These scientists want you to rethink how you use plastics: SFEI and 5 Gyres issue a new video (Feb 20, 2018) SFEI and Google share Award for Re-Oaking (Jan 25, 2018)

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 SFEI partner Canopy plants oaks in East Palo Alto (Jan 15, 2018 to Jan 30, 2018) Non-Sticks Stick Around: Estuary News highlights findings from new RMP study (Dec 29, 2017) Disrupt the Street Tree: Could trees help Silicon Valley find an identity? (Dec 19, 2017) RMP Completes Major Revision of its Strategy to Monitor Emerging Contaminants (Nov 30, 2017)

SFEI scientists process microplastic samples collected from San Francisco Bay.

 Local News: Scientists launch major study of microplastics pollution in San Francisco Bay (Nov 24, 2017)

Poster by Ruth Askevold, Cristina Grosso, and Shakoora Azimi-Gaylon

 Completed! Legacy datasets saved from the shelves and uploaded to estuary-wide data repository (Nov 15, 2017) Russian River Watershed Atlas helps track and coordinate post-fire activities (Nov 15, 2017) RMP Study in the News: “Dog and cat flea treatments suspected of polluting San Francisco Bay” (Nov 8, 2017)

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 Flood Control 2.0 Wins an Outstanding Environmental Project Award! (Oct 10, 2017 to Oct 11, 2017) Hard copies of the Pulse of the Bay disappearing fast (Oct 6, 2017) RMP Annual Meeting on Friday, October 6th, 2017 (Oct 6, 2017)

Image from KQED

 Hunting for Plastic in California’s Protected Ocean Waters (Sep 21, 2017) Coastal Cleanup Day Information in East Bay Express (Sep 13, 2017) Science Support for Resilient By Design Competition (Sep 12, 2017) The Healthy Watersheds Resilient Baylands project kicks off (Sep 1, 2017)
Announcing the release of Re-Oaking Silicon Valley: Building Vibrant Cities with Nature (Aug 2, 2017)

Graphic by Lester McKee, Ph.D.

 New Manuscript on Pollutants in the Guadalupe River Addresses Key Questions (Jul 28, 2017)

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 SFEI’s Re-oaking Silicon Valley appears as a feature in Estuary News magazine (Jun 29, 2017)

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 South Bay Landscape Vision Workshop (Jun 22, 2017) Resilience Atlas (Jun 22, 2017) Flood Control 2.0 Completed! (Jun 22, 2017) A multi-partner project to create placed-based sea-level rise adaptation strategies (Jun 22, 2017)

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 SFEI scientist Robin Grossinger helping community leaders to preserve San Jose's Coyote Valley using historical ecology (Jun 15, 2017)

Photograph courtesy CA Dept. of Pesticide Regulation

 Local coverage of RMP findings on flea control pesticide fipronil (May 18, 2017)

Source: USGS/San Francisco Estuary Institute

 What might be missing from the stories on leopard shark deaths in SF Bay? (May 15, 2017)

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 Announcing SFEI's first binational study: The Tijuana River Valley Historical Ecology Investigation (Mar 28, 2017) Sycamore Alluvial Woodland Habitat Mapping and Regeneration Study Released (Mar 20, 2017) Tijuana River Valley Historical Ecology Investigation Published (Mar 20, 2017) Find more data in CD3! (Mar 20, 2017) Microplastics and Harmful Algal Blooms in California's waters (Mar 20, 2017) GreenPlan-IT Site Locator Tool v2.1 Update (Mar 20, 2017) New Microplastic Pollution Study to Launch in San Francisco Bay and Adjacent Ocean Waters (Feb 23, 2017)
SFEI work on Landscape Resilience and Urban Biodiversity featured in Google Blog and Fast Company Story (Feb 10, 2017 to Feb 24, 2017) Lower Walnut Creek Vision Just Released! (Jan 10, 2017)

Photograph courtesy CA Dept. of Pesticide Regulation

 The Dirt on Flea Control: New RMP Study featured in Estuary News (Dec 15, 2016) New data layers and Landscape Profile mode added to EcoAtlas (Dec 15, 2016 to Jan 31, 2017) Ventura County Historical Ecology Study Helping Save Santa Clara River Watershed (Dec 12, 2016)

Photo by Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle

 SFEI study cited in SF Chronicle news story about creosote pilings in the Bay (Nov 27, 2016 to Nov 30, 2016) "A Delta Renewed" report released at the 2016 Bay-Delta Science Conference (Nov 14, 2016) How Creeks Meet the Bay: Current Sediment Dynamics (Nov 7, 2016) Robin Grossinger interviewed at Grace Cathedral for a discussion about adapting to climate change (Oct 30, 2016) The Delta as Changing Landscapes - Presentation by Letitia Grenier (Oct 25, 2016) RMP Annual Meeting on Friday, October 7th, 2016 (Oct 7, 2016) South Bay sea level rise workshop features SFEI science (Sep 27, 2016) CEDEN Update (Sep 6, 2016) RDC Data Flow & Visualization Tools (Sep 6, 2016) New GIS Datasets in EcoAtlas (Sep 2, 2016 to Sep 6, 2016)

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 RDC Dataset Update (Sep 1, 2016) SFEI maps native languages of the Bay for the Exploratorium (Jul 19, 2016)
Workshop on Microplastic (June 2016) (Jul 19, 2016)

Forster's Tern Nest. Photograph by Josh Ackerman.

 RMP Technical Report and Estuary News Article on Bird Egg Monitoring (June 2016) (Jul 19, 2016)

U.S. Coast Survey. San Diego Bay, California. 1857.
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 How to “ReWild” San Diego’s Mission Bay (Jul 19, 2016 to Aug 31, 2016) San Francisquito Creek Baylands Landscape Change Analysis (Jul 19, 2016) GreenPlan-IT Tracker helps municipalities to track and measure effectiveness for their investments in Green Infrastructure (Jul 18, 2016) Native languages map of the Bay for the Exploratorium (Jul 1, 2016) Improving Knowledge of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Jul 1, 2016 to Aug 1, 2016) RMP Technical Reports on Stormwater Loads (Jul 1, 2016) Lahontan Water Board adopts Regional EcoAtlas Tools (Jun 28, 2016)

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 Warner Chabot details the value of wetlands in an appearance on American Public Media's Marketplace (Jun 8, 2016) RMP Journal Article on Copper Toxicity to Salmon (Jun 1, 2016) GreenPlan-IT featured in the newsletter of the National Water Quality Monitoring Council (May 13, 2016) New eelgrass survey data available on EcoAtlas (Apr 25, 2016)

Photo credit: Connor Radnovich / San Francisco Chronicle

 SFEI featured in LA Times about earthquake risk to San Francisco (Apr 18, 2016 to Apr 19, 2016) Now Available: SF Bay Shore Inventory: Mapping for Sea Level Rise Regional Dataset (Apr 7, 2016)

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 SFEI Journal Article on Mercury in Coastal Fish of Western North America (Apr 2, 2016) Jeremy Lowe wins Bay Hero Award (Mar 7, 2016 to Mar 31, 2016)
Get on the curve: Habitat Development Curves help determine the performance of on-the-ground projects (Mar 5, 2016 to Apr 30, 2016) CRAM Bar-Built Estuarine (BBE) module now available to expand the applicability of CRAM (Mar 5, 2016) Getting the Word Out about the Baylands Goals (Mar 2, 2016 to Mar 31, 2016) SFEI provides perspective on emerging harmful bacterial blooms in the State's larger waterbodies (Mar 1, 2016) Statewide Survey Finds Fish-Eating Birds At Risk from Mercury in Many Lakes (Mar 1, 2016 to Mar 18, 2016) KTVU consults SFEI about the role of historical ecology in advancing modern flood protection (Feb 18, 2016) CD3 User Survey (Jan 28, 2016) Institute's Historical Ecology featured in the New York Times (Jan 26, 2016) "SF Expert Warns King Tides, El Nino Pose Flood Risk" (Jan 22, 2016) Increases in Anthropogenic Gadolinium (Jan 1, 2016) Editorial in SF Chronicle: Work to save San Francisco Bay only just begun (Dec 21, 2015) Estuary News features RMP study on microplastic pollution (Dec 16, 2015) New Microplastic Fact Sheet puts Bay study findings in context (Dec 8, 2015) Enhancing the Vision for Managing California's Environmental Information (Dec 7, 2015) GreenPlan-IT Toolbox evolving quickly to meet increased demand (Dec 4, 2015) RMP Keys to Success Highlighted in Two Manuscripts (Dec 4, 2015)
New Reports Show Progress Toward Understanding Nutrient Impacts in the Bay (Dec 4, 2015) Historical Ecology for Lower Walnut Creek promises to deliver insights at an upcoming event (Dec 1, 2015) Lower Novato Creek Vision Just Released! (Nov 30, 2015) SFEI's new Landscape Resilience Framework outlines attributes of ecological resilience (Nov 30, 2015) Recent workshop in the Lahontan region establishes an implementation roadmap for watershed-based decision support tools (Nov 18, 2015) Dr. Rebecca Sutton interviewed on KGO-TV about the potential impact of synthetic clothing on San Francisco Bay (Nov 17, 2015) KQED Forum: Bay Area Infrastructure, Communities at Risk Without Wetlands Restoration (Oct 21, 2015 to Oct 22, 2015) Baylands Goals Report Released to a Flurry of Media Attention (Oct 19, 2015 to Oct 30, 2015) SFEI Collaboration with UMN Led Team Find Potential BDE By-Products Mostly Naturally Formed, but Higher in More Urbanized Areas of San Francisco Bay (Oct 15, 2015) Plastic microbeads are in the news, and SFEI is providing the science (Oct 9, 2015) Our Bay on the Brink: SFEI's Jeremy Lowe explains the urgency for sea-level-rise adaptation (Oct 9, 2015 to Oct 30, 2015) SFEI science informs state policy on microplastic pollution (Oct 9, 2015 to Oct 16, 2015) USGS StreamStats API available in EcoAtlas (Oct 2, 2015) New Project Tracker online forms (Oct 1, 2015) New Trends Charts and Data on Safe To Eat Portal (Sep 29, 2015) KPIX and KNTV Television interview Rebecca Sutton about microplastic contamination in the Bay (Sep 23, 2015)