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SOURCES
Effluent discharges to the Southern California Bight from small municipal wastewater treatment facilities in 2005 ABSTRACT
Greg S. Lyon and Eric D. Stein
Comparison of stormwater pollutant loading by land use type ABSTRACT
Eric D. Stein, Liesl L. Tiefenthaler and Kenneth C. Schiff
FATES
Experimental verification of a model describing solid phase microextraction (SPME) of freely dissolved organic pollutants in sediment porewater ABSTRACT
Ze-Yu Yang, Keith A. Maruya, Darrin Greenstein, David Tsukada and Eddy Y. Zeng
A passive sampler based on solid phase microextraction (SPME) for quantifying hydrophobic organic contaminants in sediment porewater ABSTRACT
Keith A. Maruya, Eddy Y. Zeng, David Tsukada and Steven M. Bay
Exchange of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons between the atmosphere, water, and sediment in southern California coastal embayments ABSTRACT
Lisa D. Sabin, Keith A. Maruya, Wenjian Lao, Dario W. Diehl, David Tsukada, Keith D. Stolzenbach and Kenneth C. Schiff
EFFECTS
Analysis of endocrine disruption in southern California coastal fish using an aquatic multi-species microarray ABSTRACT
Michael E. Baker, Barbara Ruggeri, James Sprague, Colleen Eckhardt, Jennifer Lapira, Ivan Wick, Laura Soverchia, Massimo Ubaldi, Alberta Maria Polzonetti-Magni, Doris E. Vidal-Dorsch, Steven M. Bay, Joseph R. Gully, Jesus A. Reyes, Kevin M. Kelley, Daniel Schlenk, Ellen C. Breen, Roman
Šášik and Gary Hardiman
Comparison of national and regional sediment quality guidelines for classifying sediment toxicity in California ABSTRACT
Steven M. Bay, Kerry J. Ritter, Doris E. Vidal-Dorsch and L. Jay Field
Development and evaluation of sediment quality guidelines based on benthic macrofauna responses ABSTRACT
Kerry J. Ritter, Steven M. Bay, Robert W. Smith, Doris E. Vidal-Dorsch and L. Jay Field
Calibration and evaluation of five indicators of benthic community condition in two California bay and estuary habitats ABSTRACT
J. Ananda Ranasinghe, Stephen B. Weisberg, Robert W. Smith, David E. Montagne, Bruce Thompson, James M. Oakden, David D. Huff, Donald B. Cadien, Ronald G. Velarde and Kerry J. Ritter
Comparability of biological assessments derived from predictive models and multimetric indices of increasing geographic scope ABSTRACT
Peter R. Ode, Charles P. Hawkins and Raphael D. Mazor
MICROBIOLOGY
Evaluation of optical brightener photodecay characteristics for the detection of human fecal contamination ABSTRACT
Yiping Cao, John F. Griffith and Stephen B. Weisberg
Origins and mechanisms of watershed and land use based sources of fecal indicator bacteria in urban stormwater ABSTRACT
Liesl L. Tiefenthaler, Eric D. Stein and Kenneth C. Schiff
Fecal indicator bacteria levels during dry weather in southern California reference streams ABSTRACT
Liesl L. Tiefenthaler, Eric D. Stein and Greg S. Lyon
OCEAN ASSESSMENTS
A framework for interpreting sediment quality triad data ABSTRACT
Steven M. Bay and Stephen B. Weisberg
Sediment quality in California bays and estuaries ABSTRACT
Arthur M. Barnett, Steven M. Bay, Kerry J. Ritter, Shelly L. Moore and Stephen B. Weisberg
Habitat related benthic macrofaunal assemblages of bays and estuaries of the western United States ABSTRACT
J. Ananda Ranasinghe, Kathy I. Welch, Peter N. Slattery, David E. Montagne, David D. Huff, Henry Lee, II, Jeffrey L. Hyland, Bruce Thompson, Stephen B. Weisberg, James M. Oakden, Donald B. Cadien and Ronald G. Velarde
Bathymetric responses in functional structure of southern California demersal fish communities to Pacific Decadal Oscillation regimes and an El Niño ABSTRACT
M. James Allen
WATERSHED ASSESSMENTS
Dissolved oxygen dynamics in a eutrophic estuary, Upper Newport Bay, California ABSTRACT
Nikolay P. Nezlin, Krista Kamer, Jim Hyde and Eric D. Stein
Validation of a Wetlands Rapid Assessment Method: Application of the EPA’s Level 1-2-3 Framework for method testing and refinement ABSTRACT
Eric D. Stein, A. Elizabeth Fetscher, Ross P. Clark, Adam Wiskind, J. Letitia Grenier, Martha Sutula, Joshua N. Collins and Cristina Grosso
Sediment contaminant chemistry and toxicity of freshwater urban wetlands ABSTRACT
Jeffrey S. Brown, Martha Sutula, Chris Stransky and John Rudolph
Stormwater plume detection by MODIS imagery in the southern California coastal ocean ABSTRACT
Nikolay P. Nezlin, Paul M. DiGiacomo, Dario W. Diehl, Burton H. Jones, Scott C. Johnson, Michael J. Mengel, Kristen M. Reifel, Jonathan A. Warrick and Menghua Wang