RTC is a community of faculty, staff, students and volunteers, all invested in the center's success as a teaching research institution.  The administrative staff and facilities staff support the scientific group and the students.

RTC's Core Scientific Group

• the Director,
• eight tenured or tenure-track faculty,
• seven research faculty,
• eight postdoctoral associates,
• 12 visiting scientists, and
• 13 research technicians.

Currently (2008) there are 26 graduate students, nine undergraduate students, two high school students/interns, and three lab volunteers. There are also three senior research scientists who head non-university research/consulting companies on-site.

RTC's Extended Community

Our campus is home to members of SFSU's Ceramics Department and SFSU's Graduate Art Program.  The San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve has its headquarters on site, and runs its monitoring and Coastal Decision Maker programs from our main laboratory facility.

The Marine Invasions Research Lab of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is located on the property.  San Francisco Bay is heavily impacted by invasive species, and RTC's location allows easy access to SERC's field sites in the north, central and south bays. 

Additionally, we have a number of private companies and organizations on site, who share our interest in the sciences.  TAXON Biosciences and Marin Biologic both perform research at the center.

The presence of multiple NGO and private research groups on site greatly augments the science and the educational experience at RTC.  All groups collaborate; from RTC's Discovery Day open house, to joint research projects and adjuct faculty status and mentoring of RTC students.