Measuring the Estuary's Health
Unlike other world-class natural areas, there was no measure of the health of the San Francisco Bay and its watershed until The Bay Institute published the first comprehensive assessment of the estuary’s health.
 
Based on state-of-the-art theory and applications and reviewed by the nation’s leading indicators experts and estuarine scientists, the Ecological Scorecard combines a wide range of multi-metric indicators into eight indexes that evaluate fish, bird and invertebrate communities; measure flow, habitat and water quality conditions; and rate human uses of and impacts on the Bay-Delta environment.

Click here to go the Ecological Scorecard page in our publication section.