Publications

Mazor, R.D., K. Irving, D.J. Gillett, J.S. Brown, A. Santana. 2025. Improving biointegrity in engineered channels. Technical Report 1437. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Mazor, R.D. 2025. Bioassessment Survey of the Stormwater Monitoring Coalition: Workplan for Years 2021 through 2025 Version 5.0 (2025). Technical Report 1174. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Fassman-Beck, E., E. Tiernan, D. Xin, A.C. Mehinto, V. McGruer, S. Sauers. 2025. Development of a Method to Measure the Impacts of Street Sweeping on Wet Weather Runoff Water Quality. Technical Report 1411. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Fassman-Beck, E., K.C. Schiff. 2024. SMC Non-Structural BMP Workshop Report - March 1, 2022. Technical Report 1405. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Wong, C.S., S. Sauers, W. Lao. 2024. Stormwater Monitoring Coalition Laboratory Guidance Document (Fourth Edition). Technical Report 1379. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Fassman-Beck, E., K.C. Schiff, R. Butler. 2023. Development of the SMC Regional BMP Monitoring Network 2020-2023. Technical Report 1352. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

McLaughlin, K., R.D. Mazor, K.C. Schiff, L.M. Thornton Hampton. 2022. Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program: Volume IX. Trash and Marine Debris. Technical Report 1263. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Stein, E.D., J.S. Brown, A. Canney, M. Mirkhanian, H. Lowman, K. O'Connor, R. Clark. 2022. Prioritizing Stream Protection, Restoration and Management Actions Using Landscape Modeling and Spatial Analysis. Technical Report 1246. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Hale, T., S.L. Moore, P. Kauhanen, L. Flores, S.B. Weisberg. 2021. California Trash Monitoring Methods and Assessments Playbook. Technical Report 1189. San Francisco Estuary Institute. San Francisco, CA.

Hale, T., S.L. Moore, P. Kauhanen, L. Flores, S.B. Weisberg. 2021. Field Testing Report for the Statewide Trash Monitoring Methods Project. Technical Report 1190. San Francisco Estuary Institute. San Francisco, CA.

Taniguchi-Quan, K.T., R.D. Mazor, J.S. Brown, R. Guill, M. Yeager, A. Suter, J. Rudolph, W. Isham, S. Johnson. 2020. 2018-2019 Report on the SMC Stream Survey. Technical Report 1127. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Ashby, K., A. Davis, G. Gearheart, J. Harwood, T. Hogue, D. Kleis, S. Luce, P. Ode, D. Senn. 2020. Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition Five-Year Research Agenda 2019-2024. Technical Report 1126. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Beck, M., R.D. Mazor, S. Theroux, K.C. Schiff. 2019. The Stream Quality Index: A multi-indicator tool for enhancing environmental management. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators DOI:10.1016/j.indic.2019.100004.

Beck, M., R.D. Mazor, S. Theroux, K.C. Schiff. 2019. The Stream Quality Index: A Multi-Indicator Tool for Enhancing Environmental Management Communication. Technical Report 1080. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Afrooz, A.R.M.N., K.C. Schiff. 2018. Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition Unified Approach to Stormwater Monitoring. Technical Report 1059. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Mazor, R.D., M. Beck, J.S. Brown. 2018. 2017 Report on the Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition Regional Stream Survey. Technical Report 1029. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Stein, E.D., R.D. Mazor, A. Sengupta, K. McCune, B. Bledsoe, S. Adams, S. Eberhart, M. Pyne, P. Ode, A. Rehn. 2017. Development of Recommended Flow Targets to Support Biological Integrity Based on Regional Flow-ecology Relationships for Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Southern California Streams. Technical Report 974. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Mazor, R.D., E.D. Stein. 2017. 2015 Report on the Stormwater Monitoring Coalition Regional Stream Survey. Technical Report 963. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Schiff, K.C., D.J. Greenstein. 2016. Stormwater Monitoring Coalition Toxicity Testing Laboratory Guidance Document. Technical Report 956. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority. Costa Mesa, CA.

Schiff, K.C., L.L. Tiefenthaler, S.M. Bay, D.J. Greenstein. 2016. Effects of Rainfall Intensity and Duration on the First Flush from Parking Lots. Water 8:320.

Schiff, K.C., J.S. Brown, S. Trump, D. Hardin. 2016. Near-Coastal Water Quality at Reference Sites Following Storm Events. Marine Pollution Bulletin 103:294-300.

Howard, M.D.A., B. Fetscher, C. Nagoda. 2016. The Prevalence of Cyanotoxins in Southern California Waterbodies Based on Screen Assessments and Regional Monitoring Programs. Technical Report 930. State Water Resources Control Board Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program. Sacramento, CA.

Bay, S.M., R. Hoenicke, K.A. Maruya. 2015. Water Resources: Contaminants of Emerging Concern. Urban Coast 5:35-40.

Mazor, R.D. 2015. Bioassessment of Perennial Streams in Southern California: A Report on the First Five Years of the Stormwater Monitoring Coalition's Regional Stream Survey. Technical Report 844. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority. Costa Mesa, CA.

Mazor, R.D. 2015. Bioassessment Survey of the Stormwater Monitoring Coalition: Workplan for Years 2015 through 2019 Version 1.0. Technical Report 849. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority. Costa Mesa, CA.

Stein, E.D. 2015. Habitat Highlights: Regional Stream Monitoring in Southern California. Urban Coast 5:128-129.

Von Bitner, T., E.D. Stein, L. Protopapadakis, K. Thorsen. 2015. Water Resources: Trash and Debris. Urban Coast 5:29-34.

Schiff, K.C., E.D. Stein, S. Aminzadeh, A. Boehm, G. Hildebrand, L. Honeybourne, I. Nasseri, P. Ode, S. Taylor, D. Senn, J. Smith, C. Sommers, E. Strecker. 2014. Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition 2014 Research Agenda. Technical Report 828. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority. Costa Mesa, CA.

Stein, E.D. 2013. Using regional stormwater monitoring programs to provide reference data for wetland mitigation performance evaluation. National Wetlands Newsletter 35:13-14.

Mazor, R.D., D.J. Gillett, K.C. Schiff, K. Ritter, E.D. Stein. 2011. Ecological Condition of Watersheds in Coastal Southern California: Progress Report of the Stormwater Monitoring Coalition's Stream Monitoring Program First Year (2009). Technical Report 639. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Gossett, R., K.C. Schiff. 2010. Stormwater Monitoring Coalition Laboratory Guidance Document (Third Edition). Technical Report 615. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Stormwater Monitoring Coalition Bioassessment Working Group. 2007. Regional monitoring of Southern California's coastal watersheds. Technical Report 539. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Gosset, R., K.C. Schiff. 2007. Stormwater Monitoring Coalition laboratory guidance document (Second Edition). Technical Report 521. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA.

Coleman, D., C. MacRae, E.D. Stein. 2005. Effect of increases in peak flows and imperviousness on the morphology of southern California streams. Technical Report 450. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Westminster, CA.

Model Monitoring Technical Committee. 2004. Model monitoring program for municipal separate storm sewer systems in southern California. Technical Report 419. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Westminster, CA.

Noble, R.T., M.K. Leecaster, C.D. McGee, S.B. Weisberg, K. Ritter. 2004. Comparison of bacterial indicator analysis methods in stormwater-affected coastal waters. Water Research 38:1183-1188.

Gossett, R., D. Renfrew, K.C. Schiff. 2004. Stormwater monitoring coalition laboratory guidance document. Technical Report 420. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Westminster, CA.

Cooper, L., K.C. Schiff, R. Smith. 2004. Standardized data exchange formats for the Stormwater Monitoring Coalition. Technical Report 421. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Westminster, CA.

Cooper, L., K.C. Schiff, R. Smith. 2004. Stormwater database structure (v1.0 zip file). Technical Report 421.Z. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Westminster, CA.

Griffith, J.F., S.B. Weisberg, C.D. McGee. 2003. Evaluation of microbial source tracking methods using mixed fecal sources in aqueous test samples. Journal of Water and Health 1.4:141-151.

Stewart, J.R., R.D. Ellender, J.A. Gooch, S. Jiang, S.P. Myoda, S.B. Weisberg. 2003. Recommendations for microbial source tracking: lessons from a methods comparison study. Journal of Water and Health 1.4:225-231.

Bernstein, B., K.C. Schiff. 2002. Stormwater research needs in Southern California. Technical Report 358. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Westminster, CA.