Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. Also see this great video. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• How much trash is there in and around the Bay
• Kinds of trash: Plastic, toxins, biodegradability
• Impact on wildlife in the Bay
• Global ramifications - Great Pacific Garbage Patch
• Bay trash hot spots
• What is being done, e.g., legislation, Coastal Cleanup Days

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three resources you use for your research. You might also want to check out The Ohlone Way by Malcolm Margolin (especially the chapter almost amphibious is applicable to our class). And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• Tule and its use by Native Americans in our region
• Other relevant plant uses by Native Americans in our region
• Landscape management by Native Americans before the Spanish
• Natural resource use by Native Americans

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• Describe the ppickleweeds and their habitat requirements
• Adaptations to salt water
• Threats to pickleweed and salt marsh harvest mice
• Importance of pickleweed for the saltmarsh harvest mouse
• Threats to pickleweed and salt marsh harvest mice
• Information on salt marsh harvest mouse

More information

• http://www.fws.gov/desfbay/Archives/Salty/salty.htm
• the 30 million dollar mouse
• EPA on the mouse

Here is a link and another link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• Describe the plants and their habitat
• Origin of the plant
• History in the US and the Bay
• What makes it a good invader
• What negative impact does it have
• What can be done?

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• Geography
• History: Native Americans, Chinese, and State Park
• Bay Shrimp

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• What is a salt marsh?
• How did the SF Bay salt marshes form?
• Geology of salt marshes around the Bay
• Influences on salt marshes around the Bay
• Destruction of salt marshes around the Bay

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• What is Sudden Oak Death
• Where in the Bay Area does it occur?
• Which plants are affected?
• What impact does it have on Bay Area ecology?
• What is being done around the Bay Area?
• What is today's extend of Sudden Oak Death in the Bay Area?

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• What is eel grass?
• Why is eelgrass important for wildlife in the Bay?
• What is being done to restore eelgrass in the Bay?
• How successful are the restoration efforts?

See also San Francisco Bay Subtidal Habitat Report on eel grass

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• History of Bayfront park
• Use of Bayfront park
• Habitats at Bayfront park
• Wildlife at Bayfront park
• Conflicts of interest surrounding Bayfront park

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• History of Bay conservation - you might start with the Bay infill plan and Save the Bay
• Bay Conservation and Development Commission
• Groups focussing on environmental restoration
• Groups focussing on research
• Groups focussing on wildlife conservation
• Bay trail

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• What are the main flyways in the US
• What is the Pacific flyway?
• Which birds use the Pacific flyway
• The importance of the SF Bay for birds on the flyway
• Highlight some migratory birds, where they come from, what they do here, where they go from here
• Timing of flyway use

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• Desribe the clapper rail and its habitat needs
• Where is it found?
• Why is it endangered?
• What is being done to protect it from extinction?
• http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-08-19/bay-area/29903933_1_clapper-rails-birders-habitat
• http://www.spartina.org/project_documents/clapper_rails/project-clra2010.htm

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• What makes a duck a duck?
• Diving versus dabbling ducks
• Prominent duck species in the SF Bay and their habitat needs
• Issues facing duck populations around SF Bay

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• What makes a shorebird a shorebird?
• How do shorebirds avoid each others competition (niche partitioning)?
• Differences in beaks and legs
• Prominent shore birds of the SF Bay
• Issues facing shore bird populations around SF Bay

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• Former use of Palo Alto Baylands
• Use of Palo Alto Baylands now
• Habitats at Palo Alto Baylands
• Wildlife at Palo Alto Baylands
• Issues surrounding Bayfront park

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• Desribe the plant and its habitat
• The problem of non-native Spartina species
• Differences between native and non-native Spartina species
• What is being done to fight invasive Spartina species?
• How successful is the fight against non-native Spartina species?

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• Describe ground squirrels and their habitat needs
• Importance of ground squirrels for other species and grasslands
• The burrow system
• Adaptations of ground squirrels, e.g., defenses against predators
• California sand flies and ground squirrels

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• History of salt production in SF Bay, Native Americans to today
• How does the salt production process work?
• Impact of salt production in the Bay on Bay wildlife

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• Salt pond restoration projects in the Bay (see also this video starting at 20.5 min)
• Goals of salt pond restoration
• Mercury and salt pond restoration
• Wildlife and salt pond restoration

Here is a link to a KQED quest article that should be one of the minimum of three sources you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• Historic and current population sizes of Western gulls in the South Bay
• How does the life history of Western gulls explain their success in the South Bay
• Impact on restoration efforts, see also this article
• What solutions exist?

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• Bay as a nursery for commercial fish elsewhere
• The importance of herring and bay shrimp for Bay ecology
• Relative success of different species
• Factors threatening survival of different fish species in the Bay

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• What is mercury (different forms)
• History of mercury in the Bay Area
• Scope of the mercury problem in the Bay
• Impact of mercury on human health, water quality, and wildlife
• What other pollutants are of concern in the Bay?
• What is being done to deal Bay pollution?

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• Costco Busan and Dubai Star oil spills in the Bay in the last ten years
• Impact of oil spills on wildlife - short term and long term, also watch this video presentation
• Emphasis on impact of oil spills on birds - which bird species are most vulnerable?
• What is being done to deal with oil spills and prevent future spills?

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. There is also an informative KQED video about sewage spills in the Bay Area. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• Scope of the problem
• Impact of sewage on wildlife
• History of major sewage spills around the Bay
• What is being done to deal with sewage spills and prevent future spills?

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• What are delta smelt - what are their habitat needs?
• Delta smelt population sizes in the Bay - historic and now
• Importance of delta smelt for the Bay
• Threats to delta smelt populations
• Delta smelt and the Endangered Species Act
• What is being done to help delta smelt conservation

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• What is the does the project propose?
• What impact would the project have on wildlife in the Bay?
• Describe the controversies around the project

Here is a link to an article that should be one of the minimum of three articles you use for your research. And, as a starting point, this is what your report should address as a minimum:

• History of invasive mollusks in the SF Bay
• Scope of the problem
• Prominent invasive mollusks in the Bay and the threats they pose to native wildlife
• What is being done to fight invasive mollusks in the Bay?