| Bay RMP Sediment Workgroup Meeting |
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| SFEI at Ocean Hoptimism |
Most coastal pollution starts upstream of the ocean. That means science—and solutions—start… |
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| Bay RMP PCB Workgroup Meeting #2 |
The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) is a collaboration… |
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| San Francisco Rain Gardens Filter Microplastic Tire Particles and Dozens of Chemicals from Stormwater |
A new study shows that rain gardens substantially reduce levels of 21 contaminants in stormwater… |
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| Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting |
The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) is a collaboration… |
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| Bay RMP Multi Year Planning Workshop and Steering Committee Meeting |
The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) is a collaboration… |
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| Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting |
The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) is a collaboration… |
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| Bay RMP Sediment Workgroup Meeting |
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| New Data on Salmon-Killing Chemical In San Francisco Bay |
A new dataset on San Francisco Bay water includes some of the world's the first information about… |
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| 20 Years of Investigating Underregulated Chemicals |
The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay has grown into a world… |
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| Bay RMP PCB Workgroup Meeting #1 |
The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) is a collaboration… |
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| Bay RMP Microplastics Workgroup Meeting |
The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) is a collaboration… |
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| Bay RMP Sources, Pathways, and Loadings Workgroup Meeting (9am - 3pm) |
The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) is a collaboration… |
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| To Save the Bay, Save its Sediment |
Sand and mud are the essential building blocks for the Bay's shoreline to keep pace with sea level… |
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| How Stormwater Studies Can Make the Bay Cleaner |
As stormwater sampling across the San Francisco Bay Area reveals more poorly regulated chemicals,… |
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| Bay RMP Sediment Workgroup Meeting |
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| Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting |
The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) is a collaboration… |
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| Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting |
The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) is a collaboration… |
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| Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting |
The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) is a collaboration… |
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| Meet The Robots |
When rainstorms wash contaminants into the Bay, scientists can only sample stormwater in a few… |
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| Why The Fate of Antimicrobial Chemicals Matters for San Francisco Bay |
Antimicrobial chemicals called QACs have soared in popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic, and are… |
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| Bay RMP Emerging Contaminants Workgroup Meeting (9:30am - 3:30pm) |
The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) is a collaboration… |
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| Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting |
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| The Storm Chasers: What Stormwater Reveals About Pollution In San Francisco Bay |
SFEI’s stormwater monitoring team has grown and is innovating techniques to further expand its… |
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| San Francisco Bay High-frequency Water Quality Sensor Data ver 1 |
The Moored Sensor Program (MSP) is a network of high-frequency continuous water quality sensors… |
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| Nutrient Management Strategy Steering Committee Meeting |
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| Winning Stormwater Robot Names Selected |
Meet Captain Capture, Pre Sipitation, and our 13 other stormwater sampling robots we named with… |
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| Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting |
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| “More Science, and Better” for RMP with Historic Grant |
“For a lot of years we were very budget constrained, so we were making really small steps in our… |
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| Existing Data Inventory |
This data package is a key deliverable for the Research to Understand Impacts of Bay Sand Mining on… |
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| Subtask 1.7: Draft and final Sand Budget and Transport report |
This data package is a key deliverable for the Research to Understand Impacts of Bay Sand Mining on… |
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| Subtask 1.6: Complete and reconcile the revised sand budget for Bay |
This data package is a key deliverable for the Research to Understand Impacts of Bay Sand Mining on… |
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| Subtask 1.4: Quantify net sand storage and removal from flood control channels |
This data package is a key deliverable for the Research to Understand Impacts of Bay Sand Mining on… |
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| All Aboard for Water Quality Sampling |
Hundreds of bottles of Bay water. Thousands of chemicals. Five dawn-to-dusk days all over San… |
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| Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting |
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| Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting |
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| Bay RMP Multi Year Planning Workshop and Steering Committee Meeting |
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| Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting |
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| Help Us Name Our New Stormwater Sampling Machines! |
The SFEI stormwater team has developed robot samplers to pump up sips of stormwater runoff during… |
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| Tribally-centered Fish Consumption Application |
Tribal partners have raised concerns to the State Water Board regarding fish consumption advisories… |
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| New Bay PFAS Data Show Reasons for Optimism and Concern |
Monitoring for PFAS, or forever chemicals, has come a long way in the 16 years since the Regional… |
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| SFEI Scientist Interviewed on Microplastics for Maven's Notebook |
Senior scientist Ezra Miller was interviewed in Maven's Notebook about SFEI's groundbreaking… |
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| Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting |
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| Fishing for "Forever Chemicals" In the Press: SFEI Study in Dozens of Media Outlets |
Dozens of media outlets picked up our study that confirmed PFAS (“forever chemicals”) are… |
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| Bay RMP PCB Workgroup Meeting |
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| Bay RMP PCB Workgroup Meeting |
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| "Unique as Snowflakes": Understanding Tire Particles |
Techniques to isolate and identify tire particles will pave the way for better microplastic… |
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| Green Stormwater Infrastructure by and for Communities |
Green Stormwater Infrastructure by and for Communities aims to build the capacity of residents in… |
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| "Forever Chemicals" Found In Fish Through Most of Bay |
More than a decade of monitoring found that ten species of popular fish to eat from San Francisco… |
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| Sampling the Storm: Tracking PCBs in Bay Area Waterways |
The Bay's industrial history is preserved in its mud. Buried in the soft, silty clay are legacy… |
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| Over a Decade of Science Guiding Nutrient Management Strategy in the Bay |
For over a decade, SFEI's Nutrient Management Strategy (NMS) team has equipped decision-makers with… |
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| Are clothing dryers a major source of microplastics pollution in the San Francisco Bay? Study participants needed! |
SFEI is studying dryer emissions to find out if clothing dryers are a significant source of… |
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| Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting |
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| Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting |
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| Bay RMP Emerging Contaminants Workgroup Meeting |
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| Bay RMP Emerging Contaminants Workgroup Meeting |
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| Bay RMP Sediment Workgroup Meeting |
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| Bay RMP Sediment Workgroup Meeting |
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| Bay RMP Sources, Pathways, and Loadings Workgroup Meeting |
Agenda Package
Agenda Package SPLWG 2025-04-28.pdf (59 pages, 6 MB file)
Meeting Slides SPLWG 2025… |
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| Bay RMP PCB Workgroup Meeting |
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| Bay RMP Microplastics Workgroup Meeting |
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| Olfactory Effects of Copper on Salmonids |
Overview
Copper has been a priority concern due to its acute toxicity to aquatic life. As a result… |
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| Mercury Synthesis |
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| Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting |
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| Forever chemicals in household products contribute to Bay pollution |
SFEI partnered with Bay Area Clean Water Agencies (BACWA) to implement a collaborative, cost… |
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| Out now: 2024 Pulse of the Bay |
Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) take center stage in the 2024 Pulse of the Bay, the… |
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| Research to Understand Impacts of Bay Sand Mining on Sand Supply and Transport in San Francisco Bay and the Outer Coast |
From 2021-2023, SFEI worked with BCDC and scientists from the USGS and Deltares to develop an… |
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| Pescadero Butano Watershed Water Quality Studies |
From summer 2022 through summer 2024, scientists at SFEI conducted three parallel efforts to… |
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| Associate Environmental Scientist |
The San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) seeks an environmental scientist or engineer to join the… |
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| California moves towards sustainable pest management, phase out of highest-risk pesticides by 2050 |
On January 26, the Secretaries of the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) and… |
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| California Trash Data Dive 2018 |
On November 16, 2018, the project team helped to coordinate a Trash Data Dive convened by the State… |
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| Carlos Street Rain Garden Interpretative Sign |
An informative and beautifully designed interpretative sign educates the public on the effects of… |
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| GreenPlan-IT Tracker Released to the public |
Municipalities across the state and beyond are carefully planning and implementing green… |
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| Latest Estuary News takes a look “Beyond the Blubber” |
Ariel Rubissow-Okamoto’s article “Beyond the Blubber,” based on interviews with SFEI Senior… |
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| 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… |
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| 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… |
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| Scientists Advise a Major Shift in Chemicals Management in the U.S. and Canada |
A new approach is essential to help governments and businesses eliminate harmful chemicals from… |
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| 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… |
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| SFEI provides perspective on emerging harmful bacterial blooms in the State's larger waterbodies |
The State has contracted SFEI to provide intellectual, scientific, and technical resources to… |
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| 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… |
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| SFEI study cited in SF Chronicle news story about creosote pilings in the Bay |
Filipa A. Ioannou's Chronicle article sounds an alert over the health risks posed by decaying… |
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| The Dirt on Flea Control: New RMP Study featured in Estuary News |
It’s hard to go to the big box pet store and not stumble over the flea control displays. Most pet… |
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| 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… |
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| The Healthy Watersheds Resilient Baylands project kicks off |
The Healthy Watersheds Resilient Baylands project kicked off this summer. Over the next four years,… |
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| 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:
San Francisco Bay, like Monterey Bay to its south, is a rare… |
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| RMP Publication: Storm Flows Key to Managing Pollution in Highly Urban Watersheds |
Urban runoff is a large and potentially controllable source of pollutants to San Francisco Bay and… |
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| Carquinez Strait Fish and Preservation Project |
SFEI is partnering with All Positives Possible, a community-based organization serving low-income… |
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| Emerging Contaminants in Urban Stormwater Runoff |
Rain-driven flows from city streets and storm drains transport PFAS and other contaminants to the… |
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| Clean Water Program |
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| Klamath Dam Removal Video Goes Viral |
Of the thirteen presentations at the Klamath Basin Monitoring Program (KBMP) meeting in May, a… |
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| State of Our Estuary |
The State of Our Estuary (formerly the State of the Estuary Report) evaluates the status and trends… |
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| Statewide Plastics Monitoring Strategy & Planning Framework |
SFEI, on behalf of the California Ocean Protection Council, is facilitating the development of a… |
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| New $3 million grant to support harmful algae monitoring in the San Francisco Estuary |
NOAA recently announced that it is awarding a $3-million grant, through its Monitoring and… |
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| Save the Bay: Climate Conversations-Greening our Cities |
Join Save The Bay for Climate Conversations and learn how an innovative nature-based approach to… |
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| 2022 RMP Annual Meeting |
2022 RMP Annual Meeting
The 29th RMP Annual Meeting marked the partial return to an… |
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| Nature Based Solutions for Nutrient Removal |
SFEI collaborated with the Bay Area Clean Water Agencies (BACWA) to identify opportunities for… |
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| Consumption Survey Questionnaire for San Francisco Bay Subsistence Fishers |
SFEI is developing a questionnaire that will be used to characterize consumption of Bay-caught fish… |
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| Emerging Contaminants Workgroup Meeting Day 2 |
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| Emerging Contaminants Workgroup Meeting Day 1 |
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| Microplastics Workgroup Meeting |
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