Science: Pollution and Water Quality

• Scientific Study and Evaluation Program
• Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center
• Oil Spill Response Technology Workshops
• Oiled Wildlife Care Network Research Program
• Oil Spill Restoration Reports

(list not comprehensive)

• Hwang, H-M, Stanton, B., McBride, T., Anderson, M. PAH body residues and lysosomal membrane destabilization in mussels exposed to Dubai Star bunker fuel oil (IFO 380) spill in San Francisco Bay. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry; 33(5): 1117-1121; 2014.
• Cosco Busan Trustee Council. Cosco Busan Oil Spill Final Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan / Environmental Assessment (PDF). Cosco Busan oil spill trustees; 2/2012.
• California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response. Biomarker Ratio Database and Search Tool (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 2/1/2011.
• Stanton, B., de Vries, S., Donohoe, R., Anderson, M. Recommended Avian Toxicity Reference Value for Cadmium: Justification and Rationale for Use in Ecological Risk Assessments. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 16(6): 1261-1277; 2010
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service and California Department of Fish and Game. Kinder Morgan Suisun Marsh diesel fuel oil spill final damage assessment and restoration plan/environmental assessment (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 8/9/2010.
• Castro Cove Trustee Council. Chevron Castro Cove Richmond Refinery Final Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan / Environmental Assessment (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 6/2010.
• Ambrose, R.F. and N. Diaz. Pre-spill Assessments of Coastal Habitat Resources: Volume II: Quick Response Protocols (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 5/26/2010.
• Jessup, D. A. Oiled Wildlife Infrared Camera SSEP Study P0475035 (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 5/26/2010.
• Lewis, R. D. PISCES II Model Simulation of Oil Spills and Protection Strategies (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 5/26/2010.
• Nevins, H.M., E.M. Philips, C. Gibble and J.T. Harvey. Central Coast Marine Bird Health Study: Year 3 (2005-2007) (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 5/26/2010.
• Leifer,I., K. Wilson, R. Lewis, R. Imai and J. Tarpley. Oil Emissions from Nearshore and Onshore Summerland: Final Report April 11, 2007 (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 6/10/2010.
• Svejkovsky, J. and J. Muskat. Development and evaluation of a cost-effective aerial imaging system for oil spill and coastal impact monitoring (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 6/3/2010.
• Tjeerdema, R.S., C. Lin, and B.S. Anderson. Acute and chronic effects of crude and dispersed oil on chinook salmon smolts (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 6/3/2010.
• Tjeerdema, R.S., A.P. Scoy, B.S. Anderson, and B. Phillips. Acute and Chronic Effects of Crude Versus Dispersed Oil on Pre-smolt Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshwytscha) (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 5/26/2010.
• Ford, R.G., B.E. Sharp and M. Zafonte. The Efficiency of Searchers Recovering Seabirds and Waterfowl Killed in the 1997 M/V Kure Oil Spill in Northern California (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 6/3/2010.
• Klassing, K. Effects of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) ingestion on Japanese Quail (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 6/3/2010.
• Henkel, L.A., R.G. Ford, W.B. Tyler, J.N. Davis, T. Haff, B. Keitt and H. Nevins. Comparison of aerial and at-sea survey methods for estimating abundance and distribution of marbled murrelets and other marine birds and mammals (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 6/3/2010.
• Svejkovsky, J. and J. Muskat. Development and Evaluation of Remote Sensing and Portable GIS Technologies in a Real-time Oil Spill Detection and Response System (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 6/3/2010.
• Duerr, R.S., M.H. Ziccardi, J.G. Massey and Y.N. Addassi. Physical Effects of Chemically and Physically Dispersed Oil on Wildlife (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 6/3/2010.
• Joab, B. D. Crane, and B. Todd . Validation of RaPID Assay® Immunoassay TPH Test Kits against Standard DFG Laboratory Techniques- Final Report for FY 2005-2006 Work (extended to FY 2006-2007) (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 6/3/2010.
• Lewis, R.D., Dr. P. Arms and M. Noonan. PISCES II (Potential Incident Simulation Control and Evaluation System) (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 5/26/2010.
• Hampton, S. and G. Ford. Compilation of At-Sea Seabird Survey Data for California (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 5/26/2010.
• Newell, G. and J.D. Paduan. Integration of Satellite Imagery with Surface Current Mapping Radar in Near Real Time (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 5/26/2010.
• French-McCay, D. and J.R. Payne. Dispersed Oil Monitoring Plan (DOMP) (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 5/26/2010.
• Whiting, M. Benefits, Particularly to Furred and Feathered Wildlife, of the Use of Biodegradable, Particulate Sorbent (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 5/26/2010.
• Ambrose, R.F. and N. Diaz. Pre-spill Assessments of Coastal Habitat Resources: Volume I: Development of Protocols, assessment kits (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 5/26/2010.
• Stanton, B., R. Donohoe, S. de Vries, M. Eichelberger and M. Anderson. Cadmium toxicity in birds: Updating the toxicity reference value used in predictive ecological risk assessments in California (PDF). SETAC NA 2008 Annual Meeting Poster. California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 11/2008.
• NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Cosco Busan - The 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill: assessing toxic injury to Pacific herring embryos and larvae in the San Francisco estuary (PDF). Cosco Busan oil spill trustees; 11/30/2007.
• Zafonte, M., Hampton, S. Lost bird-years: Quantifying bird injuries in natural resource damage assessments in oil spills, Proceedings of the 2005 International Oil Spill Conference, May 15-19, 2005, Miami, Fl. (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 5/5/2005.
• Hampton, S., Zafonte, M. Discounting and uncertainty in natural resource damage assessments (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 2004.
• Hampton, S., Zafonte, M. Calculating Compensatory Restoration in Natural Resource Damage Assessments: Recent Experience in California (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 10/1/2002.
• Hampton, S., Ph.D. and J. Yamamoto, Ph.D. Searles Lake - Assessment of Natural Resource Injuries to Birds at Searles Lake (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 4/9/2002.
  • Hampton, S., Ph.D. and J. Yamamoto, Ph.D. Searles Lake Appendix A - Table of Birds Recovered and Total Estimated Kill (PDF). California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response; 9/2001.