Southern California Bight 2008 Regional Monitoring Program: III.-Sediment Chemistry

摘要

The 2008 Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program (Bight '08) is part of an effort to provide an integrated assessment of the SCB through cooperative regional-scale monitoring. Bight '08 is a continuation of regional surveys conducted in 1994, 1998, and 2003 that represents the joint efforts of more than 90 organizations (Appendix A). Bight '08 is organized into six technical components: (1) Coastal Ecology; (2) Shoreline Microbiology; (3) Water Quality; (4) Areas of Special Biological Significance; (5) Rocky Reefs; and (6) Wetlands. This report presents the results of the sediment chemistry portion of Bight '08, which is a part of the Coastal Ecology component. Other Coastal Ecology components include sediment toxicity, benthic macrofauna, and demersal fish and megabenthic invertebrates.