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Contaminants in Fish from California Lakes and Reservoirs Jay Davis, and RMP staff hosted a SWAMP Webinar titled Contaminants in Fish from California Lakes… News
Contaminant Fate Work Group Topics discussed included Overview of Fate Studies in the RMP, RMP Sediment Coring Project and… Event
QA/QC Annual Meeting Event
Bioaccumulation of Contaminants by Transplanted Bivalves in the San Francisco Estuary: Status and Trends Contents Summary Introduction Methods Results Discussion and Conclusions References Cited Appendix… General Content
RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
SF Bay's slide in mud worries scientists Millions of tons of sand and clay that Gold Rush miners scoured from the Sierra Nevada have finally… News
It's clear: The Bay isn't as murky. After more than a century of being murky from enough Gold Rush-era mining sediment to fill 60… News
Benthic Workgroup Meeting Event
RMP Steering Committee Meeting Event
Sources, Pathways, and Loadings Work Group Meetings Topics from this meeting include: Small Tributaries Loading Strategy, Guadalupe River - Small… Event
Contaminant Fate Workgroup Meeting Topics from this meeting include:Update on the RMP Modeling Strategy , Conceptual Model for Bay… Event
Sources, Pathways, and Loadings Work Group Meetings Topics from this meeting include: Update: SPLWG 5-year Workplan (5-YWP) Revision, Update: Modeling… Event
2010 Pilot and Special Studies Understanding the Relative Sensitivity of Terns to PBDEs Authors: Barnett… General Content
2011 Pilot and Special Studies Mercury Synthesis and Conceptual Model Update Authors: Jay Davis, Lester… General Content
2006 Pilot Studies Mercury Deposition Network Authors: Don Yee (SFEI) General Content
2007 Pilot Studies Exposure and Effects Pilot Study In 2007, the RMP will continue the Pilot Study of… General Content
2008 Pilot Studies Exposure and Effects Pilot Study The Exposure and Effects Pilot Study was initiated… General Content
SWAMP Bioaccumulation Monitoring Lakes and Survey Report "There is definitely a concern,” said Jay Davis, a senior scientist with the San Francisco Estuary… News
RMP Annual Meeting 2008 Photos   General Content
RMP Annual Meeting Congratualtions to Gillian Silva of the Vallejo Sanitation & Flood Control District, winner of… Event
RMP Fish Committee Topics from this meeting include: Background and history of the RMP Fish Sampling Program,… Event
RMP Fish Committee Topics from this meeting include: Contaminant Studies in San Francisco Bay Sport Fish, 2003, Power… Event
RMP Fish Committee Topics from this meeting include: Discussion of 2003 Fish Report, Discussion of 2006 Sampling… Event
RMP Fish Committee Event
RMP Fish Committee Topics from this meeting include: Other Emerging Contaminants of Concern, Review and Discussion of… Event
RMP Source, Pathways, and Loadings Work Group Topics from this meeting include: Review of SPLWG 5-yr work plan, Criteria for picking new… Event
RMP Source, Pathways, and Loadings Work Group Topics from this meeting include: Mapping stormwater drainage and drainage areas in the Bay Area… Event
RMP Source, Pathways, and Loadings Work Group Topics from this meeting include: Mallard Island Large Rivers Loading Study – Main Study, Mallard… Event
RMP Source, Pathways, and Loadings Work Group Topics from this meeting include: PCB and PBDE loads at Mallard Island during WY 2002, 2003, 2004,… Event
RMP Source, Pathways, and Loadings Work Group Topics from this meeting include: Trace element loads in urbanized watersheds and the potential for… Event
RMP Source, Pathways, and Loadings Work Group Topics from this meeting include: SPLWG 5-year work plan, Update on Journal papers in preparation… Event
RMP Source, Pathways, and Loadings Work Group Topics from this meeting include: Modeling Sediment and Contaminant Loads, SPLWG 5-year Workplan… Event
RMP Exposure and Effects Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Diving Ducks, Tern Studies and Benthos. Event
RMP Exposure and Effects Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Presentation of Research on Terns, Update on Fish Effect Work and… Event
RMP Exposure and Effects Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Update on Fish Effects Work, Update on Small Fish Study and Tern… Event
RMP Exposure and Effects Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Update on Small Fish Project and Discussion of the 2006 Plan,… Event
RMP Exposure and Effects Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Synthesis of Results of Shiner Surfperch Project and Work… Event
RMP Exposure and Effects Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Update on 2007 EEPS project: Hg in Terns, Update on 2007 EEPS… Event
RMP Exposure and Effects Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Five-year Plan for the Exposure and Effects Work in the RMP,… Event
RMP Exposure and Effects Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Revised Five-year Plan for Benthic Effects Work in the RMP, Five… Event
RMP Exposure and Effects Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Revised Five-year Plan for Benthic Effects Work in the RMP,… Event
RMP Exposure and Effects Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Updates on Current Exposure and Effects work, Five-year Plan for… Event
RMP Exposure and Effects Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Status of the Five Year Plan and EEPS Summary Report, 2007/2008… Event
RMP Emergining Contaminants Workgroup Topics from this meeting included: Goals for the Workgroup and Overview of RMP, Emerging challenges… Event
RMP Emergining Contaminants Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Recent Findings on the Fate of Wastewater-Derived Organic… Event
RMP Emergining Contaminants Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Update on 2007/2008 Pilot and Special Study: PFOS in Seals,… Event
RMP Emergining Contaminants Workgroup Topics include: Update on 2008 Pilot and Special studies: Alternative Flame Retardants, Update on… Event
RMP Emergining Contaminants Workgroup Topics from this meeting included: Updated Five-year Plan, SCCWRP Emerging Contaminants Strategy… Event
RMP Contaminant Fate Workgroup Topics include: Multi-box PCB Model, Sediment Core Sampling Plan and PCB Food Web Model Event
RMP Contaminant Fate Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Multi-box PCB Model, Sediment Core Sampling Plan and Approval of… Event
RMP Contaminant Fate Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Multi-box PCB Model, Review of September 2005 Meeting and… Event
RMP Contaminant Fate Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Multi-box PCB Model, PBDE Mass Budget and Sediment Core Sampling. Event
RMP Contaminant Fate Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Developing a Five-year Plan for the RMP, Identifying High… Event
RMP Contaminant Fate Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: Review of Reports on the Multi-box PCB Model, Food Web Uptake… Event
RMP Contaminant Fate Workgroup Topics from this meeting include: USGS (Multi-box) Sediment Transport Model, Multi-box Model for… Event
RMP Contaminant Fate Workgroup Topics from this meeting included: Mercury Strategy – Small Fish, Mercury Strategy – Results of the… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics from this meeting included: Setting Priorities for the 2006 Program Plan, Annual Meeting and… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics from this meeting included: Contingency Fund Request by the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics from this meeting included: Summary of Synthesis Articles, Presentation of Findings of… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics from this meeting included: 2005 Highlights and 2006 Workplan, Water Staff Meeting: Board… Event
Mercury Rising. Is restoring wetlands bad for health? Mercury, to put it plainly, is bad stuff. In people, it causes exhaustion, headaches, memory loss,… News
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics from this meeting included: Information Needs of RMP Participants, Pulse Update, and… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics from this meeting included: USGS Sediment Sampling Sites, Update on Prioritization of S… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics from this meeting included: Discussion of Episodic Toxicity for 2007, Program Plan for 2007… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics discussed in this meeting included: 2007 Pulse and Annual Meeting, Recommendation of the… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics discussed included: UCSC Special Study for 2007, Setting Priorities for 2008 Program Plan:… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topic included: Revised RMP Management Questions, Update on South Bay Salt Pond Monitoring and… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics from this meeting include: Annual Meeting and 2008 Pulse , Contingency Funding for Oil Spill… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics included: Update on the 2006 Sportfish Monitoring, Prioritizing Dioxin Data Gaps and Program… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics discussed: Ranking of 2009 Pilot and Special Study Ideas, Dioxin Strategy and Results of… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics included: Wet Weather Sediment Sampling 2009, RMP Planning and Update on Dioxin Strategy Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics Disscussed included: Annual Meeting and 2009 Pulse, Steering Committee Report and 2008… Event
RMP Technical Review Committee Topics discussed included: RMP Planning Update, RMP Modeling Strategy and Dioxin QAPP Event
RMP Steering Committee Topics included: Program Plan Writeup and Budget for 2005, Responding to Review Panel… Event
RMP Steering Committee Topics discussed in this meeting included: Budget Status, Management Review of the Pulse and… Event
RMP Steering Committee Topics discussed in this meeting include Draft Monitoring Plan for 2006, Five-year Review for 2008,… Event
RMP Steering Committee Topics discussed in this meeting included Long-term Strategy for RMP and CEP, Prioritization of… Event
RMP Steering Committee Topics from this meeting included: Technical Review Committee Meeting Summary, Budget Status,… Event
RMP Steering Committee Topics discussed included : Jay Davis to confirm that the sport fish sampled meet the regulatory… Event
RMP Steering Committee Topics discussed were: Committee Member Updates, Technical Review Committee (TRC) Meeting Summary… Event
RMP Steering Committee Topics discussed included: Budget Status, Summary of Outcomes of the September 19th Status and… Event
RMP Steering Committee Topic discussed included: Approval of the 2007 Budget, Budget Status and more Event
RMP Steering Committee Topics discussed included: Approval of the Redesign of Status and Trends, Request for Contingency… Event
RMP Steering Committee Jay Davis stated that the workgroups are all developing five-year plans which will be completed by… Event
RMP Steering Committee Topics discussed included Committee Member Updates, Technical Review Committee Meeting Summary,… Event
RMP Steering Committee Topics include 2008 Pulse, Budget Status and Program Review Event
RMP Steering Committee Meeting Topics of discussion included: pilot and special studies for 2009; recommendations for dioxin… Event
RMP Steering Committee Meeting Information: Impact of California Budget Impasse on SFEI The State budget impasse has resulted in… Event
Find yourself a safer place to swim or fish in the Bay Area Another example of a web dashboard built using R comes from John Oram, a scientist at the San… News
Where to Find Clean Sport Fish in California The State Water Resources Control Board has released a new big report showing results of tests on… News
Small Fish "Tracers" Detect Bay Mercury Threats In collaboration with the San Francisco Estuary Institute, UC Davis researchers have made headway… News
RMP Steering Committee Event
KQED QUEST - San Francisco Bay Invaders Andy Cohen was interviewed by KQED Quest. News
McNabney Marsh - Benthos The McNabney Marsh has not seen tidal waters in about 100 years and due to the perseverance by and… Project
Selection Process Unlike the static Status and Trends program, the purpose of the pilot and special studies element… General Content
Department of Public Health Training on Fish Contamination for Service Providers back Data A Data Module 2 Activity 2.2 Chemicals Activity Background.pdf (158.12 KB) ChemLabels… General Content
Project Documents Technical reports, handouts, and spreadsheets associated with the Fish Mercury Project. Final FMP… General Content

Publications

Title Abstract Year of Publication
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 Cloudwater Chemistry of Iron and Copper at Great Dun Fell, U.K. 1997
The design of sampling transects for characterizing water quality in estuaries 1997
The Great Dun Fell Cloud Experiment 1993: An Overview 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
Studies of the San Francisco Bay, California, Estuarine Ecosystem 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
Weeding the Garden 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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