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RMP Emerging Contaminants Workgroup Meeting Topics from this meeting included: updates on the flame retardant work as well as work on… Event
RMP Contaminant Fate Workgroup Meeting The Contaminant Fate Work Group held its 2011 meeting on May 12th from 10:00 to 4:00. Please see… Event
Mining is a Main Source of Mercury to San Francisco Bay A recent article in Indian Country Today profiled a University of Michigan and RMP study on sources… News
Changes to the RMP There have been numerous changes over the years to the RMP in order to better address management… Project
2009-2010 2009-2010 Selenium Load Limitation (lbs) Selenium Load - Calculated (lbs) October… General Content
2009 RMP Annual Monitoring Results The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in the San Francisco Estuary (RMP) is the primary… News
RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting The TRC reviewed the special study proposals for 2012, was updated on the multi-year small fish… Event
SFEI Scientist interviewed for San Francisco Estuary Project short film Jerry Kay Productions made a short film called Cut the Curbs to Claim the Rain, focusing on the El… News
State of the Bay The State of the Bay report provides independent, science-based reporting on the state of the… Project
RMP Steering Committee Master Plan Workshop The Steering Committee discussed the long-term plan for the RMP from a manager's perspective, and… Event
RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
Selenium in Wastewater SFEI has been asked to characterize selenium in six wastewater treatment effluent. Facilities will… Project
LTMS Science Framework Update The San Francisco Bay Long-Term Management Strategy (LTMS) is a collaborative partnership with the… Project
San Francisco Bay Fish Project The San Francisco Bay Fish Project is a two-year project to reduce exposure to harmful chemicals… Project
RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting The TRC was updated on the RMP Master Planning effort, and discussed developments in the Nutrients… Event
Load Monitoring in Representative Watersheds There is an urgent need for estimates of stormwater loads by watershed and by region. The recently… Project
Contaminants of Emerging Concern: A Strategy for Future Investigations in San Francisco Bay Tens of thousands of chemicals and mixtures of chemicals have been registered for production and… Project
News Article on PCBs in the Environment An article in the San Jose Mercury News on PCBs in the Bay Area quotes Jay Davis and Lester McKee.… News
RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
RMP Update in the Estuary Newsletter The annual RMP update will be distributed in the December issue of the Estuary Newsletter,… News
Benthic Workgroup Meeting Event
Traces of mercury surprise water officials This article talks about the surprisingly high toxin level were found in Crystal Springs lake. News
Mercury in Crystal Springs fish puzzles scientists Jay Davis is interviewed about the methyl mercury found in fish caught in Lower Crystal Springs… News
Mercury found in fish from S.F. water supply The study was done by researchers at the San Francisco Estuary Institute, who released the results… News
KGO interview with Tom Mumley KGO interview with Tom Mumley covering topics from the 2010 Pulse of the Estuary report.The… News
KCBS interview with Tom Mumley A live KCBS interview with Tom Mumley which covers topics from the 2010 Pulse of the Estuary.… News
Study Blames Urban Runoff for Toxins in SF Bay The condensed version of the Chronicle article on urban runoff that went out via AP Institute… News
New Reports Show Sources of Pollution in SF Bay A KTVU story by Tom Vacar features Tom Mumley and Lester McKee "Any component of our urban… News
SF Bay Report Reveals Runoff Toxicity Levels This TV story features Tom Mumley, Sarah Pearce, and Robin Grossinger, with cameos by Rainer… News
Cities Key Source of Toxics in Bay, Study Finds "Historically, we thought (the Sacramento and San Joaquin) were the dominant inputs of contaminants… News
Bay Pollution Source is Close to Home Article about topics from the 2010 Pulse featuring an interview of Jay Davis "That's been a major… News
Nicole David presents at CASQA Quarterly Meeting Presentation Title Green Infill for Clean Stormwater: Preliminary Results Presenter Nicole David… Event
2010 Pulse of the Estuary: Linking the Watersheds and the Bay The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in the San Francisco Estuary is an innovative… News
RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting The TRC was updated on RMP projects from 2010, and approved the detailed workplan for 2011. Event
Benthos Workgroup Event
Restoring Napa River Robin Grossinger was interviewed for the article "Early settlers found a Shangri-La, then they… News
Urban Design Elements Filter Pollutants News
RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
Factors Controlling Suspended Sediment in San Francisco Bay Since 1993, this element of the RMP focused on monitoring and understanding suspended sediment… Project
Contaminants in San Francisco Bay Sport Fish Fish from San Francisco Bay contain concentrations of mercury, PCBs, and other chemical… Project
RMP Technical Review Committee Meeting Event
2006-2008 Quarterly Narratives 2006-2008 General Content
Small Fish Monitoring Small fish have been analyzed in the RMP Exposure and Effects Pilot Study since 2005. Small fish… Project
Bird Egg Monitoring Cormorant and tern bird egg monitoring was incorporated into the Status and Trends Program in 2008,… Project
Long-term Water, Sediment, and Bivalve Monitoring Water quality is monitored biennially with a two-week cruise that visits 22 historic and randomly… Project
2009 2009 Monthly Reports General Content
2008-2009 2008-2009 Selenium Load General Content
September Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), September 1997. Show… General Content
August Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), August 1997. Show… General Content
July Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), July 1997. Show… General Content
June Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), June 1997. Show… General Content
April Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), April 1997. Show… General Content
March Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), March 1997. Show… General Content
February Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), February 1997. Show… General Content
January Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), January 1997. Show… General Content
November Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), November 1996. Show… General Content
October Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), October 1996. Show… General Content
RMP 2010 Annual Meeting The RMP Annual Meeting was held on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at the Oakland Museum. The meeting… Event
View EcoAtlas Baylands Maps Historical Baylands and Adjacent Habitats ca. 1800 This view of the San Francisco Bay past… General Content
1996-1997 1996-1997 Selenium Load General Content
September Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), September 1998. Show… General Content
August Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), August 1998. Show… General Content
July Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), July 1998. Show… General Content
June Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), June 1998. Show… General Content
May Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), May 1998. Show… General Content
April Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), April 1998. Show… General Content
March Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), March 1998. Show… General Content
February Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), February 1998. Show… General Content
January Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), January 1998. Show… General Content
December Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), December 1997. Show… General Content
November Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), November 1997. Show… General Content
October Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), October 1997. Show… General Content
1997-1998 1997-1998 Selenium Load General Content
September Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), September 1999. Show… General Content
August Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), August 1999. Show… General Content
July Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), July 1999. Show… General Content
June Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), June 1999. Show… General Content
May Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), May 1999. Show… General Content
April Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), April 1999. Show… General Content
March Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), March 1999. Show… General Content
February Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), February 1999. Show… General Content
January Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), January 1999. Show… General Content
December Continuous water monitoring at Station (discharge from San Luis Drain), December 1998 Show… General Content
October Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), October 1998. Show… General Content
1998-1999 1998-1999 Selenium Load General Content
September Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), September 2000. Show… General Content
August Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), August 2000. Show… General Content
July Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), July 2000. Show… General Content
April Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), April 2000. Show… General Content
March Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), March 2000. Show… General Content
February Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), February 2000. Show… General Content
December Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), December 1999. Show… General Content
November Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), November 1999. Show… General Content
October Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), October 1999 Show… General Content
September Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), September 2001 . Show… General Content
August Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), August 2001. Show… General Content
July Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), July 2001. Show… General Content
June Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), June 2001 . Show… General Content
May Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), May 2001 . Show… General Content
April Continuous water monitoring at Station B (discharge from San Luis Drain), April 2001 . Show… General Content

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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