2025 Symposium Presentations
10th Biennial SCCWRP Symposium
March 4, 2025
Plenary
Regional Monitoring
- Southern California Bight Regional Marine Monitoring Program (video)
- Statewide and regional estuary monitoring program (video)
- Southern California’s regional stream bioassessment program (video)
Bioassessment
- Environmental DNA: Research to implementation (video)
- Challenges moving from morphology to molecular bioassessment (video)
- Bioassessment of eelgrass beds: New tools for habitat of concern (video)
Eutrophication and HABs
- Modeling to support management of ocean acidification and hypoxia (video)
- HABs in inland waters: Current status and latest developments (video)
- Solutions to eutrophication: Can restoration help? (video)
Contaminants of Emerging Concern
- Risk-based CEC strategy for stressor prioritization (video)
- Constituents of Emerging Concern (CECS): Advancing environmental exposure and effects (video)
- Advances in microplastics measurement methods and toxicity (video)
BMPs and Runoff Water Quality
- Quantifying BMP effectiveness and maintenance through regional monitoring (video)
- Laboratory experiments to unpack the BMP black box for pollutant treatment (video)
- Leveraging new technology & real-time sensing to detect illicit discharges (video)
Climate Resiliency
- Enabling climate resilient solutions (video)
- Numerical modeling to guide climate resilience (video)
- Approaches to assess effects and effectiveness of marine carbon dioxide removal (video)
Microbial Water Quality
- Identifying sources of human fecal contamination in wet weather (video)
- Quantifying sanitary sewer exfiltration in the San Diego River watershed (video)
- Linking HF183 to human health risk in Southern California stormwater (video)
Ecohydrology
- Eco-risk approach to inform water management decisions (video)
- Streamflow Duration Assessment Methods: A rapid field-based tool for watershed managers (video)
- Modeling approaches to inform flow management (video)
2023 Symposium Presentations
9th Biennial SCCWRP Symposium
March 24, 2023
Introduction and Plenary
Regional Monitoring
- Overview of the Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program
- Using environmental DNA (eDNA) to expand our capacity for marine biomonitoring
- New directions for the Stormwater Monitoring Coalition’s regional stream bioassessment program
BMPs and Runoff Water Quality
- Impact of homelessness on wet weather quality
- Building the Southern California SMC Regional BMP Monitoring Network
- Translating field sensor data into information
Microbial Water Quality
- Implementation of ddPCR for beach water-quality monitoring
- Differentiating among sources of fecal contamination using biofilm
- Relationships between indicators and pathogens in shellfish and water
Contaminants of Emerging Concern
- Constituents of Emerging Concern (CECs): Advancing knowledge in environmental exposure
- High-throughput toxicology for rapid assessment of emerging contaminants
- How California is charting the global future of microplastics management
Eutrophication and HABs
- Nutrient thresholds protective against toxic cyanobacteria blooms in lakes and reservoirs: Getting past our data gap
- Ocean modeling as a decision support tool to manage eutrophication
- Developing the toolkit to guide management response to HAB effects on marine mammals
Bioassessment
- New directions in bioassessment: New habitats, new tools and new approaches
- Molecular methods for bioassessment and biomonitoring
- Monitoring biological integrity and biostimulatory factors in modified channels
Climate Change
- Coastal resiliency assessment to support planning and restoration
- Numerical modeling to inform climate change effects on California ocean chemistry and ecosystem
- Ocean-based solutions to climate change in the Southern California Bight
Ecohydrology
- Establishing flow ranges and diversion limits to protect beneficial uses
- Assessing stream vulnerability to hydrological alteration
- Evaluating temperature effects on stream beneficial uses
2017 Symposium Presentations
8th Biennial SCCWRP Symposium
March 1, 2017
Introduction and Plenary
Bight ’13
Information Management
Microbiology
Contaminants of Emerging Concern
Eutrophication
- Development of a Biological Condition Gradient model to support the State Water Board’s biostimulatory-biointegrity policy (video)
- Using modeling to understand impacts of land-based discharges on Bight biogeochemical cycling (video)
- Improving tools to assess eutrophication in Southern California estuaries (video)
Next-Generation Bioassessment
Sediment Quality
Hydrologic Change
How-To Demonstrations
- Using hydrologic data to support stream condition assessment
- 3D walk-through tours of the Tijuana River estuary: Today vs. 2100
- Next-generation technologies to screen for CECs in receiving waters
- Portable microbial contamination testing device for rapid, in-field results
- Planning the next-generation SCCWRP website
2015 Symposium Presentations
7th Biennial SCCWRP Symposium
February 26, 2015