Table of Contents
Director’s Message – Consensus
Evolution of monitoring program design for marine outfalls in the Southern California Bight ABSTRACT
Karen E. Setty, Kenneth C. Schiff, Joseph R. Gully and Stephen B. Weisberg
SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION
Effluent discharges to the Southern California Bight from power generating stations in 2005 ABSTRACT
Greg S. Lyon and Eric D. Stein
Effluent discharges from offshore oil platforms to the outer continental shelf of southern California in 2005 ABSTRACT
Greg S. Lyon and Eric D. Stein
Comparing solid phase microextraction and polyethylene passive samplers for measuring ultra-low aqueous concentrations of regulated organic pollutants ABSTRACT
Jaime M. Sayre, Rachel G. Adams, Wenjian Lao and Keith A. Maruya
Temperature effects on a doubly tethered diproline chiral stationary phase: Hold-up volume, enantioselectivity and robustness ABSTRACT
Wenjian Lao and Jay Gan
BEACH WATER QUALITY
Comparison of Enterococcus species selectivity using Enterolert and EPA Method 1600 ABSTRACT
Donna M. Ferguson, John F. Griffith, Charles D. McGee and Stephen B. Weisberg
Covalently-linked immunomagnetic separation/adenosine triphosphate technique (Cov-IMS/ATP) enables rapid, in-field detection and quantification of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus spp. in freshwater and marine environments ABSTRACT
Christine M. Lee, John F. Griffith, William Kaiser and Jennifer A. Jay
Pilot- and bench-scale testing of fecal indicator bacteria survival in marine beach sand near point sources ABSTRACT
Kathryn B. Mika, Greg Imamura, Crystal Chang, Victoria Conway, Genevieve Fernandez, John F. Griffith, Rita A. Kampalath, Christine M. Lee, Chu-Ching Lin, Raylene Moreno, Shawn Thompson, Richard L. Whitman and Jennifer A. Jay
Use of an exogenous plasmid standard and quantitative PCR to monitor spatial and temporal distribution of Enterococcus spp. in beach sands ABSTRACT
Elizabeth Halliday, John F. Griffith and Rebecca J. Gast
Large scale analysis of virulence genes in Escherichia coli strains isolated from Avalon Bay, CA ABSTRACT
Matthew J. Hamilton, Asbah Z. Hadi, John F. Griffith and Michael J. Sadowsky
A real-time qPCR assay for the detection of the nifH gene of Methanobrevibater smithii, a potential indicator of sewage pollution ABSTRACT
Christopher Johnston, Jennifer A. Unfar, John F. Griffith, Janet A. Gooch and Jill R. Stewart
Improved detection and quantification of norovirus from water ABSTRACT
Jason B. Gregory, Laura F. Webster, John F. Griffith and Jill R. Stewart
BENTHIC CONDITIONS
Incorporating contaminant bioavailability into sediment quality assessment frameworks ABSTRACT
Keith A. Maruya, Peter F. Landrum, Robert M. Burgess and James P. Shine
Levels of agreement among experts using Best Professional Judgment to assess mesohaline and tidal freshwater benthic macrofaunal condition in the San Francisco Estuary and Delta ABSTRACT
Bruce Thompson, Stephen B. Weisberg, Aroon Melwani, Sarah Lowe, J. Ananda Ranasinghe, Donald B. Cadien, Daniel M. Dauer, Robert J. Diaz, Wayne Fields, Michael Kellogg, David E. Montagne, Peter R. Ode, Donald J. Reish and Peter N. Slattery
The effect of sample area and sieve size on benthic macrofaunal community condition assessments in California enclosed bays and estuaries ABSTRACT
Kamille K. Hammerstrom, J. Ananda Ranasinghe, Stephen B. Weisberg, John S. Oliver, W. Russell Fairey, Peter N. Slattery and James M. Oakden
Long-term macroinvertebrate responses to climate change: Implications for biological assessment in Mediterranean-climate streams ABSTRACT
Justin E. Lawrence, Kevin B. Lunde, Raphael D. Mazor, Leah A. Bêche, Eric P. McElravy and Vincent H. Resh
Comparing volunteer and professionally collected monitoring data from subtidal rocky reefs in southern California ABSTRACT
David J. Gillett, Dan J. Pondella II, Kenneth C. Schiff, Jan Freiwald, Jennifer E. Casselle, Craig Shuman and Stephen B. Weisberg
Biological responses of marine flatfish exposed to effluent ABSTRACT
Doris E. Vidal-Dorsch, Steven M. Bay, Monica A. Mays, Darrin J. Greenstein, Diana Young, Daniel Schlenk and Kevin M. Kelley
WATER COLUMN ASSESSMENT
Assessing water quality conditions in southern California’s areas of special biological significance ABSTRACT
Kenneth Schiff, Brenda Luk, Dominic Gregorio and Steve Gruber
Tracking stormwater discharge plumes and water quality of the Tijuana River with multispectral aerial imagery ABSTRACT
Jan Svejkovsky, Nikolay P. Nezlin, Neomi M. Mustain and Jamie B. Kum
Plastic ingestion by planktivorous fishes in the North Pacific Central Gyre ABSTRACT
Christiana M. Boerger, Gwendolyn L. Lattin, Shelly L. Moore and Charles J. Moore