Enterococci are found in high concentrations in human feces, usually between 104 and 106
bacteria per gram wet weight (Layton, Walters, Lam, & Boehm, 2010; Slanetz & Bartley …

Although infectious disease risk from recreational exposure to waterborne pathogens has
been an active area of research for decades, beach sand is a relatively unexplored habitat …

The release of untreated sewage introduces non‐indigenous microbial populations of
uncertain composition into surface waters. We used massively parallel 454 pyrosequencing …

Catchment urbanization perturbs the water and sediment budgets of streams, degrades
stream health and function, and causes a constellation of flow, water quality, and ecological …

Field studies were conducted to assess the coastal water quality impact of stormwater runoff
from the Santa Ana River, which drains a large urban watershed located in southern …

Real-time PCR was applied to quantify the abundance of human adenoviruses in two
southern California urban rivers, the San Gabriel and Los Angeles. A total of 114 river …

Monitoring the water quality of recreational beaches is only one step toward understanding
microbial contamination—the primary cause of beach closings. The surf zone sediment …

Aims: To determine the levels and species distribution of enterococci in intertidal and marine
sediments and coastal waters at two beaches frequently in violation of bacterial water …

Short-lived radium isotopes (223Ra and 224Ra) are used to investigate the potential
association between groundwater discharge and microbial pollution at Huntington Beach …

The potential for carbonaceous sorbents to improve contaminant removal (particularly for
trace organic contaminants, TOrCs) in stormwater biofilters was evaluated in intermittently …