RMP Highlights for 2005

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RMP Highlights for 2005
Jay A. Davis, et al. San Francisco Estuary
Institute 2005 RMP Annual Meeting Oakland Museum
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RMP Staff

• 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

• 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

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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

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Program Highlights
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RMP Expenses 2005
Total budget 3.1 million
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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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SFEIs 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

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Reporting Highlights
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