Table of Contents
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FRESHWATER
Channel evolution model of response to urbanization in southern California ABSTRACT
Robert J. Hawley, Brian P. Bledsoe, Eric D. Stein and Brian E. Haines
Framework and tool for rapid assessment of stream susceptibility to hydromodification ABSTRACT
Brian P. Bledsoe, Eric D. Stein, Robert J. Hawley and Derek Booth
Metals and bacteria partitioning to various size particles in Ballona Creek stormwater runoff ABSTRACT
Jeffrey S. Brown, Eric D. Stein, Drew Ackerman, John H. Dorsey, Jessica Lyon and Patrick M. Carter
Dynamics of pre- and post-fire pollutant loads in an urban fringe watershed ABSTRACT
Megan P. Burke, Terri S. Hogue, Janet Barco, Christopher Wessel, Alicia Y. Kinoshita and Eric D. Stein
ESTUARIES
A pilot study of air-water exchange of organochlorine compounds at three coastal estuaries in southern California ABSTRACT
Lisa D. Sabin, Keith Maruya, Wenjian Lao, Dario Diehl, David Tsukada, Keith D. Stolzenbach and Kenneth Schiff
Determining the health of California’s coastal salt marshes using rapid assessment ABSTRACT
Christopher W. Solek, Martha A. Sutula, Eric D. Stein, Chad Roberts, Ross Clark, Kevin O’Connor and Kerry J. Ritter
Calibration and validation of the AZTI’s Marine Biotic Index (AMBI) for southern California marine bays ABSTRACT
Heliana Teixeira, Stephen B. Weisberg, Angel Borja, J. Ananda Ranasinghe, Donald B. Cadien, Ronald G. Velarde, Lawrence L. Lovell, Dean Pasko, Charles A. Phillips, David E. Montagne, Kerry J. Ritter, Fuensanta Salas and João C. Marques
Selection of methods for assessing sediment toxicity in California bays and estuaries ABSTRACT
Darrin J. Greenstein and Steven M. Bay
Relationship of sediment toxicity to benthic community impacts and water body management decisions ABSTRACT
Steven M. Bay, Joseph R. Gully, Darrin J. Greenstein, Philip J. Markle and J. Ananda Ranasinghe
Using gene expression to assess the status of fish from anthropogenically influenced estuarine wetlands ABSTRACT
Doris E. Vidal-Dorsch, Steven M. Bay, Monica A. Mays, Darrin J. Greenstein, Diana Young, Jeff Wolf, Don Pham, Alexander V. Loguinov and Chris Vulpe
Benthic macrofaunal assemblages of the San Francisco Estuary and Delta ABSTRACT
Bruce Thompson, J. Ananda Ranasinghe, Sarah Lowe, Aroon Melwani and Stephen B. Weisberg
BEACHES
Challenges in implementing new technology for beach water quality monitoring: Lessons from a California demonstration project ABSTRACT
John F. Griffith and Stephen B. Weisberg
Correlation between quantitative polymerase chain reaction and culture-based methods for measuring Enterococcus over various temporal scales and three California marine beaches ABSTRACT
Reagan R. Converse, John F. Griffith, Rachel T. Noble, Richard A. Haugland, Kenneth Schiff and Stephen B. Weisberg
Diurnal variation in Enterococcus species composition in polluted ocean water: A potential role for the enterococcal carotenoid in protection against photoinactivation ABSTRACT
Peter A. Maraccini, Donna M. Ferguson and Alexandria B. Boehm
Method repeatability for measuring Enterococcus in southern California beach sands ABSTRACT
Yiping Cao, Charles D. McGee, John F. Griffith and Stephen B. Weisberg
Molecular detection of Campylobacter spp. in California Gull (Larus Californicus) excreta ABSTRACT
Jingrang Lu, Hodon Ryu, Jorge Santo Domingo, John F. Griffith and Nicholas Ashbolt
OCEANS
Effluent discharges to the Southern California Bight from large municipal wastewater treatment facilities from 2005 to 2009 ABSTRACT
Greg S. Lyon and Martha A. Sutula
Regional assessment of marine and estuarine sediment toxicity in southern California ABSTRACT
Darrin Greenstein, Steven Bay, Matthew Jacobe, Carlita Barton, Ken Sakamoto, Diana Young, Kerry Ritter and Kenneth Schiff
Pyrethroids in southern California coastal sediments ABSTRACT
Wenjian Lao, Liesl Tiefenthaler, Darrin J. Greenstein, Keith A. Maruya, Steven M. Bay, Kerry Ritter and Kenneth Schiff
Distribution and sources of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in the Southern California Bight ABSTRACT
Nathan G. Dodder, Keith A. Maruya, Gunnar G. Lauenstein, Juan Ramirez, Kerry J. Ritter and Kenneth Schiff
Spatial distribution of Southern California Bight demersal fishes in 2008 ABSTRACT
Eric F. Miller and Kenneth Schiff
Impact of stormwater discharges to water quality in California’s areas of special biological significance ABSTRACT
Kenneth Schiff, Brenda Luk and Dominic Gregorio
Relative performance of the Southern California Benthic Response Index using species abundance and presence-only data: Relevance to DNA Barcoding ABSTRACT
J. Ananda Ranasinghe, Eric D. Stein, Peter E. Miller and Stephen B. Weisberg
Phytoplankton blooms detected by SeaWiFS along the central and southern California coast ABSTRACT
Nikolay P. Nezlin, Martha A. Sutula, Richard P. Stumpf and Ashmita Sengupta
Phosphorus cycling in the Sargasso Sea: Investigation using the oxygen isotopic composition of phosphate, enzyme labeled fluorescence, and turnover times ABSTRACT
Karen McLaughlin, Jill A. Sohm, Gregory A. Cutter, Michael W. Lomas and Adina Paytan
CONSTITUENTS OF EMERGING CONCERN: INTEGRATED COASTAL EFFECTS STUDY
Integrated coastal effects study: Synthesis of findings ABSTRACT
Steven M. Bay, Doris E. Vidal-Dorsch, Daniel Schlenk, Kevin M. Kelley, Keith A. Maruya and Joseph R. Gully
Contaminants of emerging concern in municipal wastewater effluents and marine receiving water ABSTRACT
Doris E.Vidal-Dorsch, Steven M. Bay, Keith A. Maruya, Shane A. Snyder, Rebecca A. Trenholm and Brett J. Vanderford
Organic contaminants of emerging concern in sediments and flatfish collected near outfalls discharging treated municipal wastewater effluent to the Southern California Bight ABSTRACT
K.A. Maruya, D.E Vidal-Dorsch, S.M. Bay, J.W. Kwon, K. Xia and K.L. Armbrust
Annual and seasonal evaluation of reproductive status in hornyhead turbot at municipal wastewater outfalls in the Southern California Bight ABSTRACT
Kristy L. Forsgren, Steven M. Bay, Doris E. Vidal-Dorsch, Xin Deng, Guanghua Lu, Jeff Armstrong, Joseph R. Gully and Daniel Schlenk
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