RMP Annual Meetings

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RMP 2009 Annual Meeting
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

The Scottish Rite Center
1547 Lakeside Drive
Oakland, CA 94612

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The RMP holds an annual meeting to highlight recent findings from the program. In 2009, we are focusing on the meeting on new findings regarding sediment in the Bay. Researchers and managers will discuss a number of topics including the change in suspended sediment loads into the Bay and the implications that this has on foodweb dynamics; whether the Bay is in an erosion or depositional regime; the results of the RMP coring project and the concentrations of contaminants that lie beneath the surface; the importance of dredged materials for re-use in the Bay; and the newly promulgated sediment quality objectives.

Presentations

Suspended Sediment: Past a Tipping Point – What’s Next?
David Schoellhamer, U.S. Geological Survey

Regulation of Sediment and Sediment Quality
Tom Mumley, San Francisco Bay Water Board

Sediment Happens - But not so Much
Jim McGrath, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board Comments

How Bioinvasions Have Changed the Benthic Community; and a Recent Oyster Invasion
Andrew Cohen, Center for Research on Aquatic Bioinvasions (CRAB)

Analysis of Sediment Cores: Uncovering the Past
Donald Yee, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Recent Trends of Phytoplankton Increase in San Francisco Bay
Jim Cloern, U.S. Geological Survey

Patterns in Mercury Update by Small Fish
Ben Greenfield, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Contaminants of Emerging Concern: An Update on RMP Activities
Susan Klosterhaus, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Water Quality in the Bay: 2009
Jay Davis, San Francisco Estuary Institute