The Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) for Trace Substances in the San Francisco Estuary is a $1,000,000 + per annum program administered by the San Francisco Estuary Institute and the State of California Water Resource Control Board.

AMS provides program management and coordinates the field sampling program for this long-term study of the presence, abundance and distribution of contaminants in the San Francisco Estuary.

The program includes sampling water, sediments, and bivalve tissues for a suite of trace metals and organics constituents.
This program delivers over 40,000 data points annually, providing the State of California its first synoptic assessment of toxic contamination in the estuary.