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Scanning Bay Sediment for Unexpected Contaminants

Author(s): Ezra Miller | Sierra Garcia | Ruth Askevold | Jennifer Symonds | Rebecca Sutton

2026

In 2018, the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) launched an innovative investigation to detect contaminants that were either new to Bay sediment or had previously gone undetected. This study used nontarget analysis, a powerful tool that…

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Conceptual Understanding of Fine Sediment Transport in San Francisco Bay

Author(s): Katie McKnight | Alex Braud | Scott Dusterhoff | Letitia Grenier | Sam Shaw | Jeremy Lowe | Melissa Foley | Lester McKee

2023

Sediment is a lifeblood of San Francisco Bay (Bay). It serves three key functions: (1) create and maintain tidal marshes and mudflats, (2) transport nutrients and contaminants, and (3) reduce impacts from excessive human-derived nutrients in the Bay. Because of these…

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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…