Table of Contents
Director’s Message
Stephen B. Weisberg
SOURCES
Characteristics of effluents from large municipal wastewater treatment facilities between 1998 and 2000 ABSTRACT
Andrea Steinberger and Kenneth C. Schiff
Characteristics of effluents from small municipal wastewater treatment facilities in 2000 ABSTRACT
Andrea Steinberger and Kenneth C. Schiff
Characteristics of effluents from non-power industrial facilities in 2000 ABSTRACT
Andrea Steinberger and Kenneth C. Schiff
Characteristics of dredged material disposal to the Southern California Bight between 1991 and 1997 ABSTRACT
Andrea Steinberger, Eric D. Stein, and Kenneth C. Schiff
Modeling stormwater mass emissions to the Southern California Bight ABSTRACT
Drew Ackerman and Kenneth C. Schiff
A comparison of neustonic plastic and zooplankton abundance in southern California’s coastal waters ABSTRACT
Charles J. Moore, Shelly L. Moore, Stephen B. Weisberg, Gwen L. Lattin, and Ann F. Zellers
FATES
Evaluating HSPF in an arid, urbanized watershed ABSTRACT
Drew Ackerman, Kenneth C. Schiff, and Stephen B. Weisberg
A characterization of water quality in the Los Angeles River ABSTRACT
Drew Ackerman, Kenneth C. Schiff, Heather Trim, and Michael Mullin
Organophosphorous pesticides in stormwater runoff from southern California ABSTRACT
Kenneth C. Schiff and Martha Sutula
Significance of sediment resuspension and tidal exchange to reduction of polychlorinated biphenyl mass in San Diego Bay, California ABSTRACT
Jian Peng, Eddy Y. Zeng, Teh-Lung Ku, and Shangde Luo
In-situ measurements of polychlorinated biphenyls in the waters of San Diego Bay ABSTRACT
Eddy Y. Zeng, Jian Peng, David Tsukada, and Teh-Lung Ku
The relative importance of sediment and water column supplies of nutrients to the growth and tissue nutrient content of the green macroalga Enteromorpha intestinalis across an estuarine resource gradient ABSTRACT
Krista Kamer, Peggy Fong, Rachel L. Kennison, and Kenneth C. Schiff
Rates of inorganic nitrogen uptake by the estuarine green macroalgae Enteromorpha intestinalis and Ulva expansa ABSTRACT
Krista Kamer, Rachel L. Kennison, and Peggy Fong
Nutrient limitation of the macroalga, Enteromorpha intestinalis, across a range of water column nutrients and initial tissue nutrient status ABSTRACT
Krista Kamer, Rachel L. Kennison, Peggy Fong, and Kenneth C. Schiff
Equal loads of nutrients administered to macroalgae via pulses of differing frequency and concentration affect growth and tissue nutrients of Enteromorpha intestinalis and Ulva expansa ABSTRACT
Krista Kamer, Rachel L. Kennison, Peggy Fong, and Kenneth C. Schiff
Inactivation of indicator bacteria from various sources of fecal contamination in seawater and freshwater ABSTRACT
Rachel T. Noble, Ioannice M. Lee, and Kenneth C. Schiff
Evaluation of PCB bioaccumulation patterns in white sea urchins (Lytechinus pictus) using multiple approaches ABSTRACT
James A. Noblet, Eddy Y. Zeng, and Kerry J. Ritter
EFFECTS
Relationship between rainfall and beach bacterial concentrations on Santa Monica Bay beaches ABSTRACT
Drew Ackerman and Stephen B. Weisberg
Adaptation to mercury contamination in an aquatic oligochaete worm ABSTRACT
Doris E. Vidal
Toxicity of parking lot runoff after simulated rainfall ABSTRACT
Darrin J. Greenstein, Liesl L. Tiefenthaler, and Steven M. Bay
Effects of rainfall intensity and duration on first flush of stormwater pollutants ABSTRACT
Liesl L. Tiefenthaler and Kenneth C. Schiff
Effect of antecedent dry periods on the accumulation of potential pollutants on parking lot surfaces using simulated rainfall ABSTRACT
Liesl L. Tiefenthaler, Kenneth C. Schiff, Steven M. Bay, and Darrin J. Greenstein
Stormwater toxicity in Chollas Creek and San Diego Bay, California ABSTRACT
Kenneth C. Schiff, Steven M. Bay, and Dario W. Diehl
Impacts of stormwater discharges on the nearshore benthic environment of Santa Monica Bay ABSTRACT
Kenneth C. Schiff and Steven M. Bay
The prevalence of non-indigenous species in southern California embayments and their effects on benthic macroinvertebrate communities ABSTRACT
Tim K. Mikel, Ronald G. Velarde, J. Ananda Ranasinghe, Stephen B. Weisberg, David E. Montagne, Donald B. Cadien, Robert W. Smith, and Ann Dalkey
Invaders in the open sea: Establishment of the New Zealand snail Philine auriformis in southern California coastal waters ABSTRACT
Donald B. Cadien and J. Ananda Ranasinghe
INTEGRATION
Southern California’s marine monitoring system ten years after the national research council evaluation ABSTRACT
Brock Bernstein and Stephen B. Weisberg
Storm effects on regional beach water quality along the southern California shoreline ABSTRACT
Rachel T. Noble, Stephen B. Weisberg, Molly K. Leecaster, Charles D. McGee, John H. Dorsey, Patricia Vainik, and Victoria Orozco-Borbón
Remote-sensed analysis of the influence of 1997-1998 El Niño on the California pelagic ecosystem ABSTRACT
Nikolay P. Nezlin, William M. Hamner, and Louis D. Zeidberg
Comparison of total coliform, fecal coliform, and enterococcus bacterial indicator response for ocean recreational water quality testing ABSTRACT
Rachel T. Noble, Douglas F. Moore, Molly K. Leecaster, Charles D. McGee, and Stephen B. Weisberg
The stormwater monitoring coalition: Stormwater research needs in southern California ABSTRACT
Brock Bernstein and Kenneth C. Schiff
First occurrence of blackspot wrasse, Decodon melasma Gomon 1974 (pisces: labridae), in California ABSTRACT
M. James Allen and Ami K. Groce
First occurrence of speckletail flounder, Engyophrys sanctilaurentii Jordan & Bollman 1890 (Pisces: Bothidae), in California ABSTRACT
M. James Allen and Ami K. Groce
Addition of blacklip dragonet, Synchiropus atrilabiatus Garman 1899 (Pisces: Callionymidae) to the California ichthyofauna ABSTRACT
Ami K. Groce, Richard H. Rosenblatt, and M. James Allen
Influence of geologic setting on slope wetland classification and hydrodynamics ABSTRACT
Eric D. Stein, Michelle Mattson, A. Elizabeth Fetscher, and Kenneth J. Halama
METHODS AND DEVELOPMENT
Theoretical considerations on the use of solid phase microextraction with complex environmental samples ABSTRACT
Eddy Y. Zeng and James A. Noblet
Comparison of bacterial indicator analysis methods in stormwater-affected coastal waters ABSTRACT
Rachel T. Noble, Molly K. Leecaster, Charles D. McGee, and Stephen B. Weisberg
Making performance-based chemistry work: How we created comparable data among laboratories as part of a southern California marine regional assessment ABSTRACT
Richard Gossett, Rodger Baird, Kimberly Christensen, and Stephen B. Weisberg
Potential application of gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry in the measurement of coeluting isomers ABSTRACT
Eddy Y. Zeng, C.C. Chou, and Charlie Yu
Quantifying taxonomic richness in terms of level of rarity assessed by a fixed count ABSTRACT
Kerry J. Ritter, David S. Birkes, and N. Scott Urquhart
PAH exposure and DNA damage in flatfish from Southern California bays and harbors, and the Channel Islands ABSTRACT
Jeffrey S. Brown and Scott A. Steinert