Research Final Reports
Completion narratives or abstracts by California Sea Grant-funded researchers at the conclusion of their projects.
There are 161 publications in this collection, published between 1996 and 2017. Showing 1 - 50.
Botsford, Louis W: Adaptive Management of Marine Protected Areas: Predicting Responses to MPA Implementation for Comparison to Monitoring Data , 2017
Chang, Andrew: Effects of Freshwater Flow and Population Connectivity on Benthic Community Dynamics in the San Francisco Estuary, 2014
Friedman, Carolyn: Assessing selected Pacific Oyster stocks for disease resistance in Tomalas Bay, California, 2014
Jensen, Paul R; Moore, Bradley: Exploting marine actinomycete diversity for natural product discovery, 2014
Kling, David M; James, Sanchirico N: Controlling Marine Invasive Species: The case of the Indo-Pacific Lionfish Invasion in the Southeast U.S. and Caribbean, 2014
Kling, David M; Sanchirico, James N: Controlling Marine Invasive Species: The case of the Indo-Pacific Lionfish Invasion in the Southeast U.S. and Caribbean, 2014
Lenihan, Hunter: MPA-Based Collaborative Techniques to Improve Management of Nearshore Fisheries, 2014
Wuertz, Stefan; Shapiro, Karen; Hanley, Kaitlyn; Schriewer, Alexander; Smith, Woutrina A: Noroviruses in coastal waters: Implications for seafood cultivation and human health, 2014
Burton, Ronald: High-Throughput Molecular Identification of Fish Eggs and Larvae, 2013
Feddersen, Falk; Franks, Peter: Patch Dynamics of Nutrients, Fecal Indicator Bacteria and Chlorophyll near the Tijuana River, 2013
Harvey, James; Adams, Josh: Connectivity of West Coast Marine Sanctuaries: Tracking Sooty Shearwaters Throughout Dynamic Upwelling Ecosystems in the California Current System, 2013
Morgan, Steven; Largier, John: Cross-shelf Larval Migrations Regulating Larval Supply and Connectivity in a Network of Marine Reserves, 2013
Aluwihare, Lihini: Investigating Sources, Transformations and Fates of Brominated Compounds in the Coastal Environment, 2012
Breaker, Laurence; Cailliet, Gregor; Launer, Andrea; Wadsworth, Tom: Paradigm or Paradox: Can we Attribute Species Changes to Global Climate Change in Light of Decreasing Water Temperatures in Central California?, 2012
Carrano, Carl; Kuepper, Frithjof: The Role of Symbiotic Metabolites in the Development of Toxic Phytoplankton Blooms, 2012
Dayton, Paul; Talley, Theresa: Making Restoration More Efficient: Testing the Contributions of Planting Diversity and Introduced Plant Legacy Effects to Recovering Coastal Ecosystems, 2012
Dillon, Jesse; Whitcraft, Christine: Development of Novel Stable Isotope Approaches to Evaluate Carbon Flow in a Restored Coastal Wetland in Southern California, 2012
Gilly, William; Field, John: Ecology and Trophic Interactions of Jumbo Squid (Dosidicus gigas) in the California Current Ecosystem, 2012
Hechinger, Ryan F.; Lafferty, Kevin: Parasites as Indicators of Coastal Wetland Health, 2012
May, Bernie: Parentage in White Sturgeon, 2012
Purcell O'Dowd, Alison: Estimating the Impact of Invasive Spartina densiflora on Primary Productivity in Humboldt Bay, 2012
Steller, Diane L.; Aiello, Ivano: Reefs that Rock and Roll: Critical Assessment of Rhodolith Bed Habitat, 2012
Clemento, Anthony: Validation of a New Method for Population Assessment of Pacific Salmonids Using Genetic Markers, 2011
Cummings, David E.; Top, Eva: Transferrable Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids in Urban Coastal Wetlands, 2011
Ebert, David: Trophic ecology of the Gopher Rockfish (Sebastes carnatus): providing baseline information for monitoring marine protected areas, 2011
Ford, Tom; Pondella, Dan: Sea Urchin Gonad Index a Key to Understanding Secondary Production in the Restoration of Giant Kelp Forests off Palos Verdes, 2011
Gerwick, William; Gerwick, Lena: Harnessing the Pharmaceutical Potential of Marine Cyanobacteria, 2011
Goddard, Jeffrey; Pearse, John: Long-term Faunal Changes in California Nudibranchs: Climate Change and Local Ocean Health, 2011
Kudela, Raphael; Miller, Melissa: Extending the Use of Solid Phase Adsorption Toxin Tracking to the Land-Sea Interface, 2011
Levin, Lisa A.: A Novel Approach to Evaluating Patterns of Vertical Distribution in Cryptic Larvae: Application of Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (FISH) and a Large-Particle Cell Sorter, 2011
Levin, Lisa A.; Rasmussen, Linda L.: Understanding connectivity to sustain and manage coastal resources, 2011
Miller, Woutrina A.; Watson, Fred: Climate change and restoration factors affecting fecal pathogen dynamics in wetland systems, 2011
Pernet, Bruno; Archie, James: Transport of Ghost Shrimp as Live Bait: Potential Effects on Impacted Southern California Populations, 2011
Shaffer, Scott; Moore, Jonathan W.: Exploring the Impact of Avian Predators on Central California Salmonids, 2011
Wang, Xiaochun; Chao, Yi: Developing the capability to monitor and predict upwelling along the California coast using an ocean circulation model, 2011
Boehm, Alexandria B; Paytan, Adina: Understanding submarine groundwater discharge and its influence on coastal water quality along the California Coast, 2010
Breaker, Laurence C.; Welschmeyer, Nicholas A.: Detecting, Characterizing and Determining the Biological Response to Regime Shifts off the California Coast, 2010
Caselle, Jennifer E.; Lowe, Christopher: Assessing changes in life history traits and reproductive function of CA sheephead across its range: historical comparisons and the effects of fishing, 2010
De Ley, Paul: Nematode Community Analysis for Monitoring Meiofaunal Response to the Bolsa Chica Wetlands Restoration Project, 2010
Feddersen, Falk; Guza, Robert T.: Dispersion in the Surfzone: Tracer Studies for Water Quality and Ecology, 2010
Gracey, Andrew Y.: Oyster Disease Research Program: Building Gene Expression-Based Predictors of Oyster Summer Mortality Syndrome, 2010
Graham, Jeffrey B.; Cartamil, Daniel P.: Binational Studies Leading to an Ecosystems-based Management Strategy for Common Thresher Shark in the Southern California Bight (SCB)., 2010
Grosholz, Edwin D; Zabin, Chela: Investigating the Limits of Native Oyster Recovery and Restoration, 2010
Hovel, Kevin; Lowe, Christopher: California spiny lobsters and benthic community structure in Southern California: top-down and bottom-up interactions, 2010
Jensen, Paul R.; Moore, Bradley S.: Biomedical Development of New Marine Microbial Resources, 2010
Moore, James D.: A Comprehensive Oyster Disease Survey in California, 2010
Nizet, Victor: Understanding the Pathogenesis of Streptococcus iniae Infection in Fish and Development of an Effective Vaccine for Use in Aquaculture, 2010
Sydeman, William J.; Bograd, Steven J.: Tackling Ecological Complexity and Climate Change: Matches and Mismatches in the Seasonal Cycle of California's Marine Flora and Fauna, 2010
Thayer, Julie A.; Sydeman, William; Field, John: Collaborative Fisheries Research in Support of Ecosystem-‐Based Salmon Management in Northern California, 2010
Whitcraft, Christine R.; Bengt, Allen J.: Evaluating the Functional Recovery of Restored Coastal Wetland in Southern California, 2010