USGS Publications Related to Continuous
Monitoring of San Francisco Bay

2003

Bergamaschi, B.A., Downing, B.D., Wheeler, G.A., Schoellhamer, D.H., Ganju, N., Fram, M.S., Erickson, D.E., Kendall, C., Bemis, B.E., Stepanauskas, R., Hollibaugh, J.T., and Fujii, R., 2003, Quantifying the contributions of tidal wetlands to dissolved organic material in the San Francisco Estuary, California, USA: Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation, Seattle, Washington, September 14-18, 2003, p. 13. https://www.sgmeet.com/erf/erf2003/viewabstract.asp?AbstractID=4894&SessionID=48

Fujii. R., Bergamaschi, B.A., Ganju, N.K., Fleck, J.A., Burow- Fogg, K.R., Schoellhamer, D., Deverel, S.J., 2003, Preliminary Assessment of DOC and THM Precursor Loads from a Freshwater Restored Wetland, an Agricultural Field, and a Tidal Wetland in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta: Proceedings of the 2003 CALFED Science Conference, Sacramento, California, January 14-16, 2003, p. 206. http://ca.water.usgs.gov/abstract/sfbay/abstractdoc2003.html

Ganju, N.K. and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2003, Tidal and vertical variability of floc characteristics: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Nearshore and Estuarine Cohesive Sediment Transport Processes: Gloucester Point, Virginia, October 1-4, 2003, p. 6.

Ganju, N.K., Bergamaschi, B., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2003, Tidal wetland fluxes of dissolved organic carbon and sediment at Browns Island, California: Initial evaluation: Proceedings of the 2003 CALFED Science Conference, Sacramento, California, January 14-16, 2003, p. 208. http://ca.water.usgs.gov/abstract/sfbay/abstractwetlandflux2003.html

May, C.L., Koseff, J.R., Lucas, L.V., Cloern, J.E., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2003, Effects of spatial and temporal variability of turbidity on phytoplankton blooms: Marine Ecology Progress Series, v. 254, p. 111-128.

Schoellhamer, D.H., 2003, Use of optical properties to monitor turbidity and suspended-sediment concentration, in Gray, J.R. and Glysson, G.D., ed., Proceedings of the Federal Interagency Workshop on Turbidity and Other Sediment Surrogates, April 30 - May 2, 2002, Reno, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1250, 56 p.
http://pubs.water.usgs.gov/circ1250/.

Schoellhamer, D.H., Ganju, N.K.,Gartner, J.W., Murrell, M.C., and Wright, S.A., 2003, Seasonal and longitudinal homogeneity of suspended sedient in San Francisco Bay, California: Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation, Seattle, Washington, September 14-18, 2003, p. 119. https://www.sgmeet.com/erf/erf2003/viewabstract.asp?AbstractID=4961&SessionID=46

Schoellhamer, D.H., Shellenbarger, G.G., Ganju, N.K., Davis, J.A., and McKee, L.J., 2003, Sediment dynamics drive contaminant dynamics: The Pulse of the Estuary: Monitoring and Managing Contamination in the San Francisco Estuary, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, California, p. 21-26. http://www.sfei.org/rmp/pulse/pulse2003.pdf

Warner, J.C., Schoellhamer, D.H., and Schladow, G.S., 2003, Tidal truncation and barotropic convergence in a channel network tidally driven from opposing entrances: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, v. 56, p. 629-639.

Wright, S.A. and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2003, Trends in the sediment yield of the Sacramento River, 1957-2001: Proceedings of the 2003 CALFED Science Conference, Sacramento, California, January 14-16, 2003, p. 177. http://ca.water.usgs.gov/abstract/sfbay/abstractsedimentyield2003.html

2002

Brennan, M.L., Schoellhamer, D.H., Burau, J.R., and Monismith, S.G., 2002, Tidal asymmetry and variability of bed shear stress and sediment bed flux at a site in San Francisco Bay, USA, in Winterwerp, J.C. and Kranenburg, C., ed., Fine Sediment Dynamics in the Marine Environment: Elsevier Science B.V., p. 93-108.

Buchanan, P.A., and Ganju, N.K., 2002, Summary of suspended-sediment concentration data, San Francisco Bay, California, water year 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 02-146. URL http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/of/ofr02146/

Buchanan, P.A., 2002, Water level, specific conductance, and water temperature data, San Francisco Bay, California, for Water Year 2000: Interagency Ecological Program Newsletter, v. 15, no. 1, p. 22-26. URL: http://www.iep.ca.gov/report/newsletter/2002winter/IEPNewsletterWinter2002.pdf

McKee, L., Ganju, N., Schoellhamer, D., Davis, J., Yee, D., Leatherbarrow, J., and Hoenicke, R., 2002, Estimates of suspended sediment flux entering San Francisco Bay from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta: Report prepared for the Sources Pathways and Loading Workgroup of Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances in the San Francisco Estuary, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, California, 28 p. http://www.sfei.org/watersheds/reports/Delta_sediment_loads/MallardIssedimentloads.pdf

Schoellhamer, D.H., 2002, Variability of suspended-sediment concentration at tidal to annual time scales in San Francisco Bay, USA: Continental Shelf Research, v. 22, p. 1857-1866.

Schoellhamer, D.H., 2002, Comparison of basin-wide effect of dredging and natural estuarine processes on suspended-sediment concentration: Estuaries, v. 25, no. 3, p. 488-495.

Schoellhamer, D.H., Buchanan, P.A., and Ganju, N.K., 2002, Ten years of continuous suspended-sediment concentration monitoring in San Francisco Bay and Delta: Proceedings of the Turbidity and Other Sediment Surrogates Workshop, Reno, Nevada, April 30 - May 2, 2002. URL http://water.usgs.gov/osw/techniques/TSS/schoelhamer.pdf

Schoellhamer, D.H., and Wright, S.A., 2002, Continiuous monitoring of suspended sediment in rivers by use of optical backscatterance sensors: Proceedings of the IAHS workshop on Erosion and sediment transport measurement: Technological and Methodological advances, Oslo, Norway, June 19-21, 2002. URL: http://www.nve.no/iahs_ws_oslo2002/4Schoellhamer_Wright.pdf

Warner, J., Schoellhamer, D., Burau, J., and Schladow, G., 2002, Effects of Tidal Current Phase at the Junction of Two Straits: Continental Shelf Research, v. 22, p. 1629-1642.

2001

Barad, M.F., Schladow, S.G., Warner, J.C., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2001, CISNet San Pablo Bay Network of Environmental Stress Indicators: The CISNet Hydrodynamic Database: Proceedings of the 5th biennial State of the Estuary Conference, San Francisco, Calif., October 9-11, 2001, p. 112. URL: http:http://ca.water.usgs.gov/abstract/sfbay/abstractsec2001.html

Buchanan, P.A., and Ruhl, C.A., 2001, Summary of suspended-sediment concentration data, San Francisco Bay, California, water year 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 01-100, 56 p. URL http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/of/ofr01-100/

Cuetara, J.I., Burau,J.R., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2001, Hydrodynamic and Suspended-Solids Concentration Measurements in Suisun Bay, California, 1995; U.S. Geological Water Resources Investigations Report 01-4086. URL http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/wri/wri014086/

Ruhl, C.A., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2001, Time series of SSC, salinity, temperature, and total mercury concentration in San Francisco Bay during water year 1998: Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances contribution number 44, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Richmond, California. URL http://www.sfei.org/rmp/reports/time_series/timeseries_cont43.pdf (947 KB PDF)

Schoellhamer, D.H., 2001, Influence of salinity, bottom topography, and tides on locations of estuarine turbidity maxima in northern San Francisco Bay: IEP Newsletter, v. 14, no. 4, p. 54-62. URL http://www.iep.ca.gov/report/newsletter/2001fall/IEPNewsletterFall2001.pdf

Schoellhamer, D. H., 2001, Singular spectrum analysis for time series with missing data: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 28 , no. 16 , p. 3187-3190. URL: http://ca.water.usgs.gov/ja/grl/ssam.pdf

Schoellhamer, D.H., 2001, Continuous monitoring of suspended sediment in rivers by use of optical sensors: Proceedings of the Seventh Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, Reno Nevada, March 25-29, 2001, p. III-160 - III-167. URL: http://ca.water.usgs.gov/abstract/sfbay/Schoellhamer.pdf (293 KB PDF)

Schoellhamer, D.H., 2001, Influence of salinity, bottom topography, and tides on locations of estuarine turbidity maxima in northern San Francisco Bay, in McAnally, W.H. and Mehta, A.J., ed., Coastal and Estuarine Fine Sediment Transport Processes: Elsevier Science B.V., p. 343-357. URL: http://ca.water.usgs.gov/abstract/sfbay/elsevier0102.pdf (160 KB PDF)

Schoellhamer, D.H., and Warner, J.C., 2001, A turbidity maximum and flood/ebb asymmetry of suspended sediment: Proceedings of the 5th biennial State of the Estuary Conference, San Francisco, Calif., October 9-11, 2001, p. 33. URL: http://ca.water.usgs.gov/abstract/sfbay/abstract5estuary.html

2000

Brennan, M.L., Monismith, S.G., Schoellhamer, D.H., and Burau, J.R., 2000, Tidal asymmetry of erodibility at a site in San Francisco Bay, USA: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Nearshore and Estuarine Cohesive Sediment Transport Processes, Delft, The Netherlands, September 4-8, 2000, p. 6-7.

Buchanan, P.A., 2000, Specific conductance, water temperature, and water level data from San Francisco Bay, California, in water year 1999: IEP Newsletter, v. 13, no. 3, p. 17-20. URL http://www.iep.ca.gov/report/newsletter/2000summer/

Buchanan, P.A., and Ruhl, C.A., 2000, Summary of suspended-solids concentration data, San Francisco Bay, California, water year 1998: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 00-88, 41 p.

Moon, G.E., Kuivila, K., Ruhl, C., and Schoellhamer, D., 2000, Exposure of Delta Smelt to dissolved pesticides in 1998 and 1999: Interagency Ecological Program Newsletter, v. 13, no. 4, p. 27-33. http://www.iep.ca.gov/report/newsletter/2000fall/IEPNewsletter_Fall2000.pdf

Ruhl, C.A., and Schoellhamer, D.H., Spatial and seasonal variability of suspended-sediment concentrations in Honker Bay, a shallow subembayment of San Francisco Bay: Proceedings of the CALFED Science Conference, Sacramento, California, October 3-5, 2000, p. 218.

Schoellhamer, D.H., Burau, J.R., Brennan, M.L., and Monismith, S.G., 2000, Transfer of cohesive sediment between the bed and water column at a site in San Francisco Bay, USA: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Nearshore and Estuarine Cohesive Sediment Transport Processes, Delft, The Netherlands, September 4-8, 2000, p. 8-9.

Schoellhamer, D.H., and Dinehart, R.L., 2000, Suspended-sediment supply to the Delta from the Sacramento River: Proceedings of the CALFED Science Conference, Sacramento, California, October 3-5, 2000, p. 124. URL http://ca.water.usgs.gov/program/sfbay/calfedsed/SedimentSupply.html

Takekawa, J.Y., Martinelli, G.M., Miles, A.K., Fregien, S., Schoellhamer, D.H., Duffy, W.G., and Saiki, M.K., 2000, Salt ponds and avian communities: Will benefits of tidal wetland restoration exceed costs to waterbirds?: Proceedings of the CALFED Science Conference, Sacramento, California, October 3-5, 2000, p. 135.

Warner, J.C., Schoellhamer, D.H., Burau, J.R., and Schladow, S.G., 2000, Effects of Tidal Current Phase at the Junction of Two Straits: Proceedings of the Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, December 15-19, 2000. AGU Citation

1999

Buchanan, P.A., 1999, Specific conductance, water temperature, and water level data, San Francisco Bay, California, water year 1998: Interagency Ecological Program Newsletter (PDF), v. 12, no. 4, p. 46-51.

Buchanan, P.A., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 1999, Summary of suspended-solids concentration data in San Francisco Bay, California, water year 1997: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-189, 52 p. URL http://ca.water.usgs.gov/archive/reports/ofr99189/

Dinehart, R.L., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 1999, Sedimentation in the Delta of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers: Proceedings of the 4th biennial State of the Estuary Conference, San Francisco, Calif., March 17-19, 1999, p. 75.

Friebel, M.F., Freeman, L.A., Webster, M.D., and Anderson, S.W., 1999, Water resources data, California, water year 1998: U.S. Geological Survey Wataer-Data Report CA-98-2, v. 2, 360 p. URL http://ca.water.usgs.gov/archive/waterdata/

Oltmann, R.N., Schoellhamer, D.H., and Dinehart, R.L., 1999, Sediment inflow to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the San Francisco Bay: Interagency Ecological Program newsletter, v. 12, no. 1, pp. 30-33.

Ruhl, C.A., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 1999, Time series of suspended-solids concentration in Honker Bay during water year 1997: 1997 Annual Report of the Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances, p. 82-92, URL http://www.sfei.org/rmp/1997/c0304.htm

Ruhl, C.A., Schoellhamer, D.H., Stumpf, R.P., and Lindsay, C.L., 1999, Remote sensing: Visual cues to suspended-solids transport in San Francisco Bay, California: Proceedings of the 4th biennial State of the Estuary Conference, San Francisco, Calif., March 17-19, 1999, p. 74.

Warner, J.C., Schladow, S.G., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 1999, Summary and analysis, hydrodynamic and water-quality data for the Napa/Sonoma Marsh complex, Final Report: University of California, Davis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Warner, J.C., Schoellhamer, D.H., Schladow, S.G., and Burau, J.R., 1999, Napa/Sonoma Marsh Hydrodynamic and Water-Quality Study: Proceedings of the 4th biennial State of the Estuary Conference, San Francisco, Calif., March 17-19, 1999, p. 126.

1998

Buchanan, P.A., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 1998, Summary of suspended-solids concentration data in San Francisco Bay, California, water year 1996: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 98-175, 59 p.

Schoellhamer, D.H., 1998, The weak influence of flocculation at low salinities on the distribution of suspended-solids concentration in the San Francisco Bay estuary, California, USA: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cohesive Sediment Transport, Seoul, Korea, May 25-29, 1998, p. 1.

Schoellhamer, D.H., and Buchanan, P.A., 1998, Measuring suspended-solids concentration with optical backscatterance sensors: Proceedings of the Federal Interagency Workshop on Sediment Transport Technology for the 21st Century, St. Petersburg, Florida, February 17-19, 1998, URL http://water.usgs.gov/osw/techniques/sedtech21/schoellhamer.html

Schoellhamer, D.H., and Burau, J.R., 1998, Summary of findings about circulation and the estuarine turbidity maximum in Suisun Bay, California, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-047-98, 6 p. URL: http://sfbay.wr.usgs.gov/access/suisunbay/dschoell/

Schoellhamer, D.H., Cacchione, D.A., Rubin, D.M., Cheng, R.T., Dingler, J.R., Jaffe, B.E., and Stumpf, R.P., 1997, Sediment-Transport Research in San Francisco Bay: Proceedings of USGS Sediment Workshop, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, February 4-7, 1997, URL http://wwwrvares.er.usgs.gov/osw/workshop/schoellhamer.html

Webster, M.D., Friebel, M.F., and Freeman, L.A., 1998, Water resources data, California, water year 1997: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Data Report CA-97-2, v. 2, 322 p.

1997

Freeman, L.A., Webster, M.D., and Friebel, M.F., 1997, Water resources data, California, water year 1996: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Data Report CA-96-2, v. 2, 356 p.

Jennings, B., Schoellhamer, D.H., and Kuivila, K.M., 1997, Optimum sampling strategy for sediment-associated pesticides in Suisun Bay: Interagency Ecological Program newsletter, v. 10, no. 4, p. 16-20.

Schoellhamer, D.H., 1997, Time Series of Trace Element Concentrations Calculated from Time Series of Suspended-Solids Concentrations and RMP Water Samples: 1995 Annual Report of the Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances, p. 53-55.

Schoellhamer, D.H., 1997, Time series of SSC, salinity, temperature, and total mercury concentration in San Francisco Bay during water year 1996: 1996 Annual Report of the Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances, p. 65-77.

Schoellhamer, D.H., Cacchione, D.A., Rubin, D.M., Cheng, R.T., Dingler, J.R., Jaffe, B.E., and Stumpf, R.P., 1997, Sediment-Transport Research in San Francisco Bay: Proceedings of USGS Sediment Workshop, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, February 4-7, 1997. URL: http://water.usgs.gov/osw/techniques/workshop/schoellhamer.html

Warner, J.C., Schoellhamer, D.H., and Burau, J.R., 1997, A sediment transport pathway in the back of a nearly semienclosed subembayment of San Francisco Bay, California: Proceedings of the XXVII International Association of Hydraulic Research Congress, August 10-15, 1997, San Francisco, California, v. 2, p. 1096-1101.

1996

Buchanan, P.A., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 1996, Summary of suspended-solids concentration data, San Francisco Bay, California, water year 1995: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-591, 40 p.

Buchanan, P.A., Schoellhamer, D.H., and Sheipline, R.C., 1996, Summary of suspended-solids concentration data, San Francisco Bay, California, water year 1994: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-776, 48 p.

Burau, J.R., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 1996, Residual Transport in Suisun Cutoff, San Francisco Bay, California, During Summer 1995: Part 1, Salt Transport: abstract for the 1996 Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco, California, December 15-19, 1996.

Friebel, M. F., Trujillo, L. F., and Markham, K. L., 1996, Water resources data, California, water year 1995, vol. 2, Pacific slope basins from Arroyo Grande to Oregon state line except Central Valley: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Data Report CA-95-2, 339 pp.

Lacy, J.R., Schoellhamer, D.H., and Burau, J.R., 1996, Suspended-solids flux at a shallow-water site in South San Francisco Bay, California: Proceedings of the North American Water and Environment Congress, Anaheim, California, June 24-28, 1996.

Schoellhamer, D.H., 1996, Central San Francisco Bay suspended-sediment transport processes and comparison of continuous and discrete measurements of suspended-solids concentrations: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances, 1994 Annual Report, p. 198-206.

Schoellhamer, D.H., 1996, Factors affecting suspended-solids concentrations in South San Francisco Bay, California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, no. C5, p. 12087-12095.

Schoellhamer, D.H., 1996, Suspended-solids concentrations in San Francisco Bay, California: Proceedings of the Third Biennial State of the Estuary Conference, San Francisco, California, October 10-12, 1996, p. 54.

Schoellhamer, D.H., and Burau, J.R., 1996, Residual Transport in Suisun Cutoff, San Francisco Bay, California, During Summer 1995: Part 2, Sediment Transport: abstract for the 1996 Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco, California, December 15-19, 1996.

Schoellhamer, D.H., Oltmann, R.N., Jaffe, B.E., and Smith, R.E., 1996, Sediment supply and wetlands in San Francisco Bay: Proceedings of the Third Biennial State of the Estuary Conference, San Francisco, California, October 10-12, 1996. p. 23.

1995

Ayers, W., and others,  1995, Water resources data, California, water year 1994, vol. 2, Pacific slope basins from Arroyo Grande to Oregon state line except Central Valley: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Data Report CA-94-2, 357 pp.

Buchanan, P.A., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 1995, Summary of suspended-solids concentration data, Central and South San Francisco Bays, California, water years 1992 and 1993: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-543, 15 p.

Tobin, A., Schoellhamer, D.H., and Burau, J.R., 1995, Suspended-solids flux in Suisun Bay, California: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Water Resources Engineering, San Antonio, Texas, August 14-18, 1995, v. 2, p. 1511-1515.

1994

Palmer, J. R., Friebel, M. F., Trujillo, L. F., and Markham, K. L., 1994, Water resources data, California, water year 1993, vol. 2, Pacific slope basins from Arroyo Grande to Oregon state line except Central Valley: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Data Report CA-93-2, 412 pp.

Schoellhamer, D.H., 1994, Central San Francisco Bay suspended-sediment processes study and comparison of continuous and discrete measurements of suspended-solids concentrations: San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for Trace Substances, 1993 Annual Report, p. 129-134.

Schoellhamer, D.H., 1994, Suspended-solids concentrations in central San Francisco Bay during 1993 winter runoff: Eos, v. 75, no. 3, p. 122. (1994 AGU Ocean Sciences meeting, San Diego, California)

1993

Markham, K. L., Palmer, J. R., Friebel, M. F., and Trujillo, L. F.,  1993, Water resources data, California, water year 1992, vol. 2, Pacific slope basins from Arroyo Grande to Oregon state line except Central Valley: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Data Report CA-92-2, 405 pp.

1992

Trujillo, L.F., Markham, K.L., Palmer, J.R., and Friebel, M.F., 1992, Water resources data--California, water year 1991. Volume 2, Pacific slope basins from Arroyo Grande to Oregon State line except Central Valley: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Data Report CA-91-2, 336 p.

1991

Shelton, W.F., Trujillo, L.F., Markham, K.L., and Palmer, J.R., 1991, Water resources data--California, water year 1990. Volume 2. Pacific slope basins from Arroyo Grande to Oregon State line except Central Valley:  U.S. Geological Survey Water-Data Report CA-90-2, 333 p.