Many seminars at SCCWRP are video-recorded and posted to this page. To view a video recording of a past seminar, click on the presentation titles below. Recorded seminars date back to 2008. To view SCCWRP’s current seminar series, go to the Seminars at SCCWRP page.
| Speaker | Title | Date |
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| Lisa Levenson Crystal Cove Conservancy | Making waves with the next generation of STEM leaders: Crystal Cove Conservancy’s K-college environmental science and engineering programs | Friday, November 1, 2024 |
| Dr. Dan Angelescu Fluidion | Microbiological water safety in urban settings: Lessons learnt from the 2024 Olympics monitoring campaign | Friday, October 4, 2024 |
| Dr. John Heidelberg University of Southern California | The Wrigley Institute: Who we are and where we’re going | Friday, September 13, 2024 |
| Michael Borst U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Monitoring Stormwater Control Measures | Friday, June 17, 2022 |
| Dr. Robert G. Traver Villanova Center For Resilient Water Systems | Green Stormwater Infrastructure – Connecting Research to Practice – Lessons Learned from Long Term Monitoring | Friday, September 17, 2021 |
| Dr. Heiko Schoenfuss St. Cloud State University | Assessing the load reduction of endocrine active compounds after disinfection upgrades at two 250 MGD treatment plants | Friday, March 13, 2020 |
| Dr. Julia Lowndes University of California, Santa Barbara | R and teamwork for better science in less time | Friday, February 7, 2020 |
| Dr. Hefa Cheng Peking University Dr. Yuanan Hu China University of Geosciences | Agricultural practices in China
| Friday, January 24, 2020 |
| Dr. Jason Thompson OceanKind | Innovation in the Ocean: A New Funder's Perspective | Friday, December 6, 2019 |
| Rowan Schmidt Earth Economics | Earth Economics; Economic Analysis, Funding Mechanisms, and Policy for Nature-based Solutions | Friday, November 1, 2019 |
| Dr. Trent Biggs San Diego State University | Watershed Science at San Diego State University | Friday, October 4, 2019 |
| Dr. William Arnold University of Minnesota | Stuck in the Muck: Our Household Chemical Footprint Revealed in Sediment Cores | Friday, September 27, 2019 |
| Dr. Christina Frieder University of California, Irvine | Aquaculture in the era of climate change: Utilizing biological modeling and physiological studies to benefit industry, climate and the urban ocean | Friday, June 14, 2019 |
| Dr. Mark Merrifield Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Building interdisciplinary partnerships to advance climate change science and test adaptation solutions | Friday, May 3, 2019 |
| Dr. Karen Gehrts California Department of Water Resources | The interagency ecological program: A long term approach to collaborative applied science in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta | Friday, March 29, 2019 |
| Garfield Kwan Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Ionocytes: A bioindicator of environmental stress? | Friday, March 1, 2019 |
| Dr. Alan Heyvaert Desert Research Institute | Research and monitoring for environmental management at Lake Tahoe | Friday, February 8, 2019 |
| Robert Hemphill Sunshine Soldiers | The great energy transformation | Friday, January 11, 2019 |
| Bryan Costa National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Partnership opportunities between SCCWRP and NOAA NCCOS: Past, present and future | Friday, November 30, 2018 |
| Dr. Timu Gallien University of California, Los Angeles | Coastal flood prediction: An intriguing story of beaches, backshores and bathtubs | Friday, November 2, 2018 |
| Dr. James Hagy Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Advancing practical science supporting coastal management | Friday, October 12, 2018 |
| Dr. Andrew Thompson Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | The CalCOFI Program: Monitoring and management of the marine ecosystem since 1949 | Friday, September 28, 2018 |
| Dr. Charles Wong University of Winnipeg | Occurrence, fate, and ramifications of polar chemicals of emerging concern in the aquatic environment: Looking for drugs (and pesticides, and degradates) in all the wrong places | Friday, August 31, 2018 |
| Dr. Chelsea Rochman Center for Watershed Sciences, University of Toronto | Effects of microplastics in freshwater and marine ecosystems | Monday, May 14, 2018 |
| Dr. Erika Holland California State University, Long Beach | Developing toxicology-based tools to assess pollutant risks | Friday, April 6, 2018 |
| Dr. Tina Treude University of California, Los Angeles | When the ocean holds its breath: Biogeochemical processes in oxygen minimum zones | Friday, February 2, 2018 |
| Dr. Jay Lund Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis | Modernizing the technical basis for water management in California" | Friday, January 12, 2018 |
| Jason Giffen, Eileen Maher, Paula Sylvia and Karen Holman Port of San Diego Jennifer Mattox and Maren Farnum California State Lands Commission | Strategic planning inside and outside of San Diego Bay: A focus on partnerships and projects | Friday, December 8, 2017 |
| Dr. Edward Kolodziej University of Washington | Analysis of urban water quality with high resolution mass spectrometry | Friday, November 3, 2017 |
| Jonathan Parfey Climate Resolve | Climate Adaptation in California: Collaboratives, State Policy, Funding | Friday, October 13, 2017 |
| Daniel Siegel and Dr. Hua Wei Esri Cassandra Pallai Chesapeake Conservancy | High resolution land cover and AI modeling | Friday, September 22, 2017 |
| Dr. Andy Allen J. Craig Venter Institute | Influence of Nutrients and Temperature on the Distribution and Diversity Pelagic Microbes in the Southern California Current Ecosystem | Friday, May 5, 2017 |
| Dr. Daniele Bianchi University of California, Los Angeles | Impacts of technological progress and climate change on the long-term trajectory of the global fishery | Friday, April 14, 2017 |
| Dr. John Stark Washington State University Stormwater Research Center | Toxicity of urban stormwater to aquatic life and what we can do about it | Friday, March 10, 2017 |
| Dr. Clarissa Anderson Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System | Ecosystem science in the SCCOOS domain | Friday, February 10, 2017 |
| Dr. Jonathan Warrick U.S. Geological Survey | Coastal changes resulting from dam removal – Elwha River, Washington | Friday, January 13, 2017 |
| Andy Salveson Carollo Engineers | Advanced analytical monitoring for direct potable reuse systems | Friday, November 18, 2016 |
| Dr. Jason Conder Geosyntec Consultants | Expanding passive sampling technology to the commercial environmental community: Examples, lessons learned, and the path forward | Friday, October 7, 2016 |
| Dr. Ted Grantham University of California, Berkeley | The good, the bad, and the dirty: Models for assessing hydrologic change in the nation's rivers | Friday, September 16, 2016 |
| Greg Murphy The Maritime Alliance | The Maritime Alliance: Communicating the value of the blue economy and creating a national blue voice | Friday, June 10, 2016 |
| Dr. Andrew B. Gray University of California, Riverside | Non-stationary suspended sediment dynamics: Water quality implications, monitoring and impact assessment challenges | Friday, May 13, 2016 |
| Allison Kupsco University of California, Riverside | Using adverse outcome pathways to evaluate the impacts of hypersaline water on selenium embyrotoxicity to fish | Friday, April 8, 2016 |
| Dr. Sara Shen Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Effects of ocean acidification on fish eggs and larvae in laboratory and natural experiments | Friday, March 11, 2016 |
| Dr. Ashley Parks EPA Office of Research and Development | Fate and effects of engineered nanomaterials in the marine environment | Friday, February 5, 2016 |
| Dr. Grace Chang Integral Consulting Inc. | High-resolution biogeochemical monitoring using optical technology | Friday, January 15, 2016 |
| Dr. David Volz University of California, Riverside | High-content screening of chemical toxicity in zebrafish embryos | Friday, December 11, 2015 |
| Dr. Andrew Mehring Scripps Institution of Oceanography | The ecology of natural stormwater treatment systems | Friday, November 13, 2015 |
| Dr. Trent Biggs San Diego State University Watershed Science Institute | Watershed processes in urban environments: Case studies from Southern California and the U.S.-Mexico border region | Friday, October 16, 2015 |
| Dr. Adam Martiny University of California, Irvine | Observing and understanding Southern California coastal ocean changes | Friday, September 25, 2015 |
| Dr. Alexis Pasulka California Institute of Technology | Unraveling complex microbial interactions and exploring their influence on marine ecosystem structure and function | Friday, July 17, 2015 |
| Chris Caldow Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary | Mapping species and habitats | Friday, June 12, 2015 |
| Dr. Mike Denison University of California, Davis | Translation of toxicological mechanisms into bioassays for chemical detection and site characterization: Dioxin-like chemicals and endocrine disruptors | Friday, May 1, 2015 |
| Dr. Clay Reber University of California, Berkeley | CellScope: Mobile phone-based, field-portable microscopy | Friday, March 13, 2015 |
| Dr. Neil Saintilan Macquarie University, Australia | Climate change and the management of freshwater and saline wetlands in Australia | Friday, February 13, 2015 |
| Dr. Joe Carlin California State University, Fullerton | Modern sedimentation in coastal environments: Integrating the sediment record and sediment processes to understand how coastal systems respond to natural and anthropogenic events | Friday, January 9, 2015 |
| Dr. Robert Miller University of California, Santa Barbara | Demonstrating an effective marine biodiversity observation network in the Santa Barbara Channel | December 12, 2014 |
| Dr. Ellen Hanak Public Policy Institute of California | Paying for water in California | November 21, 2014 |
| Dr. Toby Garfield Environmental Research Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center | Integrated ecosystem assessment | October 3, 2014 |
| Dr. Bradley Moore Center for Oceans and Human Health, Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Marine bacterial synthesis of polybrominated organic compounds relevant to environmental toxicology | September 12, 2014 |
| Dr. Susan Kidwell University of Chicago | Using benthic grunge to evaluate biotic change in marine systems: Dead shells do tell tales | September 9, 2014 |
| Dr. Meenakshi Arora University of Melbourne | Watershed resource management in Australia: Quantity and quality perspectives | August 22, 2014 |
| Dr. Sophie Parker & Lily Verdone The Nature Conservancy | The Nature Conservancy: Organizational overview & outline of engagements in the south coast | June 13, 2014 |
| Dr. Lisa Levin Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Hypoxia, hypercapnia, and other influences on oxygen minimum zone benthos | May 2, 2014 |
| Dr. Dave Smith WateReuse California | Status and future of water recycling in California | April 11, 2014 |
| Michael Drennan Black and Veatch Corporation Dr. Huub Cox City of Los Angeles Watershed Protection Division | Watershed management planning under the new MS4 permit | February 14, 2014 |
| Dr. Sergey Nuzhdin University of Southern California | Geographical genomics in mosquitos and legumes (No video available) | December 13, 2013 |
| Dr. Rosalee Hellberg Chapman University | Climate change effects on seafood safety | June 14, 2013 |
| Dr. Marc Verhougstraete University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Microbial responses to land, environment, and hydrologic factors | May 31, 2013 |
| Dr. Kristen Davis University of California Irvine | PNWTOX - A biophysical model of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Pacific Northwest | May 10, 2013 |
| Dr. Carrie Kappel National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis | Incorporating ecosystem tipping points into marine management | March 15, 2013 |
| Dr. Denny Takahashi-Kelso and Dr. George Leonard Ocean Conservancy | What we put in and what we take out of the ocean: Current and emerging issues in marine conservation | February 8, 2013 |
| Dr. Ben Houlton University of California Davis | California's nitrogen cycle: Potential couplings between land and the sea | January 18, 2013 |
| Dr. Andrew Whitehead University of California, Davis | Using Genomics to Diagnose Impacts of Environmental Pollutants at Physiological and Evolutionary Timescales | December 14, 2012 |
| Dr. Eric Hoek University of California, Los Angeles | November 2, 2012 |
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| Dr. Megan Rippy Scripps Institution of Oceanography | October 5, 2012 |
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| Dr. Rebecca Lewison San Diego State University | Seabirds as Indicators of Ecosystem Processes | September 14, 2012 |
| Dr. Christine Whitcraft California State University, Long Beach | May 11, 2012 |
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| Charlie Frye ESRI | April 13, 2012 |
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| Brian Huberty United States Fish & Wildlife Service | March 16, 2012 |
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| Dr. Bill Cooper University of California, Irvine | Recent advances in the environmental photochemical fate of pharmaceuticals in natural waters | February 10, 2012 |
| Dr. Joe Griffitt University of Southern Mississippi | Toxicogenomic effects of nanoparticulate silver on small fish: Using molecular tools to investigate an emerging issue in aquatic toxicology | January 20, 2012 |
| Dr. Jason Keller Chapman University | Factors affecting methane production efficiency in wetlands | December 9, 2011 |
| Dr. Ashley Booth University of California, Los Angeles | November 4, 2011 |
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| Dr. Terri Hogue and Dr. Stephanie Pincetl University of California, Los Angeles | Investigation of water consumption patterns and influencing factors in the City of Los Angeles | October 14, 2011 |
| Dr. Fiorenza Micheli Stanford University | The kelp forest observatory of Hopkins Marine Station: Monitoring biophysical interactions in a near-shore kelp ecosystem | October 7, 2011 |
| Jenny Lane University of California, Santa Cruz | Anthropogenic Nutrient Loading and Water Quality | May 6, 2011 |
| Brad Warren Sustainable Fisheries Partnership | Death by Dissolution: Where Ocean Acidification Meets Local Water Quality | April 8, 2011 |
| Matthew Armsby Center for Ocean Solutions | March 11, 2011 |
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| Karen Worcester Central Coast Regional Water Quality Board | Central Coastal Ambient Monitoring Program Data Tools and Management | February 4, 2011 |
| Dr. Dirk Rosen Marine Applied Research & Exploration | December 10, 2010 |
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| Dr. Michael Rhodes Life Technologies, Inc. | Opportunities for Use of Next Generation Sequencing in Environmental Applications | November 12, 2010 |
| Dr. Pamela Padgett United States Forest Service | Dry Deposition of Nitrogenous Air Pollutants and Ecosystem Responses | October 8, 2010 |
| Dr. Lars Tomanek California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo | Proteomics as a Tool for Assessing Biological Effects of Environmental Stress and Pollution | September 24, 2010 |
| Dr. Chris Vulpe University of California, Berkeley | June 4, 2010 |
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| Dr. Chris Lowe California State University, Long Beach | May 14, 2010 |
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| Dr. Craig Jones Sea Engineering, Inc. | Sediment Transport Investigations at Contaminated Sediment Sites | April 9, 2010 |
| Dr. Lee Ferguson Duke University | Engineered Nanomaterials in the Environment: Environmental Behavior and Risk to Aquatic Life | March 29, 2010 |
| Dr. Glen MacDonald UCLA Institute of the Environment | March 5, 2010 |
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| Dr. Kevin Chipman University of Birmingham, United Kingdom | Application of Transcriptomics to Assessment of Pollutant Impact in the European Flounder | February 19, 2010 |
| Dr. Dirk Steinke Canadian Center for DNA Barcoding Dr. Bernard Sweeney Stroud Center for Water Research Dr. Erik Pilgrim USEPA Office of Research and Development Molecular Ecology Branch | February 17, 2010 |
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| Ashmita Sengupta University of Massachusetts, Amherst | January 29, 2010 |
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| Dr. Janet Barco UCLA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Water Resources under Stress: Climate Variability, Land Use Change, and Atmospheric Deposition | January 22, 2010 |
| David Gillett College of William and Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences | How does Habitat Degradation Affect Shallow Water Estuarine Food Webs? Changes in Benthic Productivity and the Consequences for Other Trophic Levels | December 4, 2009 |
| Dr. Peter W. Swarzenski United States Geological Survey | Examining Coastal Groundwater Exchange using Geochemical Tracers, Seepage Meters, and Electrical Resistivity | November 6, 2009 |
| Dr. Bill O’Reilly and Dr. Eric Terrill Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Use of Ocean Observing Systems for Making Beach Water Quality Assessments: Two Case Studies | October 9, 2009 |
| Dr. Phil Roberts Georgia Institute of Technology | September 18, 2009 |
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| Dr. John Helly University of California, San Diego, Supercomputer Center and Scripps Institute of Oceanography | May 8, 2009 |
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| Dr. Susan Klosterhaus San Francisco Estuary Institute | Emerging Problems? Identifying Contaminants of Concern in the San Francisco Bay | April 3, 2009 |
| Dr.Tom Stewart Mercury Biosciences | Monoclonal Antibodies: A Cheaper, Faster Approach to Environmental Monitoring | February 13, 2009 |
| Dr. Perihan Kurt-Karakus Center for Atmospheric Research Experiments, Environment Canada | Chiral Current-use Herbicides in Great Lakes and Ontario Surface Waters | January 9, 2009 |
| Margaret Caldwell Stanford University | Center for Ocean Solutions | December 5, 2008 |
| Michael Fry American Bird Conservancy | Getting the Birds to Collect Data on Environmental Contaminants | November 14, 2008 |
| Sergio Sañudo-Wilhelmy University of Southern California | Trace Metal and B-vitamin Biogeochemistry: from Climate Change to Harmful Algal Blooms | October 17, 2008 |
| Michael Weber Resources Law Group | The California Coastal and Marine Initiative: The Next Five Years | September 5, 2008 |
| Dr. Robert Roseen The University of New Hampshire Stormwater Center | Low Impact Development Technologies for Stormwater Management | June 6, 2008 |
| Dr.Cheri Recchia California Ocean Science Trust | Monitoring Marine Protected Areas Under California's Marine Life Protection Act | May 2, 2008 |
| Dr. William Cooper University of California, Irvine | Advances in the Free Radical Chemistry of Emerging Contaminants of Concern | March 28, 2008 |
| Dr. Giancarlo Cicchetti USEPA Atlantic Ecology Division | Sediment Profile Imaging as a Tool to Assist Coastal Management | March 7, 2008 |
| Dr. Chris Scholin Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) | Applications of the Environmental Sample Processor: Remote Detection of Marine Bacteria, Harmful Algae, Domoic Acid and Invertebrates in Monterey Bay | February 8, 2008 |
| Dr. Adina Paytan University of California, Santa Cruz | Aerosol Impacts on Marine Phytoplankton | January 18, 2008 |
| Dr. Susan Norton US Environmental Protection Agency | Applied Eco-epidemiology: Analyzing the Causes of Biological Impairment in Streams Using the USEPA's Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision Information System (CADDIS) | December 7, 2007 |
| Dr. Kelly Goodwin National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Developing Molecular Tools and Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Water Quality | November 9, 2007 |
| Dr. Vincent Resh University of California, Berkeley | The Dammed Mekong: Evaluating the Effects of the World's Tallest Dam on Downstream Countries | October 19, 2007 |
| Adina Abeles Stanford University | Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS): Striving to Infuse Marine Science into the Policy Process | September 7, 2007 |
| Al Wanger California Coastal Commission | Nonpoint Source Programs at the California Coastal Commission | June 1, 2007 |
| Dr. Kirsten Gilardi University of California, Davis | Marine Mammal Health Investigations at the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center | May 4, 2007 |
| Jessica Reiner State University of New York, Albany | The Polycyclic Musks: Sources, Pathways, and Environmental Occurrence | April 3, 2007 |
| Dr. Richard B. Thompson University of Maryland School of Medicine | Measuring Oceanic Free Zinc and Copper with a Fluorescence-based Biosensor | December 1, 2006 |
| Mark Rentz California Department of Pesticide Regulation | DPR and the Role of Science: Addressing California's Demographic and Pest Management Challenges in the 21st Century | November 10, 2006 |
| Ty Carlisle Shifting Baselines | What is Pristine? | October 6, 2006 |
| Dr. Paul Bissett Florida Environmental Research Institute | The Development of Airborne Optical Remote Sensing for Coastal Ocean Observatories | September 15, 2006 |
| Dr. Robert Sheath California State University, San Marcos | California Stream Algae: Our Current State of Knowledge and Plans for Use in Water Quality Analysis | June 2, 2006 |
| Dr. Ray Wilson California State University, Long Beach | A Genetic Perspective on the Spread of Invasive Estuarine Fishes--Another Form of Anthropogenic Pollution? | May 5, 2006 |
| Dr. Lester J. McKee San Francisco Estuary Institute | Sources Pathways and Loadings of Sediments and Trace Contaminants in the Bay Area: Regional, Watershed, and Storm-sewershed Scales | April 7, 2006 |
| Dr. Maddalena Bearzi Ocean Conservation Society | Marine Mammals of Santa Monica Bay, California | March 3, 2006 |
| Nancy Miller California State Water Resources Control Board | California Integrated Water Quality System (CIWQS) | February 3, 2006 |
| Dr. Kevin Armbrust Office of the State Chemist - Mississippi | Occurrence, Environmental Fate and Exposure Assessment of Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors in Aquatic Environments | January 13, 2006 |
| Krista Sloniowski and Cori Farrar US Army Corps of Engineers | Methods for Connecting Watershed Related Activities for a More Efficient System-wide Approach to Watershed Management | December 2, 2005 |
| Dr. Jack Q. Word Weston Solutions | Refinement of TIE Identification and Interpretation Procedures for a Specific Class of Pharmaceuticals | November 11, 2005 |
| Dr. Jennifer Jay University of California, Los Angeles | Sediments as a Reservoir for Fecal Indicator Bacteria at Santa Monica Bay Beaches | October 14, 2005 |
| Dr. Jerry Diamond Tetratech, Inc. | Tiered Aquatic Life Uses: The Concept and How It May Apply to Southern California Streams | September 16, 2005 |
| Dr. Wendy Rose University of California, Davis | Using an Integrated Approach to Evaluate Apoptosis as a Biomarker Response in Estuarine Fishes | May 6, 2005 |
| Dr. Jonathan Warrick US Geological Survey | River Plumes in the Santa Barbara Channel: Dispersal of Mud, Nutrients and Other Stuff | April 8, 2005 |
| Dr. Chuck Trees University of California, San Diego | Monitoring Water Transparency of San Pedro and San Diego Bays using Aircraft Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data | March 4, 2005 |
| Dr. Marc J-F Suter Chemistry Department, Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Switzerland | Where Have All the Fish Gone? Causes for Declining Fish Catches in Swiss Rivers | February 28, 2005 |
| Dr. Donald J. Reish California State University, Long Beach | Los Angeles - Long Beach Harbors: Where It All Began in the USA | February 11, 2005 |
| Dr. Stefan Wuertz University of California, Davis | Hollow-fibre Ultrafiltration and rReal-time PCR for the Quantitative Detection of Chiral Pathogens in Natural Waters | January 14, 2005 |
| Dr. Mi-Hyun Park University of California, Los Angeles | Land Use Identification with Bayesian Networks | December 3, 2004 |
| Casey Moore WET Labs, Inc. | Recent Developments in Sensor Technology | November 12, 2004 |
| Dr. D. Bart Chadwick, Mr. Gunther Rosen and Dr. Ignacio Rivera-Duarte SPAWAR | Fates and Effects of Copper in San Diego Bay | October 29, 2004 |
| Dr. David Turbow Touro University International | Evaluation of Recreational Health Risk in Coastal Waters Based on Enterococcus Densities and Bathing Patterns | October 8, 2004 |
| Dr. Chris Lowe California State University, Long Beach | Understanding the Movement Patterns of California Nearshore Gamefishes and Its Application for Management | May 7, 2004 |
| Dr. Brian Palenik University of California, San Diego | Picophytoplankton in Southern California Coastal Waters | April 2, 2004 |
| Dr. Karen Stocks University of California, San Diego, Supercomputer Center | Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) | March 12, 2004 |
| Dr. Grady S. Hanrahan California State University, Los Angeles | Solutions from the Field: an Environmental Analytical Approach | February 6, 2004 |
| Dr. Joseph Furnish Regional Aquatic Ecologist, USDA- Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Regional Office, Vallejo, CA | Development of the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Regional Bioassessment Program: Results from Models Based on Multimetric Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) and Multivariate RIVPACS Methods | January 16, 2004 |
| Dr. Kevin Kelly California State University, Long Beach | Stress, growth, and endocrine disruption in marine fishes | November 7, 2003 |
| Pat Haddon Water Environment Research Foundation | Watershed research at WERF | October 10, 2003 |
| Dr. Dave Caron University of Southern California | New technologies for assessing harmful algal blooms | September 5, 2003 |
| Deborah Johnston California Department of Fish & Game | Power Plants + PM10 = Cooling Towers | June 6, 2003 |
| Ronald M. Thom Ph.D. Marine Resources Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Nearshore and estuarine ecosystem restoration: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest | May 2, 2003 |
| Lou Zeidberg University of California, Los Angeles | Early life history of the California Market Squid, Loligo opalescens | April 4, 2003 |
| Stephen V. Smith Ph.D. Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada (CICESE) | Global distribution of nutrient runoff to the ocean | March 14, 2003 |
| Risa Cohen University of California, Los Angeles | Physiological responses of a bloom-forming macroalga to conditions associated with eutrophication: implications for use as a bioindicator of freshwater and nutrient influx to estuarine areas | February 7, 2003 |
| Geoff Siemering San Francisco Estuary Institute | Aquatic pesticide monitoring in California: Overview, plans, and challenges | January 10, 2003 |
| Fred Schauffler, Ph.D. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Evaluating the impacts of cap construction - results from EPA's pilot in-situ capping project on the Palos Verdes Shelf | December 6, 2002 |
| Barry Hibbs, Ph.D. Dept. of Geological Sciences California State University, Los Angeles | Sources of selenium in San Diego Creek Watershed, Orange County, California | November 8, 2002 |
| Lihini Alluwihare, Ph.D. Scripps Institute of Oceanography | The impact of organic nutrients on phytoplankton species composition in coastal waters | October 4, 2002 |
| Karleen A. Boyle, Ph.D. Dept. of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution University of California, Los Angeles | Evaluating the impacts of heavy metal and nitrogen deposition resulting from aircraft overflights of coastal wetlands - combining field monitoring and laboratory microcosm approaches | September 6, 2002 |
| John Ugoretz California Fish and Game | Update on Marine Life Protection Act | May 3, 2002 |
| Dr. Marylynn Yates University of California, Riverside | Assessment of risk associated with body-contact Recreation | April 5, 2002 |
| Dr. Jan Svejovsky and Dr. Larry Dysher Ocean Imaging | Remote sensing of the coastal zone: Applications of aerial and satellite imaging for resource monitoring and mapping | March 1, 2002 |
| Dr. Michael Baker University of California, San Diego | Adrenal and sex steroid evolution: environmental implications | February 1, 2002 |
| Doris Vidal University of California, Berkeley | Mercury tolerance in aquatic oligochaetes: The case of Sparganophilus pearsei | December 7, 2001 |
| Dr. Antonia Wijte California State University, Long Beach | Optimizing the timing of Arundo donax control | November 2, 2001 |
| Dr. Carlos Robles California State University, Los Angeles | Coastal research projects of the CEA-CREST program | October 12, 2001 |
| Nancy Wright California Fish and Game | Marine mapping user group: A collaborative effort to map the nearshore coastal region | September 14, 2001 |
| Dr. Don Duke University of California, Los Angeles | Industrial storm runoff and the pollution prevention paradigm | July 27, 2001 |
| Andy Lipkis Treepeople | Converting the urban drainage system into a healthy urban watershed | June 1, 2001 |
| Dr. Judith Kildow University of Southern California | California and the ocean economy | May 11, 2001 |
| Dr. Daniel Schlenk University of California, Riverside | Exposure assessment of estrogens and beta-blockers in sewage effluent and outfall sites of North America | April 6, 2001 |
| Dr. Mike Horn California State University, Fullerton | Right or wrong turns? Foraging responses of terns to changes in ocean climate and prey populations | March 2, 2001 |
| Dr. Krista Kamer University of California, Los Angeles/ Southern California Coastal Water Research Project | The effects of nitrogen, salinity, and herbivory on the green alga Enteromorpha intestinalis in a southern California estuary | February 9, 2001 |
| Dr. Martha Sutula Tulane University | Evaluating the effect of hydrological restoration nutrient transport from the Southern Everglades to Florida Bay | January 5, 2001 |
| Dr. Richard Wright Dept. of Geography San Diego State University | Environmental Vulnerability assessment of the Tijuana River watershed | November 10, 2000 |
| Steve Fleischli Executive Director Santa Monica Baykeeper | Stopping polluting one at a time: The role of the Santa Monica Baykeeper | October 6, 2000 |
| Dr. Lisa Levin Marine Life Research Group Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Oxygen minimum zone influence on macrobenthic community structure and function | September 15, 2000 |
| Dr. Larry Allen California State University, Northridge | Warships, eelgrass, and fish: The San Diego Bay connection, 1994-1999 | June 2, 2000 |
| Dr. Eric Reichard U.S. Geological Survey | USGS ground water studies of the coastal Los Angeles Basin | May 5, 2000 |
| Chad Nelsen Surfrider Foundation | Surfrider's beachscape: A community-based coastal mapping program | April 7, 2000 |
| Dr. Lee-Lueng Fu Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Oceanography from satellite radar altimetry: Results from the TOPEX/POSEIDON Mission | March 8, 2000 |
| Walter McLeod Clean Beaches Council | Blue wave campaign: Sustainable beaches through water quality | January 28, 2000 |
| Steve Aceti, J.D. California Coastal Coalition | Beach replenishment in southern California | December 3, 1999 |
| Dr. Bob King EPA Office of Water | EPA's New STORET Data management system | October 29, 1999 |
| Dr. John Helly University of California, San Diego Supercomputer Center | Visualization of Ecological and Environmental Data | October 1, 1999 |
| Dr. Tom Grieb Tetra Tech | South San Francisco Bay Copper and Nickel TMDL | September 10, 1999 |
| Joan Hartmann Southern California Wetlands Clearinghouse | Wetlands recovery in southern California | May 7, 1999 |
| Naiming Wang | Dynamic modelling of wetland water quality functions | May 3, 1999 |
| Drew Ackerman | Two case studies: a new flow routing technique for a multi-boundried grid and a water quality study in northern Kentucky | April 23, 1999 |
| Dr. Rick Gersberg San Diego State University | GIS characterization of metal loading in the Tijuana River watershed | March 12, 1999 |
| Dr. Jeffrey Frithsen US Environmental Protection Agency National Center for Environmental Assessment | Integrating data in heterogeneous, distributed environments: The need for a common environmental resource directory | February 5, 1999 |
| Gary Robbins Pat Brennen Orange County Register | Why Science reporting is so bad | December 4, 1998 |
| Dr. Patrick McLaren GeoSea Consulting (Canada) | The Use of Sediment Trend Analysis (STA) in Marine and Coastal Planning | November 6, 1998 |
| Dr. Tony Michaels University of Southern California, Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies | Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and iron: processes, patterns and elemental mass balances in the Atlantic Ocean. | October 9, 1998 |
| Dr. Warner Chabot Center for Marine Conservation | Relative role of scientists and citizen groups in water quality monitoring and policy | September 25, 1998 |
| Dr. Dale Kiefer University of Southern California | Remote sensing and coastal management of water quality and water use | May 8, 1998 |
| Dr. Sam Luoma U.S. Geological Survey | Using long-term bioaccumulation studies to understand and monitor exposure of benthos to trace metals | April 3, 1998 |
| Dr. John Lindsay National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle | The potential application of laser line scan system for benthic habitat assessment | March 13, 1998 |
| Dr. John Brock National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Surveying beaches with aircraft LIDAR | February 13, 1998 |
| Dr. Rachel Noble University of Southern California Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies | Fates of viruses in the marine environment | January 9, 1998 |
| Dr. Jack Anderson Columbia Analytical Services | Potential use of a human cell response (P450-RGS) in environmental monitoring program | December 5, 1997 |
| Dr. Keith Stolzenbach University of California, Los Angeles | Integrated modeling of the southern California coastal ocean | November 7, 1997 |
| Dr. Holly Price Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary | Marine and watershed quality and monitoring issues for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary | September 12, 1997 |
| David Lapota US Naval Research & Development, San Diego | Biological Assessment of effluents and marine sediments with a rapid toxicity test (QwikLite) | August 1, 1997 |
| Dr. Mia Tegner Scripps Institute of Oceanography | Kelp Forests, ocean climate, and anthropogenic impacts | June 20, 1997 |
| Dr. Steven Murray CSU-Fullerton | California's rocky seashores: Identifying the balance between long-term conservation of living resources and short term pressures for human use | June 6, 1997 |
| Dr. Penny Sue Perkins Department of Medicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography | Parasitism of Pacific sanddabs by copepod eye parasites | May 9, 1997 |
| Dr. John Cubit NOAA | Ecological fundamentals in natural resources damage assessment | April 4, 1997 |
| Dennis Kelley Orange Coast College | Marine mammals in Southern California: Pollution and monitoring possibilities | March 7, 1997 |
| Dr. Geraldine Knatz Port of Long Beach | Environmental issues associated with the Port of Long Beach | February 7, 1997 |
| Dr. Peter Kozelka UC Santa Cruz | Chemical speciation | January 9, 1997 |