Increasingly, RTC's research focus has intensified in California , with newly developed ocean monitoring programs that link RTC to other research institutions across the state. Two of the RTC programs focused on ocean monitoring are CI-CORE (Center for Integrative Coastal Observation, Research and Education- a consortium of eight CSU campuses) for which over $700, 000 have been awarded to RTC since 2001; and COCMP (Coastal Ocean Currents Monitoring Program), led by Dr. Newell Garfield, an $8.9- million award to RTC to implement a network of instruments that will allow real-time monitoring of surface currents, surf conditions and coastal circulation modeling.

In the 2005 round of CALFED funding, Dr. Wim Kimmerer, with several RTC co-PIs were awarded $1.17 million for a project entitled: "Foodweb Support for the Threatened Delta Smelt and Other Estuarine Fishes in Suisun Bay and the western Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta."

RTC's junior faculty members continue to enhance RTC's expanding research program. Dr. Jonathon Stillman was awarded $496,000 from the National Science Foundation for his research "Correlating Cardiac Thermal Performance Limits with Transcriptome Profiles During Thermal Acclimation of the Intertidal Porcelain Crab, Petrolisthes cinctipes ." Dr. Katharyn Boyer has been awarded two grants funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration totaling over $300,000 for her work in eelgrass restoration in San Francisco Bay .

Please visit our Faculty page to learn more about thier individual research projects, and for graduate study and post doctoral research opportunities.