Meeting Minutes & Agendas

• Steering Committee |
• Technical Review Committee |
• Contaminant Fate Workgroup |
• Emerging Contaminants Workgroup |
• Exposure and Effects Workgroup |
• Sources, Pathways, and Loadings Workgroup |
• RMP Fish Committee Meetings |
• RMP Annual Meeting

RMP Steering Committee Meetings

January 27, 2009 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Budget shortfall options (PDF)

Workgroup activities (PDF)

RMP Strategy Progress (PDF)

Pulse Articles (PDF)

October 21, 2008 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 5 - Draft Outline for the RMP Master Plan Document (PDF)

Item 7 - Pulse Multi-Year Plan (PDF)

Item 8 - Dioxin Strategy (PDF)

August 8, 2008 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Item 5 - Memo on Dioxin Data needs March 10, 2008 (PDF)

Item 7 - Draft Agenda for 2008 RMP Annual Meeting May 16, 2008 (PDF)

Item 10a - Workgroup activities - 2008 (PDF)

Item 10b - Timeliness Charts (PDF)

May 9 2008 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Item 1 - Minutes from 1/29/08 (PDF)

Item 3 - Memo on Chairs of Committees (PDF)

Item 4 - TRC minutes from 3/18/08 (PDF)

Item 6 - RMP Vessel Search (PDF)

Item 9 - TRC Memo on Dioxin Data needs (PDF)

Item 10a Attachment 1 - DRAFT RMP Management Questions 5/2/08 (PDF)

Item 10a Attachment 2 - RMP Objectives Framework 5/2/08 (PDF)

Item 10b - Draft Outline for the RMP Master Plan Document 5/02/08 (PDF)

Item 12 Attachment 1 - Workgroup activities (PDF)

Item 12 Attachment 2 - Summary of Hg Conference (PDF)

January 29 2008 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 3 - Minutes TRC 2007-12-18 (PDF)

Item 5 - Pulse Outline 2008 (PDF)

October 23 2007 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 5a RMP Objectives and Management Questions 2007 Annotated (PDF)

Item 5b Priority Management Questions for Mercury (PDF)

Item 7 2008 Program Plan (PDF)

Item 8a Annual Meeting Summary (PDF)

Item 8b Annual Meeting Survey Summary (PDF)

Item 9 Workgroup activities (PDF)

July 24 2007 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 5 - Timeline for Program Review (PDF)

April 24 2007 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 4 Attachment 1 - Memo on RMP CEP coring project - additional analyses (PDF)

Item 4 Attachment 2 - Memo on Bivalve Reanalysis (PDF)

Item 4 Attachment 3 - Cormorant eggs 2006 analyses (PDF)

Item 4 Attachment 4 - Memo on Dioxin in Sportfish (PDF)

Item 5 Attachment 1 - Memo Summary of RMP Budget 2003-7 (PDF)

Item 5 Attachment 2 - Memo on Funding From Non-RMP Participants (PDF)

Item 7 - Exotic Oyster Memo.pdf (PDF)

Item 9 - Draft 2007 RMP Annual Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Item 10 - Pulse Outline (PDF)

Item 11 Attachment 1 - Workgroup activities - 2007 1st Quarter (PDF)

Item 11 Attachment 2 - Summary of Hg Conference (PDF)

January 22 2007 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Item 4 - Pulse Outline 2007 ( PDF)

Item 8 - Memo on academia and EEPS ( PDF)

Item 10 - Workgroup Activities ( PDF)

October 16, 2006 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 1 - RMP 2007 Program Plan (PDF)

Item 2 - 9/19/06 Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Item 3 - Addressing MQ's (PDF)

Item 4 - ST Menu (PDF)

Item 5 - RMP Annual Meeting 2006 Chart Responses (PDF)

Item 6 - RMP Annual Meeting 2006 Survey Responses (PDF)

Item 7 - 2006 Scorecard (PDF)

July 17, 2006 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Item 1 - TRC Meeting Minutes, 6/27/06 (PDF)

Item 2 - Meeting Minutes, 4/17/06 (PDF)

Item 3 - Workgroup Activities (PDF)

April 17, 2006 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 1 - Jan 23rd Minutes (PDF)

Item 2 - TRC Minutes (PDF)

Item 3 - Summary (PDF)

Item 4 - Investment Proposal (PDF)

Item 8 - LTMS-RMP Presentation (PPT, 4.8 MB)

Item 9 - Memo for Operating Reserve (PDF)

Item 10 - Mercury Conference Summary (PDF)

January 23, 2006 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Item 1 - Minutes 10/24/05 (PDF)

Item 2 - Minutes 1/23/06 (PDF)

Item 3 - RC Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Pulse Outline (PDF)

Memo on Fee Increases (PDF)

October 24, 2005 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 1 - Meeting Minutes, 7/18/05 (PDF)

Item 3 - TRC Minutes, 9/20/05 (PDF)

Item 4a - Updated Summary of RMP Budget (PDF)

Item 4b - Updated Summary of RMP Budget, table (PDF)

Item 7 - RMP 2006 Program Plan (PDF)

Item 8 - South Baylands Mercury Proposal (PDF)

Item 9 - SRMP 2008 Program Review (PDF)

July 18, 2005 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Item 1 - Meeting Minutes, 4/18/05 (PDF)

Item 3 - TRC Meeting Minutes, 6/21/05 (PDF)

Item 4, Part I - RMP Budget Summary (PDF)

Item 4, Part II - RMP Detailed Budget Summary (PDF)

Item 4, Part III - RMP Asset Balance (PDF)

Item 7, Part I - Annual Meeting Summary (PDF)

Item 7, Part II - Annual Meeting Statistics (PDF)

Item 8 - Conflict Resolution Policy (PDF)

Item 9 - EEPS Overview (PDF)

Item 10 - Scorecard (PDF)

April 18, 2005 Meeting

2003 Program Summary (PDF)

Complete Agenda Package (PDF)

Scorecard (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

January 24, 2005 Meeting

Complete Agenda Package (PDF)

Winter Pilot Study 2005 Handout (DOC)

2005 Plan: Winter Pilot Study (PPT)

2005 RMP Deliverables Scorecard (PDF)

Budget Status Handout (PDF)

List of Review Panel Recommendations (PDF)

List of Review Panel Recommendations for Implementation by the Steering Committee (PDF)

List of Review Panel Recommendations for Implementation by the TRC (PDF)

List of Review Panel Recommendations for Implementation by the SFEI Board (PDF)

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RMP Technical Review Committee Meetings

May 28, 2009 Joint Meeting with SCCWRP CTAG

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Item 2a - RMP Overview Part 1 (PDF)

Item 2b - RMP Overview Part 2 (PDF)

Item 3a - SCCWRP Overview (PDF)

Item 3b - SCCWRP Directors Report Rapid Methods Task Force Members (PDF)

Item 3c - SCCWRP Research Plan (PDF)

Item 4a - CEC Workshop Summary (PDF)

Item 4b - RMP Emerging Contaminants Activities (PDF)

Item 4c - SCCWRP Emerging Contaminants Activities (PDF)

Item 5a - RMP Sediment Activities (PDF)

Item 5b - SCCWRP Sediment Activities (PDF)

March 10, 2009 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 6 - Dioxin QAPP Development (PDF)

Item 7 - Water PAHs Concentrations (PDF)

Item 8 - 2009 Pesticide Analysis (PDF)

Item 9 -Coring Update (PDF)

Item 11 - Chair Description (PDF)

Item 12a - Agenda TRCCTAG (PDF)

Item 12b - Workgroup Activities (PDF)

December 12, 2008 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 3 - Potential Talks at the 2009 RMP Annual Meeting (PDF)

Item 3 - Pulse Multi-Year Plan (PDF)

Item 6 - CTAG and TRC memo (PDF)

Item 7 - Workgroup activities (PDF)

Item 7f - Data Integration Options 2009 (PDF)

October 2, 2008 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 7 - Pulse Multi-Year Plan (PDF)

Item 10 - Update on Invasive Oysters 2007 Progress Report (PDF)

Item 11a - Workgroup activities (PDF)

Item 11b - Memo Bivalve Reanalysis (PDF)

July 17, 2008 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

TRC Minutes Draft (PDF)

Pilot and Special Studies 2009 (PDF)

Item 3 - Workgroup activities (PDF)

Item 5 - Memo on Dioxin Data needs March 10, 2008 (PDF)

Item 7 - Draft Agenda for the 2008 RMP Annual Meeting May 16, 2008 (PDF)

Item 11 - Timeliness Charts (PDF)

March 18, 2008 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 3a - RMP Objectives Framework 01-29-08 (PDF)

Item 4 - 2006 S&T Sportfish Summary (PPT)

Item 5 - Dioxin loadings data TRC (PDF)

Item 5 Memo on Dioxin Data needs (PDF)

Item 6 - PAH in Water (PDF)

Item 7 2008 SedTox Tests (PPT)

Item 7 SWI vs Elutriate (PDF)

Item 8 - Pulse Outline 03-12-08 (PDF)

Item 10 - Small Fish RMP TRC.ppt (PPT)

Item 10 - summary for small fish design 2008 (PDF)

Item 11 - Data management (PPT)

Item 11a Workgroup activities (PDF)

Item 11b Summary of Hg Conference (PDF)

December 18, 2007 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Workgroup activities (PDF)

Budget (PDF)

Item 2 Minutes SC 2007-10-23 (PDF)

Item 2 Minutes TRC 2007-09-17 (PDF)

Item 5 Mercury RFP 12-06-07 Final (PDF)

Item 8 2008 Detailed workplan (PDF)

Presentations

Item 8a - RMP Highlights 2007 Plans 2008 Workgroup Updates -EEPS (PPT)

Item 8a - SPLWG_update (PPT)

Item 8a - Highlights 2007 CFWG (PPT)

Item 8b - RMP Highlights 2007 Plans 2008 Program Management (PPT)

Item 8c - RMP Highlights 2007 Plans 2008 Data management (PPT)

Item 8d - Highlights 2007 QA (PPT)

Item 8g - EEPS small fish 121707 TRC (PPT)

Item 8f - RMP Highlights 2007 Plans 2008 Status and Trends (PPT)

September 17, 2007 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item - 3 RMP Objectives and Management Questions 2007 (PDF)

Item - 3b RMP Objectives and Management Questions (PDF)

Item - 4 Timeline for Program Review (PDF)

Item - 5 Summary table of Pilot and Special Study proposals with Policy and Science (PDF)

Item - 7 2007 Annual Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Item - 8 Solid Phase Extraction Issues (PPT)

Item - 10 SBSP Report 2006 (PDF)

Item - 10 South Bay Mercury Project (PDF)

Item - 11 Workgroup activities - 2007 (PDF)

March 27, 2007 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Item 1 Part 2 - Map of RMP Annual Meeting Attendance (PDF)

Item 2 - SC Minutes (PDF)

Item 3 - Part 1: RMP Winter Sampling Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Item 3 - Part 2: Egg Monitoring Presentation (PDF, 2.2MB)

Item 3 - Part 3: Redesign Table (PDF)

Item 4 - Part 1: UCSC SFEI Proposal 2007 (PDF)

Item 4 - Part 2: UCSC Mercury Study Presentation (PDF, 1.6MB)

Item 5 - Part 1: Exotic Oyster Memo (PDF)

Item 5 - Part 2: Exotic Oyster Presentation (PDF, 15.2MB)

Item 7 - Part 1: Water Contamination Index and Addendum (PDF)

Item 7 - Part 2: Water Contamination Index Presentation (PDF)

Item 8 - Pulse Outline 2007 (PDF)

Item 9 - Memo on Academia and the RMP (PDF)

Item 10 - Part 1: Workgroup activities - 2007 1st Quarter (PDF)

Item 10 - Part 2a: Summary of Hg Conference (PDF)

Item 10 - Part 2b: 2007 Mercury Coordination Meeting Survey (PDF)

Item 10 - Part 3: Memo on the RMPCEP Coring project -- addition analyses (PDF)

Item 10 - Part 4: Memo on Bivalve Reanalysis (PDF)

Item 10 - Part 5:Timeliness Charts 2007 1st Quarter (PDF)

December 19, 2006 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Item 1c - Highlights 2006 Plans 2007 Information Dissemination Annual Reporting (PPT, 1.1MB)

Item 5 - Evaluation of RMP Organic Contaminants Final (PDF)

Item 7a - Workgroup Activities (PDF)

Item 7d - Highlights (PDF)

Item 7f - Benthos (PDF)

Item 7f - RMP Highlights 2006 Plans 2007 Benthos (PPT)

Item 7h - EpisodicTox2007 - Sed TIE Proposal (PDF)

Item 7h - Sediment TIE Study Proposal (PPT)

Item 7i - Highlights 2006 Plans 2007 (PPT, 1.4MB)

Item 7l - Highlights 2006 (PDF)

Item 7m - Food Web Model (PDF, 1MB)

Item 8 - Statewide Coastal (PDF, 6.5MB)

Item 8 - SWAMP Comparable Fact Sheet (PDF)

Item 8 - SWAMP Monitor (PDF, 1 MB)

Item 8 - SWAMP Statewide (PDF, 8MB)

October 3, 2006 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Item 3 - Part I: How Well Status and Trends Answers Management Questions (PDF)

Item 3 - Part II: Evaluation of Elements (PDF)

Item 4 - Episodic Toxicity (PDF)

Item 7 - Guadalupe River (PDF)

Item 8 - Annual Meeting Survey Summary (PDF)

Item 9 Sediment Core Update (PDF)

Item 10 South Bay Atmospheric Mercury Trends (PDF, 3.9MB)

Item 11 Workgroup activities (PDF)

June 27, 2006 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF, 1.2MB)

Minutes (PDF)

March 29, 2006 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 1 - Dec 13th Minutes (PDF)

Item 2 - Steering Committee Minutes (PDF)

Item 3 - Prioritization Table (PDF)

Item 5 - Cormorants Presentation (PPT)

Item 7 - PS/SS Idea 1: Tributaries (PDF)

Item 9 - Mallard Island Presentation (PPT, 14MB)

Item 12a - Workgroup Activities, 1st Qrtr (PDF)

Item 12b - Mercury Conference Summary (PDF)

December 13, 2005 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Item 1 - Minutes (PDF)

Item 2 - Steering Committee Minutes (PDF)

Item 3 - Pulse Outline (PDF)

Item 5 - Waterboard Information Needs (PDF)

Item 6a - RMP Highlights: Program Management (PPT)

Item 6b - RMP Highlights: Data Management (PPT, 11.4MB)

Item 6c - RMP Highlights: Information Dissemination (PPT, 1MB)

Item 6e - RMP Highlights: Data Integration (PPT)

Item 6f - TRC Memo: Status & Trends Recommendations (PDF)

Item 6g: Memo - Benthos in Base PGM (PDF)

Item 6g: RMP Highlights: Benthos (PPT)

Item 6h: Status & Trends Triennial Fish Monitoring (PPT)

Item 6i: TRC: Toxicity Workgroup 5-yr Plan (PDF)

Item 6i: TRC: Toxicity Workgroup 5-yr Plan - TABLE (PDF)

Item 6j: Atmospheric Depostion Monitoring (PPT, 6.6MB)

Item 6k: RMP Highlights: Exposure and Effects Pilots Study (PPT)

Item 6m: River Loads (PPT, 5.7MB)

Item 6n: Small Tributary Loads (PPT, 3.7MB)

Item 6o: Clean Estuary Partnership Project: Sampling & Analysis Plan for Sediment Cores (PDF, 1.2MB)

Item 6q: Source Pathways and Loadings (PPT, 1.3MB)

September 20, 2005 Meeting

Attachments

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 1 - Minutes, TRC 6-21-05 (PDF)

Item 2 - Minutes, Steering Committee 7-18-05 (PDF)

Item 3 A - Presentation - AMS (PPT , 10.7MB)

Item 3 B - Presentation - Anderson (PPT, 3.3MB)

Item 3 C - Presentation - Flegal (PPT, 22.5MB)

Item 4 - Tech Report (PDF, 1.1MB)

Item 5 A - RMP Status & Trends Prioritization (PDF)

Item 5 A - RMP Status & Trends Prioritization Table (PDF)

Item 7 - South Bay Lands Mervur Project Proposal (PDF)

Item 8 - USGS Sampling Stations 05-06 Proposal (PDF)

Item 9 - Workgroup Activities: 3rd Qtr. (PDF)

June 21, 2005 Meeting

Attachments

Item 1A - Agenda (PDF)

Item 1B - Minutes (PDF)

Item 2 - SC Minutes (PDF)

PowerPoint Presentations

Item 5 - Update on Multibox Model (PPT)

Item 6 - Fish Status & Trends 2003 (PPT)

Handouts

Item 7A - Summary of RMP Annual Meeting Comments (PDF)

Item 7B - Statistics from Annual Meeting (PDF)

Item 8 - Memo addressing 2003 Review University and State Agencies (PDF)

Item 9A - Contaminant Fate Workgroup Update (PDF)

Item 9B - Exposure and Effects Pilot Study Workgroup Meeting Update (PDF)

Item 9C - Sources Pathways and Loading Workgroup Update (PDf)

Item 10A - Memo on Laboratory Issues Corrective Action Measures (PDF)

Item 10B - AxysPAHs Summary.pdf (PDF)

Item 10C - SFEI Assessment of EBMUD Demonstration Package (PDF)

Item 10D - Summary 2005 Laboratory Intercomparison Exercises (PDF)

Item 11A - Laboratory Data Status Sheet (PDF)

Item 11B - Scorecard (PDF)

March 15, 2005 Meeting

Attachments

Minutes (PDF)

Agenda and TRC and SC Meeting Minutes (PDF)

PowerPoint Presentations

Dredge Data Evaluation - Don Yee (PPT)

Triangle Marsh - Hg Concentrations in the San Francisco Estuary, WIGS Group UCSC (PPT, 2.8MB)

High Flow Studies - Lester McKee, Sources Pathways and Loadings Workgroup (PPT, 3MB)

Trace Metals in San Francisco Bay - WIGS Group, UCSC (PPT, 4.7MB)

Handouts

Item 3 handout 1 - 5-year plan (PDF)

Item 3 handout 2 - Proposed Pilot and Special Studies (PDF)

Item 3 handout 3 - Proposed Pilot and Special Studies (PDF)

Item 5 handout - 2005 Annual Meeting Agenda - Draft (PDF)

Item 8 handout 1- Total Dissolved Concentrations of Selenium in Bay (PDF)

Item 14 handout 1 - Trace Organic Analyte List; Results and Recommendation (PDF)

Item 16 handout 1 - RMP Deliverables Scorecard (PDF)

Item 16 handout 2 - RMP Data Tracking ( PDF)

January 24, 2005 Meeting

January 24, 2005 Meeting Minutes (PDF)

December 21, 2004 Meeting

December 21, 2004 Meeting Minutes (PDF)

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RMP Contaminant Fate Workgroup Meetings

February 06, 2009 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

DGT Plans for 2009 (PDF)

July 07, 2008 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Item 5 - Methyl Mercury Mass Budget (PPT)

Water Board modeling needs (PDF)

January 15, 2008 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Model Documentation (PDF, 4 MB)

Forecast Documentation (PDF, 4 MB)

Multibox Model of PCB Fate in San Francisco (PPT, 7 MB)

CFWG 5-yr Workplan Draft (PDF)

CFWG 5 Year Plan 2008 (PPT)

Multibox Pollutant Screening Scope (PDF)

EEPS-CFWG Small Fish Workplan 2008-01-08 (PDF)

EEPS small fish (PPT, 2 MB)

Mercury RFP 12-06-07 Final (PDF)

Example Proposal Format (PDF)

September 14, 2007 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 2- Mercury Strategy (PPT)

Item - 3 Contaminant Fate WG 5 Year Plan (PPT)

Item - 6 Mercury Model (PPT)

Mercury Strategy Outline (PPT)

May 29, 2007 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 3 - Multibox Model of PCB Fate in San Francisco (PPT)

Item 4 - PBDE Mass Budget (PPT)

Item 5 - Sediment Core Update (PPT)

October 30, 2006 Meeting

Minutes (PDF)

Agenda (PDF)

Sediment Model Update (PDF)

September 15, 2005 Meeting

Minutes (PDF)

Agenda (PDF)

Multibox PCB Model (presentation, PPT)

Independant Testing of PCB Model (report, PDF)

Sampling Plan for Sediment Cores (presentation, PPT)

Sampling Plan for Sediment Cores (report, PDF)

Mass balance for mercury (article, PDF)

April 15, 2005 Meeting

Minutes (PDF)

Agenda (PDF)

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RMP Emergining Contaminants Workgroup Meetings

April 17, 2009 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Item 1 - Intro To Meeting (PDF)

Item 3 - SCCWRP Emerging Contaminants (PDF)

Item 4 - Alt BFR (PDF)

Item 5 - EC Intro (PDF)

Item 5 - Outline Of WWTP (PDF)

Item 6- PSSS Harbor Seal Screening (PDF)

Item 6 - PSSS Harbor Seal Screening Proposal (PDF)

Item 7 - PSSS Pentachlorophenol (PDF)

Item 7 PSSS Pentachlorophenol Proposal (PDF)

Item 8 - PSSS Brominated Dioxins (PDF)

Item 8 - PSSS Brominated Dioxins Proposal (PDF)

Item 9 - PSSS Fipronil (PDF)

Item 9 - PSSS Fipronil Proposal (PDF)

October 17, 2008 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 2 - PSSS Alt Flame Retardants Update (PDF)

Item 3 - 2008 PSSS PFOS Update (PDF)

Item 4 - Update on Pro Bono EC Activities (PDF)

Item 5a - 2009 PSSS PFOS Sources (PDF)

Item 5b - Update on Polychlorinated Naphthalenes (PDF)

Item 6 - RMP Pesticide Monitoring (PDF)

Item 7 - Urban Pesticide Usage (PDF)

Item 8 - Update on RMP Specimen Banking Protocol (PDF)

Item 10 - 2010 PSSS ideas (PDF)

April 3, 2008 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Item 2 - PSSS PFOS (PDF)

Item 3 - PSSS Alt Flame Retardants (PDF)

Item 4a - Overview of five-year plan and strategy (PDF)

Item 6 - RMP specimen bank (PDF)

Item 6 - Specimen Bank Memo (PDF)

June 6, 2007 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 2 - Wastewater-Derived Organic Contaminants (PDF)

Item 3 - Pharmaceutical Results (PDF)

Item 4 - Seal Presentation (PDF)

Item 5 - Non PBDE Flame Retardants (PDF)

June 1, 2006 Meeting

Minutes (PDF)

Agenda (PDF)

Occurrence and Mass Flows of Fluorochemicals During Municipal Wastewater Treatment (presentation, PDF)

Identifying New Persistent Chemicals in the Great Lakes (presentation, PDF)

Draft Strategy for Addressing Emerging Contaminants (report, 5/26/06, PDF)

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RMP Exposure and Effects Workgroup Meetings

November 13, 2008 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 3 - Causes of Toxicity (PPT)

Item 3 - Causes Of Sed Toxicity Workplan (PDF)

Item 4 - RMP Data Integration – Benthic Work Group (PDF)

Item 4 - Refinement and Validation of Mesohaline Benthic Indices (PPT)

Exposure and Effects WorkgroupStudy Ideas 2010 (PPT)

May 12, 2008 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Item 2 - Data Integration Benthic Index Development (PDF)

Item 2a - Benthos & Causes of Sediment update (PPT)

Item 3a Food Web Accumulation - Small Fish (PPT)

Item 3b - EEWG Bird Spatial and Temporal Five Year Plan (PPT)

Item 6 - SWI vs Elutriate Memo (PDF)

Item 6 - Toxicity Testing in ST (PDF)

November 26, 2007 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

Item 2 - Benthic Effects Five-Year Plan (PPT)

Item 3b - EEWG Bird Five Year Plan (PPT)

Item 4b - EEPS small fish (PPT)

September 06, 2007 Meeting

Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Item - 3a History and Status of Sediment Studies in RMP (PPT)

Item - 3b SQO Results 2007 (PPT)

Item - 3c Influence of Physical and Chemical Factors on Benthos (PPT)

Item - 3e Sediment Toxicity and Benthic Effects Five-Year Plan (PPT)

Item - a Update on Endocrine Disruption Effects Assessment (PPT)

Item - 4b Fish Effects Five-Year Plan (PPT)

May 24, 2007 Meeting

Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Item 2 - Mercury in Terns (PPT)

Item 3 - Endocrine Disruptors in Fish (PPT)

December 4, 2006 Meeting

Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

July 26, 2006 Meeting

Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Presentation: A Pilot Study of the Effects of Contaminants on Shiner Surf Perch in the San Francisco Bay-Estuary (PPT)

November 22, 2005 Meeting

Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Presentation 1: Exposure and Effects Pilot Study: Small Fish Mercury Project (PPT)

Presentation 2: A Pilot Study of the Effects of Contaminants on Shiner Surf Perch in the San Francisco Bay-Estuary (PPT)

June 13, 2005 Meeting

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

April 4, 2005 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Fish Effects Scope of Work (PDF)

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RMP Sources, Pathways, and Loadings Work Group Meetings

May 14, 2008 Meeting

Pre-meeting Guadalupe Watershed and Historic Mines Tour (DOC)

Agenda (DOC)

Meeting Minutes (PPT)

Item 2a: 1 Zone 4 Line A Year 1 report (PPT)

Item 2a: 2 Zone 4 Line A modeling (PPT)

Item 2b: 1 Zone 4 Line A (PPT)

Item 2b: 2 Zone 4 Line A Y2 Draft data to-date (PPT)

Item 2c: Zone 4 Line A Y3 proposed analytes (PDF)

Item 3a: Suspended sediment loads from BA small tribs (PPT)

Item 3b: Guadalupe River Load model-y1 (PDF)

Item 4a: USGS NAWQA Contaminant Trends in Lake Sediment study (PDF)

Item 4b: Potential Lakes for USGS NAWQA Contaminant Trends in Lake Sediments (PDF)

Item 5a: SPLWG 5-yr Work Plan - Level III priority questions (PDF)

Item 5b SPLWG Budget table (PDF)

Item 6 Ranked SPL Level III Priority Qs - with PSSS proposal titles (PDF)

Item 6a: PSSS SPLWG 1 Small tribs loads study 3 (DOC)

Item 6b: Bay-scale model (PPT)

Item 6c: PSSS SPLWG 3 Urban lake cores - B Mahler and P Van Mitre (DOC)

Item 6d: PSSS SPLWG 4 Air Deposition (DOC)

Item 6e: PSSS SPLWG 5 Stormwater loads trends (DOC)

Item 6f: PSSS SPLWG 6 Guadalupe Model YR2 (DOC)

Item 6g: PSSS SPLWG 7 Storm drain mapping (DOC)

December 12, 2007 Meeting

Agenda (DOC)

Item 1: SPLWG 5-y rWork Plan (PDF)

Item 2: Scenarios of geomorphic change in Suisun Bay Neil Ganju USGS (PPT)

Item 3a: Zone 4 Line A Sediment loads Year 1 - Rand Eads River Metrics (PPT)

Item 3b: Zone 4 Line A (PPT)

Item 4a: Hg Large River Loading Study (PPT)

Item 4b: PCBs and OC Pests in Guadalupe River (PPT)

Item 5a: Mapping update (storm drains and NHD) (PPT)

Item 5b: WLA Storm drain map series index map (PDF)

Item 5c: WLA List of published storm drain maps Nov 07 (DOC)

Item 5d: Watersehd boundaries mapped to-date (PDF)

Item 6a Watershed Model for Guadalupe River (PPT)

Item 6b Watershed Specific sediment loads (PPT)

May 22, 2007 Meeting

Minutes (PDF)

Agenda (PDF)

Introduction (PPT)

Item 1: Guadalupe Trace Metals (PPT, 3.9MB)

Item 2: Guadalupe Trace Organics (PPT)

Item 3: Sacramento R Hg (PPT, 2.9MB)

Item 4: PBDE Single Box Model (PPT, 4.8MB)

Item 5a: Zone 4 Line A R Eads (PPT, 17.2MB)

Item 5b: Zone 4 Line A (PPT)

Item 6: Special and Pilot Studies Proposals (PDF)

Item 6 SPLWG Special and Pilot studies Rankings and comments (PDF)

November 13, 2006 Meeting

Minutes (PDF)

Agenda (PDF)

Item 1: PCB and PBDE loads at Mallard Island (PPT, 5.9MB)

Item 2a: Guadalupe History and Methods (PPT, 10.4MB)

Item 2b: PCB and PBDE loads in Guadalupe River ( PPT, 2MB)

Item 3: Coyote Creek PCB and PBDE loads(PPT, 3.5MB)

Item 4: Mallard Island Methods and Hg loads (PPT, 9.8MB)

Item 5: Guadalupe Hg measurements and model design(PPT, 10MB)

Item 6: Small tribs load study (Zone 4 Line A) (PPT, 9.5MB)

May 15, 2006 Meeting

Minutes (PDF)

Agenda (PDF)

Item 1a: Mahler CV (PDF)

Item 1b: Schiff CV (PDF)

Item 2a: Mallard Island & Large River Loadings (PPT, 18.1MB)

Item 2b: Mallard X-Section Variability (PPT, 2.5MB)

Item 3a: Guadalupe River Small Tributaries Loadings (PPT, 13.9MB)

Item 3b-1: Guadalupe River Continuation (PPT, 320k)

Item 3b-2: Guadalupe River Options (PDF, 114k)

Item 4: Hg Fate and Transport Within the San Jose/Santa Clara WPCP (PPT, 6.3MB)

Item 5: Watershed Modeling in Southern California (PPT, 3MB)

Item 6a: Special and Pilot Studies – Small Tributaries Loading Study #2 (PPT, 203k)

Item 6b: New Small Tributaries Loading Study (PDF, 15.1MB)

December 15, 2005 Meeting

Minutes (PDF)

Agenda (PDF)

Item 1: Welcome (PPT, 2.3MB)

Item 2: GSA 2005 (PPT, 106MB)

Item 3: SS Loads Bay Area (PPT, 14.3MB)

Item 4A: SPL Small Trib Reconnaissance Study (PDF, 23MB)

Item 4B: SPL Small Trib Reconnaissance Study (chart) (PDF, 67K)

Item 5: Special Pilot Studies Proposals (PDF, 176K)

Item 6: 5 Year Plan (PDF, 5.4MB)

Item 7: Mallard Island Loads (PPT, 5.1MB)

Item 8: Small Tributary Loads (PPT, 3.9MB)

May 5, 2005 Meeting

Minutes (PDF)

RMP Fish Committee Meetings

November 5, 2008 Meeting

Agenda (MS Word)

Meeting Summary (MS Word)

Draft 2009 Sampling and Analysis Budget (MS Excel)

2006 Status & Trends Results Presentation (PDF)

Sport Fish Power Analysis of Status & Trends Program (PDF)

Emerging Contaminants In Sport Fish (PDF)

Coordination with State SWAMP Coastal and Bay Sport Fish Monitoring (PDF)

Non-Lethal Sport Fish Sampling - Mercury Analysis (PDF)

Non-Lethal Sport Fish Sampling - Organic Analysis (PDF)

Biopsy for Predicting Muscle Mercury Levels in Fish (PDF)

November 28, 2006 Phone Conference

2006 Collection /Analysis Summary

Final Catch List with Comments (PDF)

December 19, 2005 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Summary (PDF)

Minutes (PDF)

November 9, 2005 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Summary (PDF)

2003 Status & Trends Results Presentation (PDF)

Power Analysis of Status & Trends Program (PDF)

September 25, 2002 Meeting

Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Summary (PDF)

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RMP Annual Meeting

2008

Meeting

• The RMP Annual Meeting was held on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at the Oakland Museum>br/> from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Congratualtions to Gillian Silva of the Vallejo Sanitation & Flood Control District, winner of gift certificate for dinner at Skates on the Bay.
• View Photos

Agenda (PDF)

Presentations

Water Quality Science and Management in the Delaware Estuary,
Thomas Fikslin, Delaware River Basin Commission

Dredging and Sediment Management in San Francisco Bay,
Steve Goldbeck, San Francisco Conservation and Development Commission

Cool New Tools for Accessing RMP Data,
John Oram, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Mercury Management in the Delta,
Michelle Wood, Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board

The San Francisco Bay Water Board's Regulatory Approach and Information Needs,
Richard Looker, San Francisco Bay Regional Quality Control Board

A Methylmercury Budget for San Francisco Bay,
Don Yee, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Advances in Understanding of Loads of Mercury and Other Pollutants to the Bay,
Lester McKee, San Francisco Estuary Institute

The RMP Mercury Strategy: Studies Underway,
Ben Greenfield, San Francisco Estuary Institute

2007

Meeting

• The RMP Annual Meeting was held on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at the Oakland Museum
  from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Congratualtions to Patrick Lo of the SFPUC winner of gift certificate for dinner at Skates on the Bay.
• View Photos

Agenda (PDF)

Presentations

The Regulatory State of the Bay: A Status and Trends Review, Tom Mumley, SFBRWQCB

Urban Runoff Management: So Far, So Good, So What ?, Geoff Brosseau, BASMAA

Metals in San Francisco Estuary, Russ Flegal, UC Santa Cruz

The State of the Bay: Water Quality, Jay Davis and Mike Connor, SFEI and Russ Flegal, UCSC

Effects of Mercury on Bay Birds, Collin Eagles-Smith, USGS

Endocrine Disruption in Bay Fish, Kevin Kelley, Cal State Long Beach

Improved Forecasting in PCBs in San Franisco Bay, John Oram, SFEI

New Emphasis on Sediment Quality Objectives, Water Board, SCCWRP, and SFEI

Monitor Water Quality Impacts of Wetland Restoration, Josh Collins, SFEI

Emerging Problems? Progress on Identifying Contaminants of Concern, Susan Klosterhaus, SFEI

2006

Meeting

• The Annual Meeting was held September 12th at the Oakland Museum in Oakland, California.
• Congratualtions to Edward Salinas, winner of the Save the Bay gift certificate from the Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory.
• Thanks to everyone who took the time to provide feedback on the meeting!

Agenda (PDF)

Presentations

Introduction (1 MB) - by Mike Connor, SFEI

Current Understanding of PBDEs (5 MB) - by Daniel Oros, SFEI

Preventing Emerging Contaminants (746 k) - by Kelly Moran

Contaminant Loads from the Delta in a High Flow Event (2.2 MB) - by Nicole David, SFEI

Contaminants in Bay Sport Fish, 2003 (766 k) - by Jennifer Hunt, SFEI

Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Methylmercury Revealed by Small Fish Monitoring (3.9 MB) - by Letitia Grenier and Ben Greenfield, SFEI and Darrel Slotton, UC Davis

Dramatic Changes in Bay Phytoplankton (863 k) - by Jim CLoern, USGS

Adaptive Monitoring - RMP Highlights, 2006 and 2007 (1.6 MB) - by Meg Sedlak, SFEI

Adaptive Management - Water Board Update on TMDLs and Water Quality Objectives (987 k) - by Tom Mumley, Regional Water Quality Control Board

PCBs in San Francisco Bay: Past, Present, and Future (12.5 MB) - by Jay Davis, SFEI

PCBs in an Urban Watershed (836 k) - by John Konnan, EOA, Inc..

Evaluating Effectiveness of BMPs to Reduce Pollutant Loads from Urban Runoff (3 MB) - by Lester McKee, SFEI

2005

Meeting

• The annual meeting was held May 10, 2005 in Oakland.
• of the canoe trip for 2 is Andria Ventura from Clean Water Action. Thanks to everyone who took the time to provide feedback on the meeting!
• View photos

Presentations

All presentations are in PowerPoint format.

Introduction (1 MB) - by Mike Connor, SFEI

Deciphering an Estuarine Ecosystem: 35 Years of San Francisco Bay Studies (28 MB) - by John Conomos, US Geological Survey

Adapting the RMP to Answer the Important Questions (0.6 MB) - by Rainer Hoenicke, SFEI

RMP Highlights for 2005 (20 MB) - by Jay Davis, SFEI

Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) Flame Retardants in San Francisco Bay (10 MB) - by Daniel Orto sneakos, SFEI

The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project and Bay Water Quality (5 MB) - by Letitia Grenier, SFEI

San Francisco Bay Wetland Reconstruction and Mercury Biogeochemistry: How to do the right thing? (4 MB) - by Herbert Fredrickson, US Army Corps of Engineers

Mercury and PCBs TMDL Imprementation (4 MB) - by Tom Mumley, Regional Water Quality Control Board

Bay Sediment Budgets: Sediment Accounting 101 (2 MB) - by David Schoellhamer, US Geological Survey

A Multibox Model of the Long-Term Fate of PCBs in San Francisco Bay (20 MB) - by John Oram, SFEI

A Model of the Food-Web Bioaccumulation of PCBs in San Francisco Bay (7 MB) - by Frank Gobas, Simon Fraser University

Pollutant Loads to the Bay: Measuring the “L” in TMDL(3 MB) - by Lester McKee, SFEI

Restoring Our Local Tributaries (28 MB) - by Dyan Whyte, Regional Water Quality Control Board

What We Have Found in the Bay Area Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) (26 MB) - by Karen Taberski, Regional Water Quality Control Board

2004

Meeting

May 4, 2004, University of California, Lawrence Hall of Science

Agenda (PDF)

Presentations

Report on the Program Review - by Jerry Schubel, Aquarium of the Pacific

Steering Committee Response - Kevin Buchan, WSPA

Implementing Review Panel Recommendations - Jay Davis, SFEI

Trace elements in the Estuary - Russ Flegal, UC Santa Cruz

Lessons learned about metals in the Estuary - Cindy Brown, USGS

PAHs in the San Francisco Estuary, 1993-present - Daniel Oros, SFEI

Contaminant Loads from Urban Runoff: Concepts and Discoveries - Lester McKee, SFEI

The Bay Institute Ecological Scorecard: Water Quality - Anitra Pawley, Bay Institute

Mercury - Richard Looker, SFB RWQCB

Selenium - Khalil Abu-Saba, Larry Walker & Associates

PCBs - Jay Davis, SFEI

Legacy Pesticides - Jon Leatherbarrow, SFEI

Dioxins - Don Yee, SFEI

Diazinon - Scott Ogle, Pacific Eco-Risk

Regional Board Perspective - Bruce Wolfe, SFB RWQCB

Dredging Perspective - Jim McGrath, Port of Oakland Notes

BACWA Perspective - Jim Kelly, Contra Costa County Sanitation District

BASMAA Perspective - Geoff Brosseau, BASMAA

Environmental Perspective - Leo O’Brien

2003

Meeting

View photos.

Presentations

Developing Water Quality Solutions for SF Bay – Dyan Whyte

The Clean Estuary Partnership and the RMP: Comparing two stakeholder programs producing science in support of policy – James M. Kelly

Monitoring of San Francisco Bay: Is the Whole Less than the Sum of the Parts? – J.R. Schubel

Benefits of the RMP and Challenges for the Future (Regulated Community Perspective) – David W. Tucker

Regional Monitoring Program Benefits and Callenges for the Future (Scientific Community Perspective) – Andrew J. Gunther

Sediment Dynamics Drive Contaminant Dynamics – David Schoellhamer

Ambient Water Toxicity in San Francisco Bay: 1993–2002 – Scott Ogle

Summary of 10 Years of Sediment Toxicity Monitoring for the San Francisco Regional Monitoring Program – Brian Anderson

A Watershed Year for RMP & CEP: Sources Pathways & Loadings 2002/2003 – Lester J. McKee

PCBs Total Maximum Daily Loads, San Francisco Bay – Fred Hetzel

PCB Movement through the Food-Web of San Francisco Bay: Development of a Model – Frank A.P.C. Gobas

Choosing a Future Bay: The Long-Term Fate of PCBs and Other Organics – Jay Davis

Water-Quality Measurements in San Francisco Bay: A component of RMP - J. Cloern

2002

Presentations

Jay Davis — New Directions for the RMP: An Overview

Ben Greenfield — Contaminant Concentrations in Fish: 2000 [to see transcript in PDF]

Tom Grieb — Copper and Nickel TMDL Development: Lower South Bay

Tom Hall and Tom Grovhoug — Copper and Nickel Impairment Assessment

Jon Leatherbarrow — Contaminants at the Estuary Interface

Richard Looker — Current Regulatory Approach to Copper in SF Bay: Source Control, Pollution Prevention, and Monitoring

Sarah Lowe — The Design Process for the Status and Trends Component

Mike May — The Pulse of the Estuary: 2000 Update

Lester McKee — Loadings of Particles and Contaminants to the Bay from the Central Valley

Daniel Oros — Surveillance Monitoring in the RMP

Don Stevens — Determining the Spatial Distribution of Water and Sedimen Sampling Locations

Karen Taberski — Benefits of the Redesigned RMP to Regional Board Decision Making

Bruce Thompson — SFEI: More Than Just RMP

Donald Yee — Organic Contaminant Concentrations in Bay Area Effluents

2001

Presentations

Highlights of the Pulse of the Estuary - Mike May, SFEI

The View from Downstream- Khalil Abu-Saba, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board

Regional Board Monitoring and special studies Related to 303d Listings and TMDLs - Karen Taberski

EMAP Efforts in San Francisco Bay

Biomakers in Action: Examining the Effects of Dormant-Season Pesticide Runoff on Resident Fish Species - Andrew Whitehead, UC Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory

AM 2000 Document

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