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Sediment Workgroup Meeting Event
Sources, Pathways, and Loading Workgroup Meeting Day 2 Event
Sources, Pathways, and Loading Workgroup Meeting Day 1 Event
Russian River Regional Monitoring Program: Comprehensive Basemap of Surface Waters and Riparian Areas SFEI is supporting regional and state organizations in developing and implementing the R3MP, which… Project
RMP Sources, Pathways and Loadings Workgroup Meeting Day 2 Event
RMP Sources, Pathways and Loadings Workgroup Meeting Event
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
The Wetland Regional Monitoring Program for SF Estuary enters significant new phase The Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program or WRMP is a broad, multi-organizational effort… News
Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Microplastics Workgroup Meeting Event
Bay RMP Emerging Contaminants Workgroup Meeting Day 2 Event
Bay RMP Emerging Contaminants Workgroup Meeting Day 1 Event
Forum on PFAS elevates the perspectives of local fishing communities Known as “forever chemicals” due to their persistence in the environment, per- and polyfluoroalkyl… News
Virtual Forum: PFAS in San Francisco Bay Fish Bringing together environmental and public health agencies, members of tribes and local fishing… Project
SFEI Experts Assist California’s Safer Consumer Products Program Recent studies by the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) and the Regional Monitoring Program… News
RMP Sediment Workgroup May meeting 2021 Event
Trees, Hydrology, Urban-Greening, and Nature-Based Solutions Two key reports support nature-based solutions. Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) and… News
Next Generation Urban Greening SFEI is working with partners across the Bay Area to design tools to help cities achieve… Project
Toxic Tire Contaminant Found in Bay Area Stormwater Scientists at the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) have found a highly toxic tire-related… News
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
Special Study on Bulk Density Sediment bulk density is the total mass of mineral and organic sediment within a defined volume. It… Project
PFAS Stays in San Francisco Bay SFEI senior scientist, Dr. Rebecca Sutton, published a new study in the journal Chemosphere showing… News
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
Bay RMP Microplastics Workgroup Meeting Event
Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
EcoAtlas EcoAtlas is a set of tools for visualizing, sharing, summarizing, and reporting on standardized… Project
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
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… 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
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… News
SFEI at California Water Boards Water Data Science Symposium SFEI’s Diana Lin and Tony Hale will be presenting at the California Water Boards Water Data Science… Event
SFEI's journal article on Green Stormwater Infrastructure featured as the Editor's Choice A team led by Dr. Jing Wu penned a paper in January on using Green Stormwater Infrastructure… 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
Introducing the New RMP Manager: Dr. Melissa Foley SFEI is very pleased to announce that Dr. Melissa Foley joined our staff as the new RMP Manager in… News
RMP Journal Article: Characterization of brominated, chlorinated, and phosphate flame retardants in San Francisco Bay, an urban estuary Dr. Rebecca Sutton and Jennifer Sun of SFEI, along with other colleagues from Jinan University in… News
Clean Water Program Journal Article: Optimal Selection and Placement of Green Infrastructure in Urban Watersheds for PCB Control Green infrastructure, such as permeable pavement, rain gardens, tree-well planters, and bioswales,… News
2019 Bay RMP Sediment Workgroup Meeting Event
2019 Bay RMP Sediment Workgroup Meeting Event
2019 Bay RMP PCB Workgroup Meeting Event
2019 Bay RMP Sources, Pathways, & Loadings Workgroup Meeting Event
Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
2019 Bay RMP Microplastic Workgroup Meeting Event
2019 Bay RMP Emerging Contaminants Workgroup Meeting - Day 2 Event
2019 Bay RMP Emerging Contaminants Workgroup Meeting - Day 1 Event
2019 RMP Annual Meeting Event
Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
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
Mapping Outside the Box: Visualizing Bay Landscapes in New Dimensions The most recent meeting of the San Francisco Estuary Geospatial Workgroup featured Pete Kauhanen… News
Preparing for the Storm Catalyzed by the extensive damages caused by the Winter 2016-2017 storms and the… Project
Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
New Solutions: Traveling on Sunlight SFEI secured a grant from the Bay Area Air Quality District to partially fund SFEI’s installation… News
RMP Technical Report: Per and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in San Francisco Bay: Synthesis and Strategy Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a broad class of fluorine-rich specialty… News
California Trash Monitoring Methods Project The California Ocean Protection Council (OPC), in close partnership with the State Water Board, has… Project
Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting and Multi Year Planning Workshop Event
Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
Regional Watershed Spreadsheet Model The Regional Watershed Spreadsheet Model (RWSM) was developed to estimate average annual regional… Project
Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Selenium Workgroup Meeting Event
Bay RMP Sport Fish Strategy Team Meeting Event
Bay RMP Selenium Workgroup Meeting Event
SFEI Science at International Marine Debris Conference (March 12-16) SFEI science will feature prominently at the Sixth International Marine Debris Conference in San… News
2018 RMP Annual Meeting Event
RMP PCB Workgroup Meeting Event
RMP PCB Workgroup Meeting Event
RMP Sediment Workgroup Meeting Event
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… News
Russian River Watershed Projects at the San Francisco Estuary Institute Our projects in the Russian River Watershed help us to understand our past, understand our present,… Project
Bay RMP Emerging Contaminants Workgroup Meeting - Day 2 Event
Bay RMP Emerging Contaminants Workgroup Meeting - Day 1 Event
Sources Pathways and Loadings Annual Workgroup Meeting Event
Bay RMP Microplastics Workgroup Meeting Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
RMP Exposure and Effects Workgroup Meeting Event
RMP Sediment Workgroup Meeting Event
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… News
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… News
Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
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… News
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… News
Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
Flood Control 2.0 Completed! SFEI and several agency partners recently completed a multi-year, EPA funded project called Flood… News
Talk: Science to Inform and Advance Environmental Protections SFEI's Dr. Rebecca Sutton will be speaking at an event hosted by the Women Chemists Committee of… Event
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… News
Bay RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
Bay RMP Multi Year Planning Workshop Event

Publications

Title Abstract Year of Publication
Report of the 2003 Program Review 2004
Review of Alternative Aquatic Pest Control Methods For California Waters 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
Three mechanical shredders evaluated for controlling water hyacinth (California) 2004
UC Santa Barbara Graduate Project Report: "A Cost and Environmental Analysis of Aquatic Plant Management in California" 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
Non-Chemical Aquatic Plant Control (presented at 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
A new research program on non-chemical pest control in California waters 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
Aquatic Pesticide Monitoring Program Literature Review 2003
Aquatic Pesticide Monitoring Program Modeling Workgroup Final Report 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
Carbon-isotope, diatom, and pollen evidence of late Holocene salinity changes in a brackish marsh in the San Francisco Estuary 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
Green Infill for Clean Stormwater 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
Sources of organic aerosol particulate matter in Malaysia during haze episode 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 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
Geology, geochemistry and biomaker evaluation of lafie-Obi Coal Benue through, Nigeria 2002
Polar aromatic biomarkers in the miocene Maritza-East Lignite, Bulgaria 2002
Influence of Thermal Stratification on the Depth of Distribution of Pelagic Juvenile Rockfish of central California 2002
Organic Tracers from Wild Fire Residues in Soils and Rain/River Wash-Out 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
Water quality modeling: Characterization of nutrients in surface waters and modeling at the watershed scale 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
Current Regulatory Approach to Copper in San Francisco Bay: Source Control, Pollution Prevention, and Monitoring 2002
Decadal decline of anthropogenic silver in San Francisco Bay: Comparison with lead 2002
Decadal trends of silver and lead contamination in San Francisco Bay surface waters 2002
Determining the Spatial Distribution of Water and Sediment Sampling Locations 2002
Effect of injury in salt marsh periwinkles (Littoraria irrorata Say) on resistance to future attacks by blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus Rathbun) 2002
Episodic Ambient Water Toxicity in the San Francisco Estuary 2002
Estimates of suspended-sediment flux entering San Francisco Bay from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta 2002
Estimation of Means, Totals, and Distribution Functions from Probability Survey Data 2002
Estuary Interface Pilot Study (1996 - 1999) 2002
Estuary News RMP Insert 2002 2002
Groundwater seepage into northern San Francisco Bay: implications for dissolved metals budgets 2002
Identification and evaluation of unidentified organic contaminants in the San Francisco Estuary 2002
Mallard Island 2002
NorCal SEATAC 2001 - Seafood Contamination and Consumption 2002
Organic Contaminant Concentrations in Bay Area Effluents 2002
Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Northern San Francisco Estuary Refinery Effluents 2002
Process and Products for RMP Redesign Implementation by January 2002 2002
Regional Monitoring of Water Quality in San Francisco Bay: Lessons Learned After Ten Years 2002
RMP detective work: Identifying new organic contaminants in the Estuary 2002
Sediment Toxicity Identification Evaluations San Francisco Bay Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances 2002
Sequential Extraction of Mercury from Sediments in San Francisco Bay Estuary 2002
SFEI: More Than Just RMP (2002 RMP Annual Meeting) 2002
Short-term biogeochemical influence of a diatom bloom on the nutrient and trace metal concentrations in a South San Francisco Bay microcosm experiment 2002
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