Emily Lau, Author at Southern California Coastal Water Research Project

Articles by: Emily Lau

Bight ’23 wraps up shellfish field sampling

The Southern California Bight 2023 Regional Monitoring Program has completed field sampling for an ongoing investigation into how multiple types of contaminants accumulate in shellfish – a highly leveraged effort … More

Lab intercalibration completed to ensure high-quality, comparable data for Bight ’23 microplastics assessment

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The Trash and Microplastics study element of the Southern California Bight 2023 Regional Monitoring Program has successfully completed a laboratory intercalibration exercise to ensure participating laboratories can generate high-quality, comparable … More

Bight ’18 synthesis report for Sediment Quality studies updated with new SQO scores

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The Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program has updated its final assessment report summarizing how sediment contamination in Southern California has impacted the overall health of coastal marine ecosystems … More

A pteropod, or sea snail, shown with white-colored pit marks on its shell, experiences early signs of shell dissolution in response to ocean acidification. A panel of scientific experts has completed a review of a set of computer modeling tools designed to predict how land-based coastal discharges are influencing the trajectory of ocean acidification and hypoxia (OAH) in coastal waters. (Courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Expert panel completes review of coastal OAH modeling tools

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An international panel of scientific experts has completed an independent review of a set of computer modeling tools designed to predict how land-based coastal discharges are influencing ocean water quality, … More

Amanda Carr from Orange County Public Works, one of the SMC’s 18 member agencies, addresses an independent expert panel convened by the SMC to develop the research consortium’s next five-year research agenda. The 12-member expert panel met at SCCWRP during a three-day research planning workshop in September.

SMC develops stormwater research priorities for next five years

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The Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition (SMC) has launched a research planning process to establish its strategic directions over the next five years, beginning with inviting an expert advisory panel … More

SCCWRP’s Adriana Le Compte-Santiago, left, and Jerod Gray install a trench drain and above-ground sensors in a residential community where the County of San Diego replaced turf with drought-tolerant landscaping. A three-year study at this site found that replacing spray irrigation with drip irrigation and drought-tolerant plants can reduce or eliminate the volumes of irrigation and rain water running off these surfaces.

Study finds replacing spray irrigation with drip irrigation can eliminate runoff

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SCCWRP and the County of San Diego have completed a three-year study that found that replacing spray-irrigated turf with drip irrigation and drought-tolerant landscaping can reduce or eliminate the volumes … More

Batiquitos Lagoon in Carlsbad is one of 37 coastal wetlands that will serve as sentinel sites for a planned Southern California coastal wetland monitoring program. The sentinel site network, which was recently built, will provide a baseline for comparison to other sites, enabling the monitoring program to use standardized methods for comprehensively assessing the health of these vulnerable, low-lying coastal habitats.

Sentinel network completed to support planned wetlands monitoring program

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SCCWRP and its partners have completed the first major component of a planned coastal wetland monitoring program for Southern California – a milestone that brings coastal managers one step closer … More

Electrodialysis technology, pictured above on a pier in Newport Beach, is one example of a type of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) technology that may be able to draw down carbon dioxide levels in coastal waters. State agencies met at SCCWRP in October for a two-day workshop exploring the implications of piloting mCDR projects in California coastal waters. (Courtesy of Captura Corporation)

Workshop clarifies path for evaluating mCDR environmental effects in California

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A two-day workshop at SCCWRP that explored the implications of piloting marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) technologies in California coastal waters has helped bring clarity to the technical and regulatory … More

White House releases national eDNA strategy that SCCWRP helped craft

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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has unveiled a national strategy intended to bring standardization and consistency to how environmental DNA (eDNA) methods get incorporated into aquatic … More

Screening-level causal assessment tool successfully applied in San Luis Rey River watershed

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SCCWRP and its partners have completed a screening-level causal assessment of the San Luis Rey River watershed in San Diego County using an approach co-developed by SCCWRP that rapidly identifies … More