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EcoAtlas Essentials Webinar Showcases Practical Tools for Ecological Planning
Author(s): Cristina Grosso | Todd Hallenbeck | Lisa Beers | Sarah Pearce | Pete Kauhanen | Erica Johnson | Heidi Williams
2025
On October 1, 2025, the San Francisco Estuary Geospatial Workgroup (SFEGWG) hosted EcoAtlas Essentials: Practical Tools for Effective Ecological Planning, a webinar designed to guide participants in exploring how …
Author(s): WRMP
2025
To develop effective climate vulnerability assessments and adaptation plans, coastal resource managers need to understand how shoreline topography, hydrology, and habitats change over time. The California Ocean Protection Council funded the San Francisco Estuary Institute and…
Baylands Habitat Map Landscape Change Analysis Methods Technical Memo
Author(s): Alex Braud | Pete Kauhanen | Katarina Palermo | Cristina Grosso
2025
The purpose of this report is to describe the methods for the Baylands Habitat Map (BHM) change analysis, highlight key observations from a preliminary test case study in the Belmont-Redwood Operation Landscape Unit (OLU), provide recommendations for conducting the change…
Tracking Tidal Wetland Extent in San Francisco Bay: A 2020 Mapping Update
Author(s): WRMP | April Robinson | Lisa Beers | Denise Walker | Jennifer Symonds | Cristina Grosso | Alex Braud | Kelly Iknayan
2025
The tidal wetlands of San Francisco Bay provide numerous benefits to the region, including carbon sequestration, flood protection, providing habitat for native and endangered species, protecting shoreline communities and infrastructure from wave impact, improving water…
Author(s): San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI)
2025
The Landscapes Scenario Planning Tool (LSPT) is a standardized, science-based resource for analyzing and comparing land-use scenarios in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Marsh. The tool takes data from detailed landscape maps and calculates metrics related to…
Mapping Methods And Standards For Bayland Habitats In The San Francisco Bay
Author(s): Alex Braud | Pete Kauhanen | Regan Murray | Katarina Palermo
2025
The purpose of this document is to describe the mapping classification system and methods used to develop the Baylands Habitat Map 2020 (BHM). BHM is a geospatial inventory of tidal and diked baylands and their key landform features. The inventory was largely developed using…
Robertson Park and Medeiros Parkway sUAS Surveys for the Sycamore Pilot Implementation Project
Author(s): Katarina Palermo | Pete Kauhanen
2024
This memo summarizes the use of small Unoccupied Aerial Systems (sUAS) to survey Robertson Park and Medeiros Parkway and analysis of how this type of technology can be used to support site scale level mapping.
Author(s): Pete Kauhanen | Alex Braud | Christina Toms | Sarah Pearce
2024
The Baylands Habitat Map 2020 (BHM2020), also known as Baylands Change Basemap (BCB), is a mapping effort designed to classify habitat types in support of Indicator 1 of the San Francisco Estuary Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program’s (WRMP…
Author(s): Cristina Grosso | Sarah Lowe | Sarah Pearce | Kevin O'Connor | Lindsay Teunis | Eric Stein | Jennifer Siu | Melissa Scianni
2023
The goal of this Training and Outreach Plan is to increase the overall awareness and use of the WRAMP datasets and tools in support of wetland resource planning, management, and project performance tracking in California. Specifically, a near-term …
Building Capacity of the California Wetland Program Plan to Protect and Restore Vernal Pools
Author(s): Sarah Lowe | Sarah Pearce
2022
This report describes the updates to the vernal pool habitat map, the development of the ambient baseline ecological condition survey of vernal pool systems within the Central Valley, and the development and results of the habitat development curve. A fictional project…
California Trash Monitoring Methods and Assessments Playbook
Author(s): Shelly Moore | Tony Hale | Stephen Weisberg | Lorenzo Flores | Pete Kauhanen
2021
As municipalities and water-quality regulatory agencies have implemented programs and policies to improve management of the trash loading to storm drain conveyances, there has been increased interest in using a common set of methods to quantify the effectiveness of management…
Author(s): Shelly Moore | Tony Hale | Stephen Weisberg | Lorenzo Flores | Pete Kauhanen
2021
Trash has received renewed focus in recent years as policy makers, public agencies, environmental organizations, and community groups have taken many steps towards trash quantification and management across California. The range of management actions is matched by the…
Green Stormwater Infrastructure Planning-level Analysis for Livermore-Amador Valley
Author(s): Tan Zi | Pete Kauhanen | Alison Whipple | Lester McKee
2021
This effort is intended to provide planning-level regional guidance for placement of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) in Livermore-Amador Valley. This work identifies potential GSI locations and quantifies contaminant load and stormwater runoff volume reduction benefits…
Optimal Selection and Placement of Green Infrastructure in Urban Watersheds for PCB Control
Author(s): Jing Wu | Pete Kauhanen | Jennifer Hunt | David Senn | Tony Hale | Lester McKee
2019
San Francisco Bay and its watersheds are polluted by legacy polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), resulting in the establishment of a total maximum daily load (TDML) that requires a 90% PCB load reduction from municipal stormwater. Green infrastructure (GI) is a multibenefit…
Author(s): Tony Hale | Lindsey Sim | Lester McKee | Joshua Bradt
2018
This technical memo describes the purpose, functions, and structure associated with the newest addition to the GreenPlan-IT Toolset, the GreenPlan-IT Tracker. It also shares the opportunities for further enhancement and how the tool can operate in concert with existing…
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2017
This report is an excerpt of the Santa Rosa Plain example from the full Evaluating Wetland Beneficial Uses At Project and Watershed Scales report.…
Author(s): Jing Wu | Pete Kauhanen | Sarah Lowe | Sarah Pearce | Josh Collins
2017
This summary memorandum presents technical recommendations to the 401 Certification and Waste Discharge Program (401 Program) of the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) for a coherent, scientifically sound, repeatable, watershed approach to wetland restoration…
- 1. Wetland Beneficial Use Protection: Pilot Demonstration Project
- 2. Synthesis of Literature on Wetland Assimilation Capacities, Models, and Pollutant Loads...
- 3.A. Simulating Wetland Assimilation Capacity in the Lower Santa Rosa Creek Watershed Pilot Demonstration Area Using HSPF Model
- 3.B. Demonstration of a Watershed Approach to Wetland Restoration Planning Using GreenPlan-IT
- 4. Evaluating Wetland Beneficial Uses At Project and Watershed Scales
Author(s): Sarah Lowe | Sarah Pearce | Josh Collins
2017
This report demonstrates a possible watershed-based approach to evaluating mitigation sites using the California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM). The Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) is leading the Llagas Creek Flood Control Project in the upper Pajaro River…
Author(s): Tony Hale | Cristina Grosso
2016
This memo was developed by SFEI to introduce the EcoAtlas tools, their intended (target) user community, and the short- and long-term intended applications.
San Francisco Bay Shore Inventory: Mapping for Sea Level Rise Planning
Author(s): Carolyn Doehring | Julie Beagle | Jeremy Lowe | Robin Grossinger | Micha Salomon | Pete Kauhanen | Samantha Nakata | Ruth Askevold | Shira Bezalel
2016
With rising sea levels and the increased likelihood of extreme weather events, it is important for regional agencies and local municipalities in the San Francisco Bay Area to have a clear understanding of the status, composition, condition, and elevation of our current Bay…
Enhancing the Vision for Managing California's Environmental Information
Author(s): Tony Hale | Shakoora Azimi-Gaylon | Stephanie Fong | Peter Goodwin | George Isaac | Amye Osti | Fraser Shilling | Tad Slawecki | Steve Steinberg | Mark Tompkins | Laci Videmsky
2015
The Environmental Data Summit, convened under the auspices of the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Science Program in June 2014, witnessed remarkable participation from experts across California, the nation, and even the world. Summit attendees from the public…
Fact Sheet: Innovative Visualization Tool for Accessing Water Quality Data
Author(s): SFEI
2015
The Contaminant Data Display and Download Tool (CD3) is a multifaceted data distribution and visualization system, available to all site visitors at no cost. It displays data from SFEI/ASC’s Regional Data Center, aggregating data across a wide array of projects, programs,…
Author(s): K. Fadtke | Cristina Grosso | Linda Wanczyk
2015
EcoAtlas Project Tracker has many key benefits, including:
- Enhanced regional capacity for habitat restoration project tracking, assessment and reporting …