| California Aquatic Resource Inventory (CARI) GIS Data |
The California Aquatic Resources Inventory (CARI) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) dataset… |
Data |
| Baylands Habitat Map 2020 (BHM 2020) Version 1.3 GIS Data |
The Baylands Habitat Map 2020 (BHM2020) represents the condition of the San Francisco Bay Baylands… |
Data |
| Project Tracker Tidal Wetland Restoration Map in San Francisco Bay |
The tidal wetlands of San Francisco Bay provide numerous benefits to the region, including carbon… |
Project |
| First High-Resolution Elevation Map for Whole Bay-Delta |
A new mapping effort has produced the first high-resolution elevation data across the entire San… |
News |
| Mobile App to Monitor Tobacco Product Waste |
The TPW mobile app is a tool designed to make tobacco and nicotine trash data collection easier,… |
Project |
| California Aquatic Resource Inventory v3.3 has been published! |
This latest update integrates two of SFEI’s recent regional semi-automated mapping efforts into the… |
News |
| Measuring Tobacco Product Waste Via a New Mobile App |
Tobacco product waste—particularly cigarette butts, wrappers, filters, and electronic cigarette… |
News |
| Russian River Aquatic Resource Inventory (RRARI) Version 1.0 GIS Data |
The Russian River Aquatic Resource Inventory (RRARI) is an inventory of aquatic resources and their… |
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| New Basemap of Surface Waters and Riparian Areas in the Russian River Watershed |
In collaboration with regional partners, SFEI is developing a comprehensive standardized basemap to… |
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| A Milestone! 10,000 Wetland Condition Assessments Publicly Shared on EcoAtlas |
On November 11, 2025 we reached an exciting milestone: 10,000 wetland condition assessments are now… |
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| Bay Area Dasymetric Population Estimates |
This dataset provides building-level estimates of population and selected demographic… |
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| Lidar Resources |
LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a remote sensing technology that uses pulsed laser light to… |
Project |
| Baylands Habitat Map wins Outstanding Environmental Project Award at State of the Estuary! |
Baylands Habitat Map receives Outstanding Environmental Project Award from the Friends of the San… |
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| Statewide Plastics Monitoring Strategy: Community Engagement |
If you are a community member interested in plastics and California's environment, then this page… |
Project |
| Existing Data Inventory |
This data package is a key deliverable for the Research to Understand Impacts of Bay Sand Mining on… |
Data |
| 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… |
Data |
| 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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| Contra Costa County Regional Alternative Compliance (RAC) System |
The Contra Costa County Regional Alternative Compliance (RAC) System offers a new model purchasing… |
Project |
| EcoAtlas Essentials Webinar Showcases Practical Tools for Ecological Planning |
On October 1, 2025, the San Francisco Estuary Geospatial Workgroup (SFEGWG) hosted… |
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| Tracking Coastal Habitat Change Over Time: Considerations for a Statewide Mapping Program |
Managing California’s coastal habitats and tracking progress toward achieving regional and… |
Project |
| Russian River Watershed and Sonoma County RipZET |
This is a geospatial dataset (feature class within a file geodatabase) of output from the Riparian… |
Data |
| Helping California Track and Protect Its Wetlands |
With millions spent on restoration projects across California, how are we able to consistently… |
News |
| Tribally-centered Fish Consumption Application |
Tribal partners have raised concerns to the State Water Board regarding fish consumption advisories… |
Project |
| Healthy Watersheds and Thriving Cities |
Healthy Watersheds & Thriving Cities, building upon SFEI’s previous work in the Santa Clara… |
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| Broader Access to Lake County Tribal Water Quality Data |
The Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake (HPUL) and the Lake County Watershed Protection District… |
News |
| 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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| Leveraging CARI for Caltrans Advance Mitigation Program |
SFEI’s GIS Team partnered with the Caltrans Advance Mitigation Program to support their statewide… |
Project |
| Beneficial Baylands |
The Beneficial Baylands project supports local nature-based shoreline adaptation projects. It… |
Project |
| Project Tracker Tidal Wetland Restoration Map in San Francisco Bay |
The Project Tracker Tidal Wetland Restoration Map (Restoration Map) dataset provides spatial… |
Data |
| Great Strides for an Oakland Community: Green Stormwater Infrastructure |
SFEI collaborated with community partners to generate components for a community plan for green… |
News |
| WRMP Subembayments v1.1 |
The WRMP Subembayments were created from grouping Operational Landscape Units (OLUs) into divisions… |
Data |
| SFEI Enhanced MTC 2020 Land Use |
This is a modification of the MTC 2020 Land Use layer provided to SFEI by MTC. SFEI has… |
Data |
| Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) |
The Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) is a collaborative regional monitoring program… |
Project |
| WRMP Webinar Series: Introducing the Baylands Habitat Map 2020! |
The San Francisco Estuary Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) held a webinar on October 15,… |
News |
| Historical Ecology GIS Data Compilation |
Since the 1990s, a variety of partnerships including federal, state, local agencies, and non… |
Data |
| CARI Standards and Mapping Methodology v3.1 |
CARI is a Geographic Information System (GIS) dataset of surface waters and their riparian areas… |
General Content |
| 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… |
Project |
| California Trash Data Dive 2018 |
On November 16, 2018, the project team helped to coordinate a Trash Data Dive convened by the State… |
News |
| Carlos Street Rain Garden Interpretative Sign |
An informative and beautifully designed interpretative sign educates the public on the effects of… |
News |
| Featured in Forbes: Drones And Artificial Intelligence Help Combat The San Francisco Bay’s Trash Problem |
In a partnership with Kinetica, a data analytics start-up, and Oracle, SFEI and SCCWRP… |
News |
| GreenPlan-IT Tracker Released to the public |
Municipalities across the state and beyond are carefully planning and implementing green… |
News |
| Monitoring for COVID in wastewater informs local, regional, and state public health departments |
For 18 months, innovative data visualization of SARs-CoV-2 in wastewater samples informed local,… |
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| Need for Habitat Mapping |
Having an accurate basemap is critical for monitoring and assessing our valuable habitats and… |
News |
| Project Tracker assists with regional reporting |
More and more groups rely on Project Tracker to assist with their reporting. Why? Because Project… |
News |
| 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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| 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… |
News |
| 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 EcoAtlas Site Mitigation Tool can be used to prioritize, plan, and track aquatic habitat projects in the watershed context |
The EcoAtlas Site Mitigation Tool (Mitigation Tool) can be used to prioritize, plan, and track… |
News |
| The Healthy Watersheds Resilient Baylands project kicks off |
The Healthy Watersheds Resilient Baylands project kicked off this summer. Over the next four years,… |
News |
| Modeling outfall plumes with a web-based, open-source tool |
The Software Engineering team has undertaken an effort to migrate an older Pascal codebase into a… |
News |
| New Baylands Habitat Map Tracks Restoration Progress |
The Baylands Habitat Map 2020 is the first complete map of San Francisco Bay wetland and aquatic… |
News |
| CARI Standards and Mapping Methodology v3.0 |
CARI is a Geographic Information System (GIS) dataset of surface waters and their riparian areas… |
General Content |
| San Diego Aquatic Resource Inventory (SDARI) Version 1.1 GIS Data |
San Diego Aquatic Resource Inventory (SDARI) is a detailed base map of the San Diego Regional Water… |
Data |
| State of Our Estuary |
The State of Our Estuary (formerly the State of the Estuary Report) evaluates the status and trends… |
Project |
| EcoAtlas Toolset Training and Outreach Plan |
EcoAtlas contains tools for mapping and tracking, rapid conditional assessment, linkages to… |
Project |
| Statewide Plastics Monitoring Strategy & Planning Framework: Public Review |
The report describes a statewide strategy and pilot program for monitoring macro- and microplastics… |
Project |
| CARI Standards and Mapping Methodology v2.0 |
CARI is a Geographic Information System (GIS) dataset of surface waters and their riparian areas… |
General Content |
| SFEI Individual Vernal Pools, 2023 |
This work was completed in 2023 and funded by the California Department of Transportation.… |
Data |
| 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… |
News |
| CARI Standards and Mapping Methodology v1.0 |
CARI is a Geographic Information System (GIS) dataset of surface waters and their riparian areas… |
General Content |
| Groundwater Mapping Reveals New Vulnerabilities for the Bay Area |
Featured in the Los Angeles Times, Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner,… |
News |
| Shallow Groundwater Mapping |
This dataset includes depth-to-groundwater maps produced by Pathways Climate Institute and San… |
Data |
| Blue Carbon Science to Support Climate Action |
Working with other scientists, agency staff, and regional and state-level managers and planners, we… |
Project |
| Making Nature’s City Toolkit |
Thriving ecosystems are vital to human health and resilience in cities. We showcase findings from… |
Project |
| California Pesticides: A Data Visualization Tool to Link Pesticide Use and Management to Water Quality |
Despite California's data-rich environment, there are still many obstacles when trying to access… |
Project |
| 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 |
| California Rapid Assessment Method for Wetlands (CRAM) HDC and CDF Data |
This page provides public access to tabular datasets for the CRAM Habitat Development Curves (HDCs)… |
Data |
| Vernal Pool Habitat Restoration and Protection CRAM Tools for the Central Valley, CA |
The California Wetland Program Plan (WPP) seeks to strengthen protection for wetlands in many ways,… |
Project |
| Baylands Habitat Map 2020 |
The Baylands Habitat Map 2020 (BHM 2020) updates the existing map of tidal marsh, tidal flats… |
Project |
| Introducing the Landscape Scenario Planning Tool Version 2.0 |
In partnership with the Delta Stewardship Council, the San Francisco Estuary Institute has… |
News |
| Changes in the Distribution of Great Valley Vernal Pool Habitats from 2005 to 2018 |
This mapping documents the changes in extent and condition of vernal pool habitat in the Great… |
Data |
| 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 |
| New Delta Habitat Map! |
The Delta Aquatic Resource Inventory (DARI) is a map of surface waters, wetlands and other aquatic… |
News |
| DARI RipZET Pilot, Vegetation Module, GIS Data |
The completion of the Delta Aquatic Resource Inventory (DARI) dataset provides a basemap allowing… |
Data |
| Delta Aquatic Resource Inventory (DARI) Version 1.1 GIS Data |
Delta Aquatic Resource Inventory (DARI) is a detailed base map of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta… |
Data |
| Landscape Scenario Planning Tool |
Designed to inform climate change adaptation planning, the Landscape Scenario Planning Tool (LSPT)… |
Project |
| Sonoma County Riparian Corridor Mapping Pilot Study Project |
Through an EPA-funded Wetland Development Grant, Permit Sonoma, County of Sonoma (County), in… |
Project |
| Development of Lake County Water Quality Data Exchange Program |
SFEI will leverage its experience as a Regional Data Center for CEDEN to deliver a scientifically… |
Project |
| California Trash Monitoring Playbook now available |
With the Ocean Protection Council-funded trash monitoring project concluded, the project team is… |
News |
| Next Generation Urban Greening |
SFEI is working with partners across the Bay Area to design tools to help cities achieve… |
Project |
| California Trash Monitoring Methods Project Data Sets |
The California Ocean Protection Council (OPC), in close partnership with the State Water Board, has… |
Data |
| Coastal Wetlands, Beaches and Watersheds Inventory |
The Ocean Protection Council (OPC) and SFEI will develop an inventory of the wetlands and other… |
Project |
| Coyote Creek Native Ecosystem Enhancement Tool |
The Coyote Creek Native Ecosystem Enhancement Tool (CCNEET, neet.ecoatlas.org) is an online… |
Project |
| Development of a Trash Monitoring Method for Tobacco Product Waste |
Smoking has long been known to lead to tobacco-related diseases and harmful health outcomes,… |
Project |
| Making North Coast 401 Certified Caltrans Projects Available on EcoAtlas |
This project enhanced access to watershed assessment data by making 401 certified Caltrans projects… |
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| Shallow Groundwater Response to Sea Level Rise |
Pathways Climate Institute and SFEI produced depth to groundwater maps to inform sea level rise… |
Project |
| Geospatial Compliance Monitoring System |
The Geospatial Compliance Monitoring System (GCMS) is an online database that records all… |
Project |
| Assessing Five Watersheds in Santa Clara County |
A new synthesis report characterizing the amount, distribution, and diversity of streams and… |
News |
| SF Estuary Wetlands Regional Program Plan Released! |
The Wetland Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) Plan has been released! The WRMP will improve… |
News |
| Adapting to Rising Tides: Bay Shoreline Flood Explorer |
In partnership with the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, SFEI's Environmental… |
Project |
| Adapting to Rising Tides: East Contra Costa Shoreline Flood Explorer |
As a continuation of our collaboration with BCDC and the Adapting to Rising Tides (ART) team, the… |
Project |
| Care in the Time of Corona |
We offer you a simple tool that we created for our 75-person “work community” to help each other… |
News |
| California Rapid Assessment Method for Wetlands (CRAM) Updates |
CRAM Training sessions for 2020 have been posted on the CRAM website. |
News |
| EcoAtlas |
EcoAtlas is a set of tools for visualizing, sharing, summarizing, and reporting on standardized… |
Project |
| Delta Aquatic Resource Inventory |
DARI is the Delta Aquatic Resources Inventory of surface waters, wetlands and other aquatic… |
Project |
| New Interactive Map Helps Delta Governments and Communities Plan for Adaptation by Understanding Flood Risks from Rising Sea Level and Storms |
The Adapting to Rising Tides program of the SF Bay Conservation & Development Commission… |
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| 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… |
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| Planned maintenance for SFEI's online tools |
This Friday morning (6/21/2019) from 6am to 9am, there will be planned internet downtime at SFEI to… |
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