College of Science

Research projects supported to some extent by Rote Program funds (2008-2024) 

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

Collaborators

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