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College of Science

Department of Marine Science

Research projects supported to some extent by Rote Program funds (2008-2023) 

  • Site Characterization and Monitoring of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
  • Quantification of Environmental Impact from the Laying of Fiber Optic Cables in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
  • Fish Movement in the Grey's Reef National Marine Sanctuary
  • Missions to the Aquarius Undersea Research Laboratory in (2008 and 2010)
  • Seafloor Habitat Recovery Monitoring Program (western Gulf of Maine)
  • Effects of Bottom Trawling on the South African Continental Shelf
  • Site Characterization in Support of a Potential National Marine Sanctuary off the Klamath River
  • Site Characterization of Church Rock, Morro Bay, CA
  • MPA Monitoring in Sardinia, Italy
  • Central California Trawling Impact and Recovery Project 
  • North Central Coast Marine Protected Area Baseline Characterization and Monitoring 
  • San Clemente Island Baseline Characterization and Monitoring Project 
  • South Coast Marine Protected Area Baseline Characterization and Monitoring Project
  • Evaluating Relative “Protectedness” Across Individual White Sharks in the North Eastern Pacific )
  • Long-term Monitoring of Subtidal Marine Ecosystems on the Israeli Continental Shelf 
  • System-Wide Science Support for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries 
  • Landscape Ecology of Fishes on Southern Carmel Bay’s Deep Wall and Reefs 
  • Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Published Research Studies in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary 
  • Cruising for Conservation – Group Foraging of Coral Reef Fishes in the Eastern Caribbean and the Implications for Local Diversity 
  • Strange Fish in Weird Places - Impact of Climate Change on the Distribution of California's Fish Populations 
  • Galapagos, Ecuador - Group Foraging of Coral Reef Fishes
  • Cocos Island, Costa Rica - Group Foraging of Coral Reef Fishes

Collaborators

  • South African Environmental Observation Network
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
  • Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
  • National Undersea Research Center at UNCW
  • NOAA Fisheries
  • Moss Landing Marine Labs
  • MARE
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium
  • Los Angeles County Natural History Museum
  • UC Santa Cruz
  • UC Santa Barbara
  • Camp Sea Lab
  • Oregon State University
  • NPR-KAZU
  • Center for Ocean Solutions 
  • Stanford Hopkins Marine Station
  • Marine Science Conservation
  • University of Haifa
  • NOAA ONMS
  • Shary Farr
  • University of Connecticut
  • CSU Long Beach
  • The Yurok People
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