SCCWRP has developed an initial prototype of a public facing data dashboard designed to help watershed managers statewide visualize and determine which streams that are ecologically healthy should be priorities … More
Articles by: Emily Lau
Technical foundation built for California to evaluate cannabis growers’ requests for stream flow diversions
SCCWRP and its partners have developed a standardized assessment framework that enables California to assess whether the water that cannabis growers are requesting to divert from nearby streams to support … More
Microplastics collection method transferred to end users during pair of workshops
SCCWRP and its partners have begun the process of transferring to end users a newly standardized method for collecting samples from drinking water treatment plants in preparation for measuring their … More
Study surveying fish consumption at urban lakes in L.A. region completed
SCCWRP has completed a year-long study intended to help managers decide if one or more urban lakes in the Los Angeles region should receive a regulatory designation known as a … More
Passive samplers retrieved from offshore DDT barrels dump site
SCCWRP and its partners at Scripps Institution of Oceanography have successfully retrieved passive samplers that were deployed for six months to measure sediment contamination at a former industrial waste dump … More
Rainfall generator built to support ongoing turf replacement BMP study
SCCWRP has designed and custom-built a second rainfall generator that will support an ongoing study measuring how much rainfall soaks into the ground vs. runs off the land at sites … More
First Bight ’23 Sediment Quality assessment report published
The Southern California Bight 2023 Regional Monitoring Program has published the first of its Sediment Quality assessment reports summarizing the extent and magnitude of sediment toxicity across Southern California’s coastal … More
Third sampling year completed for Regional BMP Monitoring Network
The Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition (SMC) has completed the third year of sampling for its Regional BMP Monitoring Network – a SCCWRP-facilitated effort that is enabling Southern California stormwater … More
Workshop to explore how to incorporate eDNA-based approaches into ocean acidification monitoring
SCCWRP and the California Ocean Protection Council will host a two-day workshop in March exploring how to incorporate environmental DNA (eDNA) methods into regional ocean acidification (OA) monitoring programs that … More
Investigation probing how rising water temperatures affect endangered fish species
SCCWRP and its partners have launched an 18-month investigation to methodically probe how the health of an endangered fish species is affected by increases in water temperatures – granular insights … More