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Delivering visionary science that empowers people to revitalize nature in our communities. We advance science to rebuild and sustain chemical, physical, and biological health in our environment. https://www.sfei.org/
SFEI is looking for a freelance social media coordinator to help us manage and grow our social media presence! See the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) here → https://www.sfei.org/about/rfps
@abc7news.bsky.social covered how our stormwater team built robot helpers to sample for contaminants in urban stormwater runoff! The scientists ("stormwater detectives") will use the data as clues about unidentified sources of chemicals flowing to the Bay 🔎
abc7news.com/post/san-fra...
Learn more about what it takes to study stormwater, and why it matters to protect people and wildlife who rely on the Bay.
https://www.sfei.org/news/storm-chasers-how-stormwater-reveals-more-ever-about-pollution-san-francisco-bay
When rainstorms give urban areas a bath, where does all the water go? For most of the Bay Area, it flows straight to San Francisco Bay and picks up contaminants along the way.
Public comment open on California’s draft Statewide Plastics Monitoring Strategy and Planning Framework. A science-based plan to track macro- and microplastics across freshwater, estuarine, and marine waters.
Comments due March 11.
Webinar on February 25.
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/OPC-SEFI-PLASTICS
Our Nutrient Management Strategy team making a difference studying harmful algal blooms👏
🌱 New Report Alert! 🌱
A new SFEI report has lessons for urban greening gleaned from diverse case studies in The Sunset Natural Resilience Project.
Read more here: https://www.sfei.org/projects/sunset-natural-resilience-project#toc-publications
Funded by the California State Coastal Conservancy
A map of SF Bay showing the locations of several moorings in South and Lower South SF Bay
My colleagues at the Nutrient Management Strategy at @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social have published for the first time our moored station dataset, with 15-min biogeochemical data from 11 stations surrounding SF Bay, some of them going back to 2013!
www.sfei.org/data/san-fra...
Bringing these back because love for the San Francisco Estuary never gets old.
Which Valentine would you be most excited to get? Click each image to see the full Valentine.
#ThrowbackThursday #bayarea #climateresilience
Our scientists have been hard at work drafting the first statewide strategy to monitor plastic waste across California. Please share among organizations involved in monitoring plastics in California and leave a comment!
www.sfei.org/projects/sta...
I stumbled on an @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social “State of the Estuary” report from 1992 and this is easily my favorite graphic. Birbs here. More birbs over there.
I've been at @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social for 4 years!
During this time I've become a hardcore estuary/wetland stan.
This Bay surprises me in the data every day! I love to look at it and marvel at its greatness and mystery.
At the end of the day, I continue to do it for the clams tho!
Chabot looks back on his time at SFEI with gratitude. “I was given the privilege of serving 50 brilliant, passionate, public interest scientists. There are now almost 100 of them. It was the best decade of my professional life.”
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In his decade of service as executive director at the San Francisco Estuary Institute, Warner Chabot worked to build partnerships across agencies and elevate the Institute's science while maintaining what he called its "platinum reputation." @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social
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Master's student Emet Levy in the Department of Design at San Francisco State University was inspired to animate some key findings from our San Francisco Bay Microplastics Study! Check it out.
What other studies would you like to see as animations?
We hit a milestone this November! Californians interested in how streams and wetlands are doing can now view more than 10,000 field assessments collected with the California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM) on EcoAtlas, from big cities to remote corners of the state.
“I was given the privilege of serving 50 brilliant, passionate, public interest scientists. There are now almost 100 of them. It was the best decade of my professional life."
Thank you Warner Chabot, who recently retired from SFEI after 11 years of dedicated service as our executive director!
🌊 How healthy is the San Francisco Bay? Join us at the San Francisco Public Library Environmental Center on Tuesday, January 27th at 5:30-6:30 pm where SFEI’s Interim Executive Director Emily Corwin will translate complex Bay science into clear, actionable insights. Learn more via link in bio.
An egret flies over reeds in a wetland on a cloudy day. The visual reads: An interactive tour of the State of the Our Estuary Platform, Jan 22 at 12 pm. Register today! Logo: Our Estuary Logo.
We, along with our partners at the @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social, are happy to announce that the new hub for Our Estuary is now available online!
Join us on January 22, 2026, for a guided tour of the OurEstuary.org platform's new data tracking and visualization tools. Register now: bit.ly/49qVK5o
The most comprehensive place to find natural histories for Bay species is the Species and Community Profiles from the first Baylands and Habitat Goals. Kathy Boyer would be the best expert to ask for more details!
www.waterboards.ca.gov/rwqcb2/water...
The LA Times covered the latest State of Our Estuary report produced by @sfestuary.bsky.social and us. Check out the interactive report at ourestuary.org!
Here's a snapshot of the 17 indicators we considered.
Thanks for highlighting the State of Our Estuary! The report is free to explore at ourestuary.org.
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Learn more in our Pulse of the Bay report by the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality:
There are hundreds of chemicals in tires. In 2020, our scientists were part of a team that discovered one that's so deadly for coho salmon that they'd die from less than a drop in an Olympic-sized pool.
Webinar on how to use the Profile Tool in EcoAtlas to access wetland monitoring metrics on #Wetlands restoration in #SanFranciscoBay.
📅 Jan 14 | 12 PM 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/vnulzwmlif
#SanFranciscoBay #Wetlands #HabitatRestoration #Conservation #Estuary
Register for a Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program webinar! 🌊
Learn to use the Profile Tool in EcoAtlas to access wetland monitoring metrics. Useful for scientists tracking #Wetlands restoration in #SanFranciscoBay.
📅 Jan 14 | 12 PM 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/dtbpwuszxo
Is the San Francisco Estuary thriving or suffering?
Our latest scorecard compresses 13 complex health indicators into a single, easy-to-read snapshot. Expand the images to see the good news and the red flags.
#SanFranciscoEstuary #Estuary #SanFranciscoBay #Delta
