Emily Lau, Author at Southern California Coastal Water Research Project

Articles by: Emily Lau

Fish consumption survey to inform L.A. Regional Board deliberations about potential new beneficial use designation for urban lakes

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SCCWRP has launched a two-year study to inform deliberations by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board about whether one or more urban lakes in Los Angeles County should … More

Lab accreditation agencies trained on bioassay methods for fish

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Assessors who accredit environmental laboratories in California received training in testing requirements and data quality issues associated with a suite of commonly used fish bioassay toxicity tests during a three-day … More

Modeling work underway for study probing relationship between HF183 and illness risk

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SCCWRP and its partners have begun working to model the levels at which exposure to the fecal contamination marker HF183 in wet-weather runoff is associated with increased illness risks for … More

Study working to estimate what portion of human fecal contamination in San Diego waterways attributable to public sewers

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SCCWRP and its partners have begun working to estimate what portion of human fecal contamination in the San Diego River watershed can be attributed to raw wastewater exfiltrating from public … More

Additional monitoring added to study quantifying benefits of replacing turf lawns

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SCCWRP and the County of San Diego have added an additional year of monitoring to a study seeking to quantify the runoff reduction benefits of replacing residential grass with drought-tolerant … More

SCCWRP exploring how to integrate coastal estuary monitoring with California State Parks

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SCCWRP has begun exploring how to integrate a suite of newly developed tools for monitoring the health of coastal estuaries into California State Parks’ estuarine monitoring and management programs. During … More

Regional BMP monitoring program adds monitoring sites in second year of BMP performance monitoring

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The Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition (SMC) has expanded the number of structural BMPs where field teams are collecting data on the performance of structural stormwater BMPs as the SMC … More

SCCWRP’s Samuel Lillywhite, center, demonstrates how to collect shellfish in Newport Harbor in Orange County during a training with Bight ‘23 sampling partners. The Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program has launched an investigation to comprehensively track the accumulation of multiple types of contaminants in shellfish.

Bight ’23 shellfish study to benefit 4 study elements

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The 2023 cycle of the Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program has launched a year-long investigation to comprehensively track the accumulation of multiple different types of contaminants in shellfish – … More

A field crew uses a custom-built rainfall generator to create controlled wet-weather conditions in a Long Beach parking lot – part of an effort to quantify street sweeping’s effectiveness in preventing roadway pollution from entering storm drains. Researchers are leveraging the study to also investigate street sweeping’s ability to remove microplastics.

SMC studies being used to investigate BMPs’ potential to remove microplastics in runoff

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SCCWRP and its partners have initiated a pair of studies exploring the potential of different types of stormwater BMPs to reduce microplastics pollution in runoff – with both studies leveraging … More

A field crew collects data on the health of a stream in the Big Bear Lake watershed. SCCWRP and its partners have begun developing a suite of protective assessment tools to help managers identify the specific stressors that present significant ecological risks to streams in California that are in good health.

Effort launched to develop protective assessment tools for California streams

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SCCWRP and its partners have begun developing a suite of tools to help managers identify the specific stressors that present significant ecological risks to California streams that are in good … More