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RMP Highlights for 2005. Jay A. Davis, et al. San Francisco Estuary Institute 2005 RMP Annual Meeting Oakland Museum. RMP Staff. Sarah Lowe Mike May Lester McKee Aroon Melwani John Oram Daniel Oros Irene Poche John Ross Linda Russio Meg Sedlak Predrag Stevanovic Bruce Thompson
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RMP Highlights for 2005 Jay A. Davis, et al. San Francisco Estuary Institute 2005 RMP Annual Meeting Oakland Museum
RMP Staff • Sarah Lowe • Mike May • Lester McKee • Aroon Melwani • John Oram • Daniel Oros • Irene Poche • John Ross • Linda Russio • Meg Sedlak • Predrag Stevanovic • Bruce Thompson • Linda Wanczyk • Don Yee Mike Connor Lynne Curry Nicole David Todd Featherston Amy Franz Ben Greenfield Letitia Grenier Cristina Grosso Rainer Hoenicke Jennifer Hunt Kristen Larned Jon Leatherbarrow Frank Leung
RMP Contractors Applied Marine Sciences AXYS Analytical Brooks-Rand CDFG WPCL City and County of San Francisco EBMUD Marine Pollution Studies Lab Moss Landing Marine Lab UC Santa Cruz Union Sanitary District USGS
RMP Expenses 2005 Total budget: $3.1 million
Program Management • Meg Sedlak • Revised objectives and management questions – Rainer Hoenicke • Coordination • February Mercury Workshop, SF Bay Mercury News, NorCal SETAC, Special Sessions – Herb Fredrickson • Data management – web query tool, data sharing, automation • Information Dissemination • Annual Reporting • QA • Data Integration – Multibox model (jointly with CEP) – John Oram
Management Priorities • Improving turnaround time • Annual Meeting shift in 2006 • Obtaining high quality data – sediment PCBs, methylmercury • Reinvigorating the Exposure and Effects Pilot Study • CEP coordination and collaboration – Frank Gobas
Status and Trends Monitoring • Water • Sediment • Bivalve tissue • Fish tissue – Report on 2003 sampling coming soon! • Toxicity testing • Sediment dynamics (USGS) – Dave Schoellhamer • Conventional water quality (USGS) • Episodic Toxicity
Pilot Studies • Mercury Deposition Network ($18K) • Exposure and Effects ($200K) • Effects of pollutants on shiner surfperch ($50K) • Selenium in diving ducks ($19K) • Winter Sampling ($100K)
Special Studies • River Loading ($51K) – Lester McKee • Small Tributary Loading ($50K) – matching funds from SCVWD, USACE, and SCVURPPP • Loading Study Reconnaisance ($7K) • Ten Year Synthesis ($50K) – special issue of Environmental Research – Daniel Oros • Dredged Material and the Food Web ($20K) • PBDE Information Gaps ($25K) – joint with CEP
SFEI’s Non-RMP Contaminant Work • South Bay Salt Pond Pollutant Synthesis – Letitia Grenier • CEP Conceptual Model Reports • PRISM Projects on Toxicity and Pesticides • Stormwater BMP Evaluation • CBDA Fish Mercury Project • CBDA Petaluma Marsh Mercury • Statewide Sediment Quality Objectives Development • Wetland EMAP