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CHEMISTRY
Antifouling biocides in water and sediments
from California marinas ABSTRACT
Yelena Sapozhnikova, Edward Wirth, Kenneth Schiff and Michael Fulton
Stormwater contaminant loading following
wildfires ABSTRACT
Eric D. Stein, Jeffrey S. Brown, Terri S. Hogue, Megan P. Burke and Alicia Kinoshita
Comparison of natural and anthropogenic
nutrient sources in the Southern California Bight ABSTRACT
Meredith D.A. Howard, Martha Sutula, David Caron, Yi Chao, John D. Farrara, Hartmut Frenzel, Burton Jones, George Robertson, Karen McLaughlin and Ashmita Sengupta
Passive sampling to measure background
dissolved persistent organic pollutant concentrations in the water column of the Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund site ABSTRACT
Loretta A. Fernandez, Wenjian Lao, Keith A. Maruya, Carmen White and Robert M. Burgess
The effect of co-occurring polychlorinated
biphenyls on quantitation of toxaphene in fish tissue samples by gas chromatography negative ion mass spectrometry ABSTRACT
Wenjian Lao, David Tsukada, and Keith A. Maruya
Nontargeted comprehensive two-dimensional
gas chromatography/time-of-flight mass spectrometry method and software for inventorying persistent and bioaccumulative contaminants in marine environments ABSTRACT
Eunha Hoh, Nathan G. Dodder, Steven J. Lehotay, Kristin C. Pangallo, Christopher M. Reddy and Keith A. Maruya
A two-component mass balance model for
calibration of solid-phase microextraction fibers for pyrethroids in seawater ABSTRACT
Wenjian Lao, Keith A. Maruya and David Tsukada
PHYSICAL HABITAT
General regression neural networks to
estimate hydromodification response in semi-arid southern California streams ABSTRACT
Ashmita Sengupta, Eric D. Stein and Robert J. Hawley
Reach-scale geomorphic and biological
effects of localized stream bank armoring ABSTRACT
Eric D. Stein, Matthew R. Cover, A. Elizabeth Fetscher, Clare O’Reilly, Roxana Guardado1 and Christopher W. Solek
BIOLOGY
Descriptive trends in Southern California
Bight demersal fish assemblages, 1994-2008 ABSTRACT
Eric F. Miller and Kenneth Schiff
Long-term population and community
patterns of benthic macroinvertebrates and fishes in northern California Mediterranean-climate streams ABSTRACT
Vincent H. Resh, Leah A. Bêche, Justin E. Lawrence, Raphael D. Mazor, Eric P. McElravy, Alison P. O’Dowd, Deborah Rudnick and Stephanie M. Carlson
How much is too much? Identifying
benchmarks of adverse effects of macroalgae on the macrobenthic community in estuarine intertidal flats ABSTRACT
Lauri Green, Martha Sutula and Peggy Fong
Thresholds of adverse effects of macroalgal
abundance and sediment organic matter on benthic habitat quality in estuarine intertidal flats ABSTRACT
Martha Sutula, Lauri Green, Giancarlo Cicchetti, Naomi Detenbeck and Peggy Fong
A novel quantification method for
stream-inhabiting, non-diatom benthic algae, and its application in bioassessment ABSTRACT
Rosalina Stancheva, A. Elizabeth Fetscher and Robert G. Sheath
Evaluation of reproductive endocrine
status in hornyhead turbot sampled from southern California’s urbanized coastal environments ABSTRACT
Jesus A. Reyes, Doris E. Vidal-Dorsch, Daniel Schlenk, Steven M. Bay, Jeffrey L. Armstrong, Joseph R. Gully, Curtis Cash, Michael Baker, Timothy D. Stebbins, Gary Hardiman and Kevin M. Kelley
Optimizing ethanol-based sample
preservation to facilitate use of DNA barcoding in routine freshwater biomonitoring programs using benthic macroinvertebrates ABSTRACT
Eric D. Stein, Bryan P. White, Raphael D. Mazor, Peter E. Miller and Erik M. Pilgrim
MICROBIOLOGY
Factors affecting the relationship between
qPCR and culture-based enumeration of Enterococcus ABSTRACT
Darcy L. Ebentier, Meredith R. Raith, Yiping Cao, John F. Griffith and Stephen B. Weisberg
Effect of platform, reference material, and
quantification model on enumeration of Enterococcus by quantitative PCR methods ABSTRACT
Yiping Cao, Mano Sivaganesan, Julie Kinzelman, A. Denene Blackwood, Rachel T. Noble, Richard A. Haugland, John F. Griffith and Stephen B. Weisberg
Inter-laboratory comparison of real-time
PCR protocols for quantification of general fecal indicator bacteria ABSTRACT
Orin C. Shanks, Mano Sivaganesan, Lindsay Peed, Catherine A. Kelty, A. Denene Blackwood, Monica R. Greene, Rachel T. Noble, Rebecca N. Bushon, Erin A. Stelzer, Julie Kinzelman, Tamara Anan’eva, Christopher Sinigalliano, David Wanless, John Griffith, Yiping Cao, Steve Weisberg, Valarie J. Harwood, Christopher Staley, Kevin H. Oshima, Manju Varma and Richard A. Haugland
Effectiveness of qPCR permutations,
internal controls and dilution as means for minimizing the impact of inhibition while measuring Enterococcus in environmental waters ABSTRACT
Yiping Cao, John F. Griffith, Samuel Dorevitch and Stephen B. Weisberg
Application of an integrated community
analysis approach for microbial source tracking in a coastal creek ABSTRACT
Yiping Cao, Laurie C. Van De Werfhorst, Bram Sercu, Jill L.S. Murray and Patricia A. Holden
Comparison of gull feces-specific
assays targeting the 16S rRNA gene of Catellicoccus marimammalium and Streptococcus spp. ABSTRACT
Hodon Ryu, John F. Griffith, Izhar U.H. Khan, Stephen Hill, Thomas A. Edge, Carlos Toledo-Hernandez, Joel Gonzalez-Nieves and Jorge Santo Domingo
The association of fecal indicator bacteria
with human viruses and microbial source tracking markers at coastal beaches impacted by nonpoint source pollution ABSTRACT
Shannon McQuaig, John Griffith and Valerie J. Harwood
Development of quantitative PCR assays
targeting 16S rRNA gene of Enterococcus spp. and their application to the identification of Enterococcus species in environmental samples ABSTRACT
Hodon Ryu, Michael Henson, Michael Elk, Carlos Toledo-Hernandez, John Griffith, Denene Blackwood, Rachel Noble, Michèle Gourmelon, Susan Glassmeyer and Jorge Santo Domingo
A multi-beach study of Staphylococcus
aureus, MRSA, and enterococci in seawater and beach sand ABSTRACT
Kelly D. Goodwin, Melody McNay, Yiping Cao, Darcy Ebentier, Melissa Madison and John F. Griffith