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ROMBERG TIBURON CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH & SERVICE ORGANIZATION
SIX YEAR REPORT
2006 - 2012
Dr. Newell “Toby” Garfield
Director and Professor of Oceanography
Table of Contents
Highlights
1
1. RSO Profile
2
2. Academic and Public Service
4
a. SF State faculty
4
b. Seminar Series
8
c. Course information and enrollment
19
d. Peer-reviewed publications
23
e. Master’s theses
35
f. Scholarship awards
43
g. Community education and outreach
50
3. Administration
53
a. Directors, acting directors and associate directors
53
b. Directors and advisory board
54
c. Administrative personnel
57
RTC organizational chart
58
d. Other RTC personnel
59
e. Tenant researchers and staff
63
4. Physical Facilities and Space
64
a. Description, location and amount of space
67
b. Major infrastructure repairs
68
5. Financial Data
71
a. Active grants
71
b. Non-grant revenue and expenses
82
6. Site Map
89
HIGHLIGHTS
•
Completion of the $4.5 million Phase II renovation of Building 36, which constructed two classrooms, a
library, three laboratories, a conference room, a commons room, new restrooms, the NERR headquarters,
ADA access to all floors and 20 offices. Phase I, completed in 1998, ($2.9 million) refurbished two
laboratories, built four new laboratories and a culture room. Building 36 is the main RTC research facility.
•
Transfer of the 36-acre property to the California State University trustees from the federal government. An
11 acre parcel was transferred from the Department of Commerce in 2007, and 2008 saw the completion of
the 30-year lease and subsequent transfer of 25 acres from the Department of Education.
•
A NSF FSML planning grant and internal funds were combined to hire Flad Architects of San Francisco to
conduct a RTC Facilities Feasibility Study. RTC faculty are working with the Advisory Board to complete an
internal Strategic Plan that includes the offering of the Marine Sciences master’s degree.
•
Two new staff positions, the Operations Director and the Grants Administrator, were created. With 66 active
grants worth over $27 million, RTC-based grant activity remains strong.
•
Graduate students based at RTC increased from 31 to 49, and 42 students completed their graduate
degrees. RTC students were awarded $895,000 in scholarships, including nine ARCS Scholarships, 11
Maxwell Scholarships and three Kelley Scholarships.
•
The RTC Advisory Board first conducted a self-evaluation of purpose and goals and then created a Strategic
Planning committee to review and restructure the Advisory Board to increase its effectiveness in community
outreach and fundraising.
SUMMARY OF CUMULATIVE AND ANNUAL DATA
2006-2012
RTC course enrollments for RTC faculty
Campus course enrollments for RTC faculty
Peer-reviewed publications
Research funds awarded (includes subcontracts)
919
2499
160
$41,507,025
Indirect cost return
$3,727,947
Funds raised from donors, foundation, & government sources
$1,382,150
Theses Completed by RTC Students
Total completed (1981-2012)
Completed during report period (2006-2012)
Individuals in Residence or Associated with RTC
125
42
2011-2012
PhD level scientists (faculty, senior scientists, SF State faculty associate, adjunct faculty and post docs)
29
Research Technicians and COAST staff
25
RTC Graduate students (including Art Department Students)
60
Other Personnel (graduate and undergraduate interns, student assistants and volunteers, high school
volunteers, volunteers and SF Bay NERR staff)
90
Administrative Staff
23
Tenants (SERC and Taxon Biosciences, Inc.)
Total Number of Individuals Working On Site at RTC
RTC Advisory Board Members
Romberg Tiburon Center, Six Year Report - 2012
28
255
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1. RSO PROFILE
History
The Paul F. Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental
Studies (RTC) is San Francisco State University’s (SF
State) marine research field station and it is located
approximately 20 miles north of the main campus on
the Tiburon Peninsula, Marin County. The original
25-acre parcel was acquired in 1978 by the late Dr.
Romberg, then President of SF State, as government
surplus property. SF State entered into a 30-year
lease arrangement under the auspices of the US
Department of Education. The lease expired in 2008
and the property was deeded to the California State
University (CSU) Trustees. In 2007 an additional
contiguous parcel of 11 acres was vacated by the
federal government and deeded to the CSU Trustees
by a congressional appropriation, bringing SF State’s
RTC campus to a total of 36 acres.
Mission and Scope
The Center’s mission is to advance understanding
of the world’s complex marine and estuarine
environments through research, education, and
outreach, with a focus on San Francisco Bay. RTC
is recognized as a leading estuarine and coastal
academic institution studying San Francisco Bay and
estuary, and central California coastal environmental
topics. As the only marine science teaching and
research facility located on San Francisco Bay the second largest estuary in the United States
- our laboratory stretches from the Bay to coastal
environments around the world. Researchers,
faculty and students study biodiversity, community
ecology, ecological physiology, evolutionary biology,
microbiology, molecular biology, oceanography and
wetland ecology and restoration. We endeavor to
prepare the next generation of scientists to carry on
this critical work around the world through hands-on
research under the direct mentorship of renowned
faculty.
RTC is committed to highlighting the importance of
marine environments to the public by sharing our
scientific expertise through education and outreach
activities. We reach a local audience ranging from
children to adults, students to teachers, in both formal
and informal settings. Our ties and partnerships
with local organizations that share our mission
continue to evolve. In an effort to expand our reach
to the local community we currently collaborate with
Aquarium of the Bay, Bay Area Discovery Museum,
the Exploratorium, Lawrence Hall of Science, The
California Academy of Sciences, Environmental
Traveling Companions, and The Marine Mammal
Center.
RTC played a significant role in establishing California
cooperative science programs, including the CSU
Council on Ocean Affairs Science and Technology
(COAST); the California Interagency Ecological
Program; the Coastal Conservancy’s Living Shorelines
Program; the CALFED Environmental Restoration
Program; the Central and Northern California Ocean
Observing Systems (CeNCOOS); and, the Coastal
Ocean Currents Monitoring Program (COCMP).
Relationship with Academic Departments on
Campus
RTC faculty are composed of tenure-track and
lecturers from the College of Science & Engineering’s
Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Geosciences,
and Geography and Human Environmental
Studies departments. They are assigned teaching
responsibilities by their home departments and
participate in departmental procedures for accepting
graduate students. In general, lower division classes
are taught on the main campus and the specialized,
upper division classes are taught at RTC.
The College of Liberal & Creative Arts has two units
with a presence at RTC. The graduate art students
have studio space on the top floor of Building 49 and
the ceramics group has a facility for Raku firing. In
addition, the Anthropology Department maintains a
collection of Native American artifacts in Building 50.
No faculty from The College of Liberal & Creative Arts
are located at RTC.
Plans for the Future
Recent and future solar projects at RTC exemplify
the goals of the Center and positions the university
as an environmental leader in the community as the
installations are the university’s only photovoltaic
arrays. Completed in 2005, the solar installation on the
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roof of the Bay Conference Center was funded by foundation and private donor dollars, and provides power to the
conference center. A current donation is the installation of solar panels above the Building 36 parking area, which
will generate electricity for Building 36.
Previous annual RSO reports, the prior 10-year review and accompanying external review, and the 2010 site
development plan are all available on the RTC website (http://rtc.sfsu.edu/about/documents.htm). Many of the
resources that were used in developing these reports, along with other reports can be found on an internal website
(http://rtc.sfsu.edu/masterplan_downloads.htm).
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2. ACADEMIC AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Table 2.a. SF State Faculty
1. RTC/SF State faculty
Name
Title
Years of Service
Department / Affiliation
1976 - Current
Physics
Research Field and Description
Dr. Roger Bland
Professor (Emeritus 2010)
Physicist; studies underwater acoustical monitoring using sonar signals to measure water temperature and current speed
circulation patterns in SF Bay.
Dr. Katharyn Boyer
Associate Professor
2003 - Current
Biology
Wetland and Coastal Community Ecologist; studies the role of species interactions in ecosystem functioning, invasive species
and nutrient dynamics, and restoration in wetland and sea grass systems.
Dr. Edward Carpenter
Professor
2000 - Current
Biology
Biological Oceanographer; studies the ecology of marine phytoplankton, particularly cyanobacteria, and the factors affecting
primary productivity, phytoplankton species composition, and nutrient cycling in the sea.
Dr. William Cochlan
Senior Research Scientist/Lecturer
1998 - Current
Biology
Marine Microbial Ecologist/Biological Oceanographer; studies the physiology and ecology of phytoplankton and bacteria,
including harmful algal blooms (HABs).
Dr. Sarah Cohen
Associate Professor
2003 - Current
Biology
Ecological, Evolutionary Biologist and Population Geneticist; studies connectivity of marine populations, human impacts on
aquatic systems, immunogenetics, and recognition systems.
Dr. Richard Dugdale
Senior Research Scientist
1996 - Current
Biology
Biological Oceanographer; studies distributions and effects of nutrients (including anthropogenic impacts) on oceanic
productivity in estuarine, coastal and equatorial upwelling areas.
Dr. Patricia Foschi
Professor (Emeritus 2005)
1989 - 2010
Geography
Remote Sensing Specialist and Physical Geographer; integrates remote sensing, GIS and artificial intelligence for
environmental applications.
Dr. Newell Garfield
Professor
1998 - Current
Geosciences
RTC Director and Physical Oceanographer; studies oceanic circulation in coastal regions and over continental margins.
Dr. Ellen Hines
Professor
2001 - Current
Geography & Environmental Studies
Marine Mammal Ecologist and Biogeographer, Marine and Coastal GIS and Remote Sensing; studies the habitat distribution
and abundance of coastal marine mammals, marine and coastal species modeling, and the conservation of marine
endangered species.
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Table 2.a. SF State faculty continued
Name
Title
Years of Service
2008-2012
Geosciences
Dr. Tim Janssen
Assistant Professor
Physical Oceanographer; studies non-linear wave dynamics in coastal areas.
Dr. Wim Kimmerer
1993-Current
Biology
Biological Oceanographer; studies growth and predation processes in zooplankton, computer modeling of ecological
systems, and analysis of human impacts on estuarine and marine ecosystems.
Dr. Tomoko Komada
Associate Professor
2004-Current
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Biogeochemist; studies the dynamics of organic matter in marine and freshwater systems, with focus on the factors affecting
the long-term organic carbon cycle.
Dr. Alexander Parker
Associate Research Scientist
2004-Current
Biology
Biological Oceanographer/Estuarine Biogeochemicst; studies the impacts of urbanization and associated stressors on
primary producers and heterotrophic bacteria.
Dr. Dale Robinson
1998-Current
Biology
Phytoplankton Ecologist and Physiologist; examines changes in ocean productivity and photosynthesis.
Dr. Jonathon Stillman
Associate Professor
2005 Current
Biology
Marine Ecological Physiologist; studies adaptations of marine organisms to environmental stress, including temperature
stress and the effects of climate change.
Dr. Anne Todgham
Assistant Professor
2009-Current
Biology
Ecological Physiologist; studies the molecular, biochemical and physiological mechanisms that underlie an animal’s capacity
to cope with environmental change, with eye towards climate change.
Dr. Gerdi Weidner
Adjunct Faculty
2010-Current
Biology
Psychobiologist; studies the contribution of environmental, behavioral, and psychological factors to non-communicable
chronic diseases.
Dr. Frances Wilkerson
Senior Research Scientist/Lecturer
1996-Current
Biology
Marine Biologist/Biological Oceanographer; studies the role of phytoplankton in nitrogen cycling in coastal and estuarine
ecosystems with a focus on diatom ecology and also marine symbiosis.
2. SF Bay NERR scientists
Name
Title
Years of Service
2003 - Current
RTC/COSE
Dr. Jaime Kooser
Director
Resource Geographer; manages the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve with a focus on tidal marsh
restoration, using science to inform coastal zone management decisions, and studying the relationship between land use
and water quality.
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Table 2.a. SF State faculty continued
Name
Title
Years of Service
2008-Current
RTC/COSE
Dr. Matthew Ferner
Research Coordinator
Organismal Ecologist; studies how habitat structure and fluid dynamics affect animal behavior, with a focus on marine and
estuarine invertebrates.
Dr. Drew Talley
Research Coordinator
2004-2008
RTC/COSE
Biological Oceanographer; studies the influence of habitat connectivity on wetland and coastal community structure and
function, focusing on conservation and restoration importance.
3. Tenant adjunct faculty
Name
Title
Years of Service
2003 - Current
Biology
Dr. Matthew Ashby
Adjunct Faculty
Taxon Biosciences Molecular Microbiologist; studies microbial community structure and function by applying and
developing genomics tools to determine the role microbes play in ecosystem function.
PHOTO: JUDE STALKER
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2.b. Seminar series, lecture, and conference programs
RTC hosts a regular weekly Seminar Series during
the Fall and Spring semesters at the Bay Conference
Center. The series is a graduate-level course, BIOL
883: Current RTC Research, intended for graduate
students at RTC. Additionally, the seminars are open
to the public and the schedule is posted on our web
site, announced weekly to subscribers on an email list
and is provided to local community event calendars
and area academic institutions.
In collaboration with students, faculty invite speakers
who are Ph.D. scientists at local universities, Ph.D.
scientists based at RTC and graduate students
based at RTC. The series provides an opportunity for
RTC scientists to learn about the current research
of colleagues as well as to have opportunities to
cultivate collaborative research projects. The series
also functions as an important venue where graduate
students develop their presentation skills by giving
their own research talks, and seeing others present
their research. The RTC Advisory Board generously
provides funds to offset travel costs for invited
speakers, student luncheons with the guest speaker,
and refreshments before the seminar.
Table 2.c. lists the regular and College of Extended
Learning (CEL) courses conducted at RTC. RTC
has two lecture classrooms in Building 39, the
Keck laboratory classroom and the Kern computer
classroom and a small conference room in Building
36. In general, specialized upper division and
graduate are offered on site and faculty teach lower
division classes on the main campus. The fall 2011
installation of an Echo 360 audio visual recording
system in the Kern classroom allows presentations to
be recorded and hosted on the university website.
The Bay Conference Center is also host to numerous
internal workshops, conferences and meetings. The
center is an excellent venue for investigators working
on multi-institutional grants to have workshops and
planning meetings. The facility is made available to
other SF State departments, nonprofit and educational
organizations for meetings and conferences.
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Table 2.b. RTC Seminar Series
RTC Spring 2007 Seminar Series
Jan 24
Dr. Matt Ashby
Taxon Biosciences
Understanding Microbial Community Structure and Function Through Molecular Profiles.
Jan 31
Dr. Karen Edwards
SF State University/RTC
Towards defining larval dispersal and population connectivity on the South East U.S. Continental Shelf.
Feb 7
Comparative physiology meets NIH: Lessons from clam claws.
Feb 14
Dr. Tomoko Komada
Age Discrimination in Marine Sediments? What Natural Radiocarbon Can Tell Us About Organic Matter
Degradation.
Feb 28
Dr. John Pearse
UC Santa Cruz
Reproduction in the Antarctic: Paradigm Changes in the 20th Century.
Mar 14
Dr. Kevin Stierhoff
NOAA
It’s Hard out Here for a Fish: Trials and Tribulations During Fish Early Life Histories.
Ulrika Lidstrom
RTC Graduate Student, Carpenter Lab
Primary production, biomass and species composition of phytoplankton in the Low Salinity Zone of the
northern San Francisco Estuary.
Jim Fuller
RTC Graduate Student, Wilkerson Lab
Characterizing the Carbonate system in the San Francisco Bay Estuary.
Mar 28
Dr. Anke Mueller-Solger
Department Water Resources
Down in the Delta: Pelagic Organism Decline and Zooplankton Trends and Diets in the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta.
Apr 25
Dr. Daniel Schneider
UIUC/UC Berkeley
Using Metapopulation Theory to Control Invasive Species: The Zebra Mussel in River and Estuarine
Ecosystems.
Mar 21
May 9
May 16
Regina Radan
RTC Graduate Student, Cochlan Lab
Jonathon Brown
RTC Graduate Student, Garfield Lab
Jelle Faber
RTC/SERC Graduate Student
Renny Talianchich
RTC Graduate Student, Kimmerer Lab
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RTC Fall 2007 Seminar Series
Aug 29
Dr. Toby Garfield
Welcome to a New Year at RTC.
Sep 12
Dr. Jere Lipps
UC Berkeley
What Has Nature and Man Wrought on SF Bay? A 125,000 Year History.
Dr. Sarah Cohen
Adaptation to local conditions in estuarine fish.
Eric Galassi
RTC Graduate Student, Stillman Lab
The Effects of Temperature Stress on Thermally Acclimated Porcelain Crabs.
Sep 26
Jennifer Murphy
Restoration of cordgrass salt marshes: sediment amendments for stimulation of rhizosphere nitrogen fixation
and primary production.
Oct 10
Dr. Dale Robinson
What Regulates Antarctic Phytoplankton Species Distribution?
Oct 24
Alison Gould
Population Dynamics of Limnoithona tetraspina: the success of an introduced copepod in San Francisco Estuary.
Oct 24
Jena Drake
Structure and Dynamics of Phytoplankton Blooms in Rodeo Lagoon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Oct 31
Dr. Robert Dudley
U.C .Berkeley
From Gliding Ants To Andean Hummingbirds: The Evolution of Animal Flight Performance.
Nov 14
Dr. Lindsey Sullivan
RTC Post Doc
Everyone’s An Omnivore: The Secret Life Of Jellyfish.
Nov 28
Dr. Ken Smith
MBARI
Free-drifting Icebergs: Hot Spots of Chemical and Biological Enrichment in the Weddell Sea.
Dec 5
Lindsay Carr
RTC Graduate Student, Boyer Lab
Food Web Interactions in San Francisco Bay Eelgrass Beds.
Dec 5
Stephanie Kiriakopolos
Eelgrass Growth Patterns Along a Depth Gradient in San Francisco Bay.
Dec 12
Dr. Richard Dugdale
First the “Bad Suisun” And Now the “Dead Delta”? The Collapse Of Primary Production In The Delta.
Sep 19
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Jan 30
Dr. Betsy Read
CSU San Marcos
Dissecting Biomineralization in Emiliania huxleyi using Genomics and Funcional Genomics Tools
Feb 6
Dr. Clive Dorman
Scripps Intstitution of Ocenaography
Fast Winds and Cold Water: California’s Wind Driven Upwelling Hot Spots
Feb 13
Dr. Robert Dunbar
Stanford University
Deep Sea Corals: Long-Lived Observers of the Ocean Interior
Feb 20
Dr. Jason Addison
UC Davis
Historical Biogeography And Hybridization Among Strongylocentrotid Sea Urchins
Feb 27
Dr. Monika Winder
UC Davis
Climate Forcing At The Base Of The Aquatic Food Web: How Do Organisms Adapt?
Amy Kleckner
The Influence of Corbula amurensis on the Nitrogen Regime of Suisun Bay.
Amelia Ryan
Nitrogen and Salinity interactions in Sarcocornia pacifica dominated salt marshes.
Mar 19
Dr. Brian Ort
RTC Post Doc
Seagrass Restoration Genetics: Genetic Diversity In Experimental And Natural Populations.
Apr 9
Dr. Ted Grosholtz
UC Davis
Impacts of Coastal Invasions on Benthic Food Webs.
Jonathon Polly
RTC Graduate Student, Komada Lab
Investigating recently invaded populations of Botryllus schlosseri using a highly variable fusion lócus.
Verena Wang
RTC Graduate Student, Cohen Lab
Harnessing natural C Isotopes to Understand organic Matter Transformations in an Intertidal Sediment.
Apr 23
Dr. Patricia Foschi
AVHRR-Derived Time Series to Study Vegetation and Hydrology Change in the Bay-Delta Watershed.
Apr 30
Dr. Chris Moyes
Queen’s University
Origins of diversity in the metabolic phenotype of muscle.
May 14
RTC Poster Social
Mar 12
Apr 16
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Aug 27
Dr. Newell Garfield, Brita Larsson
Welcome to a New Year at RTC.
Sept 3
Dr. Gail Ashton
SERC
Trends between shipping arrivals and species introductions in North America: an analysis at the bioregion
scale. (With a prologue concerning non-native Caprellidae).
Sept 10
Dr. Petra Dekens, SF State University
Coastal and equatorial upwelling conditions during a time of global warmth.
Alyssa Lai
Use of genetics to resolve phylogenetic relationships for the conservation of endemic Bermuda killifishes
(Fundulus bermudae and F. relictus).
Gavin Archbald
Evaluating the Potential for Spread of an Invasive Forb, Limonium ramosissimum, in San Francisco Bay Salt
Marshes.
Sept 24
Dr. Sabrina Crispo, RTC Post Doc
The transport and removal of dissolved trace metals in mesoscale anticyclonic eddies in the Gulf of Alaska.
Oct 1
Dr. Ina Benner, RTC Post Doc
The utilization of organic nutrients by coccolithophores.
Esa Crumb
Pollination in the sea: A genetic comparison of the mating system of an annual and perennial population of
eelgrass.
Valerie Greene
Impacts of an Invasive Clam on the Micro-zooplankton Community of the Northern San Francisco Estuary.
Oct 15
Dr. Nathan Miller
RTC Post Doc
Buried Alive: Exploring How Multiphase Transport Processes Influence the Conditions in Sea Turtle Nests and
Nesting Beaches.
Oct 22
Dr. Tessa Hill
Bodega Marine Laboratory UC Davis
Impacts of ocean acidification on marine systems: Lessons from coastal oceanographic datasets, deep-sea
corals, and laboratory cultures.
Ashley Smith
The Influence of Hydrodynamics on the Reproductive Ecology of the Brooding Sea-star, Leptasterias aequalis.
Tyler Waterson
Gene expression during thermal stress in the coral Acropora hyacinthus.
Nov 5
Heidi Weiskel, NERR Research Fellow
Nutrient loading & benthic native-invasive species dynamics.
Nov 12
Dr. Katharyn Boyer
Multiple approaches to restoration and conservation of eelgrass.
Nov 19
Dr. Mark Carr, UC Berkeley
Science Informing California’s Marine Life Protection Act.
Dec 3
Dr. Susan Wainwright de la Cruz
UC Davis
Cross-seasonal implications of winter foraging ecology and contaminant accumulation in San Francisco Bay surf
scoters (Melanitta perspicillata).
Dec 10
Dr. Rita Mehta, UC Davis
The Evolution of Cranial Forms in Anguilliform Fishes.
Sept 17
Oct 8
Oct 29
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Dr. Stephane Lefebvre
RTC Postdoc
Light harvesting protein and dimethyl sulfide in Emiliania huxleyi.
Andrea Cayenne
Seahorse conservation: Using mitochondrial and MHC variation to identify conservation units.
Mariana Padron
Identifying novel protein stabilizers by co-immunoprecipitation in porcelain crabs, genus Petrolisthes.
Feb 18
Dr. Charlie Boone
University of Toronto
Global mapping of genetic and chemical-genetic networks in yeast.
Feb 25
Dr. Mark Denny, Stanford University
Ecomechanics: Predicting extreme ecological events.
Mar 4
Dr. Alexander Parker
RTC Postdoc
Material and energy flow for the pelagic foodweb of the northern San Francisco Estuary: the role of primary
producers and the microbial loop
Mar 11
Dr. Edward Carpenter
Nitrogen fixation in the worlds oceans; Trichodesmium, the fascinating and enigmatic cyanobacterium.
Apr 1
Dr. Taro Amagata, SF State University
Exploring drug candidates from the sea.
Apr 8
Dr. Brian Bergamaschi
US Geological Survey
A large-scale carbon biosequestration demonstration project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – Carbon
Capture Wetland Farming as a means to elevate land surface and sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide on
subsided Delta islands.
Apr 15
Dr. Erika McPhee-Shaw
Moss Landing Marine Lab
Continental margin boundary-interior exchange in the Monterey Bay and Central Coast.
Max Hubbard
Tidal analysis of surface currents in San Francisco Bay.
Leah Johnson
A dry combustion method to determine natural 13C and 14C abundances in marine dissolved organic carbon
Apr 29
Dr. Frances Wilkerson, RTC
Phytoplankton, productivity, estuarine outflow and upwelling in the Gulf of the Farallones.
May 6
Dr. Cynthia Hayes, UC Davis
The evolutionary ecology of species distributions in the rocky intertidal.
May 13
Tricia Goulding
Mystery parasites: Using genetics to examine Acanthocephalan parasites in multiple aquatic hosts.
May 13
Laurie Kara
Jan 28
Feb 11
Apr 22
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Aug 26
Dr. Newell Garfield, Brita Larsson
Welcome to a new year at RTC! RTC Orientation.
Sept 2
Dr. Vania Coelho
Dominican University
Buying time: preventing coral bleaching through shading in conditions of high thermal stress.
Sept 9
Dr. Lee Smee
Texas A&M University
Avoiding predators: costs, benefits, environmental variables, and biogeography.
Sept 16
Dr. Jay Stachowicz,
University California, Davis
Consequences of genetic and species diversity for the structure and functioning of marine communities.
Sept 23
Dr. Tim Janssen
SF State University
Nonlinear effects on coastal wave statistics.
Oct 7
Dr. Jose R. de la Torre
SF State University
The New Nitrogen Cycle: Insights from the Physiology, Genomics and Ecology of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea.
Oct 14
Dr. Cynthia Hays
University California, Davis
The genetics of distribution: case studies from the intertidal zone.
Oct 21
Dr. Andy Zink
SF State University
Cooperation and Conflict in Communally Breeding Animals: from Mathematical Models to Maritime Earwigs.
Oct 28
Dr. Peter Edmunds
California State University, Northridge
Effects of temperature on early life history stages of corals.
Nov 18
Dr. Lars Tomanek
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Applying proteomics to study the response to environmental stress in emerging model organisms.
Dec 2
Dr. Anne Todgham
SF State University
Predicting the impacts of ocean acidification: using transcriptomics to understand physiological thresholds.
Ariel Tang
The Identification of Asexual and Sexual Reproduction Patterns of Eelgrass (Zostera marina) in San Francisco
Bay.
Gwen Santos
Nutrient dynamics and production in SF Bay eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds: food web and restoration
Dec 9
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Jan 27
Dr. Stephan Vogel
Northern Illinois University
There is More to Climate – Ice Ocean Interactions, Subglacial Environments and Their Role in the Earth’s
System.
Feb 3
Dr. Diana Steller
MLML
Carbonate Reefs that Rock and Roll: Subtidal Research on the Ecology of Rhodolith Beds From the Gulf of
California to Coastal California.
Feb 10
Dr. Carol Kendall
USGS
Stable Isotope Tracing of Nutrient and Organic Matter Sources and Biogeochemical Cycling in the Sacramento
River, Delta, and Northern Bay.
Feb 17
Dr. Robert Toonen, University of HI
Larval Dispersal, Connectivity and Biodiversity in Marine Systems.
Adam Paganini
Thermal Tolerance in Different Life History Stages in Porcelain Crabs.
Haydee Medina
Exercise Induces Stabilization of Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) in Some Species of Porcelain Crabs, Genus
Petrolisthes.
Mar 3
Dr. Ken Peters, Stanford University
Tracing the Origins of Crude Oil Using Biomarkers, Isotopes, and Chemometrics.
Mar 10
Dr. Roger Bland , SF State University
Communication in Animals: Diary of an Underwater Eavesdropper.
NERR Graduate Research Fellows
Betsy Wells (UCD)
Evolutionary history and prey selection in native and invasive whelks.
Brian Cheng (UCD)
Thermal and Salinity Stress Effects on Estuarine Ecophysiology.
Max Hubbard
Harmonic analysis of Central San Francisco Bay Surface Currents Utilizing HF Radar.
Leah Johnson
Analysis of Natural Carbon Isotopes of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter Using a Dry Combustion Method.
Apr 14
Dr. Matt Ferner and Sarah Ferner
SF Bay NERR
Free data and fellowships: opportunities for science and education in the National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Apr 21
Dr. Andrew Zink, SF State University
Cooperation and Conflict in Communally Breeding Animals: from Mathematical Models to Maritime Earwigs.
Apr 28
Dr. Newell Garfield, RTC
HF Radar for Maritime Navigation, Safety, Search and Rescue, Spill Response and Prediction.
Chelsea Chen
Is There a Synergistic Effect of Thermal and Osmotic Stress on Metabolic Performance in Freshwater
Zooplankton?
Sarah Blaser
The Effect of Herbicide Additions on Phytoplankton in the San Francisco Estuary.
Dr. Andy Chang, UC Davis
Storms and droughts: why and how history matters to communities.
Feb 24
Mar 17
Apr 7
May 5
May 12
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Aug 25
Dr. Toby Garfield and Brita Larsson
Welcome to a New Year at RTC!
Sept 1
SF State University
Gene expression profiles can be temperature data loggers.
Sept 8
Dr. Steven Morgan
Bodega Marine Lab
Larval advection and control regulating recruitment in an upwelling system.
Sept 15
Dr. Rachel Barnett-Johnson
Bureau of Reclamation
Salmon on the edge: the role of spatial structure and life history diversity for Chinook salmon conservation in
California.
Sept 22
Dr. Ruth Gates
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
Coral dinoflagellate endosymbiosis - the good, the bad, the ugly.
Oct 6
Dr. Kelly Dorgan, UC Berkeley
Worms in Jell-O: Biomechanics of burrowing in muddy sediments.
Oct 13
Dr. James Glegg
Bodega Marine Laboratory
Desiccation Tolerance: how organisms dry, but not die.
Jeff Lewis
Effects of epifaunal grazer species on eelgrass (Zostera marina) in SF Bay.
Hayley Carter
Physiological effects of ocean acidification on early life stages of porcelain crab Petrolisthes cinctipes.
Nastassia Patin
RTC Graduate Student, Ashby Lab
Microbial Ecology of Methane Hydrates: Using metagenomics to connect phylogeny and function.
David Lake
Phylogenetic Analysis of the Bicoastal Trematode Fauna in the Three Bivalve Species.
Nov 3
Dr. Vance Vredenburg
SF State University
Can symbiotic skin microbes save frogs from epidemic-driven extinction?
Nov 10
Dr. Brian Tsukimura, CSU Fresno
The comings and goings of Chinese mitten crab.
Nov 17
Dr. James Cloern, USGS
The Altered States of San Francisco Bay: Ecological Surprises from 3+ Decades of Observation.
Dec 1
Dr. Karen Crow, SF State University
The evolution of novelty and diversity in ray-finned fishes.
Oct 20
Oct 27
Autumn Cleave
Dec 8
Lina Ceballos
Mariana Padron
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Spring 2011 Seminar Series
Jan 26
Dr. Tomoko Komada
Understanding organic matter recycling in ocean sediments: a radiocarbon perspective.
Feb 2
Dr. Peter Moyle
30 years in Suisun Marsh: tales of fish, alien invaders, and constant change.
Feb 23
Carrie Craig
Prey DNA in copepod nauplii stomachs: determining the diet of an important life stage and exploring genetic
diversity in taxa with large population sizes in SF Bay.
Feb 23
Kristine Okimura
The Science of Phytoplankton Pee: The effect of ocean acidification on extracellular release in multiple strains
of Emiliania huxleyi.
Mar 2
Judit Hersko
CSU San Marcos
Pages from the book of the unknown explorer.
Mar 9
Dr. Piero Calosi
Plymouth Marine Lab
Inter- and intra-population physiological variation in understanding responses to global climate change.
Christina Buck
Seasonal fluctuations in phytoplankton and nutrient levels within a low inflow estuary (Drakes Estero marine
conservation area, CA).
Erica Kress
Thermal and Salinity Stress Effects on Estuarine Ecophysiology Phytoplankton abundance and community
structure in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers.
Mar 23
Dr. Kimberly Tanner
SF State Biology
Investigating novice to expert transitions in undergraduate biology education: misconceptions, knowledge
structures & the emerging discipline of biology education research.
Apr 6
Dr. Andy Aguilar
UC Merced
Evolutionary diversification of the California freshwater ichtyofauna.
Apr 13
Dr. Katherine Suding
UC Berkeley
Running with the Red Queen: species invasion and restoration in a changing world.
Apr 20
Dr. Patricia Schulte
University British Columbia
From molecules to behavior: an integrated approach to understanding environmental adaptation in fish.
Apr 27
Jeff Dorman
UC Berkeley
Model krill distribution in the California Current from 1990-2005.
May 4
Dr. Gretchen Coffman
UC Santa Barbara
Wetland creation for wildlife in Laos, SE Asia.
May 11
Dr. Kerstin Wasson
NERR, UC Santa Cruz
Estuarine conservation science at Elkhorn Slough.
Mar 16
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Aug 24
Dr. Tim Janssen
SF State University
Wave coherent structures and riddles of the San Francisco Bay.
Aug 31
Dr. Patrick Robinson
UC Santa Cruz
Foraging behavior and navigation ability of the northern elephant seal.
Sept 7
Dr. Katharyn Boyer
SF State University
Ecological insights and puzzles along the path to seagrass restoration.
Sept 14
Dr. John Largier
Bodega Marine Lab
Studies in the transport of plankton and pollutants along upwelling coasts.
Sept 28
Dr. Patrick Krug
CSU Los Angeles
“No, your limits” -- A fluctuating range boundary between two sea slugs driven by environmental gradients,
local adaptation, mating interference and larval supply.
Oct 5
Dr. Nann Fangue
UC Davis
Physiological and behavioral approaches to study aquatic species of conservation concern in California.
Oct 12
Dr. Terrence Gosliner
California Academy of Sciences
Discovering biodiversity at the apex of the Coral Triangle.
Oct 19
Dr. Uta Passow
UC Santa Barbara
Ocean acidification & the biological carbon pump: the role of transparent exopolymer particles (TEP).
Oct 26
Dr. Dan Barshis
Sanford University
Evolution of climate change resilience in American Samoan corals: adaptation and acclimatization to extreme
temperatures.
Nov 2
Dr. Caitlin Crane
The Nature Conservancy
Marsh ecology across landscape-scale estuarine gradients: a baseline for conservation.
Nov 9
Dr. Victoria Orphan
Cal Tech
Microbial partnerships and methane-oxidation in the deep sea.
Dr. Jarrett Byrnes
National Center for Ecological Analysis
And Synthesis
Causes and consequences of complexity in southern California kelp forests.
Rosa Schneider
Investigating causes of rarity in an endemic wetland thistle.
Nov 30
Britt Bjelde
RTC Graduate Student, Todgham Lab
Cardiac performance and metabolism of an intertidal limpet under conditions of emersion and immersion.
Dec 7
Dr. Sarah Lee
Stanford University
Interactive effects of propagule supply and productivity in marine systems.
Nov 16
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Jan 25
Dr. Tom Suchanek
USGS Western Ecological Research Ctr
Projected climate change impacts in California and the San Francisco Bay Region: 2C or not 2C ? - that is the
question.
Feb 1
Dr. Mary Power, UC Berkeley
Food webs in river networks: towards predictive mapping.
Feb 8
Dr. Frank Cipriano, SF State University
Market surveys and genetic monitoring of the whale meat trade.
Feb 15
Dr. Ellen Hines, SF State University
Coastal marine mammals along the eastern gulf coast of Thailand.
Feb 29
Dr. Vanessa Miller-Siims
SF State University
Olfactory homing and dispersal of coral reef fishes in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Mar 7
Dr. Eric Berlow, UC Merced
Simplicity on the other side of complexity.
Mar 14
Dr. Don Reed, CSU San Jose
Bringing COAST research to the undergraduate classroom across the CSU.
Mar 28
Dr. Marc Los Huertos, CSUMB
Addressing the biogeochemistry and policy challenges to improve water quality in California.
Apr 4
RTC Student Poster Social with RTC Advisory Board Members and SF State President
Hydromedusae in the northern San Francisco Estuary: Possible ecological impacts and distribution.
Apr 11
Jessica Donald
RTC Bobby Vogt
A novel approach to estimate copepod feeding through gut fluorescence.
Apr 18
Karen Kayfetz
Feeding ecology and salinity tolerance of the calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus forbesi in the San Francisco
Estuary.
Apr 18
Whitney Thornton
The role of donor population and restoration site constraints in the reintroduction of native Pacific Cordgrass.
Beth Sheets
Using a multi-gene approach to investigate global population structure of the colonialascidian Botrylloides
nigrum.
Kevin Stockmann
Fish use of restored oyster reefs and eelgrass beds.
Dr. Susan Williams
Bodega Marine Laboratory
The more the merrier: Seaweed biodiversity and ecosystem function.
Rachel Dorfman
The effects of nitrogen source on growth and calcification in Emiliania huxleyi.
Vanessa Guerra
Population genetic diversity of the invasive Ciona spp. on the Pacific coast of America.
Apr 25
May 2
May 9
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Table 2.c. Course information and enrollments for classes taught at RTC for the six academic years between
2006 and 2012
AY 2006-2007
RTC Fall 06
COURSE
TITLE
INSTRUCTOR
UNITS
ENROLLMENT
Biol 582
Biological Oceanography
Carpenter
4
21
Biol 586
Marine Ecology Lab
Cohen
1
5
Biol 862
Topics in Evolution
Cohen
2
4
Biol 863
Aquatic Communities
Stillman
2
16
Biol 863
Marine Symbiosis
Wilkerson
2
10
Biol 865
Environmental Physiology
Stillman
2
8
Biol 9350
Wetland Plant Identification
Vasey
2 CEU
14
Biol 502
Biology of the Algae
Wilkerson
3
10
Biol 534
Wetland Ecology
Boyer
4
15
Biol 631
Animal Physiology Lab
Stillman
2
11
Biol 863
Plankton Ecology
Carpenter
2
4
Biol 883
Current RTC Research
Garfield
1
13
Chem 677
Chemical Oceanography
Komada
3
11
Biol 9001
Wetland Delineation
Coffman
4 CEU
18
Biol 9007
Ecology of Invasive Species
Boyer/Zabin
.8 CEU
11
Biol 9002
Tidal Wetland Hydrology
Kamman/ Kamman
1.6 CEU
17
RTC Spring 07
Total AY 2006-2007 RTC Enrollment
188
AY 2007-2008
RTC Fall 07
Biol 582
Carpenter
4
19
Biol 862
Molecular Evolution & Conservation
Cohen
2
8
Biol 862
Vegetation Patterns & Processes
Foschi
2
8
Biol 863
Ecophysiology of HAB’s
Cochlan
2
5
Biol 863
Ecosystem Ecology
Wilkerson
2
13
Biol 883
Stillman
2
14
Ocn 465/765
Physical Oceanography
Garfield/Edwards
4
6
Biol 9395
Wetlands Restoration Ecology
Coffman
4 CEU
6
Biol 9100
GIS for Wetlands
Nickel
1.6 CEU
7
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AY 2007-2008 continued
COURSE
TITLE
INSTRUCTOR
UNITS
ENROLLMENT
Biol 315
Ecology of San Francisco Bay
Blackwood
NC
6
Biol 585
Marine Ecology Lecture
Cohen
3
18
Biol 586
Marine Ecology Lab
Cohen
2
16
Biol 631
Stillman
3
8
Biol 863
Plankton Ecology
Carpenter
2
7
Biol 883
Komada
1
8
Biol 9001
Wetland Delineation
Coffman
4 CEU
12
RTC Spring 08
161
AY 2008-2009
RTC Fall 08
Biol 582
Wilkerson
4
23
Biol 863
Marine Symbiosis
Wilkerson
2
8
Biol 883
Komada
2
11
Chem 680
Komada
3
10
Biol 9350
Wetland Plant Indicator Species
Vasey
1.6 CEU
8
Biol 9395
Coffman
1.6 CEU
8
Biol 502/702
Wilkerson
3
12
Biol 534
Wetland Ecology
Boyer
4
17
Biol 631/731
Stillman
4
12
Biol 883
Stillman
1
11
Biol 9001
Wetland Delineation
Coffman
4 CEU
11
RTC Spring 09
131
AY 2009-2010
RTC Fall 09
Biol 582
Carpenter
4
22
Biol 586
Marine Ecology Lab
Cohen
2
10
Biol 863
Ecosystems Ecology
Wilkerson
2
8
Biol 865
Environmental Physiology
Stillman
2
7
Biol 883
Komada
2
20
Biol 9350
Wetland Plant Indicator Species
Vasey
1.6 CEU
7
Biol 9395
Coffman
1.6 CEU
7
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COURSE
TITLE
INSTRUCTOR
UNITS
ENROLLMENT
Biol 502/702
Wilkerson
3
7
Biol 534
Wetland Ecology
Boyer
4
16
Biol 631/731
Stillman
4
8
Biol 863
Plankton Ecology
Carpenter
2
10
Biol 883
Stillman
1
20
Biol 9001
Wetland Delineation
Coffman
4 CEU
9
RTC Spring 10
151
AY 2010-2011
RTC Fall 10
Biol 344/844
Research Skills
Stillman
2
18
Biol 582
Carpenter
4
11
Biol 556
Natural History of Marine Invertebrates
Cohen
4
8
Biol 863
Ecophysiology of HABs
Cochlan
2
6
Biol 863
Marine Symbiosis
Wilkerson
2
6
Biol 863
Adaptations of Coastal Environments
Stillman
2
7
Biol 883
Komada
2
19
Biol 502/702
Wilkerson
3
8
Biol 863
Plankton Ecology
Carpenter
2
9
Biol 883
Stillman
1
21
Biol 9001
Wetland Delineation
Coffman
4 CEU
16
Biol 9100
GIS for Wetlands
Archbald/Hiatt
1.6 CEU
7
RTC Spring 11
136
AY 2011-2012
RTC Fall 11
Biol 344/844
Research Skills
Cochlan
2
13
Biol 582
Carpenter
4
17
Biol 863
Ecosystems Ecology
Wilkerson
2
9
Biol 883
Komada
2
17
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COURSE
TITLE
INSTRUCTOR
UNITS
ENROLLMENT
Biol 502/702
Wilkerson
3
18
Biol 534
Wetland Ecology
Boyer
4
16
Biol 863
Plankton Ecology
Carpenter
2
6
Biol 883
Stillman
1
17
Biol 9395
Coffman
1.6 CEU
5
Coffman
.08 CEU
14
Biol 9016
Wetland Restoration Ecology
Wetland Restoration Monitoring
Techniques
Advanced Delineation
DeGraff
2.0 CEU
10
Biol 9008
Vernal Pools
Stabler
1.6 CEU
6
Biol 9100
Hydrology
Kamman
1.6 CEU
4
RTC Spring 12
Biol 9396
152
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Table 2.d. Peer-reviewed publications by RTC faculty and research scientists (including books, journal
articles, and reports and reprints)
2006-2007
Armitage, A. R., K. E. Boyer, R. R. Vance, and R. F. Ambrose. 2006. Restoring assemblages of salt marsh halophytes in the
presence of a rapidly colonizing dominant species. Wetlands 26(3):667-676.
Bouley, P.B. and W.J. Kimmerer. 2006. Ecology of a highly abundant, introduced cyclopoid copepod in a temperate
estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series 324:219-228.
Dugdale, R.C., F.P. Wilkerson, V.Hogue, and A.Marchi. 2006. Nutrient controls on new production in the Bodega Bay,
California, coastal upwelling plume. Deep-Sea Research II 53: 3049-3062.
Fisler, S. and Talley, D.M. 2006. “Sea” the future of science: combining research, education, and outreach in Baja
California. Current: The Journal of Marine Education 22(1): 2-8.
Foster, R.A., E.J. Carpenter & B. Bergman. 2006. Unicellular cyanobionts in open ocean dinoflagellates, radiolarians and
tintinnids: ultrastructural characterization and immuno-localization of nitrogenase and phycoerythrin. J. Phycol. 42:453463.
Foster, R.A., J.L. Collier & E.J. Carpenter. 2006. Reverse transcription-PCR amplification of cyanobacterial symbiont 16S
rRNA sequences from single non-photosynthetic eukaryotic marine planktonic host cells. J. Phycol. 42:243-250.
Gross, E.S., M.L. MacWilliams, and W. Kimmerer. 2006. Simulating Periodic Stratification in San Francisco Bay.
Proceedings of the Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Conference, ASCE, pp.155-175.
Hickey, B., A. MacFadyen, W.P. Cochlan, R.M. Kudela, K. Bruland, and C.R. Trick. 2006. Evolution of water column
physical, chemical and biological properties in the Pacific Northwest following the delayed onset of local upwelling.
Geophys. Res Lett. 33: L22S02.
Kimmerer, W.J. 2006. Response of anchovies dampens foodweb responses to an invasive bivalve (Corbula amurensis) in
the San Francisco Estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series 324:207-218.
Kudela, R.M., W.P. Cochlan, T.D. Peterson, and C.G. Trick. 2006. Impacts on Phytoplankton Biomass and Productivity in
the Pacific Northwest During the Warm Ocean Conditions of 2005. Geophys. Res Lett. 33: L22S06.
Lassiter, A.M, F. Wilkerson, R.Dugdale and V. Hogue. 2006. Functional phytoplankton groups in the CoOP-West upwelling
region: the Chaeteoceros complex. Deep-Sea Research II 53: 3063-3077.
Largier J.L, C.A Lawrence, M. Roughan, D.M. Kaplan, E.P. Dever, C.E. Dorman, R.M. Kudela, S.M Bollens, F.P. Wilkerson,
R.C. Dugdale, L.W. Botsford, N Garfield, B. Kuebel-Cervantes, D. Koracin. 2006. WEST: a northern California study of the
role of wind-driven transport in the productivity of coastal plankton communities. Deep-Sea Research II 53: 2833-2849.
Stillman, J. H., K. S. Teranishi, A. Tagmount, E. A. Lindquist and P. B. Brokstein. 2006. Construction and characterization of
EST libraries from the porcelain crab, Petrolisthes cinctipes. Integrative and Comparative Biology 46(6): 919-930.
Talley, D.M., Huxel, G.R., and Holyoak, M. 2006. Habitat Connectivity at the Land-Water Interface. In: Sanjayan, M. and
Crooks, K. [Eds], Connectivity in Conservation. Cambridge University Press.
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Wilkerson, F.P. R.C. Dugdale, A. Marchi, V. Hogue, A. Lassiter. 2006. The phytoplankton bloom response to wind events
and upwelled nutrients during the CoOP-WEST study. Deep-Sea Research II 53: 3023-3048.
Armstrong Howard, M.D., W.P. Cochlan, N.C. Ladizinsky, and R.M. Kudela. 2007. Nitrogenous preference of toxigenic
Pseudo-nitzschia australis (Bacillariophyceae) from field and laboratory experiments. Harmful Algae 6: 206-217.
Dugdale, R.C., F. P. Wilkerson, F.Chai, R. Feely. 2007. Size fractionated nitrogen uptake measurements in the Equatorial
Pacific and confirmation of the low Si-high nitrate low chlorophyll condition. Global Biogochemical Cycles, 21, No2
GB2005, doi: 10:1029/2006GB002722.
Eberl, R. and E.J. Carpenter. 2007. Macrosetella gracilis (Harpacticoida) uses the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium spp. as
a floating substrate but not as a major food source. Marine Ecology Progress Series 333:205-212.
Eberl, R., S. Cohen, F. Cipriano, and E.J. Carpenter. 2007. Genetic diversity and population structure of the pelagic
harpacticoid copepod Macrosetella gracilis on rafts of the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Trichodesmium spp. Aquatic
Biology 1:33-43.
Foster, R.A., D.G. Capone, E.J. Carpenter, C. Mahaffey, A. Subramaniam, & J.P. Zehr. 2007. Influence of the Amazon River
plume on free-living and symbiotic cyanobacteria in the Western Tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Limnol. & Oceanogr
52:517-532.
Herndon, J., and W.P. Cochlan. 2007. Nitrogen utilization by the raphidophyte Heterosigma akashiwo: growth and
uptake kinetics in laboratory cultures. Harmful Algae 6: 260-270.
Kimmerer, W.J., A.G. Hirst, R.R. Hopcroft, and A.D. McKinnon. 2007. Measurement of juvenile copepod growth rates:
corrections, inter-comparisons and recommendations. Marine Ecology Progress Series 336:187-202.
Shipe, R. F., E.J. Carpenter, S. Govil, and D.G. Capone. 2007. Limitation of phytoplankton production by Si and N in the
western Atlantic Ocean. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 338:33-45.
Sommer, T., C. Armor, R. Baxter, R. Breuer, L. Brown, M. Chotkowski, S. Culberson, F. Feyrer, M. Gingras, B. Herbold, W.
Kimmerer, A. Mueller-Solger, M. Nobriga, and K. Souza. 2007. The collapse of pelagic fishes in the upper San Francisco
Estuary. Fisheries 32(6):270-277.
Teranishi, K. S. and J. H. Stillman. 2007. A cDNA microarray analysis of the response to heat stress in hepatopancreas
tissue of the porcelain crab Petrolisthes cinctipes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D Genomics &
Proteomics 2(1): 53-62.
Trainer, V.L., W.P. Cochlan, A. Erickson, B.D. Bill, F.H. Cox, J.A. Borchert and K.A. Lefebvre. 2007. Recent domoic acid
closures of shellfish harvest areas in Washington State inland waterways. Harmful Algae 6: 449-459.
2007-2008
Burnett, K., and 25 authors including S. Cohen. 2007. Fundulus as the premier teleost model in environmental biology:
opportunities for new insights using genomics. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part D 2, 257-286.
Choi, K-H. and W. Kimmerer. 2008. Mate limitation in an estuarine population of copepods. Limnology and
Oceanography 53:1656-1664
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DeSalvo, M.K., C.R. Voolstra, J.A. Schwarz, J.H. Stillman, M.A. Coffroth, A.M. Szmant, and M. Medina. 2008. Differential
gene expression during thermal stress and bleaching in the Caribbean coral Montastrea faveolata. Molecular Ecology.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03879.x.
Glibert, P.M and others, including W.P. Cochlan. 2008. Ocean urea fertilization for carbon credits poses high ecological
risks. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 56: 1049-1056.
Howard, M.D.A., W.P. Cochlan, N. Ladizinsky, and R.M. Kudela. 2007. Nitrogenous preference of toxigenic Pseudonitzschia australis (Bacillariophyceae) from field and laboratory experiments. Harmful Algae, 6: 206-217.
Kimmerer, W.J. and M.L. Nobriga. 2008. Investigating dispersal in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta using a particle
tracking model. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. [online serial]. Vol. 6, Issue 1 (February 2008), Article 4.
Kimmerer, W. 2008. Losses of Sacramento River Chinook salmon and delta smelt to entrainment in water diversions in
the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. [online serial]. Vol. 6, Issue 2 (June
2008), Article 2.
Komada T., Anderson M. R., and Dorfmeier C. L. 2008. Carbonate removal from coastal sediments for the determination
of organic carbon and its isotopic signatures, δ13C and Δ14C: comparison of fumigation and direct acidification by
hydrochloric acid. Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 6, 254-262.
MacFadyen, A, B.M. Hickey, and W.P. Cochlan. 2008. Influences of the Juan de Fuca Eddy on circulation, nutrients
and phytoplankton production in the northern California Current System. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113.
doi:10.1029/2007JC004412, 2008.
McManus, G. B., J. K. York, and W. J. Kimmerer. 2008. Microzooplankton dynamics in the low salinity zone of the San
Francisco Estuary. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 30: 196-202.
Olson, M.B., E.J. Lessard, W.P. Cochlan, and V.L. Trainer. 2008. Intrinsic growth and microzooplankton grazing on
toxigenic Pseudo-nitzschia spp. diatoms from the coastal North Pacific. Limnology and Oceanography, 53: 1352-1368.
Ort B.S., G. H. Pogson. 2007. Molecular population genetics of the male and female mtDNA molecules of the California
sea mussel, Mytilus californianus. Genetics 177:1087-1099.
Tsuda, and 43 authors including W.P. Cochlan. 2007. Evidence for the grazing hypothesis: Grazing reduces phytoplankton
responses of the HNLC ecosystem to iron enrichment in the western subarctic Pacific (SEEDS II). Journal of
Oceanography, 63: 983-994.
2008-2009
Anderson, D.M., J.M. Burkholder, W.P. Cochlan, P.M. Glibert, C.J. Gobler, C.A. Heil, R. Kudela, M.L. Parsons, J.E. Rensel,
D.W. Townsend, V.L. Trainer, and G.A. Vargo. 2008. Harmful algal blooms and eutrophication: Examples of linkages from
selected coastal regions of the United States. Harmful Algae 8: 39-53.
Boyer, K. E., J. S. Kertesz, and J. F. Bruno. 2009. Biodiversity effects on productivity and stability of marine macroalgal
communities: the role of environmental context. Oikos 118:1062-1072.
Brown, L.R., W.J. Kimmerer, and R.L. Brown. 2008. Managing water to protect fish: a review of California’s Environmental
Water Account. Environmental Management. 43:357-368.
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Bruno, J. F., K. E. Boyer, S. C. Lee, and J. E. Duffy. 2008. Relative and interactive effects of plant and grazer richness in a
benthic marine community. Ecology 89:2518-2528.
Cochlan, W.P. 2008. Nitrogen Uptake in the Southern Ocean. In: Nitrogen in the Marine Environment, 2nd Edition, D.G.
Capone, D.A. Bronk, M.R. Mulholland, and E.J. Carpenter [Eds.]. Academic Press, Elsevier, pp. 569-596.
Cochlan, W.P., J. Herndon, and R.M. Kudela. 2008. Inorganic and organic nitrogen uptake by the toxigenic diatom
Pseudo-nitzschia australis (Bacillariophyceae). Harmful Algae 8: 111-118.
Cristescu, M.E., D.J. Innes, J.H. Stillman and T.J. Crease. 2008. D- and L-lactate dehydrogenases during invertebrate
evolution. BMC Evolutionary Biology. DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-8-268.
Heisler, J., P.M. Glibert, J.M. Burkholder, D.M. Anderson, W. Cochlan, W.C. Dennison, Q. Dortch, C.J. Gobler, C.A. Heil,
E. Humphries, A. Lewitus, R. Magnien, H.G. Marshall, K. Sellner, D.A. Stockwell, D.K. Stoecker, M. Suddleson. 2008.
Eutrophication and harmful algal blooms: A scientific consensus. Harmful Algae 8: 3–13.
Huntington, B. E. and K. E. Boyer. 2008. Evaluating patterns of nitrogen supply using macroalgal tissue content and stable
isotopic signatures in Tomales Bay, CA. Environmental Bioindicators 3:180-192.
Huntington B. E. and K. E. Boyer. 2008. Impacts of red macroalgal abundance (Gracilariopsis sp.) on eelgrass (Zostera
marina) in Tomales Bay, California. Marine Ecology Progress Series 367:133-142.
Kondolf, G. M., P. Angermeier, K. Cummins, T. Dunne, M. Healey, W.J. Kimmerer, P. B. Moyle, D. Murphy, D. Patten, S.
Railsback, D. Reed, R. Spies, and R. Twiss. 2008. Projecting cumulative benefits of multiple river restoration projects: An
example from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River System in California. Environmental Management 42:933-945.
Kudela, R.M., J.Q. Lane, and W.P. Cochlan. 2008. The potential role of anthropogenically derived nitrogen in the growth
of harmful algae in California, USA. Harmful Algae 8: 103-110.
Ohtsuka, S., M. Otani, H.Y. Soh, M. Kim, W. Lee, C. Huang, W. Kimmerer, T. Shimono, T. Hanyuda, H. Kawai, H. Ueda, and
A. Yamaguchi. 2008. Relationships between presence or absence of non-indigenous copepods and ballast water at some
international ports of Japan. Bulletin of the Plankton Society of Japan 55:115-126.
Stillman, J.H., J.K. Colbourne, C.E. Lee, N.H. Patel, M.R. Phillips, D.W. Towle, B.D. Eads, G.W. Gelembuik, R.P. Henry, E.A.
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production in San Francisco Estuary. Coastal Estuarine and Shelf Science. 104-105:91-101.
Parker, A. E., W. J. Kimmerer, and U. Lidstrom. 2012. Re-evaluating the generality of empirical models for light-limited
primary production in the San Francisco Estuary. Estuaries and Coasts. 35(4):930-942.
Parker, A. E., F. P. Wilkerson, and R. C. Dugdale. 2012. Elevated ammonium concentrations from wastewater discharge
depress primary productivity in the Sacramento River and the northern San Francisco Estuary. Marine Pollution Bulletin.
64(3):574-586.
Parker, A. E., F. Wilkerson, R. C. Dugdale, V. Hogue, and A. Marchi. 2011. Understanding spatial patterns in nitrogen
uptake and phytoplankton in the equatorial Pacific upwelling zone (110°W - 140°W) during 2004 and 2005. Deep Sea
Research II. 58 (3-4): 417-433.
Reynolds, L. K., L. A. Carr, and K. E. Boyer. 2012. A non-native amphipod consumes eelgrass inflorescences in San
Francisco Bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 451:107–118.
A. B. Ryan, and K. E. Boyer. 2012. Nitrogen further promotes a dominant salt marsh plant in an increasingly saline
environment. Journal of Plant Ecology. doi: 10.1093/jpe/rts001.
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Spaderna, H., G. Weidner, K. C. Koch, I. Kazcmarek, F. M. Wagner, and J. M. A. Smits, for the Waiting for a New Heart
Study Group. Medical and psychosocial predictors of mechanical circulatory support device implantation and competing
outcomes in the waiting for a new heart study. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2012. 31:16-26.
Strutton, P.G., A. Palacz, R. Dugdale, F. Chai, A. Marchi, A. E. Parker, V. Hogue, and F. Wilkerson. 2011. The impact of
equatorial Pacific tropical instability waves on hydrography and nutrients: 2004-2005. Deep Sea Research II. 58 (3-4):
284-296.
Weidner, G. 2012. Sustainability in medicine – a case for the prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases.
Environmentalist, 2012. 32:353-359.
Weidner, G., and H. Spaderna. 2012. The role of the Heart Failure Survival Score and psychosocial stress in predicting
event-free survival in patients referred for heart transplantation. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2012. 31(4):
436-438.
Yeung, L. Y., W. M. Berelson, E. D. Young, M. G. Prokopenko, V. J. Coles, J. M. Montoya, E. J. Carpenter, and P. L. Yager.
2012. Impact of diatom-diazotroph associations on carbon export in the Amazon River plume. Geophysical Research
Letters. 39: LI8609, doi:10.1029/2012GLO53356.
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Table 2.e. Master’s theses completed by RTC graduate students (complete list to date)
Archbald, Gavin. 2011. Evaluating the Potential for Spread of an Invasive Forb, Limonium ramosissimum, in San Francisco
Bay Salt Marshes. Katharyn Boyer, Advisor.
Auro, Maureen. 2007. Nitrogenous Nutrition and Toxicity of Pseudo-nitzschia cuspidata: A Laboratory and Field Based
Experiment. William Cochlan, Advisor.
Barada, Laila. 2006. Nitrogen Assimilation in Diatoms Expression of GLNII During Eutrophication and Simulated Upwelling.
Frances Wilkerson, Advisor.
Baesman, Shaun. 2008. The Use of Tellurium Oxyanions by Anaerobic Bacteria with the Formation of Elemental Te
Nanoparticles. Edward Carpenter, Advisor.
Bill, Brian. 2010. Carbon and Nitrogen Uptake of Toxigenic Diatoms: Pseudo-nitzschia australis and Pseudo-nitzschia
turgidula. William Cochlan, Advisor.
Bills, Jena. 2004. Is Mid-Ocean Exchange Effective in Preventing the Invasion of Estuaries by Zooplankton from Ships’
Ballast Tanks? William Kimmerer, Advisor.
Blaser, Sarah. 2011. The Effect of Herbicide Additions on Phytoplankton in the San Francisco Estuary. Frances Wilkerson,
Advisor.
Bogan, Mark. 1997. Sulfide Detoxification by Catalyzed Oxidation in the Marine Worm Urechis caupo. Alissa Arp, Advisor.
Bouley, Paola. 2005. The Ecology of a Highly Abundant, Introduced Estuarine Copepod in the Low Salinity Zone of the San
Francisco Estuary. William Kimmerer, Advisor.
Brey, Stacy. 2006. Population Distribution and Behavior Study of Golden Gate Freshwater Turtles. Carlos Crocker, Advisor.
Briggs, Allegra. 2009. Mitochondrial COI Analysis of Tortanus dexrilobatus. William Kimmerer, Advisor.
Brown, Harmon. 2001. The Effects of Warm Water Intrusions on the Macrozooplankton and Micronekton of Georges Bank.
Stephen Bollens, Advisor.
Buchholz, James. 1982. Nitrogen Flux Between a Developing Salt Marsh and South San Francisco Bay. Michael Josselyn,
Advisor.
Callaway, John. 1990. The Introduction of Spartina alterniflora in South San Francisco Bay. Michael Josselyn, Advisor.
Carr, Lindsey. 2008. Food Chain Interactions in San Francisco Bay Eelgrass (Zostra marina) Beds: Implications for
Restoration. Katharyn Boyer, Advisor.
Carter, Hayley. 2012. Effects of CO2 on the Metabolism of Porcelain Crab Larvae. Jonathon Stillman, Advisor.
Cayenne, Andrea. 2010. Identifying Novel Protein Stabilizers by Co-immunoprecipitation in Porcelain Crabs, Genus
Petrolisthes. Jonathon Stillman, Advisor.
Ceballos, Lina. 2012. Effects of Ocean Acidification on Larval Development of Porcelain Crabs, Genus: Petrolisthes.
Jonathon Stillman, Advisor.
Chamberlain, Sarah. 1995. Comparison of Methods of Control Spartina alterniflora in San Francisco Bay. Michael Josselyn,
Advisor.
Chen, Xi (Chelsea). 2011. Multi-Generational Analysis of Synergistic Effects of Temperature and Salinity Variability on
Metabolic Rate and Acute Thermal and Salinity Tolerance in Daphnia pulex. Jonathon Stillman, Advisor.
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Table 2.e. Master’s theses continued
Clay, Tansy. 2003. Effects of Thin Layers on the Vertical Distribution of Larval Herring (Clupea pallasi). Stephen Bollens,
Advisor.
Cleave, Autumn. 2012. Effects of Invasive Limonium ramosissimum on Native Salt Marsh Communities in a Changing
Environment. Katharyn Boyer, Advisor.
Coffman, Gretchen. 1998. Natural and Restored Salt Marsh Soil Seed Banks in San Francisco Bay. Michael Josselyn, Advisor.
Cohen, Sahrye. 2006. Growth of Native and Non-Indigenous Juvenile Fishes in Restored Versus Reference Tidal Marsh
Wetlands. Stephen Bollens, Advisor.
Cotter, Karen. 1991. Removal of Delairea odorata and Recovery of Vegetation on San Francisquito Creek. Michael Josselyn,
Advisor.
Crumb, Esa. 2009. Mating System Characteristics of Two Unique Populations of Eelgrass (Zostera marina) in San Francisco
Bay. Sarah Cohen, Advisor.
De Souza, Phillip. 1981. Lignicolous Marine Fungi of the San Francisco Bay Estuary. Michael Josselyn, Advisor.
De Souza, Yvonne. 1981. Relationship of Salinity to Morphological and Physiological Variation in Estuarine Populations of
Gracilaria verrucose. Michael Josselyn, Advisor.
Drake, Jeana. 2008. Community Structure and Dynamics of Phytoplankton Blooms in Rodeo Lagoon, Golden Gate National
Recreation Area. Edward Carpenter, Advisor.
Dorman, Jeff. 2002. Euphausiids of the Northern California Upwelling System. Stephen Bollens, Advisor
Duffield, Joan. 1986. Waterbird Use of an Urban Stormwater Wetland System in Central California, USA. Michael Josselyn,
Advisor.
Durand, John. 2010. Determinants of Seasonal Abundance in Key Zooplankton of the San Francisco Estuary. William
Kimmerer, Advisor.
Encomio, Vincent. 1998. Effects of Sulfide and Hypoxia on the Respiratory Physiology of Urechis caupo. Alissa Arp, Advisor.
Eberl, Renate. 2005. Macrosetella gracilis: Copepod Abundance, Population-Structure and Association with the NitrogenFixing Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium. Edward Carpenter, Advisor.
Federline Dean, Amy. 2004. Marshes As a Source or Sink of an Estuarine Mysid: Demographic Patterns and Tidal Flux of
Neomysis kadiakensis at China Camp Marsh, San Francisco Estuary. Stephen Bollens, Advisor
Fiorillo, Adele. 1994. Effects of Crab Burrowing on Growth of Spartina in San Francisco Bay. Michael Josselyn, Advisor.
Fulmer, Julia. 2004. Ecology of Chaetognaths and Larval Hake in a Temperate Fjord (Dabob Bay, WA). Stephen Bollens,
Advisor.
Fuller, James. 2010. Using Estuarine Phytoplankton to Study the Physiological Effects of Elevated Atmospheric pCO2 on
Algal Growth. Frances Wilkerson, Advisor.
Gewant, Darren. 2003. The Distribution and Composition of Macrozooplankton and Micronekton in San Francisco Bay.
Gifford, Scott. 2006. The Ecology of Planktonic Protozoa in Restored Versus Reference Tidal Marsh Wetlands. Stephen
Bollens and Gretchen Rollwagon Bollens, Co-Advisors.
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Glassi, Eric. 2008. Thermal Influences on Gene Expression in the Intertidal Porcelain Crab, Petrolisthes cinctipes. Jonathon
Stillman, Advisor.
Goulding, Tricia. 2011. Examining the Phylogeography of Profilicollis altmani, an Acanthocephalan Parasite of Mole Crabs.
Sarah Cohen, Advisor.
Gough, Matthew. 2008. An Analysis of HF-Radar Measured Surface Currents, Gulf of the Farallones, California. Newell
Garfield, Advisor.
Gould, Alison. 2009. Growth and Fecundity of Limnoithona tetraspina: the Success of an Introduced Copepod in the Upper
San Francisco Estuary. William Kimmerer, Advisor.
Greene, Valerie. 2010. Grazing Impact of the Overbite Clam on the Microzooplankton Assemblage of the Northern San
Francisco Estuary. William Kimmerer, Advisor.
Greer, Philip. 1998. Seed Depth, Elevation and Sedimentation Effects on Spartina foliosa Germination, Growth and
Mortality. Michael Josselyn, Advisor.
Grimaldo, Lenny. 2004. Diets and Carbon Sources of Fishes from Open-water, Edge, and SAV Habitats in Restored
Freshwater Wetlands of San Francisco Estuary. William Kimmerer, Advisor.
Harris, Holly. 2004. Distribution and Limiting Factors of Ostrea conchaphila in San Francisco Bay. Michael McGowan
Advisor.
Harrison, Kateri. 2003. Disturbance and Food-web Structure: 14 Streams in the San Francisco Bay Watershed. Neo
Martinez, Advisor.
Hernandez, John. 2000. Blood Characteristics of the Marine Echiuran Worm Urechis caupo. Alissa Arp, Advisor.
Herndon, Julian. 2003. Nitrogen Uptake by Heterosigma akashiwo: A Laboratory and Field Based Study. William Cochlan,
Advisor.
Hogue, Vickie. 2000. The Effects of Ultraviolet-B Radiation on Natural Phytoplankton Assemblages in Central San Francisco
Bay. Frances Wilkerson, Advisor.
Hooff, Rian. 2002. Ecology of the Invasive, Predatory Copepod Tortanus dextrilobatus, in San Francisco Bay. Stephen
Bollens, Advisor.
Hubbard, Maxwell. 2010. Verification and Harmonic Analysis of San Francisco Bay Surface Currents Utilizing HF Radar.
Newell Garfield, Advisor.
Huntington, Brittany. 2006. Is a Macroalga Bloom Threatening Seagrass Survival? Responses of Seagrass to Increased
Macroagal Dominance in a Northern California Bay. Katharyn Boyer, Advisor.
Huybrechs, Catherine. 2006. Detecting Egeria densa Using a Knowledge Engine and Spatio-contexual Information. Patricia
Foschi, Advisor.
Ignoffo, Toni. 2004. Behavioral Responses of Microzooplankton to Vertical Heterogeneity (Thin Layers) in the Ocean.
Johnson, Amber. 2004. The Effect of Temperature on Silicification in Diatoms. Frances Wilkerson, Advisor.
Johnson, Leah. 2010. Determination of Radiocarbon in Porewater Dissolved Organic Matter Using Thermal Sulfate
Reduction. Tomoko Komada, Advisor.
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Johnson, Tessa. 2002. The Distribution and Feeding Behavior of Larval Herring in Estuarine Tidal Fronts. Stephen Bollens,
Advisor.
Kertesz, Johanna. 2006. The Role of Biodiversity in a Fluctuating Environment. Katharyn Boyer, Advisor.
Kieu, Le. 2004. Seasonal Influence of Salt Marsh Plant on Methylmercury Production and Degradation Over Small Spatial
Scales in South San Francisco Bay. Edward Carpenter, Advisor.
Kleckner, Amy. 2009. The Role of an Invasive Bivalve, Corbula amurensis, in the Suisun Bay Nitrogen Cycle. Frances
Wilkerson, Advisor.
Koch, Florian. 2005. Exploring the Use of 32Si in an Urban Estuary: the Fate of Silicate in San Francisco Bay. Richard
Dugdale, Advisor.
Kress, Erica. 2012. Nutrient Loading Effects on Phytoplankton Community Structure and Biomass in the Sacramento and
San Joaquin Rivers. Frances Wilkerson, Advisor.
Lake, David. 2011. Molecular Analysis of the Parasite Fauna of Two Genera (Nutricola and Gemma) of Benthic Bivalves.
Larsson, Brita. 1996. A Comparative Investigation of Accretion Rates in Spartina alterniflora and Spartina foliosa. Michael
Josselyn, Advisor.
Lassiter, Adria. 2003. Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Phytoplankton Species in a Coastal Upwelling Ecosystem.
Lew, Kevin. 2007. Methods Development to Apply the CytoSense Flow Cytometer to Evaluating Natural Phytoplankton
Community Structure. Richard Dugdale, Advisor.
Lidstrom, Ulrika. 2009. Primary Production, Biomass and Species Composition of Phytoplankton in the Low Salinity Zone of
the Northern San Francisco Estuary. Edward Carpenter, Advisor.
Long, Regan. 2004. Northern California Shelf Circulation During January 2003: Possible Implications for Shelf Retention.
Newell Garfield, Advisor.
Lorenzi, Allison. 2006. Primary Productivity and rbcL Gene Expression in Central San Francisco Bay. Frances Wilkerson,
Advisor.
Los Huertos, Marc. 1992. Controls on Patterns of Seasonal Wetland Vegetation, South San Francisco Bay. Michael Josselyn,
Advisor.
Lougee, Ladd. 2000. The Effects of Haloclines on Zooplankton in San Francisco Bay. Stephen Bollens, Advisor.
Martin, Bill. 1999. Comparison of Benthic Productivity: Restored and Natural Tidal Marshes, San Francisco Bay. Michael
Josselyn, Advisor.
Martindale, Molly. 1987. Salicornia europa I. and Salicornia virginica I. on a San Francisco Bay Salt Marsh: A Study of
Factors Contributing to Their Zonation Pattern. Michael Josselyn, Advisor.
Matsumoto, Yukari. 2004. The Spatial Patterns and Growth Rates of an Invasive Cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) and the
Influences on Sedimentation in Alameda Marsh. Patricia Foschi, Advisor.
McKinnon, Rodney. 1988. The Rotifer (Brachionus plicatilis) as A Vector of Nutrition in Larval Rearing. Michael Josselyn,
Advisor.
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Melton, Lee. 1998. Computer-assisted Classification of Suburban Areas in Satellite Imagery Through the Use of Artificial
Neural Networks. Patricia Foschi, Advisor.
Mills, Camra. 2006. Survey and Analysis of the Prevalence and Intensity of Helminth Parasite Infections in Stranded
California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus). Carlos Crocker, Advisor.
Mincks, Sarah. 1998. Distribution, Abundance and Feeding of Decapods in the Arabian Sea. Stephen Bollens, Advisor.
Murphy, Jennifer. 2008. Salt Marsh Soil Amendments and Their Effect on Spartina foliosa Restoration Around the San
Francisco Bay. Edward Carpenter, Advisor.
Murray, Alison. 1994. Community Fingerprint Analysis: A Molecular Method for Studying Marine Bacterioplankton
Diversity. James Hollibaugh, Advisor.
Nguyen, Rosalee. 2006. Effects of Different Substrates on Foraging Behavior and Growth Rate of Larval Green Sturgeon,
Acipenser medirostris. Carlos Crocker, Advisor.
Odaya, Mami. 2005. Biomass Estimation of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques, A
Test Study in Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in Northern California. Patricia Foschi, Advisor.
Padron, Mariana. 2011. Phylogeography of Two Sympatric Seahorses from the Caribbean: Using Mitochondrial and
Nuclear DNA Variation for Conservation. Sarah Cohen, Advisor.
Papastephanou, Kathy. 2005. Cross-Shelf Distribution of Copepods in the Central California Upwelling Zone. Stephen
Bollens, Advisor.
Patin, Nastassia. 2011. Effects of OUT Clustering and Sequencing Artifacts on Microbial Community Diversity Estimates.
Matthew Ashby, Advisor.
Pearson, Jennifer. 2000. Fish and Mysids in Two Creeks/Estuary Systems in Marin County, California. Michael McGowan,
Advisor.
Pence II, William. 1985. The Effects of Saline Agricultural Drainage Effluent on the Growth of Selected Species of Estuarine
Macroalgae of Northern San Francisco Bay. Michael Josselyn, Advisor.
Perron-Burdick, Anya. 2007. Integrated Management Techniques for the Eradication and Control of Lepidium latifolium
(Perennial Peppergrass) in the San Francisco Estuary. Katharyn Boyer, Advisor.
Perez, Rick. 1981. Salt Marsh Restoration from Former Salt Evaporators: Changes in Sediment Properties. Michael Josselyn,
Advisor.
Peterson, Heather. 2002. Long-term Benthic Community Changes in a Highly Invaded Estuary. Wim Kimmerer, Advisor.
Piechnik, Denise. 2002. Food Web Assembly During a Classic Biogeographic Study: Fractions of Trophic Specialists Increase
Over Time. Neo Martinez, Advisor.
Polly, Jonathon. 2009. Harnessing Natural C Isotopes to Understand Organic Matter Transformations in Marine Sediments.
Tomoko Komada, Advisor.
Puleston, Cedric. 2003. Structural Analyses of the Food Web of Mirror Lake, New Hampshire. Neo Martinez, Advisor.
Purkerson, David. 2000. Selenium in San Francisco Bay Zooplankton. Stephen Bollens, Advisor.
Radan, Regina. 2008. Nutrient Uptake and Toxicity of Pseudo-nitzschia cuspidate: A Laboratory and Field Based
Experiment. William Cochlan, Advisor.
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Reed, Tim. 2003. Analyzing SeaWIFS Using GIS: Phytoplankton Blooms in the Bering Sea. Dale Robinson, Advisor.
Righetti-Judah, Linda. 2002. Phytoplankton Community Structure and Seasonal Succession in Tomales Bay, CA. Frances
Wilkerson, Advisor.
Roe, Russell. 1999. Mapping Cover Classes of Baccharis pilularis with Landsat TM Imagery. Patricia Foschi, Advisor.
Roepke, Troy. 2001. A New Model for Sulfide Exposure Using the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Alissa Arp, Advisor.
Rogoff, Dana. 2006. Identification and Characterization of Microbes in South San Francisco Bay Solar Salt Ponds: An
Application for Restoration. Edward Carpenter, Advisor.
Ryan, Amelia. 2009. Salinity and Nitrogen Interactions in Sarcocornia pacifica Dominated Salt Marshes. Katharyn Boyer,
Advisor.
Sanford, Ukina. 2006. The Effects of Anoxia on Cardiac Output and Cerebral Blood Flow in Sliders, Trachemys scripta.
Carlos Crocker, Advisor.
Seto, Shelley. 1997. Excretion of Sulfide Oxidation Endproducts in Urechis caupo. Alissa Arp, Advisor.
Shellem, Bernie. 1981. Physiological Ecology of Entromorpha clathrata (Roth) Grev. on a Salt Marsh Mudflat. Michael
Josselyn, Advisor.
Silva, Javier. 2008. Hemo Catecholamine Responses in Green Sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) Due to Air Exposure. Carlos
Crocker, Advisor.
Speekmann, Christa. 2000. The Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on the Vertical Distribution and Mortality of Zooplankton.
Spicher, Douglas. 1984. The Ecology of Caespitose Cordgrass (Spartina sp.) Introduced to San Francisco Bay. Michael
Josselyn, Advisor.
Statile, Jennifer. 2004. H2S Producing Activity in Marine Invertebrate Tissues. Alissa Arp, Advisor.
Stoltz, Gretchen. 2002. The Biology and Natural History of Pleurobrachia pileus on Georges Bank. Stephen Bollens, Advisor.
Stierwalt, Robin. 1998. Relationships Between Physiological Response and Shell Morphology in Three Species of Littorine
Snails of the Central California Coast. Michael Josselyn, Advisor.
Tang, Xuman (Ariel). 2012. The Identification of Asexual and Sexual Reproduction Patterns of Eelgrass (Zostera marina) in
San Francisco Bay. Sarah Cohen, Advisor.
Tirindelli, Joelle. 2006. Immunogenetic Variation in Estuarine Fish from Habitats with Varying Chemical Contaminant
Loads. Sarah Cohen, Advisor.
Vaccaro, Erin. 2003. Structural Analyses of the Lake Tahoe Food Web. Neo Martinez, Advisor.
Ver Steeg, Juliana. 1981. Contributions to the Taxonomy and Morphology of Cryptopleura (Rhodophyta: Delesseriaceae).
Michael Josselyn, Advisor.
Visintainer, Tammie. 2003. Community Composition and Diet of Fishes as a Function of Tidal Channel Order: A Field Study
in China Camp Marsh, San Francisco Estuary. Stephen Bollens, Advisor.
Wang, Verena. 2011. Investigating Recent Invasions of a Colonial Tunicate Using a Polymorphic Fusion Locus. Sarah Cohen,
Advisor.
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Waters, Wayne G. 1985. The Effects of Restoration/Management Projects on the Essential Habitat of Five Endangered
Wildlife Species Utilizing the Grizzly Island Wildlife Area. Michael Josselyn, Advisor.
White, Brendan. 1995. The Shorebird Foraging Response to the Eradication of the Introduced Cordgrass, Spartina
alterniflora. Michael Josselyn, Advisor.
Willsie, Julia. 1999. Sulfite and Thiosulfate Are Products of Detoxification in Urechis caupo. Alissa Arp, Advisor.
Wunderlich, Veronica. 2006. Effects of Elevated Temperature on Hypoxia on Growth of Age-0 Green Sturgeon, Acipenser
medirostris. Carlos Crocker, Advisor.
Yorty, Jennifer. 2007. Nitrogen Fixation at Six San Francisco Bay Tidal Wetlands. Ed Carpenter, Advisor.
Zaremba, Katie. 2002. Comparison of Native and Non-native Cordgrass and Hybrids in San Francisco Bay. Michael Josselyn,
Advisor.
Theses currently in progress:
Bjelde, Brittany. Physiological Performance of Lottia digitalis: Thermal Sensitivity and Limits to Tidal Conditions. Anne
Todgham, Advisor.
Boles, Sara. Physiological Cost of Climate Change in the Native Olympia Oyster, Ostrea lurida. Anne Todgham, Advisor.
Borgnis, Evyan. Predicting Impacts of Global Climate Change on Native and Invasive Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in the
San Francisco Estuary. Katharyn Boyer, Advisor.
Buck, Christina. Phytoplankton Community Responses to Nutrient Regimes in Drakes Estero Marine Conservation Area, CA.
Chase, Daniel. Competition, Growth, and Stress Hormone Levels of the Tidewater Goby When in the Presence of the Nonnative Rainwater Killifish and the Native Three-spine Stickleback. Anne Todgham, Advisor.
Chow, Benson. Juvenile Performance Variation in Marine Invertebrates: Effects of Source and Local Environment. Sarah
Cohen, Advisor.
Clancy, Darragh. Examining Genetic Diversity and Fusion Abilities of an Invasive Colonial Ascidian. Sarah Cohen, Advisor.
Craig, Carrie. A Molecular Approach to Diet Analysis of Larval and Adult Copepods. Sarah Cohen, Advisor.
Donald, Jessica. Population Dynamics of Three Invasive Hydrozoan Jellyfish in the Upper San Francisco Estuary. Wim
Kimmerer, Advisor.
Dorfman, Rachel. Physiological and Molecular Responses of Calcifying Marine Phytoplankton to Ocean Acidification.
Jonathon Stillman, Advisor.
duMais, Rita. Reproductive Success of the Calanoid Copepod Pseudodiaptomus forbesi in the Presence of Sublethal Levels
of the Toxic Cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa. Wim Kimmerer, Advisor.
Guerra, Vanessa. Population Genetic Diversity of the Cryptogenic Invasive Ciona spp. on the Pacific Coast of America.
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Theses currently in progress:
Ikeda, Chris. The Effects of Nutrient Limitation on the Production of the Glycocalyx by Heterosigma akashiwo. William
Cochlan, Advisor.
Johnson, Aaron. The Influence of Prey Abundance and Composition on Spawning Migrations of Delta Smelt. Wim
Kimmerer, Advisor.
Kiriakopolos, Stephanie. Herbivore-driven semelparity in a typically iteroparous plant, Zostera marina. Katharyn Boyer,
Advisor
Yearly and cumulative Masters Degrees awarded for research at RTC
14
yearly awards
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
1980
1985
1990
1995
year
2000
2005
2010
2015
140
cumulative awards
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
1975
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Table 2.f. Scholarship awards to RTC students in 2006-2012
Student
Advisor
Award
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
CA Invasive Plant Council Symposium Travel Scholarship
2006
$350
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
James C. Kelly Award, Outstanding Student in Marine Science
2006
$500
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
NSF Undergraduate Biology & Mathematics Collaboration
Fellowship
2006
$17,000
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
Restore America’s Estuaries Meeting Travel Scholarship
2006
$750
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
San Francisco Bay Scholarship
2006
$500
Carr, Lindsey
Boyer
Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) Board Grant
2006
$550
Carr, Lindsey
Boyer
2006
$500
Dailey, Bianca
Boyer
Hensill Scholarship
2006
$1,000
Huntington, Brittany
Boyer
Budweiswer Conservation Scholarship Award
2006
$10,000
Huntington, Brittany
Boyer
Santa Clarita Native Plant Society Scholarship
2006
$1,500
Kiriakopolos, Stephanie
Boyer
NSF Undergraduate Biology & Mathematics Collaboration Fellowship
2006
$29,000
Boyer
2006
$500
Perron-Burdick, Anya
Boyer
Graduate Fellowship Award
2006
$3,000
Boyer
NSF GK-12 Science Edu Partnership & Assessment Lab
Fellowship
2006
$30,000
Boyer
2006
$500
Lidstrom, Ulrika
Carpenter
Robert E. Maxwell Memorial Scholarship
2006
$3,000
Lidstrom, Ulrika
Carpenter
2006
$500
Auro, Maureen
Cochlan
2006
$3,000
Auro, Maureen
Cochlan
2006
$500
Radan, Regina
Cochlan
2006
$500
Radan, Regina
Cochlan
2006
$500
Day, Julie
Cohen
Fellowship
2006
$17,000
Day, Julie
Cohen
San Francisco Bay Scholarship (two awarded this year)
2006
$1,000
Greene, Valerie
Cohen
NSF Summer Reseach Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
Fellowship
2006
$4,500
Klein-McDowell, Molly
Cohen
2006
$3,000
Klein-McDowell, Molly
Cohen
SFSU Alumni Association Scholarship
2006
$1,000
Kosman, Ellen
Cohen
NSF Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology
(UMEB) Fellowship
2006
$10,000
Lee, Patrick
Cohen
Fellowship
2006
$4,500
Rodelo, Amelia
Cohen
Fellowship
2006
$4,500
Briggs, Allegra
Kimmerer
2006
$500
Kara, Laurie
Kimmerer
2006
$500
Baldwin, Dianna
Stillman
2006
$500
2006 Award Total
Year
Amount
$150,650
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Table 2.f. Scholarship awards continued
Carr, Lindsey
Boyer
Meyer’s Trust Scholarship
2007
$1,000
Carr, Lindsey
Boyer
2007
$3,000
Carr, Lindsey
Boyer
2007
$500
Carr, Lindsey
Boyer
Tyee Club Scholarship
2007
$1,000
Carr, Lindsey
Boyer
University Scholarship, Vincent Constantino Award
2007
$500
Carr, Lindsey
Boyer
University Women’s Association Scholarship
2007
$1,000
Conahan, Gwen
Boyer
Fellowship
2007
$17,000
Boyer
2007
$3,000
Boyer
Western Aquatic Plant Management Society Scholarship
2007
$1,500
Ryan, Amelia
Boyer
Arthur Nelson Scholarship
2007
$1,500
Ryan, Amelia
Boyer
COSE Advisory Board Scholarship
2007
$2,000
Santos Conahan, Gwen
Boyer
Estuarine Research Federation Travel Award
2007
$320
Drake, Jeana
Carpenter
2007
$500
Murphy, Jenny
Carpenter
San Francisco Bay Scholarship (two awarded this year)
2007
$1,000
Crumb, Esa
Cohen
NSF Undergraduate Mentoring in Biology Program
2007
$10,000
Donald, Jessica
Cohen
2007
$17,912
Morrisson, Summer
Cohen
2007
$15,184
Rodelo, Amelia
Cohen
2007
$20,000
Wang, Verena
Cohen
Smithsonian Institution Visiting Student Award
2007
$5,400
Wang, Verena
Cohen
2007
$1,000
Gould, Alison
Kimmerer
ERF Travel Award
2007
$300
Gould, Alison
Kimmerer
2007
$365
Polly, Jonathon
Komada
2007
$3,000
Polly, Jonathon
Komada
2007
$500
Galassi, Eric
Stillman
2007
$500
Waterson, Tyler
Stillman
2007
$500
Fuller, James
Wilkerson
COSE Travel Award
2007
$180
J. Fuller/A. Kleckner
Wilkerson
2007
$650
2007 Award Total
$109,311
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
2008
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
2008
$400
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
Northern California Botanists Scholarship
2008
$1,000
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
NSF Undergraduate Biology & Mathematics Collaboration Fellowship
2008
$17,000
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
2008
$3,000
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
2008
$500
Conahan, Gwen
Boyer
2008
$400
Conahan, Gwen
Boyer
2008
$500
Boyer
ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Scholarship
2008
$10,000
$1,500
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Boyer
2008
$500
Boyer
SFSU Alumni Association Scholarship
2008
$1,000
Boyer
SFSU Bio Training & Research in Ecology & Evolution (TREE)
Graduate Fellowship
2008
$10,000
Boyer
Tiburon Sunset Rotary Club
2008
$6,000
Ryan, Amelia
Boyer
2008
$400
Ryan, Amelia
Boyer
2008
$1,500
Ryan, Amelia
Boyer
Santa Clarita Native Plant Society Scholarship
2008
$1,500
Williams, Melanie
Boyer
Fellowship
2008
$16,000
Coleman, Richard
Cohen
Fellowship
2008
$4,500
Coleman, Richard
Cohen
NSF Undergraduate Memtoring in Environmental Biology
(UMEB) Fellowship
2008
$10,000
Coleman, Richard
Cohen
2008
$500
Crumb, Esa
Cohen
2008
$500
Donald, Jessica
Cohen
2008
$500
Donald, Jessica
Cohen
2008
$500
Goulding, Tricia
Cohen
2008
$500
Lai, Alyssa
Cohen
2008
$1,500
Lai, Alyssa
Cohen
Bermuda Biodiversity Project
2008
$1,000
Lai, Alyssa
Cohen
Bermuda Fry-Angle Aquarium Society
2008
$1,000
Lai, Alyssa
Cohen
Bermuda Government’s Department of Conservation Services
2008
$6,000
Lai, Alyssa
Cohen
2008
$500
Lai, Alyssa
Cohen
2008
$1,000
Padron, Mariana
Cohen
Lakeside Foundation Fellowship
2008
$54,000
Quiambao, Richelle
Cohen
2008
$500
Smith, Ashley
Cohen
Graduate Fellowship
2008
$17,200
Tang, Xuman (Ariel)
Cohen
2008
$500
Wang, Verena
Cohen
2008
$500
Wang, Verena
Cohen
SeaGrant Traineeship Scholarship
2008
$19,000
Hubbard, Maxwell
Garfield
2008
$500
Gould, Alison
Kimmerer
2008
$500
Greene, Valerie
Kimmerer
2008
$500
Kara, Laurie
Kimmerer
2008
$500
Johnson, Leah
Komada
James C. Kelly Award, Outstanding Student in Marine Science
2008
$500
Polly, Jonathon
Komada
2008
$500
Cayenne, Andrea
Stillman
MBRS-RISE
2008
$36,000
Cayenne, Andrea
Stillman
2008
$500
Waterson, Tyler
Stillman
2008
$500
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Blaser, Sarah
Wilkerson
2008
2008 Award Total
$500
$231,400
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
2009
$10,000
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
Association of Environmental Professionals Scholarship
2009
$1,000
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
2009
$500
Blaser, Sarah
Wilkerson
2009
$1,000
Ceballos, Lina
Stillman
James C. Kelly Scholarship
2009
$1,000
Ceballos, Lina
Stillman
Graduate Fellowship
2009
$10,000
Chen, Xi (Chelsea)
Stillman
2009
$500
Cleave, Autumn
Boyer
2009
$500
Conahan, Gwen
Boyer
NSF GK-12 Science Edu Partnership & Assessment Lab
Fellowship
2009
$10,000
Conahan, Gwen
Boyer
2009
$500
Hubbard, Max
Garfield
2009
$500
Lewis, Jeff
Boyer
2009
$500
Lewis, Jeff
Boyer
Graduate Fellowship
2009
$17,500
Goulding, Tricia
Cohen
2009
$10,000
Goulding, Tricia
Cohen
Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research
2009
$550
Goulding, Tricia
Cohen
2009
$500
Paganini, Adam
Stillman
2009
$500
Wang, Verena
Cohen
2009
$500
2009 Award Total
$65,550
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
South Bay Salt Pond Resotration Project Graduate Fellowship
2010
$25,000
Archbald, Gavin
Boyer
Fellowship
2010
$6,000
Blaser, Sarah
Wilkerson
2010
$500
Buck, Christina
Wilkerson
2010
$500
Buck, Christina
Wilkerson
PADI Grant
2010
$2,759
Buck, Christina
Wilkerson
2010
$10,000
Buck, Christina
Wilkerson
Sally Cassanova Scholar (California Pre Doctoral Program
Award)
2010
$3,000
Buck, Christina
Wilkerson
COAST Travel Award
2010
$1,000
Buck, Christina
Wilkerson
SFSU Biology Department IRA Research Project Fund
2010
$325
Buck, Christina
Wilkerson
SFSU College of Art and Science IRA Travel Award
2010
$350
Ceballos, Lina
Stillman
Maxwell Scholarship
2010
$4,000
Chen, Xi (Chelsea)
Stillman
2010
$500
Craig, Carrie
Cohen
2010
$500
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Table 2.f. Scholarship Awards continued
Goulding, Tricia
Cohen
2010
$1,500
Goulding, Tricia
Cohen
2010
$10,000
Goulding, Tricia
Cohen
Society of Sestematic Biologists
2010
$1,309
Goulding, Tricia
Cohen
Western Association of Marine Labs Travel Award
2010
$500
Goulding, Tricia
Cohen
2010
$500
Ikeda, Chris
Cochlan
2010
$500
Ikeda, Chris
Cochlan
COAST Student Award for marine Science Research
2010
$3,500
Lake, David
Cohen
2010
$1,500
Lake, David
Cohen
2010
$10,000
Lewis, Jeff
Boyer
COAST Student Award for marine Science Research
2010
$3,500
Okimura, Kristine
Carpenter
2010
$500
Patin, Nastassia
Ashby
2010
$500
Pham, Anh Van
Cochlan
2010
$500
Santos, Gwen
Boyer
2010
$500
Schneider, Rosa
Boyer
COAST Student Award for Marine Science Research
2010
$3,500
Sheets, Elizabeth
Cohen
2010
$500
Tang, Xuman (Ariel)
Cohen
2010
$500
Tang, Xuman (Ariel)
Cohen
Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) Travel Grant
2010
$340
2010 Award Total
$94,083
Bjelde, Brittany
Todgham
COAST Summer Grant
2011
$1,500
Bjelde, Brittany
Todgham
Arthur Nelson Graduate Scholarship
2011
$1,000
Bjelde, Brittany
Todgham
2011
$500
Blaser, Sarah
Wilkerson
COAST Student Travel Award
2011
$750
Blaser, Sarah
Wilkerson
CERF Student Travel Award
2011
$320
Boles, Sara
Todgham
COAST Summer Grant
2011
$1,500
Boles, Sara
Todgham
2011
$500
Borgnis, Evyan
Boyer
2011
$500
Buck, Christina
Wilkerson
COAST Summer Grant
2011
$1,500
Buck, Christina
Wilkerson
2011
$750
Buck, Christina
Wilkerson
2011
$320
Carter, Hayley
Stillman
2011
$500
Ceballos, Lina
Stillman
COAST Summer Grant
2011
$1,500
Ceballos, Lina
Stillman
2011
$500
Chow Benson
Cohen
2011
$750
Clancy, Darrgah
Cohen
2011
$500
Cleave, Autumn
Boyer
COAST Summer Grant
2011
$1,500
Cleave, Autumn
Boyer
2011
$500
Craig, Carrie
Cohen
2011
$10,000
Craig, Carrie
Cohen
COAST Summer Grant
2011
$1,500
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Craig, Carrie
Cohen
2011
$500
Dorfman, Rachel
Stillman
2011
$500
Dorfman, Rachel
Stillman
2011
$350
Dorfman, Rachel
Stillman
2011
$750
Goulding, Tricia
Cohen
Balaamuth-Horen Award
2011
$100
Guerra, Vanessa
Cohen
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
2011
$800
Hurt, David
Stillman
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2011
$42,000
Kayfetz, Karen
Kimmerer
FlowCAM Student Equipment & Travel Grant
2011
$33,313
Kress, Erica
Wilkerson
2011
$500
Kress, Erica
Wilkerson
2011
$750
Kress, Erica
Wilkerson
2011
$320
Kress, Erica
Wilkerson
2011
$350
Lake, David
Cohen
2011
$500
Lee, Jamie
Wilkerson
2011
$500
Nuessly, Kathryn
Cohen
2011
$500
Paganini, Adam
Stillman
2011
$1,000
Patin, Nastassia
Ashby
2011
$500
Pinnell, Cassie
Boyer
2011
$500
Santos, Gwen
Boyer
COAST Summer Grant
2011
$1,500
Santos, Gwen
Boyer
2011
$500
Schneider, Rosa
Boyer
2011
$1,500
Schneider, Rosa
Boyer
Maxwell Scholarship
2011
$4,000
Schneider, Rosa
Boyer
NERR Graduate Research Fellowship
2011
$20,000
Schneider, Rosa
Boyer
2011
$1,000
Sheets, Beth
Cohen
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
2011
$800
Sheets, Beth
Cohen
COAST Summer Grant
2011
$1,500
Sheets, Beth
Cohen
2011
$500
Sheets, Beth
Cohen
2011
$500
Sheets, Beth
Cohen
2011
$350
Smith, Riley
Cohen
2011
$350
2011 Award Total
$167,843
Boles, Sara
Todgham
COSE Advisory Board Scholarship
2012
$2,500
Boles, Sara
Todgham
NIH BRIDGE Fellowship
2012
$20,000
Boles, Sara
Todgham
Vincent Constantino University Scholarship
2012
$1,000
Borgnis, Evyan
Boyer
COAST Graduate Student Award for Marine Science Research
2012
$3,000
Borgnis, Evyan
Boyer
2012
$500
Buck,Christina
Wilkerson
2012
$500
Cada, King
Komada
Climate Change Scholarship from the CSME at SFSU
2012
$3,138
Carter, Hayley
Stillman
2012
$3,000
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Chow, Benson
Cohen
2012
$3,000
Clancy, Darragh
Cohen
CSUPERB Travel Award
2012
$1,220
Clancy, Darragh
Cohen
2012
$500
Desmet, Danielle
Cohen
2012
$500
Donald, Jessica
Kimmerer
2012
$500
Dorfman, Rachel
Stillman
2012
$3,000
Dorfman, Rachel
Stillman
2012
$10,000
Dorfman, Rachel
Stillman
2012
$500
duMais, Rita
Kimmerer
2012
$3,000
Gerretson, Adrian
Komada
2012
$3,138
Guerra, Vanessa
Cohen
2012
$700
Guerra, Vanessa
Cohen
Red de genetica de la Conservacion (ReGeneC)
2012
$1,371
Guerra, Vanessa
Cohen
Cohen Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Travel Award 2012
$800
Guerra, Vanessa
Cohen
2012
$500
Ikeda, Chris
Cochlan
2012
$3,000
Jensen, Caitlin
Hines
NOAA Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship
2012
$52,000
Kayfetz, Karen
Kimmerer
2012
$3,000
Lee, Jamie
Wilkerson
AAAS Pacific Division Alan E. Leviton Student Research Award
2012
$750
Lee, Jamie
Wilkerson
2012
$350
McLean, Katherine
Todgham
2012
$10,000
Meyers, Morgan
Carpenter
2012
$500
Nuessly, Kathryn
Cohen
2012
$500
Okimura, Kristine
Carpenter
2012
$1,000
Paganini, Adam
Stillman
2012
$500
Page, Tessa
Stillman
2012
$500
Page, Tessa
Stillman
COSE James C. Kelley Scholarship
2012
$1,000
Papineau, Elize
Stillman
2012
$500
Pasparakis, Christina
Todgham
2012
$3,000
Pinnell, Cassie
Boyer
Maxwell Scholarship
2012
$4,000
Schneider, Rosa
Boyer
NERR Graduate Research Fellowship
2012
$20,000
Sheets, Beth
Cohen
2012
$500
Smith, Riley
Cohen
2012
$6,276
Vogt, Bobby
Kimmerer
2012
$3,000
2012 Award Total
$172,743.00
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2.g. Community Education and Outreach
Community education and outreach is an articulated
part of the RTC mission. Our existing and developing
programs are varied, and aim to reach a diverse
audience; our outreach program reaches all segments
of our local community, from school children, to
teachers, to retirees. RTC faculty members play a lead
role in outreach efforts, and we strongly encourage
graduate student participation as professional
development, and to provide much needed teaching
experience. In house, RTC produces an annual
newsletter, maintains multiple web sites and pages,
and has become active in social media outlets such as
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
A successful partnership with the Bay Model
Association (BMA) to provide underserved local middle
and high school students with high quality science
education activities concluded in 2007, after five years
of funding from the Department of Education and two
years of funding from the National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The final year of
a four-year partnership with the Bay Area Discovery
Museum (BADM) funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF) also concluded in 2007. Ten Guest
Scientist programs were presented at BADM in 20062007, to a total of 1556 visitors, and three trips on
the R/V Questuary for 33 BADM staff members were
completed. Three additional Guest Scientist programs
took place with funding from BADM in December 2007,
March 2008, and November 2008.
From 2008-2011, RTC coordinated the Northern
California regional competition of the National
Ocean Sciences Bowl, a high school ocean science
competition funded by the Consortium for Ocean
Leadership and NOAA. Originally called the Otter Bowl
and based in Monterey Bay, the name was changed to
Sea Lion Bowl in 2009 when it was first hosted at SF
State. The competition served around 100 students
and 20 teachers each year, and involved 75-80
volunteers from SF State and the community. Funding
for a Diversity Program to enhance preparation for
underserved students was secured through the
Miranda Lux Foundation and California Coastal
Commission’s Whale Tail Grant, providing tutoring, field
trips, resources, and a summer marine science course
to a total of 80 students from 2009-2012. In 2012, SF
State’s Center for Science and Math Education took
over the competition and diversity program, continuing
to host it on campus. Many RTC faculty, students
and staff continue to enthusiastically volunteer for the
competition.
Since 2010, RTC scientists have advised and
assisted the Exploratorium with scientific information
and technology for exhibits at their new location to
open in April 2013. In addition, an HF radar antenna
has been placed at the site, to enhance tracking
and dissemination of SF Bay currents data. A new
partnership with nonprofit organization Spirit of the
Sea, to provide training, curriculum and instruction
in marine science education for crew and groups
sailing on the vessel Ocean Watch, is currently in
development.
RTC participates in many off-site events. Faculty
members and graduate students participate in
middle and high school career fairs and classroom
presentations. Our scientists volunteer their time as
judges at local science fairs. Each year, the Outreach
Coordinator teaches marine invertebrate ecology for
Richardson Bay Audubon Center’s docent training.
Additionally, members of the RTC community
participate in local events such as Coastal Cleanup
Day, the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival, Earth Day
and many other community events.
Discovery Day
Discovery Day is RTC’s annual open house event
held in October. The open house offers the public
a unique opportunity to spend the day behind the
scenes learning about the scientific research activities
that take place at the Center. The event features
lectures and interactive displays by RTC scientists
and students that highlight the Center’s contributions
to understanding and caring for the San Francisco
Bay environment and beyond. Select guest exhibitors
(partners or organizations with related missions) are
invited to share their work. Local art teacher and RTC
Advisory Board member Annelies Atchley develops
RTC science-related art projects for visitors to create,
and SF State’s Ceramics Department students provide
resources for visitors to create clay projects. Each year,
approximately 1,000 visitors attend Discovery Day.
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Teacher Workshops
In the Fall and Spring of each year, RTC offers teacher
workshops in partnership with the San Francisco Bay
National Estuarine Research Reserve (SF Bay NERR).
The teacher workshops are important venues for
enhancing the Center’s role as an educational resource
to San Francisco Bay Area educators. With varied and
timely subject matter, the workshops provide scientific
expertise, experimental assistance, and increased
awareness of environmental issues of importance
to San Francisco Bay and the surrounding coastal
regions. The workshops promote the interaction of
RTC scientists with Bay Area teachers, keep teachers
abreast of current scientific research, and encourage
the integration of research into marine science
curricula and educational materials. Workshop formats
vary, but typically consist of morning and afternoon
sessions. Morning sessions consist of presentations on
environmental issues being studied by RTC scientists.
The afternoon sessions are typically a field experiences
that expose educators to how experiments and/or
sampling are conducted in the field by scientists.
RTC also hosted and collaborated on two teacher
workshops for the Exploratorium’s Institute for
Inquiry, in April (Water Quality Monitoring) and August
(The Unwired Pier) of 2012. The Center and the
Exploratorium intend to continue these collaborations
in the future, combining the resources of RTC’s
scientific expertise and tools, and the Exploratorium’s
pedagogical expertise and inquiry-based exhibits.
In 2012, RTC, the Farallones Marine Sanctuary
Association, Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
and SF Bay NERR launched a series of three
workshops on climate change. The first one-day
workshop was held in May of 2012. Each workshop
consists of three to four lectures throughout the
day, interspersed with demonstrations of classroom
activities related to climate change. The summer
workshop in July 2012 was held over two days, and
included a lunchtime poster session with RTC students
and scientists, and a field trip to Point Reyes and an
oyster farm on the second day. The final one-day
workshop in November 2012 will include a tour of the
RTC waterfront and greenhouse research.
Table 2.g. RTC Teacher Workshops
Date
Theme
Teachers
Speakers
Fall 2006
Estuary Ecology
27
Dr. Matt Ferner (UC Davis), Dr. Drew Talley (SF Bay NERR),
Dr. Newell Garfield, Dr. Alexander Parker
Spring 2007
Coastal Oceanography
36
Dr. William Cochlan, Dr. Tomoko Komada, Doreen Gurrola
(The Marine Mammal Center), Jennifer Stock (Cordell Bank
NMS)
Spring 2008
Estuary Ecology
13
Dr. Heidi Weiskel (SF Bay NERR), Dr. Lindsay Sullivan, Dr.
Christine Whitcraft (SF Bay NERR)
Fall 2009
Ocean Acidification
21
Dr. Jonathon Stillman, Dr. Ina Benner, Dr. Tomoko Komada
Fall 2010
Water Quality Monitoring
17
Dr. Newell Garfield, Brian Cheng, Gavin Archbald
Spring 2011
Invasive Species
17
Dr. Lindsay Sullivan, Betsy Wells, Autumn Cleave
Fall 2011
Sea Level Rise
20
Dr. Matt Ferner, Karen Thorne (USGS), Julian Wood (PRBO
Conservation Science)
Spring 2012
Global Climate Change
44
Dr. Andrew Oliphant (SFSU), Dr. John Largier (UC Davis), Dr.
Wim Kimmerer
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Internship Programs
Each year, RTC scientists host several high school
interns, through various local high school and Marin
County Office of Education career experience programs. Since the 2006-2007 academic year, RTC has
hosted a total of 33 high school interns.
In 2009, RTC began hosting undergraduate interns
participating in two federally funded research experience programs. The CSU’s STAR (STEM Teacher and
Researcher) program for pre-service teachers is funded
in part by the NSF and the National Marine Sanctuary
Foundation. NSF’s REU program places undergraduate
students from around the United States in research laboratories for a summer, to expose students to hands-on
scientific research.
The STAR program is coordinated at Cal Poly San
Luis Obispo and places CSU students and NSF Noyce
Scholars in research laboratories for nine weeks of independent research under the guidance of faculty mentors. SF State’s Romberg Tiburon Center is the only
CSU research laboratory participating in the program.
Since 2009, STAR has placed a total of 17 undergraduate students at RTC and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) Marine Invasions Lab
located on the RTC site.
The REU program at SF State is called Biological Research in Ecological and Evolutionary Developmental
Biology (BREED). Coordinated by Dr. Carmen Domingo
in the Biology Department and RTC’s Dr. Sarah Cohen,
the BREED program consists of a one week training
course followed by nine weeks of independent research
under the guidance of faculty mentors. Since 2009,
a total of 15 students have participated at RTC and
SERC.
Table 2.h. Summer Interns at RTC
Year
HS
REU
STAR
Total
Mentors
2006-2007
3
n/a
n/a
3
Wilkerson, Komada, Cohen
2007-2008
2
n/a
n/a
2
Wilkerson, Cohen
2008-2009
4
3
2
9
Wilkerson, Komada, Cohen, Carpenter, Kimmerer
2009-2010
7
2
5
14
Boyer, Cohen, Kimmerer, Garfield
2010-2011
9
3
4
16
Wilkerson, Stillman/Todgham, Kimmerer, Cohen, Boyer, Cochlan, Ruiz
(SERC)
2011-2012
8
7
6
21
Wilkerson, Stillman, Todgham, Kimmerer, Cohen, Ruiz
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3. ADMINISTRATION
Administrative responsibility for RTC resides at SF State. The Center is administered by a Director (Dr. Newell
Garfield) who reports to the Dean of the College of Science & Engineering (Dr. Sheldon Axler), the Provost (Dr.
Sue V. Rosser), and the University President (Dr. Leslie Wong). RTC’s scientific staff consists of the Director,
other tenured or tenure-track faculty with appointments in home departments at SF State, research scientists,
postdoctoral associates, visiting scientist, research technicians, and an on-site administrative and facilities
staff. In AY 2011-2012 the student population who were involved in laboratory research was composed of five
undergraduate students, and 49 graduate students, eight high school students, 34 interns, 13 student assistants,
and 14 volunteers.
Table 3.a. RTC Directors, Acting Directors, and Associate Directors
Name
Title
Years of Service
Department Affiliation
Dr. Newell “Toby” Garfield
Director
Interim Director
2007 - present
2006 - 2007
Geosciences
Physical Oceanographer; coastal physical oceanography and monitoring.
Dr. Alissa J. Arp
Director
1995 - 2006
Biology
Marine Ecological Physiologist; investigates how organisms cope with hypoxia and toxic conditions in estuaries and
on the ocean floor.
Dr. James T. Hollibaugh
Acting Director
1991 - 1995
Biology
Microbial Ecologist; studies the structure and function of microbial communities, role of bacteria in biogeochemical
processes
Dr. Franz Anderson
Director
1989 - 1991
Biology
Director
1982 - 1989
Biology
Ecologist; estuarine ecology.
Dr. Michael Josselyn
Wetlands Ecologist; conducts wetland restoration and enhancement projects in coastal wetland ecosystems.
Dr. Curtis O. Davis
Acting Director
1980 - 1982
Biology
Biological Oceanographer; phytoplankton dynamics with an emphasis on nutrient and light limitations.
Dr. Erwin Seibel
Director
1978 - 1980
Geosciences
Geo-physical Oceanographer; coastal dynamics, interrelationship of the biological, chemical, geological and physical
characteristics of the nearshore system.
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Table 3.b. Directors and Advisory Board 2006 to 2012
Howard B. Allen
Audubon Society; Belvedere Land
Company
Scott Anderson
Community Development Director, Town of 2006-present
Tiburon
Alissa J. Arp, PhD
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences,
Southern Oregon University
2006-present,
Honorary
Annelies Atchley
Owner/Artist/Educator, Mar West Studio
2009-present
William Atchley, MD †
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
2000-2007
Sheldon Axler, PhD
Dean, College of Science & Engineering
Professor, Mathematics Department, SFSU
2003-present,
Ex-Officio
Benjamin Barnes
Managing Partner, Global Recruiters,
Communication and Marketing Industry
2008-2012
Laurence Bekins
Director, Sales & Business Development,
Wall Street Journal
2010-2011
Eleanor Bloch
Co-founder and Mediator, Mediation Services, Marin County
2010-present
Sarane Bowen, PhD
Professor Emerita, Biology, SFSU
2003-present,
Honorary
George B. Brewster
Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch Global
Wealth Management
2004-present
Henry J. Broderick
Retired Judge, Marin County Superior
Court
2003-2012; 2012 present, Honorary
Randall L. Brown, PhD †
Biologist, Department of Water Resources
2001-2006, Honorary
Margaret Gould Burke, PhD
Director of Teacher & Youth Education,
California Academy of Sciences
2003-present
Margaret Elliott
Executive Director, College of Marin Foundation
2005-2012
Phyllis Faber
Wetland Biologist; Board Member and CoFounder, Marin Agricultural Land Trust
2003-present,
Honorary
Newell “Toby” Garfield, PhD
Director, Romberg Tiburon Center,
Professor of Oceanography, Geosciences,
SFSU
2006-present,
Ex-Officio
Terrence Gosliner, PhD
Senior Curator, Dean of Science &
1988-present
ResearchCollections, California Academy of
Sciences
L. Martin Griffin, Jr., MD
Physician; Conservationist; Board Member,
Marin Municipal Water District
2001-present,
Honorary
Brooke P. Halsey
Attorney; Founder/Executive Director,
Tiburon Salmon Institute
2012-present
Robert Heller, PhD
Former Executive Vice President, Fair Isaac; 2005-2011;
Former President and CEO Visa, U.S.A.;
2011-present, HonorFormer US Federal Reserve Governor
ary
Deborah Hoke Smith
Retired Vice President, Investment Center
Manager, Charles Schwab
1986-present
Fundraising
Facilities
Fundraising
Nominations &
Governance
Fundraising
Nominations &
Governance
Strategic Planning;
Research & Education
Board Vice Chairman;
Strategic Planning;
2004-2007
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Table 3b. Directors and Advisory Board continued
Stacy Holzman
Partner, Holzman Associates, Management
Consulting
2008-present
Bettina Hughes
Educator, Tamalpais Union High School
District
2003-present,
Honorary
Millie Hughes-Fulford, PhD
Molecular Biologist; Director, Laboratory
of Cell Growth, San Francisco VA Medical
Center; Working Scientist, NASA Shuttle
Columbia
2001-2010;
2010-present,
Honorary
Gabriella Isaacson
Member, Youth Sailing Committee, San
Francisco Yacht Club
2000-present,
Honorary
Michael N. Josselyn, PhD
Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder,
Certified Professional Wetland Scientist;
Professor, Biology Department, SFSU
1993-present,
Honorary
Russell D. Keil, Jr.
President, The Keil Companies, Real Estate
Development
2003-present
James Kelley, PhD
Expedition Leader and Naturalist, Lindblad Expeditions; Former Dean, College of
Science & Engineering, SFSU; Professor of
Oceanography, Geosciences Department,
SFSU
1988-2012;
2012-present,
Honorary
Michael Keran, PhD
Former VP and Chief Economist, Prudential 2006-present
Insurance Company of America
Facilities
John H. Kern
Retired Colonel, US Army Corps of
Engineers
2001-present
Facilities, Fundraising
Donald Lollock
Representative of State Resources Agency
to San Francisco Bay Conservation and
Development Commission and State
Coastal Commission
1988-present
Michael McComish
Senior Vice President, Presidio Bank
2012-present
Doug McConnell
Former Host/Senior Editor, “Bay Area
Backroads”
2003-present,
Honorary
John McCosker, PhD
Senior Scientist and Chair, Department
of Aquatic Biology, California Academy of
Sciences
1988-2004;
2004-present,
Honorary
John Northwood, PhD †
Geophysicist, Northwood and Associates
1998-2009
Robert F. Ohrenschall †
Chairman Emeritus, Addison Design; Board 1993-2012
Member, College of Business, SFSU
Mark D. Reynolds, PhD
Senior Ecologist, The Nature Conservancy
2005-present
Betsy Scarborough
Independent Film Producer & Director
2003-2006;
2006-present,
Honorary
Peter K. Scott
Founder, Glacier Point Capital
2010-present
John H. Silcox
Retired, President of Chevron Overseas
Petroleum Inc.
1988-2004;
2004-present,
Honorary
Facilities
Fundraising
Fundraising
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Table 3b. Directors and Advisory Board continued
E. Payson “Skip” Smith
Co-Founder/Partner, FLG Partners LLC
2010-present
Thomas D. Spencer, PhD
Professor, Psychology Department, SFSU
1987-2006;
2006-present,
Honorary
Louis “Bud” E. Spiesberger
Investment Banking; Former Assistant Vice
President, US Bancorp Piper Jaffray
2000-2006
Ann Compton Stephens †
Compton Foundation
1988-2008; 20082010, Honorary
Edward Ueber
Regional Implementation Asst. and Senior
Policy Advisor for the National Marine
Sanctuary Program
1990-present
David Werdegar, MD
Retired CEO, Institute on Aging
2000-2002;
2002-present,
Honorary
Effie Westervelt
Board Member, Antenna Theater
1999-present
James G. Wilson, AIA, PE
Architectural Engineer; Retired Federal
Executive, General Service Administration
& U.S. Postal Service
2001-2012;
2012-present,
Honorary
Fundraising
Current Board
Chairman
Strategic Planning
Fundraising
† deceased
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Table 3.c. Administrative personnel (2006-2012)*
David Bell
Marine Superintendent and Dive Safety Officer
2004-present
Erin Blackwood
Outreach Coordinator
2007-present
Doreen Britton
Financial Coordinator
2005-present
Ace Crow
Facilities Worker
2010-2011
Claudio Diaz
Facilities Maintenance Mechanic
2012-present
Jose Flores
BCC Support/Janitor/Information Technology Consultant
2006-present
Dinh Ho
Information Technology Consultant
2005-2010
Dennis Huggins
Facilities Maintenance Mechanic/Volunteer
1984-present
Gary Ingerson
Facilities Project Supervisor
2000-2009
Bill Johnson
Janitor
2006
John Kern
Special Assistant to the Director
2007-present
Scott Kern
Facilities Project Supervisor
2010-present
Brita Larsson
Laboratory Coordinator
1995-present
Linda Mayo
Operations Director
2009-2011
David Morgan
Marine Operations Manager
1993-present
Raman Paul
Administrative Coordinator/Grants Administrator
2006-present
Mark Peaslee
Administrative Student Assistant/Grant Support Coordinator
2011-present
Adria O’Dea
Education and Outreach Coordinator/Graphic Design
2004-present
Chanh Rattana
Facilities Maintenance Worker
1999-present
Diana Sanders
Administrative Volunteer
2006-2007
Karyn Scurti
Ohrenschall Guest House, Bay Conference Center and Events Coordinator
2005-2008
Donna Shadowens
Ohrenschall Guest House, Bay Conference Center and Events Coordinator
2008-present
Jennifer Viale
Administrative Coordinator
2009-present
Gavin Archbald
Ohrenschall Guest House Caretaker (Volunteer)
2009-2011
Carmen Barefield
Ohrenschall Guest House Caretaker Assistant (Volunteer)
2009-2011
Karen Kayfetz
2011-2012
2008-2009
Anne Slaughter
2005-2008
Chris Raleigh
RTC Caretaker (Volunteer)
2006-present
RTC Caretakers
* Short term temporary employees hired during this time are not listed.
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RTC Organization Chart
rev 7/2012
Students
Director
Newell Garﬁeld
MPP
PI/Faculty
Grants/Finance
Administrative
Operations Director (vacant)
MPP
Grants Admin Financial Coord
Raman Paul Doreen Britton
AA/S Exempt I
Advisory Board COSE/SFSU
Administrative
Coord
Jennifer Viale
AAIS Exempt 1
AA/S Exempt I
Grants Asst.
Operational Education & Outreach
Education &
Outreach Coord
Erin Blackwood
AA/S Exempt 1
Outreach
Adria OʼDea
Graphic Designer NE
Wetlands
Series
Aimee Good
AA/S Exempt 1 (.5)
OGH/BCC
Event Coord
Donna Shadowens
Marine Sup.
David Bell
Research Tech III E
Laboratory
Coord
Brita Larsson
Site Caretaker
Chris Raleigh
live-in
AA/S Exempt 1
AA/S Exempt 1
OGH
Caretaker
live-in
BCC
Student
Asst
Boat Capt
David
Morgan
Equipment
Tech III
IT Consultant
Jose Flores
Facilities Project
Supervisor
Scott Kern
Facilities
Maint Mech
Info Tech
Consultant
Facilities Worker
Claudio Diaz
Facilities Maint Mech
Facilities Worker
Chanh Rattana
Facilities Worker I
Laborer
Vacant
(.5)
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Table 3.d. Other RTC personnel - FY 2011-2012
Staff Member
Status
Research Field/Role
Dr. Stephane Lefebvre
Post Doc
Eco Physiology
Dr. Nathan Miller
Post Doc
Eco Physiology
Dr. Ali Ger
Post Doc
Estuarine Zooplankton Ecology
Dr. Julien Moderan
Post Doc
Dr. Lindsay Sullivan
Post Doc
Dr. Ina Benner
Post Doc
Marine Microbiology
Dr. Vanessa Miller-Sims
Post Doc
Marine Ecology and Evolution
Dr. Krista Kamer
Director
COAST
Beth Pardieck
Program & Outreach Coordinator
COAST
Aimee Good
Research Technician/Program Coordinator
COAST
Sarah Blaser
Research Technician
Bio Oceanography/Phytoplankton
Jim Fuller
Research Technician
Vickie Hogue
Research Technician
Al Marchi
Research Technician
Adam Pimenta
Research Technician
Xi (Chelsea) Chen
Research Technician
Eco Physiology
Michael Esgro
Research Technician
Valerie Greene
Research Technician
Toni Ignoffo
Research Technician
Anne Slaughter
Research Technician
Joëlle Tirindelli
Research Technician
Marine Microbiology
Julian Herndon
Research Technician
Marine Microbiology/Oceanography
Jim Pettigrew
Research Technician
Lindsey Carr
Research Technician
Wetlands Ecology
Ace Crow
Research Technician
Wetlands Ecology
Research Technician
Wetlands Ecology
Jennifer Miller
Research Technician
Wetlands Ecology
Diana Singh
Research Technician
Wetlands Ecology
Chris Raleigh
Equipment Specialist
Physical Oceanography/CeNCOOS
Allison Johnson
Research Assistant
Sean Rohtla
Research Assistant
Joseph Spaulding
Research Assistant
Sarah Blaser
Graduate Student
Christina Buck
Graduate Student
Erica Kress
Graduate Student
Jamie Lee
Graduate Student
Joy Li
Graduate Student
Brittany Bjelde
Graduate Student
Eco Physiology
Sara Boles
Graduate Student
Eco Physiology
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Table 3.d. Other RTC personnel continued
Staff Member
Status
Research Field/Role
Hayley Carter
Graduate Student
Eco Physiology
Lina Ceballos
Graduate Student
Eco Physiology
Daniel Chase
Graduate Student
Eco Physiology
Chelsea Chen
Graduate Student
Eco Physiology
Rachel Dorfman
Graduate Student
Eco Physiology
Katherine McLean
Graduate Student
Eco Physiology
Haydee Medina
Graduate Student
Eco Physiology
Adam Paganini
Graduate Student
Eco Physiology
Christina Pasparakis
Graduate Student
Eco Physiology
Jessica Donald
Graduate Student
Rita duMais
Graduate Student
Aaron Johnson
Graduate Student
Karen Kayfetz
Graduate Student
Bobby Vogt
Graduate Student
Jennifer McGowan
Graduate Student
Land Use Planning
Eli Waggoner
Graduate Student
Land Use Planning
Roy Bartal
Graduate Student
Marine Microbiology
Andrew Kalmbach
Graduate Student
Marine Microbiology
Kristine Okimura
Graduate Student
Marine Microbiology
Benson Chow
Graduate Student
Darragh Clancy
Graduate Student
Carrie Craig
Graduate Student
Vanessa Guerra
Graduate Student
Alyssa Lai
Graduate Student
David Lake
Graduate Student
Mariana Padron
Graduate Student
Kathryn Nuessly
Graduate Student
Beth Sheets
Graduate Student
Ashley Smith
Graduate Student
Ariel Tang
Graduate Student
Chris Ikeda
Graduate Student
Sang Wook Pak
Graduate Student
Evyan Borgnis
Graduate Student
Wetlands Ecology
Autumn Cleave
Graduate Student
Wetlands Ecology
Graduate Student
Wetlands Ecology
Jeff Lewis
Graduate Student
Wetlands Ecology
Cassie Pinnell
Graduate Student
Wetlands Ecology
Gwen Santos
Graduate Student
Wetlands Ecology
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Table 3.d. Other RTC Personnel continued
Staff Member
Status
Research Field/Role
Lauren Scheinberg
Graduate Student
Wetlands Ecology
Rosa Schneider
Graduate Student
Wetlands Ecology
Kevin Stockmann
Graduate Student
Wetlands Ecology
Whitney Thornton
Graduate Student
Wetlands Ecology
David Hurt
Intern/Berkeley Master’s Student
Eco Physiology
Michael Garland
Intern/Graduate Student
Eco Physiology
Melanie Schiffer
Eco Physiology
Romain Bachot
Marine Microbiology
Michael Biggel
Marine Microbiology
Celine Posseme
Marine Microbiology
King Cada
Intern/Undergraduate
Adrian Gerretson
Travis Lauro
Karen Bueno
Eco Physiology
Corrine Calhoun
Eco Physiology
Leore Geller
Eco Physiology
Carley Turner
Eco Physiology
Heather Schneider
Eco Physiology
Amalia Borson
Jorge Ruiz
Steven Westbrook
Oscar Steiner
Marine Microbiology
Itamar Gnatt
Catie Alves
Garrett Benjamin
Damion Delton
Eric Dexter
Meredyth Duncan
Jason Hayes
Tren Kauzer
Erica Perry
Julia Smith
Riley Smith
Abby Vander Linden
Zachary Sturbaum
Cheyenne Anderson
Wetlands Ecology
Brandi Campbell
Wetlands Ecology
Linda Dinneen
Wetlands Ecology
Nyri Scanlon
Wetlands Ecology
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Staff Member
Status
Research Field/Role
Ceslie Mulholland
Student Assistant
Benson Chow
Student Assistant
Dian Li
Volunteer/Graduate Student
Eco Physiology
Guarav Rele
Volunteer/Graduate Student
Underwater Acoustics
Kristofer Kaufman
Volunteer/Undergraduate
Jennifer Cade
Hyee Ryun (Leah) Lee
Alexandria Lufting
Sarah Miller
Nyri Scalon
Adam Bayardo
Wetlands Ecology
Jessi Craft
Wetlands Ecology
Natasha Dunn
Wetlands Ecology
Leana Lytle
Wetlands Ecology
Elizabeth Ross
Wetlands Ecology
Jordan Jo
Shannon Strong
Volunteer
Ryan Fields
Volunteer
Eco Physiology
Howaida Gabr
Volunteer
Eco Physiology
Melissa May
Volunteer
Eco Physiology
Tessa Page
Volunteer
Eco Physiology
Dr. Pascale Rossignol
Volunteer
Eco Physiology
Caroline Kostecki
Volunteer
Janice Wondolleck
Volunteer
Robert Hausman
Volunteer
Marine Microbiology
Melissa DuBose
Volunteer
Daren Engel
Volunteer
Anastasia Ennis
Volunteer
Gabriel Peixoto
Volunteer
Daniel Cuneo
Volunteer
Glen Schneider
Volunteer
Wetlands Ecology
Jeff Sloane
Volunteer
Wetlands Ecology
Heather Thams
Volunteer
Wetlands Ecology
Grant Willison
Volunteer
Wetlands Ecology
Dash Stander
High School Volunteer
Sophie McGuiness
Eco Physiology
Jeanne Shepard
Eco Physiology
Bistra Barzakov
Alexa Boesel
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Staff Member
Status
Research Field/Role
Annie DeLancie
Kelsey Cawdrey
Noah Jaffe
Andrew Chang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
San Francisco Bay NERR
Brian Cheng
Graduate Research Fellow
Anna Deck
Research Technician II
Carrie Flanders
Administrative Coordinator
Lara Martin
Monitoring Technician
Kathryn Nuessley
Student Assistant
Marina Psaros
Coastal Training Program Coordinator
Bobak Talebi
Coastal Training Program Assistant Coordinator
Betsy Wells
Graduate Research Fellow
Rebecca Isquith
Volunteer
Jeff Causey
Volunteer
Dr. Gail Dawson
Professor
SF State University Art Department
Jeff Downing
Professor
Michael Namkung
Lecturer
Karrie Hovey
Fellow
Rebecca Andrews
Graduate Student
Beckey Chapman
Graduate Student
Amberly Culley
Graduate Student
Laura Fischer
Graduate Student
Sarah Fraizer
Graduate Student
Genevieve Hastings
Graduate Student
Nif Hodgson
Graduate Student
Kana Namura
Graduate Student
Laurel Prieto
Graduate Student
Kim Snyder
Graduate Student
Nyssa Zinn
Graduate Student
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Table 3.e. FY 2011-2012 Tenant Researchers And Staff
Dr. Gail Ashton
Research Scientist
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Christopher Brown
Research Technician
Linda McCann
Research Scientist
Dr. Chela Zabin
Research Scientist
Dr. Andy Chang
Post Doc Researcher
Dr. Haizea Jimenez
Post Doc Researcher
Benson Chow
Intern
Jason Hayes
Intern
Michelle Repetto
Intern
Erin Swift
Intern
Dr. Matt Ashby
President and Chief Science Officer
Taxon Biosciences, Inc.
Chris Belnap
Scientist
Christine Clarke
Research Assistant
Denise Gonzalez
Research Assistant
Topher Judd
Research Assistant
Victor Kunin
Bioinformatics Scientist
Ulrika Lidstrom
DNA Sequencing Manager
Juliana Morgan
Executive Assistant
Jennifer Nhok
Research Assistant
Norman Pitt
Research Assistant
Michael Seely
Development
Natalya Shestakova
Scientist
Emily Tung
Student Intern
Karen Upson
Controller
Maria Vizcarra
Research Assistant
Justin Wong
Research Assistant
Ladonna Wood
Laboratory Manager
Helen Wu
Research Assistant
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4. PHYSICAL FACILITIES AND SPACE
RTC is situated on a 36-acre waterfront parcel. The
physical facilities are comprised of the six buildings
from the 1978 federal lease and 19 more from the
2008 transfer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) property: Building 36 - the
main research/laboratory facility; Building 39 - the
administrative/teaching facility; Building 53 - the Bay
Conference Center; Building 49 - the Marine/Technical
Operations Shops and the Art Department graduate
studios; Building 50 - zooplankton wet laboratory, the
storage facility and Anthropology archives; and Building
20 - the Ohrenschall Guest House. On the former
NOAA parcel we currently occupy Building 54 - which
houses the ecology and aquarium, biogeochemical,
and elemental analysis laboratories; Building 74A
- faculty and student offices; Building 74 - facilities
headquarters and boat/vehicle storage; Building
30 - tenant leased (SERC, and Taxon). RTC also
owns several boats used for research including a 38’
aluminum-hulled vessel, the R/V Questuary, R/V Salty
Dog, a Twin Vee outboard, and a 16’ Boston Whaler
donated to the Center.
Physical Facilities
There are 19 buildings on site dating from the Naval
Station days and two temporary structures. Five of
the old buildings are empty and require renovation.
The other 14 buildings are utilized in different ways.
Building 86, an engineering warehouse, remains under
the control of NOAA as a storage facility. Building 30,
the old mess hall, houses the two tenant organizations
on site, Taxon Biosciences and the Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center. Building 22, the
original blacksmith shop, is used by the Southern Marin
Fire Protection District for training.
Six major buildings are used by SF State personnel,
primarily the College of Science & Engineering faculty,
staff and students, and also by faculty and students
from the College of Liberal & Creative Arts. The main
building is the historic Navy Net Depot warehouse,
Building 36, which is approximately 25,000 ft2. Over
the years wooden frame structures up to three stories
high were constructed within this shell to house offices,
laboratories, and other elements of the physical
plant, for a total area of some 20,000 ft2 of improved
space and an open bay of 12,000 ft2. A 1998 award
by the NSF ARI Facilities Modernization Program
of $1.6 million and an accompanying $700,000 SF
State match enabled the initial modernization of this
building through renovation of existing laboratories and
building five new laboratory spaces and upgrading all
safety aspects of the building. From 2005 to 2007, the
Phase II renovation project for Building 36 added three
research laboratories, two classrooms, a conference
room, a commons area, new restrooms, 21 offices
and ADA access through elevators and ramps. The
$4.5 million project was funded by a combination of
private foundation awards (W.M. Keck Foundation,
Marin Community Foundation, Richard and Rhoda
Goldman Foundation, and Clear Genesis Foundation)
private donations and federal monies awarded to the
National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) program
headquartered at RTC.
The historic Officers Quarters, Building 39, (9,682
ft2) was converted into an office complex. It houses
the NERR Administration Office, two large lecture
rooms, 11 offices, and a space to be renovated into
a laboratory or open office/study space. The original
theater, a bayfront building, Building 54, (12,000 ft2)
houses the Ecology and Aquarium Laboratory with
significant space for seawater tables and tanks.
Building 53, the historic Officer’s Club (4,692 ft2), was
renovated and is now the Bay Conference Center
which includes a 140-seat main hall, two meeting
rooms, and a lounge. The original Commanding
Officer’s Residence built in 1904, Building 20, was
renovated into a short-term visitors residence (http://
rtc.sfsu.edu/bcc/ogh/index.htm) with NSF FSML funds.
Building 49, one of the two enlisted men’s barracks,
houses Marine Operations, the facilities shop and the
graduate art student studios. The other buildings are
mostly used for storage or limited office space. The
“temporary” buildings are a waterfront greenhouse and
the collection of Conex containers assembled by the
ceramics studio on the North Dock area.
Shared-use Laboratories
Molecular Laboratory: Shared-use instrumentation
acquired through NSF FSML and MRI programs has
greatly improved both molecular research capabilities
for faculty and student researchers at RTC. A FSML
award proved our genetics facility with an ABI 3130
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Avant DNA analyzer and an ABI real-time PCR,
resulting in high quality molecular genetics data being
produced for a variety of projects and users. Additional
shared-use equipment in the Molecular lab includes
PCR Thermocyclers, a Kodak gel documentation
system, UV cross-linker, hybridization oven, speed
vacuum unit, and a laminar flow hood.
Elemental Analysis Laboratory: A shared-use
elemental analysis facility has been established at
RTC as the result of a NSF MRI award. A Costech
ECS 4010 elemental analyzer, an ultra-microbalance,
and a Shimadzu TOC-VCSH high-temperature
combustion unit with N detector provide scientists and
students the ability to quantify total dissolved organic
carbon and total dissolved nitrogen in environmental
aqueous samples including seawater and quantify total
carbon and nitrogen in small solid samples such as
soils or biologic tissues.
Additional Shared-Use Equipment
A core complement of shared-use equipment at RTC
includes balances, microscopes, spectrophotometers,
centrifuges, temperature-control rooms, refrigerators,
freezers, fume hoods, a Perkin Elmer 1414-0003
Winspectral Guardian liquid scintillation counter for
analyses of radioactive isotopes, and a Europa 9014U
20-2 isotope ratio mass spectrometer with an Europa
17014 ANCA-GSL gas/solid/liquid prep module.
Finger Pier: Real-Time Monitoring Facility
In 2003 in order to gain access to the deep channel
and establish a real-time monitoring facility of SF
Bay waters, RTC built a 188’ x 4’ finger pier on top of
some of the relict caissons that remained from the US
Navy coaling wharf constructed in 1906. This research
facility (funded in part by FSML DBI-0121998) is wellinstrumented for oceanographic and meteorological
monitoring. The data generated from it can be
accessed by both RTC researchers as well as anyone
studying or interested in this location of San Francisco
Bay.
Baywater, Wet Lab and Greenhouse Facilities
RTC Baywater System: The Baywater System
provides San Francisco baywater for RTC research
needs. A series of pumps is used to collect bay water
from an intake structure 300 feet off the RTC seawall
and at a depth of approximately 40 feet. The water is
delivered to several locations, the greenhouse/seawall,
Room 108 in Building 36 and Room 104 in Building 54.
Building 36 Culture Room: The Culture Room is a
700 ft2 room which is temperature-controlled and
light-controlled. The room has six, two-tiered wet
tables plumbed with running baywater. It is used for a
variety of research and educational uses. Classes use
the tables for class projects and currently graduate
students have been using the tables for sea star and
Tidewater Goby research. The room also has space
for algal and cladoceran cultures.
Building 54 Ecology and Aquarium Facility: This large
1500 ft2 research wet lab is serviced with baywater
which has been filled with aquariums, water storage
tanks and water tables and tanks for research.
Currently research on evolutionary ecology and
population connectivity of tunicates that occur in the
San Francisco Bay and physiological responses of
porcelain crabs to environmental stresses such as
increased temperature, salinity variation and ocean
acidification is being conducted in this facility.
Greenhouse and Associated Outdoor Tanks: The
greenhouse facility consist of an over-utilized outdoor
shed with screened sides and a polycarbonate roof,
of which 15’ x 30’ is currently used as a greenhouse
with no environmental controls. This structure, located
near the seawall, contains tanks and two-tiered
tables, which are supplied with running baywater.
To the north of the greenhouse a series of large and
small tanks and other research tables all with running
baywater, have been set up to support a variety of
research projects. Wetland plant species, both native
and invasive and eelgrass have been studied in the
greenhouse. The tanks outside the greenhouse have
provided research space for SF Bay nutrient studies
and the effect of food availability on stress tolerance of
juvenile Dungeness crabs.
Offices
All RTC PIs and some postdoctoral associates have
private offices both at RTC and in some cases on
the main campus. There also is a separate building
that provides office spaces assigned to postdoctoral
associates and a shared space assigned to students.
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Computer Networking and Communications
Computing and Communications Services at SF State
operate and maintain computers that provide a variety
of services to students, faculty and staff. In addition
to campus-based resources, RTC students, faculty,
and staff have internet access. Many computers
are available at the Center, and over 100 terminals
are also located in various campus laboratories for
student use. In May 2009 the internet link to RTC was
upgraded to fiber optics, which provides a 100 Mb/
sec line. RTC maintains a local server for computer
backups as well as managing the RTC LAN. There
is also a web site that presents real-time monitoring
data - SF-BEAMS (San Francisco Bay Environmental
Assessment and Monitoring Station, http://sfbeams.
sfsu.edu/) of measurements of bay environmental
conditions that include water temperature, salinity,
irradiance, and beam-c. The primary station is located
north of the Tiburon Peninsula off of RTC’s pier with
another sensor located on the California Maritime
Academy wharf in Vallejo. As a member of the National
Association of Marine Laboratories (NAML), the
Western Association of Marine Laboratories (WAML)
and the Central and Northern California Ocean
Observing System (CeNCOOS), our observational
data are linked with the web sites of these
organizations - an effective way to advertise research
opportunities and faculty positions.
Research Vessels
RTC owns and operates a 38’ aluminum-hulled
shallow draft research vessel. Acquired in 1991, the
R/V Questuary was converted for oceanographic
use by addition of an A-frame, provision of adequate
a/c power and a hydraulic system. In addition it was
re-engined with twin Cummins 250 horse power
turbo diesel engines, and now cruises at 15 knots,
with a maximum speed of 20 knots. This additional
power and speed was needed to cope with the
strong tidal currents in the Bay and nearby coastal
waters, and to deploy and retrieve heavier sampling
gear. The vessel has been used heavily by SFSU
scientists for both research and education and by
local institutions including federal and commercial
environmental consulting groups and academic
units (e.g., NOAA, USGS, Army Corps of Engineers,
California Maritime Academy, Bechtel Corp.). Use of
the vessel has ranged from deployment and retrieval
of moorings, bottom sampling (grabs and cores),
towing basic nets and water sampling for chlorophyll
and nutrient analysis and microbiological research,
and zooplankton and nekton sampling. Our sampling
capabilities aboard the R/V Questuary have increased
tremendously as a result of an upgrade supported by
the NSF FSML program, including: a hydrographic
winch with conducting cable, instrumented rosette
sampling system, depth sounder/bioacoustic
sampler, acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP),
differential global positioning system (GPS), and a
data acquisition computer system. In addition, RTC
has a number of smaller vessels available for staff and
student use as well, such as the Twin Vee Powercat, a
20-foot outboard catamaran and the R/V Salty Dog, a
21’ cabin dory.
Scientific Diving
SF State’s Scientific Diving Program is integrated
into Marine Operations and directed through RTC.
Since 2000, SF State has been an organization
member of the American Academy of Underwater
Scientists (AAUS) and has maintained a program that
encompasses a peer-reviewed Diving Safety Manual,
a new diver orientation and training program, policies
and procedures for working scientific divers, an online
dive log database and local training and proficiency
dives for scientific diving faculty and students. The
SF State Scientific Diving Program has grown from
four active divers to the 16 active divers conducting
research. In 2012, the active scientific divers logged
213 research dives and 295 training dives.
Other
RTC has a machine shop equipped with a 12”
gearhead lathe, a table saw, a band-saw, drill presses,
and other standard machining equipment. Additional
equipment in the shop includes woodworking
equipment (such as a planer, a shaper, a jointer and a
radial arm saw and welding equipment. The School of
Science Service Center on the main campus has an
electronics shop; a machine shop (milling machines,
lathes, drill presses, and sheet metal forming
equipment) and a graphics service shop.
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Table 4.a. Description, location, and amount of space currently occupied at RTC.
No.
Building name
20
Ohrenschall Guest House
Sq footage
Usage
3,600 Residence for Short-term Visitors
Occupants
Visitors
21
Machine Shop
3,780 Storage
RTC
22
Blacksmith Shop/
Carpentry Shop
3,644 Training Facility
Southern Marin Fire
Protection District
30
Galley/ Administrative
Office
8,453 Offices, Meeting Rooms, Laboratories
Taxon and SERC*
36
Main Research Center
39
Administration Office
40
Ceramics Department
Storage
49
Maintenance Shop/
Marine Operations
16,925 Facilities, Marine Operations, Offices, Art
Department Student Studios
RTC and SF State
50
Storage
16,925 Storage, Research Laboratory, Anthropology
Department Archives
RTC and SF State
53
Bay Conference Center/
Residence
7,700 Conference Center, Office, Caretaker Apartment
RTC & Conference Rentals
54
Physiology Laboratory
7,600 Offices, Research Laboratories
RTC
74
Vehicle Warehouse
2,000 Boat & Vehicle Storage, Office
RTC
74A
Offices
86
Central Warehouse
No.
Unoccupied buildings
11
Caretaker Residence
27
Welding Shed
33
Rockfish Research
Laboratory
4,018 Lease Space
Tenant
37
Dispensary
2,000 Lease Space
Tenant
79
Cinder Block Building
27,200 Research Laboratories, Offices, Meeting Rooms, RTC and NERR
Classrooms
7,080 Offices, Classrooms
800 Storage
648 Offices
11,000 Storage
RTC and NERR
SF State Art
Department
RTC
NOAA
Proposed usage
2,705 Caretaker Residence
400 Storage
400 Storage
RTC
RTC
RTC
*Leased to Taxon (3,796 sq ft or 45%) and SERC (1,293 sq ft or 15%)
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Table 4.b. Major infrastructure repairs at RTC
Fiscal Year
Vendor
Description
2006-2007
Cammisa & Wipft Consulting
Electrical Engineering/Greenhouse/Seawater System
$1,650
Olin Daunell
Electrical installation Greenhouse/Seawater System
$8,551
MA Davies
$4,505
Olin Daunell
Electrical MEC
MA Davies
Transformer Pad
Kunst Bros
Paint Bldg 30 Stairway wall, hall wall, conference room, etc.
$4,240
Lab by Design
Casework for Cohen lab
$8,139
Mobile Modular
Rental of trailers during remaining remodel/construction bldg 36
$5,146
Happy Trees
Tree trimming OGH/BCC/Admin areas
$6,400
Professional Services Industrial
Air sampling for mold in Bldg 36
$2,705
Miksis
Culvert cleaning
$4,028
Marin Conservation Corp
Brush and hillside clearing
Giulani Flooring
Vinyl Flooring, Bldg 54 CICORE area
$3,115
Marin Conservation Corp
Landscaping
$8,134
Bonnie Blake Drucker
Architect
Total
2007-2008
$3,900
$945
$14,445
$31,090
$106,993
Marin County Arborists
Tree trimming & tree removal
$7,520
Marin Conservation Corps
Brush and hillside clearing
$7,977
WSR
Slope Stabilization study
$10,900
WSR
Shoreline Stabilization study
$24,460
Salt River Construction
Remove balance of debris not covered by FEMA
Linscott Engineering
Emergency repair water line
Disconnect lab drain from septic
$2,852
Comiskey Construction
Partially patch and repave service road
$4,840
Contra Costa Electric
Repair downed power line as a result of storm damage
SFSU - CP&D
Alts A, B and front door, Bldg 36 (from donated money)
WSR
Alts A, B and front door, Bldg 36
$23,200
MCC Flooring
Replace floor due to flood/mud/in labs in Bldg 36 2005/2006
New years’ rain.
$62,204
Total
2008-2009
Amount
$1,740
$10,130
$3,517
$172,500
$331,840
SFSU - CP&D
Reimburse State Fire Marshal Inspections (end of Bldg 36
construction)
Noble Consultants
Estimate to rebuild Finger Pier
Emergency Fire Sprinkler Installation Building 49
Emergency Repair Sewers
$2,789
Remove Debris/ Stabilize Bldg 40
$4,725
Clean up debris North Dock
$4,950
WSR
Alts A, B and front door, Bldg 36
$2,500
$2,660
$2,000
$32,376
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Table 4.b. Major infrastructure repairs at RTC - 2008-2009 continued
Fiscal Year
Vendor
Description
SFSU - CP&D
Replace firelite doors in Bldg 36
SFSU - CP&D
NorCal Change orders 1-5 for Alts A, B and front door, Bldg 36
Total
2009-2010
$15,689
$3,960
Automatic Doors
Fire Door for Lab Bldg 36
$3,942
Professional Services
Industries
Air Quality tests Bldg 36 NERR area
$2,310
$28,342
North Dock
$22,000
Matching FEMA Portion
$11,737
Water main break
$2,200
Water to Bldg 30
$4,880
$75,411
Blown fuses on high voltage pole
$2,059
Change out metering on primary pole
$4,132
Replace rotten cross arm on pole
$3,506
Olin Daunell
Electrical work and load testing - various bldgs on site
Fire Suppression water to bldg 54
$4,975
Water to Bldg 74
$4,410
Water restoration at Bldg 30
$4,520
Aero Heating/Plumbing
A/C to Bldg 30 - Taxon
$8,242
SL Kern
Contractor for lab rebuilds, roof inspections, outside drain
clearing, etc.
Hertz Rental/Shamrock
Rental bobcat and purchase gravel for Bldg 36 drain on north side
$2,945
Roto Rooter
clear out bldg 36 drain on north side
$4,892
Total
2011-2012
$2,230
$73,879
Total
2010-2011
Amount
$31,505
$26,361
$97,547
Natural Gas & Boiler Conversion (Original CP&D est $309,300)
Valley Oil
Fuel Analysis
Valley Oil
Clean & remove existing fuel; clean tank, rental of interim small
tank
$4,430
Calphase
Remove old diesel tank
$4,800
Reed Publishing
Advertising for bids for conversion
PG&E
Deposit on engineering costs for project
Subtotal Natual Gas & Boiler Conversion
$350
$608
$2,000
$12,188
Retrofit water supply to Bldg 37
$4,950
Replace pressure reducing valves
$1,250
Belfore
Drying service after July 4 broken A/C drain & flood Bldg 36
$32,567
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Table 4.b. Major infrastructure repairs at RTC RTC - 2011-2012 continued
Fiscal Year
Vendor
Description
Peacock Interiors
Replace cove and trim due to water from July 4 broken A/C drain
and flood
SFSU CP&D
Fire Marshall services 3/1-10/25/11; 10/26 -12/31/11
$2,380
Shamrock
Rip-rap to stabilize upper campus streambed
$3,067
Marin County Arborist
Tree trimming
$4,275
Total
2012-2013
Amount
$475
$61,152
Natural Gas & Boiler Conversion (Original CP&D est $309,300)
Dean’s Office - COSE
Partial payment #1 of Loan for Linscott Engineering Contractor for
gas conversion ($165,847 total)
CP&D
13 Change orders for conversion
$42,058
CP&D
PG&E, Byrens Kim Design, ARC Reprographics
$19,402
Subtotal Natual Gas & Boiler Conversion
$61,460
EZWatch
Security camera system
$12,428
Market Engineering
A/C Cochlan lab incubator room
$4,696
Peacock Interiors
New vinyl floors in 4 baths at OGH
$2,320
Total
$80,904
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5. FINANCIAL DATA
a. Active grants
RTC scientists are successful in generating contract
and grant revenues in support of their research. These
funds are held at SF States’s Office of Research and
Sponsored Projects (ORSP), and funds are expended
directly by the PIs for the research programs and are
not used for RTC operations.
Major funded projects continue to bring significant
acclaim and resources to SF State and RTC: During
this review period, RTC scientists have attracted
several prominent research awards. While many of
RTC’s research programs are focused on the San
Francisco Bay and central California coastal ocean,
projects span to regions such as the Amazon River
outflow in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, microbial
activity in the Antarctic Dry Valley, harmful algal blooms
in Puget Sound and invasive marine species in Alaska.
Dr. Katharyn Boyer leads ongoing efforts to
reestablish native wetlands species. The California
Coastal Conservancy, in collaboration with the US
Environmental Protection Agency, funded the San
Francisco Living Shorelines Project ($401,250) and
California Department of Fish and Game funded
Salinity Effects on Native and Introduced Submerged
Aquatic Vegetation of Suisun Bay and the Delta
($412,405).
Dr. William Cochlan’s work on algal physiology and
harmful algal blooms is conducted with a NSF grant
to examine iron regulation of the food quality of
phytoplankton in acidified eastern boundary currents
($672,291), and a NOAA grant to study the harmful
algal blooms of Heterosigma akashiwo in Puget Sound
($374,122).
During this review period, there was one significant
university-industry activity; Dr. Cochlan received a
research contract (administered through ORSP) from
Cellana LLC (a joint venture of Royal Dutch Shell
and HR Biopetroleum) to assist with the development
and optimization of biofuel production from marine
microalgae. Dr. Cochlan, who led the Cultivation and
Upstream Division of Cellana LLC, his laboratory
research associate, and both former and present SF
State graduate and undergraduate students associated
with Cochlan’s lab worked in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii for
approximately two years establishing the prototype
pilot research facility for marine phytoplankton biofuel
production. Since 2010, related research projects,
funded by Cellana as subcontracts from the University
of Hawaii, and a large grant from the US Department
of Energy’s Algal Biofuels Consortium have
permitted further research to be conducted at RTC
on the physiological basis of algal biofuel production
($968,502).
Dr. Tomoko Komada received funding from the ACS
Petroleum Research Fund, the NSF (two grants) and
university cost share to study the remineralization of
organic carbon in marine sediments ($891,072).
Dr. Wim Kimmerer is a leading authority on
environmental issues in the San Francisco Estuary
and Delta. He has received grants from the BayDelta Authority (CALFED) and Department of the
Interior Interagency Environmental Program (IEP)
to investigate the factors causing species changes
and declines in the Delta. Numerous other RTC
investigators have also been engaged in these efforts
to examine the sources of nutrients (Drs. Richard
Dugdale, Alexander Parker and Frances Wilkerson),
the delta smelt foodweb (Drs. Edward Carpenter
and Wilkerson) and clam physiology (Dr. Jonathon
Stillman). Collectively CALFED funded 11 programs
for $4,628,233 and IEP funded seven programs for
$4,247,205.
Dr. Stillman received three NSF grants to study the
genetic impacts on marine species due to heat and
ocean acidification ($1,234,633).
Over the period, RTC’s interdisciplinary research
programs continued. Drs. Carpenter, Stillman
and Komada obtained a NSF grant to conduct a
functional genomic analysis of how a major calcifying
phytoplankter responds to ocean acidification predicted
for the end of the century ($1,184,748). Drs. Kimmerer
and Sarah Cohen received a NSF grant to study the
feeding and food limitation in copepod nauplii, the
neglected life stage ($523,962).
Drs. Newell Garfield and Dale Robinson were
instrumental in establishing significant California
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cooperative science programs, including the CSU Council on Ocean Affairs Science and Technology
(COAST); the Central and Northern California Ocean Observing Systems (CeNCOOS); and, the Coastal
Ocean Currents Monitoring Program (COCMP). These are all multi-institutional organizations to strengthen
environmental studies by enabling researchers from many institutions to collaborate.
Number of New Grants Awarded 25 Number of Awards 20 15 10 5 0 FY 06-‐07 FY 07-‐08 FY 08-‐09 FY 09-‐10 FY 10-‐11 FY 11-‐12 16 13 9 21 10 12 Grant Funding $5,000,000.00 $4,500,000.00 $4,000,000.00 Dollars Funded $3,500,000.00 $3,000,000.00 $2,500,000.00 $2,000,000.00 $1,500,000.00 $1,000,000.00 $500,000.00 $-‐ *Supplement funds for grants were not added.
FY 06-‐07* FY 07-‐08* FY 08-‐09* FY 09-‐10* FY 10-‐11 FY 11-‐12 $1,473,921.00 $1,991,658.00 $1,143,103.00 $2,907,585.00 $3,468,696.00 $4,529,533.00 Romberg Tiburon Center, Six Year Report - 2012
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Active Grants
80
70
Number of Grants
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
FY 06-07
FY 07-08
FY 08-09
FY 09-10
FY 10-11
FY 11-12
54
55
51
58
48
76
Expenses Against Ac3ve Grants $6,000,000.00 Dollars Expended $5,000,000.00 $4,000,000.00 $3,000,000.00 $2,000,000.00 $1,000,000.00 $-‐ FY 06-‐07 FY 07-‐08 FY 08-‐09 FY 09-‐10 FY 10-‐11 FY 11-‐12 $5,125,673.00 $3,893,755.00 $3,649,672.00 $2,576,181.00 $3,262,737.00 $3,329,941.00 Indirect Cost Generated Against Ac3ve Grants $800,000.00 $700,000.00 Dollars Generated $600,000.00 $500,000.00 $400,000.00 $300,000.00 $200,000.00 $100,000.00 $-‐ FY 06-‐07 FY 07-‐08 FY 08-‐09 FY 09-‐10 FY 10-‐11 FY 11-‐12 $733,178.00 $565,665.00 $484,279.00 $526,105.00 $676,888.00 $740,832.00 Romberg Tiburon Center, Six Year Report - 2012
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Table 5.a. RTC-based grant awards
PI Name
Project #
Start Date
End Date
Project Title
Funding Agency
60019300
9/15/02
w/ 1 co-PI
30041210
Bollens, Stephen
w/4 co-PI’s
Award Amount
8/1/07
My Place by the Bay (Subcontract with
Bay Area Discovery Museum)
National Science Foundation
$108,580.00
10/1/04
9/30/06
Special MSEIP: Project Transquest: A Field
Experience for Minority Students
U.S. Department of Education
$49,706.00
60001200
1/1/03
12/31/06
Integrated Regional Wetlands Monitoring: CALFED
II: Fishes, Invertebrates, Primary Production and Nutrients
60010200
3/1/04
2/28/07
US Globec - Phase IV
$86,421.00
40075110
9/1/04
1/31/07
EPA STAR Fellowship FY06/07 (Brittany
Huntington)
U.S. EPA
$28,869.00
w/ 2 co-PI
50099110
8/1/05
2/28/07
Aquarium Evaluation
Coastal Conservancy
$23,500.00
w/ 2 co-PI’s
40112220
9/1/05
8/31/08
Evaluating Buoy-Deployed Seeding for
NOAA/CICEET
Restoration of Eelgrass (Zostera marina) in
San Francisco Bay
w/ 2 co-PI’s
40115110
3/1/06
2/28/07
Restoring the Seagrasses
NOAA
w/ 2 co-PI’s
50096200
4/1/06
3/31/10
Eelgrass Planning- Boyer
California Conservation Corps (CCC)
subcontract
40133110
5/1/07
4/30/08
Test Plots Eelgrass Restoration
59025100
11/7/07
8/31/09
Initial Oil Spill Damage Assessment
to Eelgrass from Cosco Busan Oil Soill
11.7.07
Kesal, Young, & Logan
$72,748.00
subcontract
60211110
8/1/08
12/31/10
Pacific Salmonid Project
Marin Rod and Gun Club
$45,000.00
w/ 1 co-PI
60216000
9/1/08
9/30/11
Eelgrass Nursery-BOYER
$84,957.00
60316000
9/1/08
6/16/11
C/S Eelgrass Nursery
San Francisco State University
$109,059.00
50180500
6/7/10
8/1/14
CMA Eelgrass Mitigation
California Maritime Academy
$65,588.00
60336000
7/1/10
3/31/14
San Francisco Living Shorelines Project
$37,854.00
60302000
8/1/10
3/31/14
Living Shorelines
California Coastal Conservancy
$401,250.00
40902000
1/1/11
12/31/11
Expanded inventory of SAV
National Oceanic & Atmospheric
Administration
$9,800.00
40225000
6/1/11
5/31/13
Rosa Schneider NERR Fellowship
Administration
$40,000.00
40230000
6/1/11
5/31/13
Investigating Causes of Rarity and Climate
Change Implications for a Rare Endemic
Wetlands Plant
$17,148.00
Arp, Alissa
$2,011,367.00
Boyer, Katharyn E
subcontract
$284,128.00
$49,998.00
$137,267.00
$5,000.00
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Table 5.a. RTC-based grant awards continued
50223000
7/1/11
6/30/13
Habitat Values of the Native SAV,
Stuckenia pacentia, in the Low
Salinity Zone of San Francisco Estuary
(Management)
Delta Stewardship Counsel
$9,160.00
50223001
7/1/11
6/30/13
Habitat Values of the Native SAV,
Stuckenia pacentia, in the Low Salinity
Zone of San Francisco Estuary (Science)
$150,840.00
50233000
2/1/12
1/31/15
Salinity Effects on SAVs
Fish and Game, Department of
(DFG)
$412,405.00
10009440
1/1/04
6/30/07
Biocomplexity: Factors Affecting and
Impact of Diazotrophic Microorganisms
in the Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean
(PIRANA)- year 4
$320,326.00
10023550
1/1/04
6/30/07
Biocomplexity: Oceanic N2 Fixation and
Global Climate (MANTRA) Year 5
$205,579.00
66103330
3/1/06
9/30/10
Foodweb Support for the Threatened
Delta Smelt and Other Estuarine Species
in Suisun Bay and the Western Delta
CALFED
$265,513.00
60163001
4/16/07
3/31/12
Bad Suisun - Carpenter
Bay-Delta Authority (CALFED)
10080310
9/20/07
9/30/12
En-Gen: A Functional genomic Analysis
of How a Major Calcifying Phytoplankter
Responds to Ocean Acidification Predicted
for the End of the Century
Carpenter, Edward J
w/3 co-PI’s
w/ 2 co-PI’s
$24,016.00
$1,184,748.00
10093300
9/1/08
8/31/13
Dry Valleys - Antartica
$399,998.00
10111300
10/1/09
9/30/13
ETBC: Amazon Influence on the Atlantic:
Carbon Export from Nitrogen Fixation
$351,355.00
10120300
10/1/09
9/30/12
Amazon Influence on the Atlantic: Carbon
Export from Nitrogen Fixation- REU
Supplement
$10,250.00
10218000
10/1/09
9/30/12
REU ANACONDAS 2011
$5,500.00
10033320
7/1/03
6/30/07
Collaborative Research: The Effect of IronComplexing Lignads on Iron Availability
to Phytoplankton in HNLC Waters of the
Subarctic Pacific
$239,801.00
Cochlan, William P
w/3 co-PI’s
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w/3 co-PI’s
40026320
8/15/03
8/14/07
The Effects of Fe(III)-Complexing Ligands
on the Long-Term Ecosystem Response to
Iron Enrichment of HNLC Waters
US Department of Energy
$270,387.00
w/4 co-PI’s
60017110
10/1/03
11/30/09
ECOHAB PNW: The Ecology and Oceanography of Toxic Pseudo-nitzschia in the
Norteast Pacific
NOAA/NSF
$797,340.00
w/ 1 co-PI
60156100
8/1/06
12/31/08
San Francisco Bay and Beyond for K-12
Students and Teachers
NOAA- Bay Watershed Education
and training Program (B-WET)
$5,813.00
40140110
8/1/07
9/30/09
SoundToxins Nutrient Analysis
Administration
$30,000.00
59026110
9/1/08
12/30/11
Cellana Algal Biofuels
Cellana LLC
40172110
9/15/09
9/30/11
Macronutrient Analysis of Puget Sound &
Outer WA State Costal Seawater
Administration
68010110
1/1/10
4/30/11
High Throughput Screening (HTS) of Algal
Strains for Optimal Biomass and Lipid
Product
University of Hawaii at Manoa
$398,347.00
40178310
9/1/10
8/31/13
The Ecophysiology and Toxicity of Heterosigma akashiwo in Puget Sound: A Living
Laboratory Ecosystem Approach
Administration
$374,122.00
40904000
9/1/10
9/1/13
Large Scale Production of Fuels and Feed U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
from Marine Microalgae: Cellana LLC Consortium Proposal
$140,280.00
66308000
1/1/11
6/30/11
Nutrient Stress: Enhancement of Algal
Lipid production Through Optimization of
Timing and Sequence of Nutrient Depletion
University of Hawaii at Manoa
10224000
10/1/11
9/30/14
Iron Regulation of the Food Quality of
Phytoplankton in Acidified East Boundary
Upwelling Systems
$672,291.00
w/3 co-PI’s
10057111
11/13/04
10/31/08
FSML: Genetic Data Collection Capability
for the Romberg Tiburon Center
$206,667.00
w/3 co-PI’s
10057112
11/13/04
10/31/08
FSML: Genetic Data Collection Capability
for the Romberg Tiburon Center C/S
$47,600.00
40113220
9/1/05
8/31/08
NOAA CICEET
NOAA/University of New Hampshire
$58,614.00
50097200
4/1/06
12/31/10
Eelgrass Planning- Cohen
CCsCnc- California
$39,233.00
40124111
7/1/06
6/30/08
Spread of Invasive Botryllids
NOAA
$50,000.00
w/ 3 co-PI’s
w/ 4 co-PI’s
$404,876.00
$11,500.00
$24,999.00
Cohen, Cynthia (Sarah)
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w/ 1 co-PI
40124112
7/1/06
6/30/08
Match for Spread of Invasive Botryllids
SFSU
$7,000.00
60192110
3/1/08
2/28/09
Detecting the Early Spread of a Non-Indig- California Sea Grant (MLPA)
enous Colonial Ascidian-Traineeship
$19,044.00
60193111
3/1/08
2/28/09
enous Colonial Ascidian-Research
$9,250.00
60193112
3/1/08
2/28/09
enous Colonial Ascidian- C/S Research
$17,898.00
60216001
9/1/08
9/30/11
Eelgrass Nursery-COHEN
$23,081.00
10106001
9/1/09
8/31/13
Feeding and Food Limitation in Copepod
Nauplii, the Neglected Life Stage (Cohen)
$127,001.00
10229000
9/1/09
8/31/13
Naups REU Supplement
$16,740.00
60303000
8/1/10
12/31/11
DFG Alaska
Alaska Department of Fish and
Game
$29,000.00
60052400
12/1/03
11/30/08
Bio-Complexity: Plankton Dynamics and
Carbon Cycling in the Equatroial Pacific
NSF-BE
60071220
3/1/04
2/28/07
Impact of Anthropogenic Ammonium on
Primary Production
USC Sea Grant
66101001
1/1/06
12/31/10
Foodweb support for -Dugdale
$282,317.00
50104210
11/1/06
6/30/10
Sea Grant- Parker
CALFED
$152,500.00
60163000
4/16/07
3/31/12
Bad Suisun
$814,357.00
66133110
5/1/08
5/31/10
Effect of Effluent on Phytoplankton
Productivity V3
University of California-Davis
$98,448.00
40149110
6/23/08
9/30/10
Analyses of Nutrient Samples
USGS
$13,784.00
57215110
2/1/09
12/31/09
Role of Ammonium SF-Bay Delta
SWCont
$172,690.00
40180003
6/1/10
12/31/13
Pelagic Organism Decline/Habitat Study
Group Investiagtions (Distribution)
Department of the Interior
$461,270.00
40901000
8/31/10
12/30/11
USGS Nutrient Analysis 2010
United States Geological Survey
66150310
1/1/11
3/31/14
Surface Water Ambient Monitoring
Program
San Jose State University
Foundation
59202000
4/1/11
4/30/13
Central Sanitation District- SWAMP
FY10/11 Monitoring of Suisun Bay
Central Contra Costa Sanitary
District
$23,025.00
40913000
9/13/11
12/1/13
USGS Nutrients 2011 G2041
$18,990.00
Dugdale, Richard C
$319,999.00
$68,548.00
$9,680.00
$235,000.00
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Foschi, Patricia
w/3 co-PI’s
60060310
11/1/03
2/29/08
Effects of climate variability and change
on the vegetation and hydrology of the
Bay-Delta Watershed
CALFED Ecosystem Restoration
Program
$365,282.00
50101200
6/1/06
5/15/09
Remote Sensing of Waste Tires
California Integrated Waste
Management Board
$260,000.00
50073300
6/1/04
3/31/07
Integration of Satellite Imagery with the
Surface Current Mapping Radar in Near
Real Time- Ocean Imaging
CDFG
$139,300.00
66087511
11/15/04
3/30/11
Coastal Ocean Circulation Monitoring Pro- California Coastal Conservancy
gram for Central and Northern California
60161210
1/1/07
9/30/09
NOAA Use of HF Radar
University of New Hampshire
$229,605.00
10079211
9/15/07
8/31/10
A Master Plan for the Romberg Tiburon
Center, San Francisco State University
$24,695.00
10079212
9/15/07
8/31/10
RTC Strategic Plan C/S
SFSUCS
$30,318.00
60203110
10/1/07
9/30/09
CENCOOS Bays
UC Davis
$45,000.00
60189110
11/16/07
6/30/08
National Ocean Science Bowl
Consortium for Ocean Leadership
$15,000.00
50163100
1/1/08
6/30/08
COAST Startup Project
CSU Chancellor’s Office
$9,713.00
50147310
7/1/08
6/30/13
COAST
CSU Chancellor’s Office
$977,031.00
60223100
7/1/08
6/30/09
Regional Ocean Science Bowl
$15,700.00
60209110
8/1/08
7/31/12
CeNCOOS: Long-term monitoring of
environmental conditions in support of
protected
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research
$404,700.00
50168100
7/1/09
6/30/10
HF Radar Network Operations
California Department of Fish and
Game
$25,000.00
60256100
7/1/09
6/30/10
National Ocean Science Bowl
$15,200.00
50179200
4/1/10
3/31/12
Whale Tail- Diversity
Coastal Commission, California
$25,000.00
60309000
9/1/10
7/31/11
Sea Lion Bowl 10-11
$15,000.00
60353000
6/1/11
5/31/13
Cencoos: Integrating Marine Observations Sonoma State University
for Decision Makers and General Public
59206000
5/15/12
9/30/13
MOWAC34
Weatherflow, Inc
40154210
10/1/08
9/30/12
In-Situ Wave Obervations
Office of Naval Research
$75,851.00
40166200
10/1/09
9/30/12
Wave-mud Interactns across LA
$42,550.00
40173410
1/1/10
12/31/13
Modeling Wind Wave Evolution
$238,843.00
Garfield, Newell (Toby)
w/ 2 co-PI’s
w/ 1 co-PI
w/ 1 co-PI
w/ 1 co-PI
$8,956,434.00
$156,250.00
$4,970.00
Janssen, Tim
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40174100
1/1/10
12/31/11
Wave Currents in Coastal Inlet
$52,264.00
40228000
3/1/11
2/28/13
Wave Current Interaction
$128,101.00
60039200
10/1/01
3/31/07
Determining the Biological, Physical, and
Chemical Characteristics of Ballast Water
Arriving in the San Francisco Estuary
CALFED
$583,739.00
40039210
2/2/04
3/31/08
Determining the Mechanisms Relating
CALFED
Freshwater Flow and Abundance of Estuarine Biota. Task 3
$150,707.00
40040210
2/2/04
3/31/08
CALFED
Determining the Mechanisms Relating
Freshwater Flow and Abundance of Estuarine Biota. Task 4
$358,515.00
10039300
4/1/04
2/28/08
Does Mating Success Determine Population Growth Rate at Low Abundance in
Marine Copepods?
$568,921.00
66101330
1/1/06
12/31/10
Foodweb Support for the Threatened
Delta Smelt and Other Estuarine Species
in Suisun Bay and the Western Delta
$847,042.00
66105330
2/3/06
3/31/09
Modeling the Delta Smelt Population of
the San Francisco Estuary
CALFED
$997,027.00
66116110
6/27/06
12/31/07
Coastal Plankton NIS
San Jose State University Foundation
$75,408.00
66130310
7/20/06
5/30/11
Monitoring Responses of the Delta Smelt
Population to Multiple restoration actions
Regents of the University of California
$236,017.00
50105210
1/1/07
12/31/09
Sea Grant- Lindsay Sullivan
CALFED
$152,500.00
66112310
3/1/07
6/30/10
Zooplankton & Clam Analysis Tasks 1&2
CA Dept of Water & Resources
$398,373.00
57220110
5/1/09
12/31/09
Bridge Funding for Foodweb
SWCont
10106000
9/1/09
8/31/13
Feeding and Food Limitation in Copepod
Nauplii, the Neglected Life Stage (Kimmerer)
40180000
6/1/10
12/31/13
Group Investiagtions (Zooplankton)
$1,279,026.00
40180001
6/1/10
12/31/13
Group Investiagtions (Modeling)
$1,067,673.00
40180005
6/1/10
12/31/13
Group Investiagtions (Management)
$226,270.00
Kimmerer, Wim
w/ 1 co-PI
$75,000.00
$396,961.00
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50218000
5/1/11
4/30/13
Current and Past Trophic Relationships
Among Dominant Zooplankton Species in
the San Francisco Estuary
California Sea Grant (MLPA)
$168,876.00
40229000
6/30/11
1/21/13
Winter Smelt
50221003
7/1/11
6/30/14
The Role of Microcystis Blooms in the
Delta Food Web: A Functional Approach
$256,035.00
40242000
10/1/11
12/31/14
Modeling Smelt
$277,850.00
40232000
12/15/11
9/30/13
Cascade II: Computational Assessments of United States Geological Survey
Scenarios of Change for the Delta Ecosystem
10070111
10/1/06
9/30/08
Acquisition of Elemental Analysis
Instrumentation for the Romberg Tiburon
Center
10070112
10/1/06
9/30/08
Cost Share 06-07 for Elemental Analysis
Instruments
SF State Cost Share
$39,187.00
57140200
1/1/07
8/31/10
Sediment DOC- PRF
ACS Petroleum Research Fund
$40,000.00
10078311
10/1/07
9/30/12
Sediment DOC-NSF
$409,178.00
10209000
10/1/07
9/30/12
Sediment DOC-NSF C/S
$62,741.00
$99,833.00
$17,542.00
Komada, Tomoko
w/ 3 co-PI’s
$118,457.00
10226000
3/15/12
2/28/15
DOC Transformations
$415,153.00
10231000
3/15/12
2/28/15
Collaborative Research: Dissolved Organic
Carbon transformations in deep subsurface sediments and its role as a source
of “old” DOC to the water column
$7,625.00
40167110
12/1/09
6/30/11
Nutrient Analysis-Kendall
40180004
6/1/10
12/31/13
Group Investiagtions (Influence)
40245000
6/30/11
1/21/13
Studies on role of Zooplankton Density
and Feeding Success in Spawning
Migration of Smelt
$46,533.00
50221000
7/1/11
6/30/14
Delta Food Web: A Functional Approach:
Management
$49,270.00
50221001
7/1/11
6/30/14
Rates
$258,230.00
Parker, Alexander E.
$20,000.00
$491,886.00
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50221002
7/1/11
6/30/14
UCSC & UNC
50222000
7/1/11
6/30/14
DeltC/S MICROCYSTIS
$33,957.00
40233000
12/16/11
9/30/13
Kendal Nutrients 2012
$15,700.00
60021110
8/1/03
6/30/08
Ci-Core
San Jose State University Foundation
60107310
9/1/04
8/31/07
Photosynthetic Characteristics, Carbon
Metabolism & Nutrient Requirements of
Phaeocystis antarctica & Diatom Species
from Ross Sea, Antarctica
Department of Energy
60125300
6/1/05
5/31/09
Oceanographic Product Development
Administration
10062310
5/1/05
5/31/09
Correlating Cardiac Thermal Performance National Science Foundation
with Transcriptome Profiles During Thermal Acclimation of the Intertidal Porcelain
Crab, Petrolisthes cinctipes
$508,596.00
66113310
10/10/06
12/31/10
Zooplankton & Clam Analysis 3
CA Dept of Water & Resources
$130,228.00
20148550
1/1/07
12/31/07
MBRS SCORE YR12 Stillman
National Institute of Health
$76,500.00
10084210
1/1/08
6/30/08
Advances in crustaceans genomics
$6,675.00
20178420
1/1/08
12/31/08
$74,282.00
20178430
1/1/09
12/31/09
$74,403.00
19103200
8/15/09
7/31/11
ARRA: Larval Physiology
$199,999.00
20178440
1/1/10
12/31/11
$73,780.00
40180002
6/1/10
12/31/13
Group Investiagtions (Clams)
$443,230.00
10203000
9/1/10
8/31/13
Synergistic Effects of Temperature and pH
Variability on Physiology, Transcript
$534,038.00
50219000
3/4/11
1/31/13
IRWM Fish and Productivity Data Analysis
and Interpretation
Department of Fish and Game
(DFG)
66313000
7/28/11
6/30/14
Nutrient Ratios Glibert
University of Maryland
$336,466.00
Robinson, Dale H.
$1,665,669.00
$252,850.00
$74,100.00
Stillman, Jonathon
Wilkerson, Frances
RTC Grant Totals
$44,420.00
$358,058.00
$41,507,025
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5.b. Non-grant revenue and expenses
Nature, source and amount of operating funds
Expenses
RTC operating funds are derived from several sources.
In consultation with the COSE dean, the RTC director
submits a budget request to the university provost for a
Special Project allocation. The budget supports some
staff salaries, all maintenance, repairs, supplies, and
some services and utilities. During FY 2010-11, six
support staff (administrative and facilities) salaries were
moved from the RTC Special Project account to the
COSE dean’s General Fund account and four support
staff remain paid via the Special Project account
through FY 2011-12. Lecturers are supported by RRT
from ORSP and the home department’s teaching
budget.
Salary for support staff is the largest RTC expense,
followed by funds for site maintenance and repair.
These costs are drawn from the dean’s General Fund
account, the RTC Special Project account and the
revenue generating and donations accounts.
Rental revenue from the RTC tenants and rental
revenue from the Bay Conference Center and the
Ohrenschall Guest House are deposited into a
SF State account and the funds are used for site
maintenance and repairs of these buildings and some
other projects.
Accounts at the University Corporation manage gifts
and donations and revenue from University Corporation
owned assets. Two major gifts received during this
period were the donation of the R/V Salty Dog by
Mrs. Annelies Atchley and the Rocky Fund donation
to purchase a new truck. Donations are deposited
into accounts as directed by the donor or into either
the student scholarship fund or a general account for
RTC discretionary needs. Three major donations were
a donation from the Richard and Rhoda Goldman
Foundation to the complete the Building 36 Phase II
renovation ($445,000) and a pair of gifts to install solar
panels above the Building 36 parking area ($560,000).
Charter revenue from the R/V Questuary and the R/V
Salty Dog are dedicated to Marine Operations needs.
These two vessel assets were transferred to SF State
at the end of FY 2011-12. The SF State Foundation
holds one endowment, and one quasi-endowment.
RTC faculty do not receive a return on IDC. What
would be considered the IDC return to the department
or faculty is included in the Special Project allocation
and used to cover general research needs.
Administrative fees paid to the University Corporation
and to SF State Foundation are the fees for
administering the various accounts.
Start up funds for RTC-based faculty come from the
Special Project allocation. A reserve is held to allow
faculty to spend these funds as needed.
Equipment, supplies and expenses include
maintenance, repairs, equipment, services and utilities.
Normally these are paid from the Special Project
allocation. However, depending on the expense,
occasionally different funds are used for these
expenses.
Marine Operations
Access to the Bay is a critical component of the
resources provided to RTC researchers; the RTC
boats are maintained in excellent condition and most
research needs are accommodated. Marine Operations
is a subsidized activity; this past summer we
conducted a review of expenses and are raising the
rates for chartering the boats. Insurance regulations
dictate that only the R/V Questuary can be chartered to
outside users, the remaining boats in the fleet can be
rented for internal usage. The new rates will lessen the
required subsidies, but it takes a few years for the new
rates to be reflected in revenues. Existing grants stay
on the old rates; new proposals submitted after July
2012 are including the new rates.
Bay Conference Center and Ohrenschall Guest
House
The Bay Conference Center (BCC) is housed in the
former naval officers’ club and was originally renovated
in 1985 by the College of Extended Learning. It is
maintained as the primary meeting and lecture space
for RTC. About half of the usage relates to RTC, COSE
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and SF State functions that use the facility at no cost; other times the facility is rented to area nonprofits and
educational organizations as a revenue source. During the last two years, reserve funds from prior rentals have
been used to improve the facility with carpet, acoustic tiles and lighting in the main room, the San Francisco Bay
Room, install audio visual equipment in the South Bay Room, and significant improvements to the grounds.
The Ohrenschall Guest House is maintained to provide housing for short term visits by collaborating scientists and
students and participants in BCC events. Revenue from these rentals is pooled with the funds from the BCC.
Table 5.b. RTC total revenues FY 2006/2007 Through FY 2011/2012
FY 06/07
FY 07/08
FY 08/09
FY 09/10
FY 10/11
FY 11/12
Total 6 year
UNIVERSITY PROVIDED
SFSU Special Project Allocation
COSE Salary Support
1,350,020
1,545,299
1,342,436
1,206,734
729,935
729,935
6,904,359
516,379
546,657
596,017
561,229
1,150,648
1,031,472
4,402,402
-
-
-
93,653
33,225
178,270
305,148
$1,866,399
$2,091,956
$1,938,453
$1,861,616
$1,913,808
$1,939,677
$11,611,909
168,211
182,911
193,738
157,838
260,754
190,110
1,153,562
COSE Supplies & Expense Support
Subtotal
INCOME GENERATED
BCC/Tiburon Properties Revenue
Charter/Rental Vessel Revenue
59,137
31,801
46,802
54,735
70,367
74,003
336,845
n/a
176,570
273,227
252,698
374,557
306,610
1,383,662
$227,348
$391,282
$513,767
$465,271
$705,678
$570,723
$2,874,069
42,067
51,315
29,054
124,528
20,992
580,012
847,968
445,000
-
50,000
25,000
-
-
520,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
487,067
51,315
79,054
149,528
20,992
580,012
$1,367,968
$2,580,814
$2,534,553
$2,531,274
$2,476,415
$2,640,478
$3,090,412
$15,853,946
RRT, Chargebacks, Refunds
Subtotal
DIRECTOR GENERATED
Private Donations
Foundation Awards (a)
Institutional Grants
Subtotal
TOTAL REVENUES TO SUPPORT RTC
(a) Goldman Fund (06/07); Marin Community Foundation - Rockey Fund (08/09); Cargill, Miranda Lux (09/10)
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Table 5.c. RTC total expenses FY 2006/2007 through FY 2011/2012
FY 06/07
FY 07/08
FY 08/09
FY09/10
FY 10/11
FY 11/12
TOTAL 6 YR
FTE, SALARY & BENEFITS
PAID by COSE, General Fund, or other accounts (a)
PIs, Lecturers
FTE-PIs, Lecturers
3
3
3
3
3
3
98,459
186,184
237,998
255,141
266,869
301,956
5
5
5.37
5.25
11.58
10.50
516,379
546,657
596,017
561,229
1,150,648
1,031,472
9.75
9.25
9.50
10.25
3.82
3.25
564,326
689,443
723,450
720,604
306,150
279,452
0.09
0.16
0.15
0.62
0.73
24,436
60,549
59,487
26,859
4,771
-
17.75
17.34
18.03
18.65
19.02
17.48
$1,203,600 $1,482,833
$1,616,952
$1,563,833
$1,728,438
$1,612,880
$9,208,537
Salary & Benefits-PIs, Lecturers (b)
1,346,607
FTE - Staff
Salary & Benefits-Staff (c)
4,402,402
PAID by RTC Allocation
FTE-Staff
Salary & Benefits-Staff (c)
3,283,424
Administrative Student Assistants
FTE - Student Assistants
Salary & Benefits-Student Assistants
TOTAL FTE
TOTAL Salary & Benefits
176,103
ADMINISTRATIVE FEES
Fees Paid to SFSU
13,192
8,988
10,857
8,002
15,104
12,313
68,456
Fees Paid to UCorp on Revenue
only
37,797
4,697
4,668
5,330
-
490
52,982
$50,989
$13,685
$15,525
$13,332
$15,104
$12,803
$121,438
-
-
-
93,653
33,225
178,270
305,148
838,316
901,596
714,201
519,306
753,252
751,802
4,478,473
$838,316
$901,596
$714,201
$612,959
$786,477
$930,072
$4,783,621
26,847
10,491
37,381
2,423
1,552
3,305
81,999
614,838
732,841
834,015
910,023
1,450,742
1,511,698
6,054,157
1,504,914
1,675,764
1,550,044
1,282,524
1,080,829
1,047,362
8,141,437
$2,119,752 $2,408,605
$2,384,059
$2,192,547
$2,531,571
$2,559,060
$14,195,595
TOTAL Administrative Fees
EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES & EXPENSES
Paid by COSE
Paid by RTC
TOTAL Supplies & Expenses
STARTUP (Does not include Payroll)
TOTAL PAID BY COSE, General Fund, etc.
TOTAL PAID BY RTC
TOTAL PAID BY COSE, Gen Fund, & RTC
(a) Salaries are paid out of COSE, General Funds, or other college funds, and are NOT paid out of RTC allocation.
(b) Beginning 1/1/2007, PI salary & benefits paid thru RRT into separate COSE fund. Data reflects half year expenses for 06/07.
(c) Beginning 7/1/2010, 6 staff members payroll/benefits moved from RTC allocation to General Fund.
Other Student Assistants/Post-Docs/Graduate Students are primarily supported off PIs’ grants and not included in this table.
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Table 5.c. RTC Marine Operations FY 2006/2007 through FY 2011/2012
FY 06/07 FY 07/08 FY 08/09 FY 09/10 FY 10/11 FY 11/12 6 YR Total
REVENUE
Charter/Rental Vessel Revenue
$59,137
$31,801
$46,802
$54,735
$70,367
$74,003
336,845
# Days use for Large Boat (R/V Questuary)
Internal
27
14
22
9
47
60
179
External ( Non-SFSU)
15
26
16
32
23
11
123
Comped
11
7
10
13
14
14
69
Total # Days Use for R/V Questuary
53
47
48
54
84
85
371
Internal
60
61
63
51
27
62
324
Comped
24
21
35
16
23
23
142
Total # Days Use for all Small Boats
84
82
98
67
50
85
466
1
1
1
1
2
2
82,048
86,971
92,361
86,608
206,048
212,807
1
1
1
1
98,193
103,936
104,956
98,101
# Days use for all Small Boats
EXPENSES
Technical & Administrative Staff
FTE - Staff
Salary & Benefits - Staff (b)
766,843
FTE - Staff
405,186
PAID by RTC UCorp accounts
FTE - Staff
Salary & Benefits - Staff
TOTAL FTE
0.01
0.15
1,334
12,332
13,666
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.01
2.15
2.00
$180,241
$190,907
$197,317
$186,043
$218,380
5,030
3,180
4,668
5,330
-
490
18,698
61,881
21,118
27,953
34,925
46,133
28,420
220,429
137,215
98,007
78,873
39,543
39,543
49,746
442,927
18,751
18,751
$212,807 $1,185,695
ADMINISTRATIVE FEES
Fees Paid to UCorp
Paid by Ucorp
Paid by RTC
Paid by Marine Ops (c)
TOTAL PAID BY RTC
TOTAL PAID BY UCORP
TOTAL EXPENSES
$199,096
$119,125
$106,826
$74,468
$85,676
$96,917
$682,107
82,048
86,971
92,361
86,608
206,048
212,807
766,843
235,408
201,943
183,829
137,644
39,543
68,497
866,864
66,911
24,298
32,620
41,589
58,465
28,910
252,793
$384,367
$313,212
$308,810
$265,841
$304,056
$310,214 $1,886,500
(b) Beginning 7/1/2010, 1 staff member payroll/benefits moved from RTC allocation to General Fund.
(c) Beginning 7/1/2011, new and separate SFSU Marine Ops fund created under the RTC umbrella dept ID.
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6 ear M
arine Operations
Opera0ons Summary
Summary 6 YYear
Marine
FY 006/07 tthrough
hru FY 22011/12
011/12 FY22006/07
$450,000 $400,000 $350,000 Dollars $300,000 $250,000 $200,000 $150,000 $100,000 $50,000 $0 FY 06/07 FY 07/08 FY 08/09 FY 09/10 FY 10/11 Revenue 59,137 31,801 46,802 54,735 70,367 FY 11/12 74,003 Expense 384,367 313,212 308,810 265,841 304,056 310,214 Large Boat R/V Questuary Large
Boat
R/V
Questuary
70 60 # Days of Use 50 40 30 20 10 0 FY 06/07 FY 07/08 FY 08/09 FY 09/10 FY 10/11 FY 11/12 Internal 27 14 22 9 47 60 External ( Non-‐SFSU) 15 26 16 32 23 11 Comp'd 11 7 10 13 14 14 Small Boats 70 60 # Days of Use 50 40 30 20 10 0 FY 06/07 FY 07/08 FY 08/09 FY 09/10 FY 10/11 FY 11/12 Internal 60 61 63 51 27 62 Comp'd 24 21 35 16 23 23 Romberg Tiburon Center, Six Year Report - 2012
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Table 5.d. RTC Bay Conference Center & Ohrenschall Guest House FY 2006/2007 through FY 2011/2012
FY 06/07
FY 07/08
FY 08/09
FY 09/10 FY 10/11 FY 11/12 Total 6 YR
52,315
86,896
93,170
77,543
80,712
66,977
457,613
Internal Rentals
14
15
21
12
25
29
116
External Rentals (Non-SFSU)
91
110
145
115
105
101
667
Comped Rentals
45
45
45
46
46
46
273
150
170
211
173
176
176
1056
1
1
75,325
80,561
REVENUE
Rental Revenue of both BCC & OGH
Total
EXPENSES
FTE - Staff
155,886
FTE - Staff
1
1
1
1
55,467
77,610
59,030
66,190
258,297
PAID by RTC
FTE - Student Assistant
Salary & Benefits - Student Assistant
TOTAL FTE
0.44
0.71
13,452
21,396
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.44
1.71
55,467
77,610
59,030
66,190
88,777
101,957
34,848
449,031
ADMINISTRATIVE FEES
Fees Paid to UCorp
5,206
5,206
39,472
39,472
Paid by UCorp
Paid by RTC
Paid by BCC (c)
39,472
-
TOTAL PAID BY RTC
55,467
TOTAL PAID BY UCORP
44,678
TOTAL PAID BY BCC
TOTAL EXPENSES
$100,145
1,523
4,840
85
28,348
51,105
27,865
29,871
55,945
27,950
79,133
-
63,870
-
66,275
-
5,087
11,535
41,466
45,044
193,828
41,466
50,131
244,835
75,325
80,561
155,886
13,452
26,483
304,680
-
-
44,678
28,348
51,105
27,865
41,466
45,044
193,828
$107,481
$114,975
$94,140
$130,243
$152,088
$699,072
(b) Beginning 7/1/2010, 1 staff member payroll/benefits moved from RTC allocation to General Fund.
(c) Beginning 7/1/2007, UCorp account closed, and BCC Dept ID set up in University.
Page 88
6 6Year CC &and
OGH Summary YearBBCC
OGH
Summary
2006/07
through
2011/12
FY 2FY
006/07 thru FY 2011/12 Revenue/Expense
Revenue/Expense $160,000 $140,000 $120,000 Dollars $100,000 $80,000 $60,000 $40,000 $20,000 $0 FY 06/07 FY 07/08 FY 08/09 FY 09/10 FY 10/11 Revenue 52,315 86,896 93,170 77,543 80,712 FY 11/12 66,977 Expense 100,145 107,481 114,975 94,140 130,243 152,088 6 Year
Year BCC
BCC &
OGH Summary 6
and
OGH
Summary
2006/07 through
2011/12
FY FY
2006/2007 thru 2011/2012 External/Internal Clients
External/Internal Clients 160 140 # Rentals 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 FY 06/07 FY 07/08 FY 08/09 FY 09/10 FY 10/11 Internal 14 15 21 12 25 29 External 91 110 145 115 105 101 Comp'd 45 45 45 46 46 46 Romberg Tiburon Center, Six Year Report - 2012
FY 11/12 Page 89
548,600
SITE MAP
Facilities
CD
Sa
n
75
40
co
39
cis
53
Entrance
Gate
#3512
4,194,000
an
4,194,000
Fr
548,400
30
50
53
54
74
74A
75
79
86
S1
S2
S3
Ba
33
37
y
79
22
27
54
21
r
Pie
74a
11
CD
GR
11
20
21,22
27
30
33
36
37
39
40
49
50
Ceramics Department Building
Greenhouse
Residence
Ohrenschall Guest Center
Fire Department Training Facility
Storage Building
Office and Research Building
Research and Education Building
Administration Building
Ceramics Department Building
Maintenance, Marine Operations
and Art Department Building
Research and Storage Building
Bay Conference Center
Office, Shop, and Storage Facility
Office
Water Tower
Block Building
NOAA Storage Building
Hazardous Waste Storage Shed
Radioactive Waste Storage Shed
Building 49/50/54 Storage Shed
Romberg Tiburon
Center For
Environmental Studies
and
Bay Conference Center
3152 Paradise Drive
Tiburon, CA 94920
(415) 338-6063
rtc.sfsu.edu
Scale 1:2,200
Universal Transverse Mercator
Projection, Zone 10N, NAD 1983
All locations are approximate.
Not to be used for navigation
or boundary purposes.
Sources: Shoreline and roads from San Francisco
Bay Watershed Project, NOAA Coastal
Protection and Restoration Division. Highways
from California Spatial Information Library.
Cartography by Tim Reed, February 2006.
S3
49
20
4,193,800
4,193,800
74
San
Rafael
86
Richmond
GR
W3
at
Bo mp
ra
131
Tiburon
Entrance Gate
#3510
36
548,400
S1
S2
W1
548,600
4,193,600
Paradise
4,193,600
Dr
ive
101
San
Francisco
Romberg
Tiburon
Center
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