AAAS Symposium—San Francisco Bay: Tracking and Understanding a Changing Estuary

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research on the San Francisco Bay, California, was featured at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) symposium "San Francisco Bay: Tracking and Understanding a Changing Estuary." The symposium was part of the AAAS Pacific Division's 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, on August 14-19, 2009. USGS research on climate change, ecosystem health, sediment transport, fish and wildlife population trends, and sea-level rise in San Francisco Bay are a few of the topics presented at the symposium.

USGS Presentations

• Climate Change From Both Ends: Projected Sea Level Rise and Inflow Changes in San Francisco Bay, by NOAH KNOWLES
• Morphological Change of the San Francisco Estuary, by BRUCE JAFFE and others
• A New Regime of Decreased Sediment and Carbon Supply in the San Francisco Estuary, by DAVID H. SCHOELLHAMER and others
• Historical and Present-Day Bathymetric Changes and Sediment Transport Patterns in and around the Golden Gate, by PATRICK L. BARNARD and others
• Temporal and Spatial Distributions of Benthic and Pelagic Grazers: How Do They Affect Phytoplankton Dynamics in San Francisco Bay?, by JAN THOMPSON and others
• Climate Shift, Crabs, Shrimp, Fish and Phytoplankton in San Francisco Bay, by JAMES CLOERN
• Trends of Waterbird Populations in San Francisco Bay: Top-Down Assessment of Ecosystem Health, by JOHN Y. TAKEKAWA and others
• Screening of the 1974 PBS NOVA Film, “Inside the Golden Gate,”—a film about the beginnings of 35 years of USGS research in San Francisco Bay—with introduction and follow-up discussion, by FREDERIC H. NICHOLS

General Conference Information

• Meeting Home Page
• Symposia Agendas (pdf)

More Information

• At AAAS Pacific Division Meeting, Researchers Detail Mounting Perils for San Francisco Bay, AAAS News Release
• San Francisco Bay-Estuary Science: Day-Long Symposium at AAAS Meeting, USGS News Release
• Access USGS - San Francisco Bay and Delta
• Water Quality of San Francisco Bay
• Varied Human Influences on Estuaries -- San Francisco Bay, California
• Benthic Fluxes of Metals and Nutrients
• Ecology and Contaminants

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