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Effort launched to better characterize linkage between bioassays and biological impacts in fish

in Bioanalytical Cell Screening Assays, Emerging Contaminants Comments are Disabled

SCCWRP and its partners are launching a new round of exploratory work on bioanalytical cell screening technology to better understand how these assays can be adapted to provide early evidence … More

Bioanalytical cell screening assays will be used for the first time in the Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program to screen for bioactive chemical contaminants in seafloor sediment. Bight ’18 participants have decided to test-drive this prototype technology as part of the program’s commitment to examine new and emerging developments in environmental science.

Bight ’18 keeps focus on key issues of management concern

in Bioanalytical Cell Screening Assays, Climate Change, Microbial Water Quality, Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia, Regional Monitoring, Sediment Quality, Top News, Trash Pollution Comments are Disabled

More than 80 environmental agencies will examine new and emerging developments in water-quality science and management during the 2018 cycle of the Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program, which initiates … More

A passive sampling device consisting of rings of polyethylene sheets is deployed into San Diego Bay on a mooring. The device, which measures the concentration of legacy contaminants like PCBs and DDTs in the water column, is being used for a study examining the origins of contaminants found in San Diego Bay fish.

New study probes origins of legacy sediment contaminants that bioaccumulate in fish

in Sediment Quality Comments are Disabled

SCCWRP and its partners have launched a two-year study to investigate whether legacy contaminants that occur in the tissue of fish in San Diego Bay are coming exclusively from contaminated … More

Recycled water is sometimes placed into holding ponds, such as this one in Santa Clara County in Northern California, to allow the water to gradually infiltrate into groundwater. California’s policy on how to monitor CECs in recycled water was recently revisited by an expert advisory panel facilitated by SCCWRP.

CEC panel informs proposed update to recycled water policy

in Bioanalytical Cell Screening Assays, Emerging Contaminants, Top News Comments are Disabled

The State Water Board will consider updating California’s policy on monitoring contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in recycled water as early as this year based on the findings of an … More

Resolution of West Coast acidification model being increased to improve accuracy

in Climate Change, Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Comments are Disabled

West Coast researchers working to develop a computer model that predicts how the region’s coastal waters will be affected by ocean acidification and hypoxia (OAH) have decided to increase the … More

Pteropods, or sea snails, are sentinel indicators of the biological impacts of ocean acidification. SCCWRP is taking part in a study to assess the vulnerability of pteropods and other marine calcifying communities to ocean acidification in the Pacific Northwest’s Salish Sea.

Researchers assessing biological impacts of ocean acidification in the Salish Sea

in Climate Change, Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Comments are Disabled

SCCWRP and its partners have launched an effort to assess the vulnerability of marine calcifying communities in the Pacific Northwest’s Salish Sea to ocean acidification, including whether land-based pollution sources … More

Set of models built for establishing nutrient loading targets for Santa Margarita River

in Eutrophication, Harmful Algal Blooms Comments are Disabled

SCCWRP and its partners have finished assembling an integrated toolkit of mechanistic computer models and empirical statistical models that water-quality managers can use to optimally protect biological integrity and human … More

Study to explore optimal methods for monitoring cyanotoxins

in Climate Change, Eutrophication, Harmful Algal Blooms Comments are Disabled

SCCWRP and its partners will seek to develop more robust field methods for monitoring cyanotoxins in aquatic environments during a new study kicking off this summer in the Los Angeles … More

Science tools for proposed biointegrity-biostimulatory policy to be released this summer

in Bioassessment, Eutrophication, Harmful Algal Blooms, Indices of Biotic Integrity Comments are Disabled

SCCWRP and its partners will begin soliciting public comments this summer on a series of new scientific tools and synthesis reports that will form the technical backbone for a proposed … More

EPA Pacific Northwest stream tool being tested in Southwest

in Bioassessment, Ecohydrology Comments are Disabled

SCCWRP and its partners have launched a study to investigate whether a stream management tool that can rapidly distinguish intermittent streams from ephemeral streams in the Pacific Northwest is feasible … More