Continuous Suspended Sediment Monitoring in South and Lower South San Francisco Bay Year Two (2023) Report

This report provides a project update for year two of a three-year collaboration between the San Francisco Bay Nutrient Management Strategy (NMS), San Francisco Bay Regional Monitoring Program, and South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, to estimate high frequency suspended sediment concentration (SSC) in San Francisco Bay (SFB). Through its role in monitoring water quality in SFB, the NMS maintains an array of autonomous sondes that record high frequency (15-minute) water column turbidity, amongst a suite of other environmental parameters. Turbidity data from these monitoring sites was combined with discrete SSC samples to create a bay-wide turbidity-SSC calibration, allowing for estimates of high frequency SSC.