Table of Contents
Director’s Message – Tumultuous Times
REGIONAL ASSESSMENT
Ecosystem response to regulatory and management actions: The southern California experience in long-term monitoring ABSTRACT
Eric D. Stein and Donald B. Cadien
Effluent discharges to the Southern California Bight from industrial facilities in 2005 ABSTRACT
Greg S. Lyon and Eric D. Stein
Benthic macrofaunal community condition in the Southern California Bight, 1994-2003 ABSTRACT
J. Ananda Ranasinghe, Kenneth C. Schiff, David E. Montagne, Tim K. Mikel, Donald B. Cadien, Ronald G. Velarde and Cheryl A. Brantley
Assessing coastal benthic macrofauna community condition using best professional judgement: Developing consensus across North America and Europe ABSTRACT
Heliana Teixeira, Ángel Borja, Stephen B. Weisberg, J. Ananda Ranasinghe, Donald B. Cadien, Daniel M. Dauer, Jean-Claude Dauvin, Steven Degraer, Robert J. Diaz, Antoine Grémare, Ioannis Karakassis, Roberto J. Llansó, Lawrence L. Lovell, João C. Marques, David E. Montagne, Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Rutger Rosenberg, Rafael Sardá, Linda C. Schaffner and Ronald G. Velarde
Bioassessment tools in novel habitats: An evaluation of indices and sampling methods in low-gradient streams in California ABSTRACT
Raphael D. Mazor, Kenneth C. Schiff, Kerry J. Ritter, Andy Rehn and Peter Ode
WETLAND ECOLOGY
The importance of benthic nutrient flux in supporting eutrophication in an intermittently tidal coastal lagoon ABSTRACT
Martha Sutula, Krista Kamer and Jaye Cable
Suspended particle dynamics in a southern California urban estuary during the dry season ABSTRACT
Drew Ackerman and Nikolay P. Nezlin
Demonstration of an integrated watershed assessment using a three-tiered assessment framework ABSTRACT
Christopher W. Solek, Eric D. Stein and Martha A. Sutula
Patterns in vegetation communities of estuarine wetlands in two California regions: Insights from a probabilistic survey ABSTRACT
A. Elizabeth Fetscher, Martha A. Sutula, John C. Callaway, V. Thomas Parker, Michael Vasey, Joshua N. Collins and Walter G. Nelson
Historical ecology as a tool for assessing landscape change and wetland restoration priorities ABSTRACT
Eric D. Stein, Shawna Dark, Travis Longcore, Robin Grossinger, Nicholas Hall and Michael Beland
STORMWATER IMPACTS AND APPROACHES
Impacts of stormwater runoff in the Southern California Bight: Relationships among plume constituents ABSTRACT
Kristen M. Reifel, Scott C. Johnson, Paul M. DiGiacomo, Michael J. Mengel, Nikolay P. Nezlin, Jonathan A. Warrick and Burton H. Jones
Continuous in situ characterization of particulate sizes in urban stormwater: Method testing and refinement ABSTRACT
Jeff Brown, Drew Ackerman and Eric D. Stein
Evaluating stormwater sampling approaches using a dynamic watershed model ABSTRACT
Drew Ackerman, Eric D. Stein and Kerry J. Ritter
BEACH WATER QUALITY
Comparison of rapid QPCR-based and culture-based methods for enumeration of Enterococcus sp. and Escherichia coli in recreational waters ABSTRACT
Rachel T. Noble, A. Denene Blackwood, John F. Griffith, Charles D. McGee and Stephen B. Weisberg
Evaluation of rapid methods and novel indicators for assessing microbiological beach water quality ABSTRACT
John F. Griffith, Yiping Cao, Charles D. McGee and Stephen B. Weisberg
Rapid QPCR-based assay for fecal Bacteroides spp. as a tool for assessing fecal contamination in recreational waters ABSTRACT
Reagan R. Converse, A. Denene Blackwood, Marek Kirs, Rachel T. Noble and John F. Griffith
Fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) enumeration in beach sand: A comparison study of FIB extraction methods in medium to coarse sands ABSTRACT
Alexandria B. Boehm, John Griffith, Charles McGee, Thomas A. Edge, Helena M. Solo-Gabriele, Richard Whitman, Yiping Cao, Martin Getrich, Jennifer A. Jay, Donna Ferguson, Kelly D. Goodwin, Christine M. Lee, Melissa Madison and Stephen B. Weisberg
CONSTITUENTS OF EMERGING CONCERN
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in pinnipeds stranded along the southern California coast ABSTRACT
Xiang-Zhou Meng, Mary Ellen Blasius, Richard W. Gossett and Keith A. Maruya
Analysis, occurrence, and toxic potential of pyrethroids and fipronil in sediments from the Ballona Creek estuary ABSTRACT
Wenjian Lao, David Tsukada, Darrin J. Greenstein, Steven M. Bay and Keith A. Maruya
Determination of 17α-ethynylestradiol, carbamazepine, diazepam, simvastatin, and oxybenzone in fish livers ABSTRACT
Jeong-Wook Kwon, Kevin L. Armbrust, Doris E. Vidal-Dorsch, Steven M. Bay and Kang Xia