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Bight ’23 wraps up shellfish field sampling The Southern California Bight 2023 Regional Monitoring Program has completed field sampling for an ongoing investigation into how multiple types of contaminants accumulate in shellfish – a highly leveraged effort ... More |
Lab intercalibration completed to ensure high-quality, comparable data for Bight ’23 microplastics assessment The Trash and Microplastics study element of the Southern California Bight 2023 Regional Monitoring Program has successfully completed a laboratory intercalibration exercise to ensure participating laboratories can generate high-quality, comparable ... More |
Bight ’18 synthesis report for Sediment Quality studies updated with new SQO scores The Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program has updated its final assessment report summarizing how sediment contamination in Southern California has impacted the overall health of coastal marine ecosystems ... More |
Bight ’23 study assessing effects of ocean acidification on shell-forming organisms The Ocean Acidification study element of the Southern California Bight 2023 Regional Monitoring Program has launched a two-year effort to track how ocean acidification is adversely affecting shell-forming organisms in ... More |
Bight ’23 kicking off regional assessment of eelgrass bed health The Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program is kicking off a first-of-its-kind regional monitoring survey this September to evaluate the health of the region’s eelgrass beds based on their ecological ... More |
Bight program modernizing computational methods for bioassessment scoring tools The Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program has launched an effort to modernize the computational methods used to score the biological health of organisms living in and on the sediment ... More |
Bight ’23 shellfish study to benefit 4 study elements The 2023 cycle of the Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program has launched a year-long investigation to comprehensively track the accumulation of multiple different types of contaminants in shellfish – ... More |
Field sampling completed for Bight ’23 Sediment Quality element The Southern California Bight 2023 Regional Monitoring Program has completed field sampling for its signature Sediment Quality study element – a coordinated, three-month field effort that lays the foundation for ... More |
Bight ’23 field sampling underway to evaluate sediment quality The 2023 cycle of the Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program has kicked off field sampling of coastal seafloor sediment to evaluate the chemical, toxicological and biological health of Southern ... More |
Bight ’23 using newly standardized methods to analyze microplastics in sediment and shellfish The Trash and Microplastics study element of the Southern California Bight 2023 Regional Monitoring Program is leveraging newly standardized methods for collecting and measuring microplastic particles to conduct a regional ... More |
Study shows more than 77% of Southern California’s coastal stream kilometers contains trash The Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program has published the findings of a regional survey of trash in aquatic environments that concluded that 77% of Southern California’s 4,600 miles ... More |
Bight ’23 to feature 7 study elements probing coastal ocean health The Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program has solidified plans for seven study elements for its upcoming 2023 cycle – the largest number of elements to date – reflecting the ... More |
Study probes utility of virus method for fecal detection The Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program has completed a study that found that an alternative, virus-based method for tracking fecal contamination can be used as an effective complement ... More |
Bight ’23 to be scoped out during September 22 kickoff meeting at SCCWRP Participants of the Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program will begin making decisions about which study elements the program will tackle and which management questions the program will answer during ... More |
Bight ’18 study shows how bioanalytical screening can be used to monitor sediment contamination SCCWRP and its partners have completed a three-year effort to demonstrate how bioanalytical screening technology can be incorporated into the Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program to help track ... More |
Bight ’18 publishes synthesis report summarizing Sediment Quality studies The Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program (Bight ’18) has published its final assessment report summarizing how sediment contamination in Southern California has impacted the overall health of coastal ... More |
Sediment quality study examines how to protect coastal estuaries from eutrophication SCCWRP and its partners have completed a two-year sediment quality study examining how to protect bottom-dwelling aquatic life in coastal estuaries from excess organic matter triggered by eutrophication. The study, ... More |
Bight partnerships to expand understanding of acidification The Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program is partnering with three other West Coast marine monitoring groups this summer to produce the most comprehensive picture to date of how ocean ... More |
Bight ’18 study documents domoic acid across coastal ocean seafloor The Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program has completed a study examining how a toxin produced by a certain ubiquitous type of marine algae can settle and stick to ... More |
Non-targeted analysis used to detect bioactive contaminants in Bight ’18 sediment SCCWRP and its partners have completed screening sediment samples collected during the Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program for contaminants using non-targeted chemical analysis. The work, completed in December, ... More |
Bight ’18 finds local sportfish within ‘safe to eat’ thresholds Contamination levels in the tissues of commonly caught Southern California sportfish were found to be within “safe to eat” thresholds for consumption at least once a week during the Southern ... More |
Two Bight ’18 Sediment Quality reports nearing completion The Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program is preparing to publish the third volume of its Sediment Quality assessment reports by the end of the year, with a fourth ... More |
Second Bight ’18 Sediment Quality assessment report published The Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program has published the second of its Sediment Quality assessment reports, and two others are undergoing internal review later this summer. The Bight ... More |
Initial round of bioanalytical screening completed for Bight ’18 sediment, fish samples SCCWRP and its partners have completed screening Southern California Bight sediment and fish tissue samples for chemical contaminants that activate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor – the first of three bioanalytical ... More |
First Bight ’18 Sediment Quality assessment report published, three others nearing completion The Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program has published the first of its Sediment Quality assessment reports, with three others expected to undergo internal review this summer. The Bight ... More |
Bight ’18 Sediment Quality element nearing completion on assessment reports The Sediment Quality element of the Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program is scheduled to publish the first of its assessment reports this spring, with four other report volumes ... More |
Review of data underway for Bight ’18 Sediment Quality element The Bight ’18 Sediment Quality element is on track to finalize and publish its final assessment reports by spring 2020. The Sediment Quality element of the Southern California Bight 2018 ... More |
Bight ’18 Microbiology element preparing to kick off field sampling for coliphage method evaluation study Participants of the Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program’s Microbiology element will initiate field sampling in August for a study evaluating the relevance and reliability of using coliphage viruses ... More |
Bight ’18 sediment, fish samples to be screened using bioanalytical assays SCCWRP and its partners in June will begin screening sediment and sportfish tissue samples collected from across the Southern California Bight for bioactive chemical contaminants using bioanalytical screening assays. More ... More |
Bight ’18 HABs study preparing to track freshwater cyanotoxins in coastal zone The Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program’s Harmful Algal Blooms element has tentatively greenlighted a study that will explore whether freshwater cyanotoxins are being transported in the coastal zone. ... More |
Bight ’18 pilot study to assess how acidification is impacting marine calcifiers The Ocean Acidification element of the Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program has launched a pilot study examining how ocean acidification is impacting sensitive marine calcifiers in Southern California’s ... More |
Field sampling completed for Bight ’18 Sediment Quality element Participants of the Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program’s Sediment Quality element have finished collecting seafloor sediment samples from about 400 sites across the Southern California Bight. The field ... More |
Bight ’18 HABs element developing method to track impacts of cyanotoxins in coastal waters The Harmful Algal Blooms element of the Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program has begun working to develop an assessment method for tracking the ecological impacts of freshwater cyanotoxins ... More |
Bight ’18 Microbiology element initiates lab training for coliphage-based water-quality monitoring method Participants of the Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program’s Microbiology element have begun laboratory training for a study that will evaluate the relevance and reliability of using coliphage viruses ... More |
SMC conducting trash surveys in watersheds to support Bight ’18 The Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition (SMC) has launched trash sampling surveys in wadeable streams across coastal Southern California to support the Southern California Bight 2018 Regional Monitoring Program’s efforts ... More |
First large-scale CEC screening study targeting marine environment incorporated into Bight ’18 Bioanalytical cell screening assays and non-targeted chemical analysis are being used for the first time to screen for CECs across the Southern California Bight as part of an expanded Bight ... More |
Bight ’18 kickoff brings together dozens of agencies A collaboration involving dozens of environmental organizations will examine how human activities have affected the ecological health of Southern California’s coastal waters during the sixth cycle of the Southern California ... More |
New Bight ’18 tools to improve data management workflows SCCWRP has developed a series of new tools and automations for the 2018 cycle of the Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program designed to streamline and enhance data management. Known ... More |
Effort underway to clean up, standardize historical Bight monitoring data SCCWRP and its member agencies have initiated a project to clean up and standardize decades of data they’ve collected from across the Southern California Bight during routine environmental monitoring. The ... More |
Bight ’13 CIA element publishes integrated summary reports The integrated findings of the Contaminant Impact Assessment (CIA) element of Bight ’13 have been published in a final assessment report and an accompanying, 12-page executive summary intended for a ... More |
Bight ’13 CIA element publishes integrated summary reports The integrated findings of the Contaminant Impact Assessment (CIA) element of Bight ’13 have been published in a final assessment report and an accompanying, 12-page executive summary intended for a ... More |
Bight ’13 regional monitoring wrapping up major elements Three of the five elements of the Southern California Bight 2013 Regional Monitoring Program are winding down as a series of final assessment reports is published over the next few weeks. ... More |