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Moored Sensor Program Semi-annual Report November 2025 - March 2026
Author(s): Charlotte Diamant | Dan Killam | Ariella Chelsky | Katie Noland | Lucy Montgomery | Martin Volaric | Camille Michalak | Ben Hodder
2026
This report provides an overview of the Nutrient Management Strategy Moored Sensor Program's major accomplishments and findings between November 2025 and March 2026. Highlights include installing a new station in San Pablo Bay, installing a new station at the northern end of…
Implementing Nature-based Solutions for Wastewater Management: San Francisco Bay Area Examples
Author(s): G. Miller | Annie Sneed | Ellen Plane | Ian Wren
2024
Prepared by the San Francisco Estuary Institute for the Bay Area Clean Water Agencies.
Prepared in partnership with City of Hayward, City of Petaluma, East Bay Dischargers Authority, East Bay Regional Park District, Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District, Mountain…
Author(s): Allie King | Farid Karimpour | P Mugunthan | David Senn
2023
- 2023_SFEI_BGC_Modeling_Update_Report_20230127_0.pdf
- Appendix_A1.pdf
- Appendix_A2.pdf
- Appendix_A3.pdf
- Appendix_B_Stratification.pdf
- Appendix_C_POTW BC Time Series from WY2013-WY2018.pdf
- Appendix_D_WY2017_BGC Validation.pdf
- Appendix_E_WY2013_BGC Validation.pdf
- Appendix_F_BGC_Validation_Scatter.pdf
- Appendix_G.pdf
Author(s): Pete Kauhanen | Sarah Lowe
2021
This document presents potential products and methods for monitoring a suite of tidal wetland habitat indicators designated for the Montezuma Wetlands Project using remote sensing technology. This document can also serve as a starting place for the Technical Advisory…
Author(s): Amy Richey | April Robinson | David Senn
2018
In May 2018, the Delta Science Program (DSP) and the San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center (SFEI-ASC) held a stakeholder workshop to discuss the nutrient-related effects of an upcoming major upgrade to the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District's…
Author(s): Thomas Jabusch | Phil Trowbridge | Adam Wong | Matthew Heberger
2018
Nutrients and the effects of nutrients on water quality in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is a priority focus area for the Delta Regional Monitoring Program (Delta RMP). The Program’s first assessment question regarding nutrients is: “How do concentrations of nutrients (and…
Author(s): Thomas Jabusch | Phil Trowbridge | Matthew Heberger | Marianne Guerin
2018
Nutrient loads are an important water quality management issue in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) and there is consensus that the current monitoring activities do not collect all the information needed to answer important management questions. The purpose of…
Influence of Nutrient Forms and Ratios on Phytoplankton Production and Community Composition
Author(s): David Senn | Richard Dugdale | Frances Wilderson | Alexander Parker | Patricia Gilbert | Mine Berg | Eric Spotswood | Anthony Malkassian | James Cloern | Raphael Kudela | Emily Novick | Melissa Peacock | Tara Schraga
2017
This report (dubbed ‘Suisun Synthesis II’) was prepared to serve as a background resource for a November 2016 workshop, co-convened by the Central Valley and San Francisco Bay Area Regional Water Quality Control Boards, that focused on the potential influence of excess…
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2016
Lower South Bay (LSB), a shallow subembayment of San Francisco Bay (SFB), is situated south of the Dumbarton Bridge, and is surrounded by,…
Author(s): Emily Novick | Jennifer Sun | David Senn
2015
Annual report summarizing the progress of the Nutrient Management Strategy during fiscal year 2015.
Author(s): San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI)
2014
This Charter describes how the NMS functions. In addition to the Introduction above and this purpose / organization section, this Charter includes the following information:
- Guiding Principles that frame and…
Scientific Foundation for the San Francisco Bay Nutrient Management Strategy
Author(s): David Senn | Emily Novick
2014
Dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) and phosphorus (DIP) are essential nutrients for primary production that supports estuarine food webs. However DIN and DIP concentrations in San Francisco Bay (SFB) greatly exceed those in other US estuaries where water quality has been…
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2011
The California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) is developing nutrient water quality objectives for the State’s surface waters, using an approach known as the Nutrient Numeric Endpoint (NNE) framework. The NNE establishes a suite of numeric endpoints based on the…