SCCWRP Seminar Series


All Seminars are at 11:00 am in the SCCWRP conference room unless otherwise noted.


** No Seminars Planned at This Time **

PAST SEMINARS

Dr. Robert Roseen
The University of New Hampshire Stormwater Center
Low Impact Development Technologies for Stormwater Management Friday
June 6,
2008
Dr. Cheri Recchia
California Ocean Science Trust
Monitoring Marine Protected Areas Under California's Marine Life Protection Act Friday
May 2,
2008
Dr. William Cooper
University of California Irvine
Advances in the Free Radical Chemistry of Emerging Contaminants of Concern March 28,
2008
Dr. Giancarlo Cicchetti
USEPA Atlantic Ecology Division
Sediment Profile Imaging as a Tool to Assist Coastal Management March 7,
2008
Dr. Chris Scholin
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
Applications of the Environmental Sample Processor: Remote Detection of Marine Bacteria, Harmful Algae, Domoic Acid and Invertebrates in Monterey Bay February 8, 2008
Dr. Adina Paytan
University of California Santa Cruz
Aerosol Impacts on Marine Phytoplankton January 18, 2008
Dr. Susan Norton
US Environmental Protection Agency
Applied Eco-epidemiology: Analyzing the Causes of Biological Impairment in Streams Using US EPA's Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision Information System (CADDIS) December 7, 2007
Dr. Kelly Goodwin
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Developing Molecular Tools and Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Water Quality November 9, 2007
Dr. Vincent Resh
University of California, Berkeley
The Dammed Mekong: Evaluating the Effects of the World’s Tallest Dam on Downstream Countries October 19, 2007
Adina Abeles
Stanford University
Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS): Striving to Infuse Marine Science into the Policy Process September 7, 2007
Al Wanger
California Coastal Commission
Nonpoint Source Programs at the California Coastal Commission June 1, 2007
Dr. Kirsten Gilardi
University of California, Davis
Marine Mammal Health Investigations at the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center May 4, 2007
Jessica Reiner
State University of New York, Albany
The Polycyclic Musks: Sources, Pathways, and Environmental Occurrence April 3, 2007
Dr. Richard B. Thompson
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Measuring Oceanic Free Zinc and Copper with a Fluorescence-based Biosensor December 1, 2006
Mark Rentz
California Department of Pesticide Regulation
DPR and the Role of Science: Addressing California’s Demographic and Pest Management Challenges in the 21st Century November 10, 2006
Ty Carlisle
Shifting Baselines
What is Pristine? October 6, 2006
Dr. Paul Bissett
Florida Environmental Research Institute
The Development of Airborne Optical Remote Sensing for Coastal Ocean Observatories September 15, 2006
Dr. Robert Sheath
California State University, San Marcos
California Stream Algae: Our Current State of Knowledge and Plans for Use in Water Quality Analysis June 2, 2006
Dr. Ray Wilson
California State University, Long Beach
A Genetic Perspective on the Spread of Invasive Estuarine Fishes--Another form of Anthropogenic Pollution? May 5, 2006
Dr. Lester J. McKee
San Francisco Estuary Institute
Sources Pathways and Loadings of Sediments and Trace Contaminants in the Bay Area: Regional, Watershed, and Storm-sewershed Scales April 7, 2006
Dr. Maddalena Bearzi
Ocean Conservation Society
Marine Mammals of Santa Monica Bay, California March 3, 2006
Nancy Miller
California State Water Resources Control Board
California Integrated Water Quality System (CIWQS) February 3, 2006
Dr. Kevin Armbrust
Office of the State Chemist - Mississippi
Occurrence, Environmental Fate and Exposure Assessment of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors in Aquatic Environments January 13, 2006
Krista Sloniowski and Cori Farrar
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
"Methods for connecting watershed related activities for a more efficient system-wide approach to watershed management" December 2, 2005
Dr. Jack Q. Word
Weston Solutions
"Refinement of TIE identification and interpretation procedures for a specific class of pharmaceuticals" November 11, 2005
Dr. Jennifer Jay
University of California,
Los Angeles
"Sediments as a reservoir for fecal indicator bacteria at Santa Monica Bay Beaches" October 14, 2005
Dr. Jerry Diamond
Tetratech, Inc.
"Tiered aquatic life uses: The concept and how it may apply to southern California streams" September 16, 2005
Dr. Wendy Rose
UC Davis
"Using an integrated approach to evaluate apoptosis as a biomarker response in estuarine fishes" May 6, 2005
Dr. Jonathan Warrick
U.S. Geological Survey
"River pulumes in the Santa Barbara Channel:
Dispersal of mud, nutrients and other stuff"
April 8, 2005
Dr. Chuck Trees
University of California,
San Diego
"Monitoring water transparency of San Pedro and San Diego
Bays using aircraft hyperspectral remote sensing data"
March 4, 2005
Dr. Marc J-F Suter
Chemistry Department,
Swiss Federal Institute for
Environmental Science and Technology,
Switzerland
"Where have all the fish gone?
Causes for declining fish catches in Swiss rivers"
February 28, 2005
Dr. Donald J. Reish
California State University,
Long Beach
"LA-LB Harbors: Where it all began in the USA" February 11, 2005
Dr. Stefan Wuertz
University of California,
Davis
"Hollow-fibre ultrafiltration and real-time PCR for the quantitative
detection of ciral pathogens in natural waters"
January 14, 2005
Dr. Mi-Hyun Park
University of California,
Los Angeles
"Land Use Identification with Bayesian Networks" December 3, 2004
Casey Moore
WET Labs, Inc.
"Recent developments in sensor technology" November 12, 2004
Dr. D. Bart Chadwick
Mr. Gunther Rosen
Dr. Ignacio Rivera-Duarte
SPAWAR
"Fates and effects of copper in San Diego Bay" October 29, 2004
Dr. David Turbow
Touro University International
"Evaluation of recreational health risk in coastal waters based on
enterococcus densities and bathing patterns"
October 8, 2004
Dr. Chris Lowe
California State University,
Long Beach
"Understanding the movement patterns of
California nearshore gamefishes
and its application for management"
May 7, 2004
Dr. Brian Palenik
University of California,
San Diego
"Picophytoplankton in southern California coastal waters" April 2, 2004
Dr. Karen Stocks
San Diego Supercomputer Center
"Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)" March 12, 2004
Dr. Grady S. Hanrahan
California State University,
Los Angeles
"Solutions from the field: an environmental analytical approach" February 6, 2004
Dr. Joseph Furnish
Regional Aquatic Ecologist,
USDA- Forest Service,
Pacific Southwest Regional Office, Vallejo, CA
"Development of the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Regional
Bioassessment Program:
results from models based on multimetric Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI)
and multivariate RIVPACS methods"
January 16, 2004
Dr. Gui Lotufo
U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers
"Aquatic toxicology of explosives" December 12, 2003
CANCELLED
Dr. Kevin Kelly
California State University,
Long Beach
"Stress, growth, and endocrine disruption in marine fishes" November 7, 2003
Pat Haddon
Water Environment
Research Foundation
"Watershed research at WERF" October 10, 2003
Dr. Dave Caron
University of
Southern California
"New technologies for assessing harmful algal blooms" September 5, 2003
Deborah Johnston
California Department of
Fish & Game
"Power Plants + PM10 = Cooling Towers" June 6, 2003
Ronald M. Thom Ph.D.
Marine Resources Group,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"Nearshore and estuarine ecosystem restoration: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest" May 2, 2003
Lou Zeidberg
University of California,
Los Angeles
"Early life history of the California Market Squid, Loligo opalescens" April 4, 2003
Stephen V. Smith Ph.D.
Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion
Superior de Ensenada (CICESE)
"Global distribution of nutrient runoff to the ocean" March 14, 2003
Risa Cohen
University of California,
Los Angeles
"Physiological responses of a bloom-forming macroalga to conditions associated with eutrophication: implications for use as a bioindicator of freshwater and nutrient influx to estuarine areas" February 7, 2003
Geoff Siemering
San Francisco Estuary Institute
"Aquatic pesticide monitoring in California: Overview, plans, and challenges" January 10, 2003
Fred Schauffler, Ph.D.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
"Evaluating the impacts of cap construction - results from EPA's pilot in-situ capping project
on the Palos Verdes Shelf"
December 6, 2002
Barry Hibbs, Ph.D.
Dept. of Geological Sciences
California State University,
Los Angeles
"Sources of selenium in San Diego Creek Watershed, Orange County, California" November 8, 2002
Lihini Alluwihare, Ph.D.
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
"The impact of organic nutrients on phytoplankton species composition in coastal waters" October 4, 2002
Karleen A. Boyle, Ph.D.
Dept. of Organismic Biology,
Ecology, and Evolution
University of California,
Los Angeles
"Evaluating the impacts of heavy metal
and nitrogen deposition resulting from aircraft
overflights of coastal wetlands - combining field
monitoring and laboratory microcosm approaches"
September 6, 2002
John Ugoretz
California Fish and Game
"Update on Marine Life
Protection Act"
May 3, 2002
Dr. Marylynn Yates
University of California, Riverside
"Assessment of risk associated with body-contact Recreation" April 5, 2002
Dr. Jan Svejovsky and
Dr. Larry Dysher
Ocean Imaging
"Remote sensing of the coastal zone:
Applications of aerial and satellite imaging
for resource monitoring and mapping"
March 1, 2002
Dr. Michael Baker
University of California, San Diego
"Adrenal and sex steroid evolution:
environmental implications"
February 1, 2002
Doris Vidal
University of California, Berkeley
"Mercury tolerance in aquatic oligochaetes:
The case of Sparganophilus pearsei"
December 7, 2001
Ethan Inlander
Conception Coast Project
"Use of GIS in watershed planning
and riparian restoration"
POSTPONED
December 7, 2001
Dr. Antonia Wijte
California State University,
Long Beach
"Optimizing the timing of Arundo donax control" November 2, 2001
Dr. Carlos Robles
California State University,
Los Angeles
"Coastal research projects of the
CEA-CREST program"
October 12, 2001
Nancy Wright
California Fish and Game
"Marine mapping user group:
A collaborative effort to map
the nearshore coastal region"
September 14, 2001
Dr. Don Duke
University of California,
Los Angeles
"Industrial storm runoff and the pollution
prevention paradigm"
July 27, 2001
Andy Lipkis
Treepeople
"Converting the urban drainage system into a healthy urban watershed" JUNE 1, 2001
Dr. Judith Kildow
University of Southern California
"California and the ocean economy" Note date changeMay 11,
2001
Dr. Daniel Schlenk
University of California, Riverside
"Exposure assessment of estrogens and beta-blockers in sewage effluent and outfall sites of North America" April 6, 2001
Dr. Mike Horn
California State University, Fullerton
"Right or wrong turns? Foraging responses of terns to changes in ocean climate and prey populations" March 2, 2001
Dr. Krista Kamer
University of California, Los Angeles/
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
"The effects of nitrogen, salinity, and herbivory on the green alga Enteromorpha intestinalis in a southern California estuary" February 9, 2001
Dr. Martha Sutula
Tulane University
"Evaluating the effect of hydrological restoration nutrient transport from the Southern Everglades to Florida Bay" January 5, 2001
Dr. Richard Wright
Dept. of Geography
San Diego State University
Environmental Vulnerability assessment of the Tijuana River watershed November 10, 2000
Steve Fleischli
Executive Director
Santa Monica Baykeeper
Stopping polluting one at a time: The role of the Santa Monica Baykeeper October 6, 2000
Dr. Lisa Levin
Marine Life Research Group
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Oxygen minimum zone influence on macrobenthic community structure and function September 15, 2000
Dr. Larry Allen
California State University, Northridge
Warships, eelgrass, and fish: The San Diego Bay connection, 1994-1999 June 2, 2000
Dr. Eric Reichard
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS ground water studies of the coastal Los Angeles Basin May 5, 2000
Chad Nelsen
Surfrider Foundation
Surfrider's beachscape: A community-based coastal mapping program April 7, 2000
Dr. Lee-Lueng Fu
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Oceanography from satellite radar altimetry: Results from the TOPEX/POSEIDON Mission March 8, 2000
Walter McLeod.
Clean Beaches Council
Blue wave campaign: Sustainable beaches through water quality January 28, 2000
Steve Aceti, J.D.
California Coastal Coalition
Beach replenishment in southern California December 3, 1999
Dr. Bob King
EPA Office of Water
EPA's New STORET
Data management system
October 29, 1999
Dr. John Helly
University of California,
San Diego
Supercomputer Center
Visualization of Ecological and Environmental Data October 1, 1999
Dr. Tom Grieb
Tetra Tech
South San Francisco Bay Copper and Nickel TMDL September 10, 1999
Joan Hartmann
Southern California Wetlands Clearinghouse
Wetlands recovery in southern California May 7, 1999
Naiming Wang Dynamic modelling of wetland water quality functions May 3, 1999
Drew Ackerman
Two case studies:
a new flow routing technique for a multi-boundried grid and a water quality study in northern Kentucky
April 23, 1999
Dr. Rick Gersberg
San Diego State University
GIS characterization of metal loading in the Tijuana River watershed March 12, 1999
Dr. Jeffrey Frithsen
US Environmental Protection Agency
National Center for
Environmental Assessment
Integrating data in heterogeneous, distributed environments: The need for a common environmental resource directory February 5, 1999
Gary Robbins
Pat Brennen
Orange County Register
"Why Science reporting is so bad" December 4, 1998
Dr. Patrick McLaren
GeoSea Consulting (Canada)
"The Use of Sediment Trend Analysis (STA)
in Marine and Coastal Planning"
November 6, 1998
Dr. Tony Michaels
University of Southern California,
Wrigley Institute for
Environmental Studies
"Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and iron:
processes, patterns and elemental
mass balances in the Atlantic Ocean."
October 9, 1998
Dr. Warner Chabot
Center for Marine Conservation
"Relative role of scientists and citizen groups in water quality monitoring and policy" September 25, 1998
Dr. Dale Kiefer
University of Southern California
"Remote sensing and coastal management of water quality and water use" May 8, 1998
Dr. Sam Luoma
U.S. Geological Survey
"Using long-term bioaccumulation studies to understand and monitor exposure of benthos to trace metals" April 3, 1998
Dr. John Lindsay
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle
"The potential application of laser line scan system for benthic habitat assessment" March 13, 1998
Dr. John Brock
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
"Surveying beaches with aircraft LIDAR" February 13, 1998
Dr. Rachel Noble,
University of Southern California Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
"Fates of viruses in the marine environment" January 9, 1998
Dr. Jack Anderson,
Columbia Analytical Services
"Potential use of a human cell response (P450-RGS) in environmental monitoring program" December 5, 1997
Dr. Keith Stolzenbach,
University of California,
Los Angeles
"Integrated modeling of the southern California coastal ocean" November 7, 1997
Dr. Holly Price,
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
"Marine and watershed quality and monitoring issues for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary" September 12, 1997
David Lapota,
US Naval Research & Development, San Diego
"Biological Assessment of effluents and marine sediments with a rapid toxicity test (QwikLite)" August 1, 1997
Dr. Mia Tegner,
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
"Kelp Forests, ocean climate, and anthropogenic impacts" June 20, 1997
Dr. Steven Murray, CSu-Fullerton California's rocky seashores: Identifying the balance between long-term conservation of living resources and short term pressures for human use June 6, 1997
Dr. Penny Sue Perkins
Department of Medicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Parasitism of Pacific sanddabs by copepod eye parasites May 9, 1997
Dr. John Cubit
NOAA
Ecological fundamentals in natural resources damage assessment April 4, 1997
Dennis Kelley
Orange Coast College
Marine mammals in Southern California: Pollution and monitoring possibilities March 7, 1997
Dr. Geraldine Knatz
Port of Long Beach
Environmental issues associated with the Port of Long Beach February 7, 1997
Dr. Peter Kozelka
UC Santa Cruz
Chemical speciation January 9, 1997