Publications
Factors influencing methylmercury contamination of black bass from California reservoirs
Melwani, A.R., J. Negrey, W.A. Heim, K.H. Coale, M.D. Stephenson, and J.A. Davis. (2019). Environmental Pollution 251: 850-861.
Effects of nitrogen source, concentration, and irradiance on growth rates of two diatoms endemic to northern San Francisco Bay
Berg, G.M., S. Driscoll, K. Hayashi, and R. Kudela. (2019) Aquatic Biology 28; 33-43. https://doi.org/10.3354/ab00708
Statistical Methods Development and Sampling Design Optimization to Support Trends Analysis for Loads of Polychlorinated Biphenyls from the Guadalupe River in San Jose, California, USA, Final Report
Melwani, A.R., Yee, D., McKee, L., Gilbreath, A., Trowbridge, P., and Davis, J.A. (2018). Applied Marine Sciences: Livermore, CA
Subtidal Habitats and Associated Macrobenthic and Fish Communities Observed Offshore Coastal California Along Fiber Optic Cable Routes
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2015, Prepared for ICF International, Applied Marine Sciences Inc., Livermore, CA
Novel analyses of long-term data provide a scientific basis for chlorophyll-a thresholds in San Francisco Bay
Sutula M, Kudela R, Hagy JD III, Harding LW Jr, Senn D, Cloern JE, Bricker S, Berg GM, Beck M, 2017. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Volume 197: 107-118
Seafloor Habitat & Biological Characterization Assessment of the SEA-US Fiber Optic Cable Route Offshore Hermosa Beach, California by Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2016, Prepared for ICF International, Applied Marine Sciences Inc., Livermore, CA
Benthic Survey Of The Vallejo Marine Terminal LLC Site Vallejo, California
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2014, Prepared for Dudek and the City of Vallejo, Applied Marine Sciences, Inc., Livermore, CA
Intertidal Habitat and Marine Biota Survey of the Vallejo Marine Terminal Site, Vallejo, California
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2014, Field Report Prepared for Dudek and the City of Vallejo, Applied Marine Sciences, Inc., Livermore, CA
Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Biological Characterization Survey of the Asia America Gateway (AAG) S-5 Project Fiber Optic Cable Route Offshore Morro Bay, California
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2008, Prepared for AT&T Corporation, Applied Marine Sciences, Inc., Livermore, CA
Intertidal Habitat and Marine Biota Survey of Treasure Island and the West Side of Yerba Buena Island, California
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2009, Field Report Submitted to Turnstone Consulting, Applied Marine Sciences Inc., Livermore, CA
Benthic Survey of Proposed Treasure Island, California Redevelopment Ferry Terminal Location
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2009, Prepared for Turnstone Consulting, Applied Marine Sciences, Inc., Livermore, CA
Assessment and Evaluation of Fish and Invertebrate Entrainment Effects from Commercial Aggregate Sand Mining in San Francisco Estuary
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2009, Prepared for ESA and the California State Lands Commission, Applied Marine Sciences, Livermore, CA
2011 Longfin Smelt Monitoring During Dredging By The USACE Hopper Dredge Essayons In The San Francisco Bay Area
Gold, J, Novotny, S, Salop, P, Final Report Submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Contract # W912P7-11-P-0032, Applied Marine Sciences, Livermore, CA
Benthic Survey of Commercial Aggregate Mining Leases in Central San Francisco Bay and Western Delta
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2009, Prepared for ESA and the California State Lands Commission, Applied Marine Sciences, Livermore, CA
Monitoring and Mitigation to Address Fecal Pathogen Pollution along California Coast
Central Coast Long-term Environmental Assessment Program [CCLEAN], 2011, Submitted to California Regional Water Quality Control Board Region 3, CCLEAN, Santa Cruz, CA
Central Coast Regional Monitoring Program – Water Quality in Areas of Special Biological Significance: Final Report 2013-2016
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2016, Submitted to Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency, Applied Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA
Central Coast Long-term Environmental Assessment Network – Regional Monitoring Program: Annual Report 2015-16
Central Coast Long-term Environmental Assessment Network [CCLEAN], 2017. Final Report Submitted to California Water Board Central Coast Region, Santa Cruz, CA
Persistent Organic Pollutant Concentrations in Southern Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris nereis): Patterns With Respect To Environmental Risk Factors and Major Causes Of Mortality
Miller, M, Dodd, E, Ziccardi, M, Jessup, D, Crane, D, Dominik, C, Spies, R, Hardin, D, 2007, Final Report Submitted to the California Regional Water Quality Control Board
Distribution and Trends of Select Marine Debris Items Collected During International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Events, 2001-2010
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2011, Submitted to the Ocean Conservancy, Applied Marine Sciences, Livermore, CA
2000-01 Alameda County Watershed Sediment Sampling Program: Two-Year Summary and Analysis
Salop, P, Abu-Saba, K, Gunther, A, Feng, A, Final Report Submitted to Alameda Countywide Clean Water Program, Applied Marine Sciences, Livermore, CA
Municipal Maintenance and Sediment Management: Evaluation of Source Control Options for TMDL Implementation
Salop, P, 2006. Final Report Submitted to the Alameda Countywide Clean Water Program, Applied Marine Sciences, Livermore, CA
PCBs in Urban Watersheds—A Challenge for TMDL Implementation
Salop, P, Konnan, J, Gunther, A, and Feng, A., 2006. In The Pulse of the Estuary: Monitoring and Managing Water Quality in the San Francisco Estuary. SFEI Contribution 517. San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, CA.
Investigation of Best Management Practices to Limit Loadings of Methyl Mercury Associated with Planned Dredging Activities in Sacramento and San Joaquin River Deep Water Ship Channels
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2010. Final Report Submitted to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Ross Island Sand and Gravel Co., and the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, Applied Marine Sciences, Livermore, CA
Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channel Deepening Project: Methylmercury Production in Dredged Material Placement Areas II
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2012. Final Report Submitted to Ross Island Sand and Gravel Co. and U.S Army Corps of Engineers, Contract No. W912P7-11-P-0046, Applied Marine Sciences, Livermore, CA
Methylmercury Best Management Practice Evaluation, 2011 Sacramento and Stockton Deep Water Shipping Channel Maintenance Dredging Project
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2012. Final Report Submitted to Ross Island Sand and Gravel Co. and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Applied Marine Sciences, Livermore, CA
Power Analysis and Optimization of the RMP Status and Trends Program
Melwani, AR, Greenfield, BK, Jahn, A, Oram, JJ, Sedlak, M, and Davis, JA, 2008. SFEI Contribution 555, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, CA
Determining the Potential Release of Contaminants into the Marine Environment from Pacific OCS Shell Mounds
Bemis, B. E., R.B. Spies, D.D. Hardin and J.A. Johnson. 2014. Prepared by Applied Marine Sciences, Inc. for the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Camarillo, CA. OCS Study BOEM 2013P208. 33 pages + Appxs.
Suisun Bay Ammonium Synthesis Report
Applied Marine Sciences [AMS], 2014, Literature Review on Factors Influencing Phytoplankton Nutrient Uptake and Metabolism: Molecular and Phytoplankton Ecology Perspectives, Eds: Senn, D.B. and Novick E., Contribution No. 706. San Francisco Estuary Institute, Richmond, CA. Chapter Author.
Niche of harmful alga Aureococcus anophagefferens revealed through ecogenomics
Gobler CJ, Berry DL and 31 others, 2011. PNAS 108:4352-4357.
Analysis of Porphyra membrane transporters demonstrates gene transfer among photosynthetic eukaryotes and numerous sodium-coupled transport systems
Chan CX, Zauner S and 14 others (2012). Plant Physiology 158:2001-2012.
Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom
Smetacek V, Klaas C, Strass VH and 27 others (2012). Nature 487:313-319 doi:10.1038/nature11229.
Porphyra: complex life histories in a harsh environment
Gantt E, Berg GM and 26 others (2010). In: J. Seckback and D. Chapman (eds) Red Algae in the Genomic Age. (volume 13 of Cellular Origins Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology) Springer.
Role of urea in microbe metabolism in aquatic systems: a biochemical and molecular review
Solomon CM, Collier JL, Berg GM and PM Glibert (2010). Aquatic Microbial Ecology 59:67-88.
Photophysiology in two major Southern Ocean phytoplankton taxa: Photosynthesis of Phaeocystis antarctica (Prymnesiophyceae) and Fragilariopsis cylindrus (Bacillariophyceae) under simulated mixed layer irradiance
Mills MM, Kropuenske LR, Alderkamp AC, van Dijken GL, Robinson DH, Berg GM Welschmeyer NA and KR Arrigo (2010). Journal of Phycology 46: 1114-1127.
Strategies and rates of photoacclimation in two major Southern Ocean phytoplankton taxa: Phaeocystis antarctica (Haptophyta) and Fragilariopsis cylindrus (Bacillariophyceae)
Kropuenske LR, Mills MM, van Dijken GL, Alderkamp AC, Berg GM, Arrigo KR, Robinson DH and NA Welschmeyer (2010) Journal of Phycology 46: 1138-1151.
Impact of atypical ammonium concentrations on phytoplankton abundance and composition in fresh versus estuarine waters
Esparza ML, Farrell AE, Craig DJ, Swanson C, Dhaliwal BS, Berg GM (2014). Aquat Biol 21:191-204.
Factors affecting the growth of cyanobacteria with special emphasis on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Berg M and Sutula M. 2015. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Technical Report 869 August 2015.
Responses of hli, ptox and psbA genes to changes in irradiance in marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus
Berg GM, Shrager J, VanDijken G, Mills MM, Arrigo KR, Grossman AR (2011). Aquatic Microbial Ecology 65:1-14.
Plankton community composition in relation to availability and uptake of oxidized and reduced nitrogen
Berg GM, Balode M, Purina I, Bekere S, Bechemin C and SY Maestrini (2003). Aquatic Microbial Ecology 30: 263-274.
The role of the picoeukaryote Aureococcus anophagefferens in cycling of marine high-molecular weight dissolved organic nitrogen.
Berg GM, Repeta DJ and J LaRoche (2003). Limnology and Oceanography 48: 1825-1830.
Variation in particulate C and N isotope composition following iron fertilization in two successive phytoplankton communities in the Southern Ocean
Berg GM, Mills MM, Long MC, Bellerby R, Strass V, Savoye N, Rottgers R, Croot PL, Webb A, Arrigo KR (2011) Global Biogeochemical Cycles 25, GB3013, doi:10.1029/2010GB003824.
Variation in Growth Rate, Carbon Assimilation, and Photosynthetic Efficiency in Response to Nitrogen Source and Concentration in Phytoplankton Isolated from Upper San Francisco Bay.
Berg, G.M., S. Driscoll, K. Hayashi, M. Ross, and R. Kudela (2017). Journal of Phycology 53; 664-679.
The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay, California, USA: Science in support of managing water quality.
Trowbridge, P.R., J.A. Davis, T. Mumley, K. Taberski, N. Feger, L. Valiela, J. Ervin, N. Arsem, A. Olivieri, P. Carroll, J. Coleman, P. Salop, R. Sutton, D. Yee, L.J. McKee, M. Sedlak, C. Grosso, and J. Kelly (2016). Regional Studies in Marine Science 4; 21-33.
Monitoring long-term effects of offshore oil and gas development along the southern California outer continental shelf and slope: Background environmental conditions in the Santa Maria Basin.
Hyland, J., D. Hardin, E. Crecelius, D. Drake, P. Montagna, and M. Steinhauer. 1990. Oil & Chemical Pollution, 6:195–240.
Evidence for a novel marine harmful algal bloom: cyanotoxin (microcystin) transfer from land to sea otters.
Miller, M.A., R.M. Kudela, A. Mekebri, D. Crane, S.C. Oates, M.T. Tinker, M. Staedler, W.A. Miller, S. Toy-Choutka, C. Dominik, D. Hardin, G. Langlois, M. Murray, K. Ward, D.A. Jessup. 2010. PLoS One, 2010 Sep 10;5(9).
A Biological and Physical Monitoring Program to Evaluate Long-term Impacts from San Dredging Operations in the United States Outer Continental Shelf.
Nairn, R., J.A. Johnson, D. Hardin, and J. Michel (2004). Journal of Coastal Research 20(1); 126-137.
Spatial Variation in Hard-Bottom Epifauna in the Santa Maria Basin, California: The Importance of Physical Factors.
Hardin, D.D., J. Toal, T. Parr, P. Wilde, and K. Dorsey (1994). Marine Environmental Research 37; 165-193
The slow recovery of San Francisco Bay from the legacy of organochlorine pesticides.
Connor, M.S., J.A. Davis, J. Leatherbarrow, B.K. Greenfield, A. Gunther, D. Hardin, T. Mumlet, J.J. Oram, and C. Werme (2006). Environmental Research 105(2007); 87-100.
Benthic macrofaunal assemblages of the San Francisco Estuary and Delta, USA
Thompson, B., J.A. Ranasinghe, S. Lowe, A. Melwani, S.B. Weisberg (2012). Environ Monit Assess DOI 10.1007/s10661-012-2708-8
Mussel Watch Update: Long-term trends in selected contaminants from coastal California, 1977- 2010
Melwani, A.R., Gregorio, D., Jin, Y., Stephenson, M., Ichikawa, G., Siegel, E., Crane, D., Lauenstein, G. Davis, J.A. 2014. Marine Pollution Bulletin 81(2): 291-302.
Spatial trends and impairment assessment of mercury in fish from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed.
Melwani, A.R., Bezalel, S.N., Hunt, J.A., Grenier, J.L., Davis, J.A. 2009. Environmental Pollution. 157: 3137-49.
A tiered assessment framework to evaluate human health risk of contaminated sediment
Greenfield, B.K., Melwani, A.R., Bay, S. 2014. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 11(3): 459-473.
Conceptual Foundations for Modeling Bioaccumulation in San Francisco Bay.
Melwani, A.R., Greenfield, B.K., Yee, D. and Davis, J.A. (2012). RMP Technical Report. Contribution No. 676. San Francisco Estuary Institute, Richmond, California.
Optimizing sampling methods for pollutant loads and trends in San Francisco Bay urban stormwater monitoring. A technical report for the Sources Pathways and Loading Workgroup of the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality.
Melwani, A., Lent, M., Greenfield, B., and McKee, L., 2010. San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, CA. Final Draft.
Estimated Sediment Contaminant Concentrations Associated with Biological Impacts at San Diego Bay Clean-up Sites
Thompson, B., Melwani, A.R., and Hunt, J.A. (2009). SWRCB Agreement No. 08-194-190, Contribution No. 584, Aquatic Science Center, Oakland, California.
Seasonal and annual trends in forage fish mercury concentrations
Greenfield, BK, Melwani, AR, Allen, RM, Slotton, DG, Ayers, SM, Harrold, KH, Ridolfi, K, Jahn, A, Grenier, JL, Sandheinrich, SB, 2013, San Francisco Bay, Science of the Total Environment 444: 591-601.