SCCWRP and its partners have launched an effort to assess the vulnerability of marine calcifying communities in the Pacific Northwest’s Salish Sea to ocean acidification, including whether land-based pollution sources … More
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Set of models built for establishing nutrient loading targets for Santa Margarita River
SCCWRP and its partners have finished assembling an integrated toolkit of mechanistic computer models and empirical statistical models that water-quality managers can use to optimally protect biological integrity and human … More
Study to explore optimal methods for monitoring cyanotoxins
SCCWRP and its partners will seek to develop more robust field methods for monitoring cyanotoxins in aquatic environments during a new study kicking off this summer in the Los Angeles … More
Science tools for proposed biointegrity-biostimulatory policy to be released this summer
SCCWRP and its partners will begin soliciting public comments this summer on a series of new scientific tools and synthesis reports that will form the technical backbone for a proposed … More
EPA Pacific Northwest stream tool being tested in Southwest
SCCWRP and its partners have launched a study to investigate whether a stream management tool that can rapidly distinguish intermittent streams from ephemeral streams in the Pacific Northwest is feasible … More
Algae-based stream scoring tool to be finalized this fall
An assessment tool that will score the ecological health of California wadeable streams by analyzing algal communities is scheduled to be finalized and published as early as this fall. The … More
New interactive mapping app helps visualize chances of improving stream condition
SCCWRP and its partners have developed a web-based interactive mapping program to help stream managers visualize where in the San Gabriel River watershed they are more vs. less likely to … More
Causal assessment tools being tested in pair of case studies
SCCWRP and its partners have initiated a pair of case studies to demonstrate a set of new causal assessment tools designed to rapidly narrow potential causes of degraded ecological condition … More
Effort launched to adapt ephemeral stream bioassessment tools for oil spill monitoring
SCCWRP and its partners have kicked off a study examining whether bioassessment tools being developed to assess the health of ephemeral streams also can be used to assess ecological damage … More
Researchers using Bight data to evaluate accuracy of ocean acidification model
Researchers working to develop a West Coast computer model that predicts how land-based sources of nutrients influence ocean acidification in nearshore coastal waters have begun using field data collected from … More