About

This preliminary application was built by Ben Best (ben@ecoquants.com) while consulting for CalCOFI and motivated to more easily map and query pollutants in the Southern California Bight based on presentations at the half-day workshop Incorporating & coordinating pollutant time series into a California pollutant monitoring program led by Matt Savoca (Stanford) at the CalCOFI Conference - Dec 7, 2022 with presentations by:

• Scott Coffin (CA Water Board)
  Legislative drivers for microplastics, PFAS, ubiquitous tire chemical (6PPD Quinone)
• Amalia Almada (USC) & Lian Guo (California Sea Grant)
  DDT+ Research Needs Assessment report
• Noelle Bowlin (NOAA CalCOFI)
  CalCOFI Pollutant Sampling Efforts
• Karen McLaughlin (SCCWRP)
  SCCWRP Pollutant Sampling Efforts

Karen McLaughlin presented on the Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Program | SCCWRP, from which tabular (*.csv) files were downloaded by navigating via the following:

• Bight Regional Monitoring | ArcGIS.com
  • Bight ’18 Regional Monitoring
    • Bight ’18 Sediment Chemistry Harmonized
      Bight_18_Sediment_Chemistry_Harmonized.csv
  • Bight ’13 Regional Monitoring
    • Bight ’13 Sediment Chemistry Harmonized
      Bight_13_Sediment_Chemistry_Harmonized.csv
  • Bight ’08 Regional Monitoring
    • Bight ’08 Sediment Chemistry Harmonized
      Bight_08_Sediment_Chemistry_Harmonized.csv

To see how these data were processed and displayed, see the R code here:

• Script: Process SCCWRP Bight Data
• App: github.com/CalCOFI/pollutants-app: app