Table of Contents
Director’s Message
Stephen B. Weisberg
HISTORY OF SCCWRP
The Southern California Coastal Water Research Project – 30 years of environmental research in the Southern California Bight ABSTRACT
Alan J. Mearns, M. James Allen and Michael D. Moore
SOURCES
Characteristics of effluents from large municipal wastewater treatment facilities in 1997 ABSTRACT
Valerie E. Raco-Rands and Andrea Steinberger
Assessment of efficient sampling designs for urban stormwater monitoring ABSTRACT
Molly K. Leecaster, Kenneth C. Schiff and Liesl L. Tiefenthaler
Temporal variability patterns of stormwater concentrations in urban stormwater runoff ABSTRACT
Liesl L. Tiefenthaler, Kenneth C. Schiff and Molly K. Leecaster
Anthropogenic versus natural mass emissions from an urban watershed ABSTRACT
Kenneth C .Schiff and Liesl L.Tiefenthaler
Characterization of stormwater toxicants from an urban watershed to freshwater and marine organisms ABSTRACT
Kenneth C. Schiff, Steven M. Bay and Christopher Stransky
Tracking sources of bacterial contamination in stormwater discharges from Mission Bay, California ABSTRACT
Kenneth C. Schiff and Patrick Kinney
Temporal and spatial distributions of contaminants in sediments of Santa Monica Bay, California ABSTRACT
Eddy Y. Zeng, Steven M. Bay, Kim Tran, and Clark Alexander
Composition and distribution of beach debris in Orange County, California ABSTRACT
Shelly L. Moore, Dominic Gregorio, Martin Carreon, Stephen B. Weisberg and Molly K. Leecaster
A comparison of plastic and plankton in the North Pacific central gyre ABSTRACT
Charles J. Moore, Shelly L. Moore, Molly K. Leecaster and Stephen B. Weisberg
Concentrations of methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE) in inputs and receiving waters of Southern California ABSTRACT
Jeffrey S. Brown, Steven M. Bay, Darrin J. Greenstein and William R. Ray
EFFECTS
Toxicity of methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE) to California marine life ABSTRACT
Steven M. Bay, Jeffrey S. Brown, Darrin J. Greenstein and Andrew W. Jirik
Toxicity assessment of sediment cores from Santa Monica Bay ABSTRACT
Darrin J. Greenstein, Steven M. Bay, Andrew W. Jirik, Jeffrey S. Brown and Clark Alexander
Age and growth of white croaker (Genyonemus lineatus) off Palos Verdes and Dana Point, California ABSTRACT
Shelly L. Moore
Reproductive biology of the barred sand bass (Paralabrax nebulifer) ABSTRACT
Cheryl Baca-Hovey and Larry D. Cooper
Relative abundance and health of demersal fish species on the southern California shelf in 1994 ABSTRACT
M. James Allen, Janet K. Stull, Shelly L. Moore and Chi-Li Tang
Relative abundance and health of megabenthic invertebrate species on the Southern California Shelf in 1994 ABSTRACT
Janet K. Stull, M. James Allen, Shelly L. Moore and Chi-Li Tang
INTEGRATION AND ASSESSMENT
Inventory of ocean monitoring in the Southern California Bight ABSTRACT
Kenneth C. Schiff, Stephen B. Weisberg and Valerie E. Raco-Rands
A regional survey of the microbiological water quality along the shoreline of the Southern California Bight ABSTRACT
Rachel T. Noble, John H. Dorsey, Molly K. Leecaster, Victoria Orozco-Borbon, Daniel Reid, Kenneth C. Schiff and Stephen B. Weisberg
Enterovirus detection by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction from the coastal waters of southern California ABSTRACT
Rachel T. Noble and Jed A. Fuhrman
Enterovirus detection in storm drain-impacted waters along the shoreline of the Southern California Bight ABSTRACT
Rachel T. Noble
Relationships among bacterial indicators during a regional survey of microbiological water quality along the shoreline of the Southern California Bight ABSTRACT
Rachel T. Noble, Molly K. Leecaster, Douglas F. Moore, Kenneth C. Schiff and Stephen B. Weisberg
Retrospective evaluation of shoreline water quality along Santa Monica Bay beaches ABSTRACT
Kenneth C. Schiff, Jessica Morton and Stephen B. Weisberg
Historical trends in nearshore croaker (family Sciaenidae) populations in Southern California from 1977 through 1998 ABSTRACT
Kevin T. Herbinson, M. James Allen and Shelly L. Moore
Spatial analysis of grain size in Santa Monica Bay ABSTRACT
Molly K. Leecaster
MONITORING METHODS DEVELOPMENT
Effect of temporal sampling frequency on shoreline microbiology assessments ABSTRACT
Molly K. Leecaster and Stephen B. Weisberg
Molecular markers in urban stormwater runoff ABSTRACT
Kim Tran, Diana L. Young and Eddy Y. Zeng
Comparison of sediment grain size analysis among two methods and three instruments using environmental samples ABSTRACT
Ann Dalkey and Molly K. Leecaster
Interlaboratory comparison of sediment toxicity tests with the amphipod Eohaustorius estuarius ABSTRACT
Andrew W. Jirik, Steven M. Bay and Stan Asato
ADDITIONAL INFORMATiON
Commissioners and CTAG Members
Staff
Memorial to Willard Bascom