The Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition (SMC) has completed the second sampling year of its new Regional BMP Monitoring Network, collecting data from six stormwater BMPs across Southern California during … More
Articles by: Emily Lau
Year 1 sampling completed in effort to measure how well bioretention BMPs remove microplastics in runoff
SCCWRP and its partners have completed the first season of wet-weather sampling for a two-year study investigating the effectiveness of bioretention BMPs (best management practices) at removing microplastics pollution from … More
Pilot phase completed for mechanistic study seeking to open BMP “black box”
SCCWRP and its partners have successfully completed the pilot testing phase for a three-year study working to characterize the mechanistic inner processes by which biofiltration stormwater BMPs (best management practices) … More
Special journal issue highlights effort to standardize microplastics measurement methods
An international effort to standardize the methods being used to measure microplastics in a range of aquatic matrices is chronicled in a newly published special issue of the journal Chemosphere. … More
Year 1 sampling completed for study evaluating collection methods for microplastics in stormwater
SCCWRP and its partners at the University of California, Riverside have completed the first season of wet-weather sample collection as part of a three-year effort to standardize the methods that … More
SCCWRP completes second year of partnership with undergraduate fellowship program to advance climate change research
SCCWRP has completed the second year of a partnership with a California undergraduate fellowship program to train a new generation of students to help solve pressing societal issues. The #CalifornianforAll … More
Study investigates how to set site-specific eutrophication thresholds to protect health of California streams
SCCWRP and its partners have completed a study investigating the feasibility of developing site-specific targets to protect California’s wadeable streams from the ecological effects of eutrophication – an alternative to … More
SCCWRP invited to be part of expert panel informing wastewater recycling plans in Los Angeles region
SCCWRP is participating in a scientific expert panel that is helping to guide the Los Angeles region in long-term planning to dramatically scale up wastewater recycling practices while minimizing potential … More
Effort launched to identify suitable streams in north O.C. for capturing dry-weather flows
SCCWRP and its partners have begun working to identify which streams in northern Orange County could be suitable locations for diverting dry-weather flows to boost water recycling and improve water … More
Bight program modernizing computational methods for bioassessment scoring tools
The Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program has launched an effort to modernize the computational methods used to score the biological health of organisms living in and on the sediment … More