PubTalk 7/2011 — How is San Francisco Bay Doing?

discoveries from 4 decades of studies

by Jim Cloern, Senior Research Biologist

• San Francisco Bay is in a continual state of change.
• Drivers of change include:
  • residiual effects of the Gold Mining era
  • the 1972 Clean Water Act
  • urbanization of the landscape
  • transoceanic shipping
  • damming of rivers
  • a 1999 climate shift across the North Pacific