San Francisco Bay Estuary Priority Ecosystem Study
Diverse organic and inorganic contaminants that vary
widely in their environmental behavior, sources, and toxicity enter the
San Francisco Bay estuary. Toxic substances enter the estuary in agricultural
and urban runoff and in discharges from municipal wastewater facilities
and industries. The study focuses on the movement, fate, and effect of
contaminants from a variety of agricultural, industrial, and urban sources,
such as pesticides and toxic trace elements, and on the effects of the
highly varying hydrologic conditions in river--estuarine environments.
Scientists are developing an approach to characterize the distribution
of contamination and the resulting ecological effects that will be applied
in similar environments elsewhere.
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- Understanding the occurrence and transport of current-use pesticides in the San Francisco Estuary Watershed: Kuivila, K.M., and Hladik, M.L., San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (IN PRESS).
- Influence of plankton mercury dynamics and trophic pathways on mercury concentrations of top predator fish of a mining-impacted reservoir: Stewart, A.R., Saiki, M.K., Kuwabara, J.S., Alpers, C.N., Marvin DiPasquale, M., and Krabbenhoft, D.P., Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, v. 65 (IN PRESS).
- Shallow water processes govern system-wide phytoplankton bloom dynamics--A modeling study: Lucas, L.V., Koseff, J.R., Monismith, S.G., and Thompson, J.K., Journal of Marine Systems, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2008.07.011 (Corrected Proof) (IN PRESS).
- Corbula amurensis: Thompson, J.K., in Invasive Species Compendium, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, CABI (IN PRESS).
- Shallow water processes govern system-wide phytoplankton bloom dynamics--A field study: Thompson, J.K., Koseff, J.R., Monismith, S.G., and Lucas, L.V., Journal of Marine Systems, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.12.006 (Corrected proof) (IN PRESS).
Newly Published
- Understanding the occurrence and transport of current-use pesticides in the San Francisco Estuary watershed: Kuivila, K.M., and Hladik, M.L., 2008, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, v. 6, no. 3, Article 2.
- Complex seasonal patterns of primary producers at the land–sea interface: Cloern, J.E., and Jassby, A.D., 2008, Ecology Letters, doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01244.x (Advanced Web release).
- A note on the effect of wind waves on vertical mixing in Franks Tract, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California: Jones, N.L., Thompson, J.K., and Monismith, S.G., 2008, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, v. 6, no. 2, p. article 4.
- Primary production and carrying capacity of former salt ponds after reconnection to San Francisco Bay: Thébault, J., Schraga, T.S., Cloern, J.E., and Dunleavy, E.G., 2008, Wetlands, v. 28, no. 3, p. 841-851, doi:10.1672/07-190.1.
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