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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
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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
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Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Publications

Title Abstract Year of Publication
Management Questions Guiding the RMP for Trace Substances - First Edition, 1998 1998
Relationship Between Sediment Contamination and Toxicity in San Francisco Bay 1998
RMP Annual Meeting 1998 (Transcript) 1998
RMP Objectives-Revised April 15, 1998 1998
RMP Watershed Pilot Study: An Information Review with Emphasis on Contaminant Loading, Sources, and Effects 1998
Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Aquatic Cycling of Chromium 1998
Technical Report of the San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances 1998
Time Series of Suspended Solids Concentration, Salinity, Temperature, and Total Mercury Concentration in San Francsico Bay During Water Year 1998 1998
1995 Annual Report: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances 1997
1995 Executive Summary: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances 1997
A sediment transport pathway in the back of a nearly semienclosed subembayment of San Francisco Bay, California 1997
Benthic fluxes of silver in San Francisco Bay 1997
Bioaccumulation of contaminants by transplanted bivalves in the San Francisco Estuary: A summary of status and trends with emphasis on Local Effects Monitoring Programs 1997
Competitive equilibration techniques for determining transition metal speciation in natural waters: Evaluation using model data 1997
Contaminant Concentrations in Fish from San Francisco Bay, 1997 1997
Creating data-quality objectives: A case study 1997
Determination of dissolved manganese (II) in estuarine and coastal waters, by differential pulse cathodic stripping voltammetry 1997
Effects of diethyldithiocarbamate and 8-hydroxyquinoline additions on algal uptake of ambient 1997
Five-Year Program Review: Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances in the San Francisco Estuary 1997
Lead levels in the oceans 1997
Levels and patterns of polychlorinated biphenyls in water collected from the San Francisco Bay and Estuary, 1993-95 1997
Observations on trace organic concentrations in RMP water samples 1997
Particulate sources and sinks of dissolved chromium in the San Francisco Bay estuary 1997
PCB intercalibration exercise with Regional Monitoring Program water sample extracts 1997
Physicochemical speciation of lead in South San Francisco Bay 1997
Porewater gradients and diffusive benthic fluxes of Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Cd in San Francisco Bay 1997
Pore-water silver concentration gradients and benthic fluxes from contaminated sediments of San Francisco Bay, California, U.S.A. 1997
Temporally variable freshwater sources of dissolved chromium to the San Francisco Bay estuary 1997
The design of sampling transects for characterizing water quality in estuaries 1997
Trace metal exchange in solution by the fungicides Ziram and Maneb (dithiocarbamates) and subsequent uptake of the lipophilic organic Zn, Cu and Pb complexes into phytoplankton cells 1997
1994 Annual Report: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances 1996
1994 Executive Summary: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances 1996
Distribution of Colloidal trace metals in the San Francisco Bay estuary 1996
DOD Sediment Criteria Project Ambient Analysis Draft Interim Report 1996
Factors affecting suspended-solids concentrations in South San Francisco Bay, California 1996
Further Development of Chronic Ampelisca Abdita Bioassay as an Indicator of Sediment Toxicity 1996
Mercury Effects, Sources, and Control Measures 1996
Metal contamination in San Francisco Bay waters: Historic perturbations, contemporary concentrations, and future considerations 1996
Methods for Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Patterns 1996
Microtechniques for the determination of nanomolar concentrations of trace elements in 10 ml of sediment porewater 1996
Silver contamination in aquatic environments 1996
Summary of Suspended-Solids Concentration Data, San Francisco Bay, California, Water Year 1994 1996
Summary of Suspended-Solids Concentration Data, San Francisco Bay, California, Water Year 1995 1996
The role of colloids in the transport of trace metals in the San Francisco Bay estuary 1996
Time Series of Trace Element Concentrations Calculated from Time Series of Suspended Solid Concentrations and RMP Water Samples 1996
Trace metal concentrations in the surf zone and in coastal waters off Baja California, Mexico 1996
Chromium speciation in San Francisco Bay: Superposition of geochemical processes causes complex spatial distribution of inorganic species 1995
Diagnostic modeling of trace metal partitioning in South San Francisco Bay 1995
Organic speciation of silver in marine waters 1995
The Effects of Toxic Contaminants in Waters of the San Francisco Bay and Delta 1995
1993 Annual Report: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances 1994
1993 Executive Summary: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances 1994
Benthic lead fluxes in San Francisco Bay, California, USA 1994
Chromium in San Francisco Bay: inorganic speciation, distribution, and geochemical processes 1994
Determination of copper speciation in marine waters by competitive ligand equilibration/liquid-liquid extraction: An evaluation of the technique 1994
Speciation of dissolved copper and nickel in South San Francisco Bay: A Multi-method approach 1994
Studies of the San Francisco Bay, California, Estuarine Ecosystem 1994
Towards an Optimal Sampling Design for the RMP 1994
Trace metal speciation in marine waters by competitive ligand equilibration/solvent extraction: theory and practice 1994
Uptake of lipophilic organic Cu, Cd, and Pb complexes in the coastal diatom, Thalassiosira Weissflogii 1994
Keynote Address for AHI Workshop on TIE's Status of TIE's as a Regulatory Tool in S.F. Bay Region 1993
A Workshop on Toxicity Identification Evaluation (TIE's) in the San Francisco Bay Region: Lessons Learned 1993
Comparable levels of trace metal contamination in two semi-enclosed embayments: San Diego Bay and South San Francisco Bay 1993
Silver in San Francisco Bay estuarine waters 1993
Proceedings of a Workshop on Chronic Toxicity Identification Evaluations in the San Francisco Bay Region 1992
Memorandum of Understanding Between the Water Board and AHI Concerning Implementation of the RMP 1992
San Francisco Estuary Project Status and Trends Report on Pollutants in the San Francisco Estuary, Final Draft 1991
Status and Trends Report on Pollutnats in the San Francisco Estuary 1991
Biogeochemistry of arsenic in natural waters: The importance of methylated species 1991
Dissolved trace element cycles in the San Francisco Bay estuary 1991
Evaluation of Turbidity and Turbidity Related Effects on the Biota of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary 1991
Status And Trends Report On Pollutants In The San Francisco Estuary 1991
Estuarine Data Index: A Guide to Bay-Delta Research and Monitoring Programs, Volume 2 1990
Estuarine Data Index: A Guide to Bay-Delta Research and Monitoring Programs, Volume I 1990
Estuarine Index: A Guide to Bay-Delta Research and Monitoring Programs: Volume I 1990
The Estuarine Data Index 1990
Inventory of Monitoring Programs in the San Francisco Bay and Delta 1989
Monitoring of Toxic Contaminants in the San Francisco Bay-Delta: A Critical Review, Emphasizing Spatial and Temporal Trend Monitoring 1988
A Survey of User Needs for Data Relating to Environmental and Water Quality in the San Francisco Estuary 1988
The Bioavailability of Toxic Contaminants in the San Francisco Bay-Delta: Proceedings of a Two-Day Seminar Series 1988
Monitoring of Toxic Contaminants in the San Francisco Bay-Delta: A Critical Review 1988
Executive Summary of the Monitoring of Toxic Contaminants in the San Francisco Bay-Delta: A Crtical Review 1988
An Assessment of The Loading of Toxic Contaminants to The San Francisco-Bay Delta: Executive Summary 1987
An Assessment of The Loading of Toxic Contaminants to The San Francisco-Bay Delta: Full Report 1987
Toxic Contaminants in the San Francisco Bay-Delta and their Possible Biological Effects 1987
An Assesssment of the Loading of Toxic Contaminants to the San Francisco Bay-Delta 1987
Executive Summary of an Assessment of the Loading of Toxic Contaminants to the San Francisco Bay-Delta 1987
The Screening of Problems Relating to the San Francisco Bay_Delta 1987
The Segmentation of the San Francisco Bay/Delta 1987
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