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Multi-Year Plan 2023

Author(s): Melissa Foley | Jay Davis | Donald Yee

2023

The purpose of this document is to guide efforts and summarize plans developed within the RMP. The intended audience includes representatives of the many organizations who directly participate in the Program. This document will also be useful for individuals who are not…

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2019 RMP Data Quality Assurance Report

Author(s): Donald Yee

2021

This memo provides a high-level summary of the quality assurance assessment for data reported by the RMP.  In 2019, fish tissue samples were collected from nine Bay/Delta areas and three additional wetland/slough areas for the Regional Monitoring Program for Water…

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2020-21 RMP North Bay Selenium Study

Author(s): Applied Marine Sciences (AMS)

2021

This report details activities associated with the Regional Monitoring Program North Bay Selenium Study in 2020 and 2021. The study was designed to monitor two sites for selenium (Se) in water and clam tissue six times annually between June and February. Due to the COVID…

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2020 Bay Margins Sediment Study Cruise Plan

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2021

This report details plans associated with sediment sampling for the Bay Margins Sediment Study for the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP). Bay margins (i.e., mud flats and adjacent shallow areas of the Bay) are productive and highly…

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2021 RMP Water Cruise Plan

Author(s): Melissa Foley | Rebecca Sutton | Donald Yee | Paul Salop

2021

This report details plans associated with the annual Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in the San Francisco Estuary (RMP) water cruise. The RMP water sampling program was redesigned in 2002 to adopt a randomized sampling design at thirty-one sites in place of the…

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PCBs in Shiner Surfperch in Priority Margin Areas of San Francisco Bay

Author(s): Jay Davis | Nina Buzby

2021

Conceptual models developed for selected San Francisco Bay margin areas (referred to as priority margin units, or PMUs) have identified shiner surfperch as a crucial indicator of PCB impairment, due to their explicit inclusion as an indicator species in the PCBs TMDL,…

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San Francisco Bay North Bay Margins Sediment Report

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2021

This report contains information on the late summer/early fall field sampling efforts conducted


by the Marine Pollution Studies Lab at Moss Landing Marine Labs (MPSL-MLML) in support of


the San Francisco Bay Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) North Bay (San…

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2019 RMP North Bay Selenium Monitoring Sampling and Analysis Plan

Author(s): Nina Buzby | Donald Yee | Paul Salop | Melissa Foley

2020

The goal of monitoring for selenium in the North Bay tissue and water is to identify leading indicators of change to allow prompt management response to signs of increasing impairment. At the 2016 technical workshop, participants reached a consensus that monitoring…

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2019 Sport Fish Monitoring Sampling and Analysis Plan

Author(s): Nina Buzby | Donald Yee | Melissa Foley | Jay Davis | Marco Sigala | Autumn Bonnema

2020

The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) monitors concentrations of contaminants in fish tissue as indicators of bioaccumulation of contaminants in the Bay. In 2019, the RMP will conduct its eighth round of sport fish monitoring by…

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,…