SCCWRP and its partners have completed a year-long study examining how to assess the vulnerability of marine calcifying communities in the Pacific Northwest’s Salish Sea to ocean acidification (OA), including … More
Articles by: genus
Climate change’s impacts on sensitive aquatic species modeled for L.A. region
SCCWRP and its partners have completed a study examining how changing rainfall patterns and temperatures in the Los Angeles region stemming from climate change will impact sensitive aquatic species and … More
Lab study to simulate marine organisms’ exposure to multiple stressors triggered by climate change
SCCWRP and its partners are launching a one-year laboratory study this summer that will simulate how marine organisms are impacted by ocean acidification and multiple other environmental changes triggered by … More
EPA grants final approval to framework for assessing sediment’s impacts on humans
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has signed off on a standardized sediment assessment framework intended to better protect the health of humans who consume seafood caught in California’s enclosed bays … More
Film-based passive sampling for tracking cyanotoxins to be evaluated at L.A.-area lakes
SCCWRP and its partners have identified at least two Los Angeles-area lakes where a class of cyanotoxins known as microcystins appears to be present, paving the way for researchers to … More
Effort to model health risks to Inner Cabrillo beachgoers wraps up
SCCWRP and its partners have completed a three-year effort to identify the sources of persistent fecal contamination at Inner Cabrillo Beach in Los Angeles County and to model health risks … More
Sampling completed for study documenting antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Participants of a SCCWRP-led study examining whether viable antibiotic-resistant bacteria – and the genes that code for antibiotic resistance – are being discharged into the environment following the wastewater treatment … More
Bight ’18 sediment, fish samples to be screened using bioanalytical assays
SCCWRP and its partners in June will begin screening sediment and sportfish tissue samples collected from across the Southern California Bight for bioactive chemical contaminants using bioanalytical screening assays. More … More
Bight ’18 HABs study preparing to track freshwater cyanotoxins in coastal zone
The Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program’s Harmful Algal Blooms element has tentatively greenlighted a study that will explore whether freshwater cyanotoxins are being transported in the coastal zone. … More
Bight ’18 pilot study to assess how acidification is impacting marine calcifiers
The Ocean Acidification element of the Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program has launched a pilot study examining how ocean acidification is impacting sensitive marine calcifiers in Southern California’s … More