NMS Program Administration

Annual Reports & Program Overviews

• picture_as_pdf San Francisco Bay Nutrient Management Strategy (2012)
• picture_as_pdf 2014-2024 Nutrient Management Strategy Science Plan (2016)
• picture_as_pdf Revised San Francisco Bay Nutrient Management Strategy Charter (2020)
• picture_as_pdf 2025-2030 Nutrient Management Strategy Science Plan (2025)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management Strategy Science Communication Plan (2025)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management Strategy FY20 Program Plan (2019)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management Strategy FY21 Program Plan (2020)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management Strategy FY22 Program Plan (2021) 
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management Strategy FY23 Program Plan (2022)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management Strategy FY24 Program Plan (2023)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management Strategy FY25 Program Plan (2024)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management Strategy FY26 Program Plan (2025)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management Strategy FY27 Program Plan (2026)

• picture_as_pdf FY2015 Nutrient Management Strategy Annual Report (2015)
• picture_as_pdf FY2016 Nutrient Management Strategy Annual Report (2016)
• picture_as_pdf FY2017 Nutrient Management Strategy Annual Report (2017)
• picture_as_pdf FY2021 Nutrient Management Strategy Annual Report (2021)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management Strategy Program Overview (2022)
• picture_as_pdf FY2023 Nutrient Management Strategy Annual Report (2024)
• picture_as_pdf FY2024 Nutrient Management Strategy Annual Report (2024) 
• picture_as_pdf FY2025 Nutrient Management Strategy Annual Report (2025) 
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management Strategy Program Overview (2025)

Synthesis/Interpretation 

• picture_as_pdf Numeric Nutrient Endpoint Development for San Francisco Estuary (2011)
• picture_as_pdf 2012-2013 POTW Effluent Nutrient Characterization (2013)
• picture_as_pdf External Nutrient Loads to San Francisco Bay (2013)
• picture_as_pdf Scientific Foundation for the San Francisco Bay Nutrient Management Strategy (2014)
• picture_as_pdf Suisun Bay Ammonium Synthesis Report (2014)
• picture_as_pdf External Nutrient Loads to San Francisco Bay (2014)
• picture_as_pdf Lower South Bay Nutrient Synthesis (2016)
• picture_as_pdf Characterizing and Quantifying Nutrient Sources, Sinks and Transformations in the Delta (2015)
  • Link to technical appendices (Appendix 1-6)
• picture_as_pdf Summary and Evaluation of Delta Subregions for Nutrient Monitoring and Assessment (2016)
• picture_as_pdf Influence of Nutrient Forms and Ratios on Phytoplankton Production and Community Composition (2017)
• picture_as_pdf  Delta Nutrient Forms and Ratios Workshop Report (2017)
  • Other workshop materials
• picture_as_pdf Delta Science Program Stakeholder Workshop Summary: Operation Baseline Science and Monitoring Needs (2018)
• picture_as_pdf Four Decades of Water Quality Change in the Upper San Francisco Estuary (2018)
• picture_as_pdf Blurred Lines: Multiple Freshwater and Marine Algal Toxins at the Land-Sea Interface of San Francisco Bay (2018)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient-Related Condition in San Francisco Bay Under Future Scenarios (2018)

• picture_as_pdf Changing Nitrogen Inputs to the Northern San Francisco Estuary (2020)
• picture_as_pdf Hypsographic Analysis of Lower South San Francisco Bay Sub-embayment Habitat Types (2020)
• picture_as_pdf Darkened Skies from Wildfire Smoke and Extreme Heat Trigger Hypoxia in the San Francisco Estuary (2021)
• picture_as_pdf Multi-scale Trend Analysis of Water Quality Using Error Propagation of Generalized Additive Models (2021)
• picture_as_pdf Connections to Tidal Marsh and Restored Salt Ponds Drive Seasonal and Spatial Variability in Ecosystem Metabolic Rates in Lower South San Franscisco Bay (2022)
• picture_as_pdf Interannual Ecosystem Metabolism of an Urban Delta Measured Using a High Frequency Sensor Array (2022)
• picture_as_pdf Nitrogen Cycling and Ecosystem Metabolism in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Measured Before and After a Key Regulatory Action (2022)
• picture_as_pdf Geochemical Drivers of Nitrogen Removal Rates in South San Francisco Bay (2022)
• picture_as_pdf Zooplankton Community Assemblage and Grazing Rate Estimates in Central and South Bay Pilot Study (2023)
• picture_as_pdf  Characterizing Lateral Variability in South Bay Water Quality to Inform Monitoring Program Design (2023)
• picture_as_pdf  Nonparametric and Additive Mixed Meta-analysis (2023)
• picture_as_pdf Harmful Algae in San Francisco Bay: Status, Current Understanding, and Priority Science Questions (2023)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management State of Science Summary (2022)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management Strategy 2014-2025 State of the Science (2025)
• picture_as_pdf Long-term Forcings: Generating and Searching for Trends in a Whole-bay Remote Sensed Turbidity Record (2026)

Assessment Framework 

Monitoring

• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Numeric Endpoint Development for San Francisco Bay Estuary (2011)
• picture_as_pdf Proposed Workplan for Development of a Nutrient Assessment Framework for San Francisco Bay (2012)
• picture_as_pdf February 2014 San Francisco Bay Assessment Framework Technical Team Meeting Summary (2014)
• picture_as_pdf Assessment Framework 1.0: Scientific Basis to Assess the Effects of Nutrients on San Francisco Bay Beneficial Uses (2015)
  • Link to Technical Appendices (Appendix A-D)
• picture_as_pdf Novel Analyses of Long-term Data Provide a Scientific Basis for Chlorophyll-a Thresholds in San Francisco Bay (2017)
• picture_as_pdf Dissolved Oxygen in Lower South Bay: Variability, Important Processes, and Implications for Understanding Fish Habitat (2018)
• picture_as_pdf Evaluating the Utility of General Additive Models for Tracking San Francisco Bay Water Quality Over Time (2018)
• picture_as_pdf Analysis of Fish Abundance Patterns in the Alviso Marsh Complex (2020)
• picture_as_pdf 'Test-Drive' of San Francisco Bay Assessment Framework 1.0 (2020)
• picture_as_pdf Work Plan for Assessment Framework Development 2020-2024 (2022)
• picture_as_pdf Virginia Province Approach to Dissolved Oxygen in Lower South San Francisco Bay Sloughs (2023)
• picture_as_pdf Fish Communities and Dissolved Oxygen in Wetlands of the San Francisco Estuary (2024)
• picture_as_pdf Dissolved Oxygen Conditions in Lower South Bay Sloughs (2024)

• Data Visualizations
• picture_as_pdf Development Plan for the San Francisco Bay Nutrient Monitoring Program (2014)
• picture_as_pdf Comparison of Microscopy and a Pigment-based Approach to Identify Phytoplankton Classes in San Francisco Bay (2014)
• picture_as_pdf Moored Sensor Program Year 1 Progress Update (2014)
• picture_as_pdf Assessing SPATT in San Francisco Bay (2015)
• picture_as_pdf San Francisco Bay Nutrient Management Strategy Observation Program (2016)
• picture_as_pdf Moored Sensor Program Update (2018)
• picture_as_pdf Pilot Study Examining Spatial Differences in Water Quality Between Shoal and Channel Habitats
• picture_as_pdf Water Quality in San Francisco Bay Perimeters 2018-2020 (2020)
• picture_as_pdf Harmful Algal Toxins in San Francisco Bay Northern Anchovy (2020)
• picture_as_pdf Bay-Delta Chlorophyll-a In-situ Sensor and Sample Analysis Intercomparison (2020)
• picture_as_pdf Exploring the Utility of Molecular Techniques for Quantifying Harmful Algae and Characterizing Phytoplankton Community in San Francisco Bay (2020)
• picture_as_pdf Harmful Algae Monitoring in the San Francisco Bay Delta: Comparative Study of Molecular Techniques and Microscopy (2021)
• picture_as_pdf Continuous Suspended Sediment Monitoring in South and Lower South San Francisco Bay: Year 1 Report (2023)
• picture_as_pdf Expanded Harmful Algae Monitoring in the San Francisco Estuary: NOAA MERHAB Poster (2023)
• picture_as_pdf Evaluation and Refinement of Chlorophyll-a Algorithms for High-biomass Blooms in San Francisco Bay (2023)
• picture_as_pdf Moored Sensor Program FY2024 Quarter 1 Report (2023)
• picture_as_pdf Moored Sensor Program FY2024 Quarter 2 Report (2023)
• picture_as_pdf Updates to Moored Sensor Program Calibration and Data QAQC Procedures (2025)
• picture_as_pdf Moored Sensor Program Semi-annual Report Apr. 2025 - Oct. 2025 (2026)
• picture_as_pdf Determining relationships of loads, production and observed nutrients: Designing monitoring for planned load reductions (2026)

Modeling 

• picture_as_pdf Model Development Plan to Support Nutrient Management Decisions in San Francisco Bay (2014)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Management Strategy Detailed Modeling Work Plan for FY2015-FY2021 (2014)
• picture_as_pdf FY2016 Nutrient Management Strategy Modeling Work Plan (2015)
• picture_as_pdf Chapter 6: Modeling Water Quality Impact to the Bay from Wastewater Treatment Plan Sidestream Treatment (2017)
• picture_as_pdf San Francisco Bay Interim Model Validation Report (2017)
• picture_as_pdf Delta-Suisun Bay Biogeochemical Modeling: Year 1 Progress (2018)
• picture_as_pdf Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model Calibration and Application in San Francisco Bay (2018)
• picture_as_pdf Delta-Suisun Bay Biogeochemical Modeling: Year 2 Progress (2019)
• picture_as_pdf Hydrodynamic Model Development Report: Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and Suisun Bay (WY 2016) (2019)
• picture_as_pdf Delta Biogeochemical Modeling, WY2016 Progress (2020)
• picture_as_pdf Hydrodynamic and Biogeochemical Model Development for an Francisco Bay: Technical Update (2020)
• picture_as_pdf Numerical Investigation of Baroclinic Channel-shoal Interaction in Partially Stratified Estuaries (2020)
• picture_as_pdf Fine Sediment Pathways and Connectivity in San Francisco South Bay (2020)
• picture_as_pdf Nutrient Source Apportionment in San Francisco Bay: Pilot Study (2021)

• picture_as_pdf Nutrients in the Northern San Francisco Estuary: Transport, Cycling, and Forecasted Changes After Nutrient Load Reductions (2021)
• picture_as_pdf Delta-Suisun Biogeochemical Model Calibration and Validation, WY2016, WY2011 (2021)
• picture_as_pdf November 12, 2022 Nutrient Management Strategy Model Advisory Group Meeting Summary (2022)
• picture_as_pdf Modeling the Dispersal of the Sn Francisco Bay Plume Over the Northern and Central California Shelf (2023)
• picture_as_pdf 2021-2023 San Francisco Bay Numerical Modeling Update (2023)
• picture_as_pdf 2023 MAG Report: Findings and Recommendations of an Expert Panel Evaluating a Physical-Biogeochemical Model Supporting the Nutrient Management Strategy (2023)
• picture_as_pdf Development of Semi-empirical Light Extinction Estimates for Biogeochemical Modeling Applications in San Francisco Bay (2024)
• picture_as_pdf Development and Refinement of the Lower South Bay Numerical Model (2024)
• picture_as_pdf Estimating Biogeochemical Rates Using a Computationally Efficient Lagrangian Approach (2024)
• picture_as_pdf Simulations of Load Reduction Scenarios to Inform Nutrient Management Planning for San Francisco Bay (2024)
• picture_as_pdf San Francisco Bay Hydrodynamic Model: Performance for Water Level, Velocity, Salinity, and Temperature Over 11 Years (2026)

Management Options / Control Strategies 

Regulatory Approaches 

• picture_as_pdf Chapter 7: Development of a Conceptual Nutrient Trading Program for San Francisco Bay (2017)
• picture_as_pdf Reducing Nutrients in the San Francisco Bay Through Additional Wastewater Treatment Plant Sidestream Treatment (2017)
• picture_as_pdf Treatment Wetlands for Nutrient Removal from Bay Area Wastewater Facilities (2017)
• picture_as_pdfBACWA Nutrient Reduction Study: Potential Nutrient Reduction by Treatment Optimization, Sidestream Treatment, Treatment Upgrades, and Other Means (2018)

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