Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) eUpdate: December 2014

eBook Version of RMP Update Now Available

New & Improved Contaminant Data Display and Download (CD3) Tool

The Contaminant Data Display and Download tool (CD3) provides access to water quality data for the San Francisco Bay-Delta region, including the RMP’s long-term dataset. The tool has been redesigned to leverage SFEI’s other interactive mapping efforts and debuts impressive new functionality, including enhanced spatial querying and generation of dynamic statistical summaries and charts. more >

Other Recent Products

• Phase 1 Progress Report on Bioanalytical Tool Development Project (“Linkage of In Vitro Assay Results With In Vivo End Points”) – The goal of this project is to establish quantitative linkages between the in vitro receptor-based assays and traditional endpoints of impact in an estuarine fish species, the common silverside (Menidia beryllina).
• Report on Phase 1 of Development of a Benthic Index for the Mesohaline Portion of the Bay (“Development of Benthic Community Condition Indices – San Francisco Bay” ) – With the long-term goal of developing a benthic index for the mesohaline North and South Bay segments, the objectives of Phase I of this study were to 1) delineate the mesohaline/mid-bay habitats; 2) assemble all relevant biotic and abiotic data for those habitats into a single database; 3) establish a definition of reference and severely degraded conditions for the system.

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Follow on Twitter for links to breaking news on Bay water quality.

• Becky Sutton (@beckysuttonphd) keeps tabs on news relating to chemicals
  of emerging concern
• Jay Davis (@JayDavis_ASC) tracks news relating to general
  Bay water quality.
• @sfei_asc for general news from the San Francisco Estuary Institute
  and Aquatic Science Center.

For general questions or comments about the RMP, contact Phil Trowbridge (philt@sfei.org) or Jay Davis (jay@sfei.org).