical Report: Contaminant Accumulation In Eggs of Double-Crested Cormorants and Song Sparrows In San Pablo Bay 2004
Cisnet Technical Report: Contaminant Accumulation in Forage Fish 2004
Mercury Contamination of Sport Fish in the Delta and its Tributaries 2004
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in San Francisco Estuary sediments 2004
Re-design Process of the San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances (RMP) 2004
Report of the 2003 Program Review 2004
RMP News - Newsletter of the Regional Monitoring Program 2004
San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) Annual Monitoring Results, 2002 2004
Seasonal, Interannual, and Long-term Variation in sport fish contamination, San Francisco Bay 2004
2003 Pulse of the Estuary: Monitoring & Managing Contamination in the San Francisco Estuary 2003
Ambient Water Toxicity in San Francisco Bay: 1993 - 2002 2003
Benefits of the RMP and Challenges for the Future 2003
Benefits of the RMP and Challenges for the Future: Scientific Community Perspective 2003
Choosing a Future Bay: The Long - Term Fate of PCBs and Other Organics 2003
Monitoring of San Francisco Bay: Is the Whole Less than the Sum of the Parts? 2003
PCB Movement through the Food-Web of San Francisco Bay: Development of a Model 2003
The Clean Estuary Partnership and the RMP: Comparing two stakeholder programs producing science in support of policy 2003
2001 Annual Results: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances 2003
A mass balance model for the fate of PAHs in the San Francisco Estuary 2003
Anthropogenic sources of lead in the Sacramento and San Joaquin drainage basins 2003
A review of urban runoff processes in the Bay Area: Existing knowledge, conceptual models, and monitoring recommendations 2003
A Watershed Year for RMP & CEP: Sources Pathways & Loadings 2002/2003 2003
Causes of Sediment Toxicity to Mytilus galloprovincialis in San Francisco Bay, California 2003
Developing Water Quality Solutions for San Francisco Bay 2003
Effective Application of Monitoring Information: The Case of San Francisco Bay 2003
Evaluation of immune responses as indicators of contamination in San Francisco Bay, Using a novel phagocytosis and phagocytic index method developed for mussels 2003
Identification and evaluation of previously unknown organic contaminants in the San Francisco Estuary (1999-2001) 2003
Identification and Evaluation of Previously Unknown Organic Contaminants in the San Francisco Estuary (1999-2001) 2003
Landscape scale variation in taxonomic diversity in four groups of aquatic organisms: the influence of physical, chemical and biological properties 2003
Mercury concentrations in coastal California precipitation: Evidence of local and trans-Pacific fluxes of mercury to North America 2003
Mercury Contamination from Historic Mining in Water and Sediment, Guadalupe River and San Francisco Bay, CA 2003
Mercury deposition in a tidal marsh downstream of the historic New Almaden mining district, CA 2003
Mercury speciation in the San Francisco Bay estuary 2003
Monitoring Water Quality in San Francisco Bay: Lessons Learned After Ten Years of Regional Monitoring 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 2003
PCBs Total Maximum Daily Loads, San Francisco Bay 2003
Persistent Toxic Chemicals of Human Health Concern in Fish from San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River, CA 2003
Potential for increased mercury accumulation in the Estuary food web: Issues in San Francisco Estuary Tidal Wetlands Restoration 2003
San Francisco Bay Ambient Monitoring Interim Report 2003
San Francisco Bay PCB Food - Web Model 2003
Sediment Dynamics Drive Contaminant Dynamics 2003
Selenium Concentrations in Surf Scooter and Greater Scaup from the San Francisco Estuary 2003
Summary of 10 years of sediment toxicity monitoring for the San Francisco Estuary RMP 2003
Surveillance for previously unmonitored organic contaminants in the San Francisco Estuary 2003
Surveillance for previously unmonitored organic contaminants in the San Francisco Estuary 2003
Surveillance monitoring for new organic contaminants in the San Francisco Estuary 2003
The estuarine cycles of cobalt in San Francisco Bay and the New York Bight 2003
The Long-Term Fate of PCBs in San Francisco Bay 2003
The Long-Term Fate of PCBs in San Francisco Bay 2002
Contaminant concentrations in fish in San Francisco Bay: 2000 2002
Benefits of the Redesigned RMP to Regional Board Decision Making 2002
Contaminant concentrations in fish: 2000 (Oral Presentation) 2002
Contaminants at the Estuary Interface 2002
Copper and Nickel Impairment Assessment 2002
Copper and Nickel TMDL Development: Lower South Bay 2002
Loadings of Particles and Contaminants to the Bay from the Central Valley 2002
New Directions for the RMP: An Overview 2002
The Design Process for the Status and Trends Component 2002
The Pulse of the Estuary: 2000 Update 2002
2000 Annual Results: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances 2002
2000 Pulse of the Estuary: Monitoring and Managing Contamination in the San Francisco Estuary 2002
Analysis for Cd, Cu, Ni, Zn and Mn in estuarine water by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry coupled with an automated flow injection system 2002
A PCB Budget for San Francisco Bay 2002
Atmospheric Concentrations and Fluxes of Organic Compounds in the Northern San Francisco Estuary 2002
Atmospheric Deposition of Trace Metals in San Francisco Bay 2002
Contaminant concentrations in sport fish from San Francisco Bay, 1997 2002
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