1999-2000 ANNUAL REPORT
Table of Contents

 

 

Director’s Message:

            Stephen B. Weisberg

 

 

History of SCCWRP

 

The Southern California Coastal Water Research Project - 30 years of environmental research in the Southern California Bight

            Alan J. Mearns, M. James Allen and Michael D. Moore

 

 

Sources

 

Characteristics of effluents from large municipal wastewater treatment facilities in 1997

            Valerie E. Raco-Rands and Andrea Steinberger

 

Assessment of efficient sampling designs for urban stormwater monitoring

            Molly K. Leecaster, Kenneth C. Schiff and Liesl L. Tiefenthaler

 

Temporal variability patterns of stormwater concentrations in urban stormwater runoff

            Liesl L. Tiefenthaler, Kenneth C. Schiff and Molly K. Leecaster

 

Anthropogenic versus natural mass emissions from an urban watershed

            Kenneth C .Schiff and Liesl L.Tiefenthaler

 

Characterization of stormwater toxicants from an urban watershed to freshwater and marine organisms

            Kenneth C. Schiff, Steven M. Bay and Christopher Stransky

 

Tracking sources of bacterial contamination in stormwater discharges from Mission Bay, California

                Kenneth C. Schiff and Patrick Kinney

 

 

Fates

 

 

Temporal and spatial distributions of contaminants in sediments of Santa Monica Bay, California

            Eddy Y. Zeng, Steven M. Bay, Kim Tran, and Clark Alexander

 

Composition and distribution of beach debris in Orange County, California

            Shelly L. Moore, Dominic Gregorio, Martin Carreon, Stephen B. Weisberg and Molly K. Leecaster

 

A comparison of plastic and plankton in the North Pacific central gyre

                Charles J. Moore, Shelly L. Moore, Molly K. Leecaster and Stephen B. Weisberg

 

Concentrations of methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE) in inputs and receiving waters of Southern California

            Jeffrey S. Brown, Steven M. Bay, Darrin J. Greenstein and William R. Ray

 

 

Effects

 

 

Toxicity of methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE) to California marine life

            Steven M. Bay, Jeffrey S. Brown, Darrin J. Greenstein and Andrew W. Jirik

 

Toxicity assessment of sediment cores from Santa Monica Bay

            Darrin J. Greenstein, Steven M. Bay, Andrew W. Jirik, Jeffrey S. Brown and Clark Alexander

 

Age and growth of white croaker (Genyonemus lineatus) off Palos Verdes and Dana Point, California

            Shelly L. Moore

 

Reproductive biology of the barred sand bass (Paralabrax nebulifer)

            Cheryl Baca-Hovey and Larry D. Cooper

 

Relative abundance and health of demersal fish species on the southern California shelf in 1994

            M. James Allen, Janet K. Stull, Shelly L. Moore and Chi-Li Tang

 

Relative abundance and health of megabenthic invertebrate species on the Southern California Shelf in 1994

            Janet K. Stull, M. James Allen, Shelly L. Moore and Chi-Li Tang

 

 

Integration and Assessment

 

 

Inventory of ocean monitoring in the Southern California Bight

            Kenneth C. Schiff, Stephen B. Weisberg and Valerie E. Raco-Rands

 

A regional survey of the microbiological water quality along the shoreline of the Southern California Bight

            Rachel T. Noble, John H. Dorsey, Molly K. Leecaster, Victoria Orozco-Borbon, Daniel Reid,

                Kenneth C. Schiff and Stephen B. Weisberg

 

Enterovirus detection by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction from the coastal waters of southern California

            Rachel T. Noble and Jed A. Fuhrman

 

Enterovirus detection in storm drain-impacted waters along the shoreline of the Southern California Bight

            Rachel T. Noble

 

Relationships among bacterial indicators during a regional survey of microbiological water quality along the shoreline of the Southern California Bight

            Rachel T. Noble, Molly K. Leecaster, Douglas F. Moore, Kenneth C. Schiff and Stephen B. Weisberg

 

Retrospective evaluation of shoreline water quality along Santa Monica Bay beaches

            Kenneth C. Schiff, Jessica Morton and Stephen B. Weisberg

 

Historical trends in nearshore croaker (family Sciaenidae) populations in Southern California from 1977 through 1998

            Kevin T. Herbinson, M. James Allen and Shelly L. Moore

 

Spatial analysis of grain size in Santa Monica Bay

            Molly K. Leecaster

 

 

Monitoring Methods Development

 

 

Effect of temporal sampling frequency on shoreline microbiology assessments

            Molly K. Leecaster and Stephen B. Weisberg

 

Molecular markers in urban stormwater runoff

            Kim Tran, Diana L. Young and Eddy Y. Zeng

 

Comparison of sediment grain size analysis among two methods and three instruments using environmental samples

            Ann Dalkey and Molly K. Leecaster

 

Interlaboratory comparison of sediment toxicity tests with the amphipod Eohaustorius estuarius

            Andrew W. Jirik, Steven M. Bay and Stan Asato

 

 

Additional Information

 

 

Commissioners and CTAG Members

 

Staff

 

Memorial to Willard Bascom