WERC's current coastal ecosystem projects

• Activity Patterns, Habitat Use, and Contaminant Exposure of Black-crowned Night-herons in the San Francisco Bay Ecosystem
• Applying a Bioassessment and Monitoring Framework for Public Lands and Trust Resources in Coastal and Estuarine Habitats: Pacific Coast, Hawaii, and Alaska
• At-sea Distribution of Seabirds and Marine Mammals in Southern California Bight
• Channel Islands Kelp Forest Dynamics
• Coastal Ecosystems: Foraging Ecology and Environmental Contaminants in Migratory Birds and Their Benthic Prey in the San Francisco Bay Ecosystem
• Coastal Sage Scrub Monitoring at Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, California
• Comparative Study of Terrestrial Ecosystem Dynamics Between Two MAB Coastal Biosphere Reserves, France and United States
• Contaminants in the Aleutian Island Marine Ecosystem: Concentrations in Relationship to Volcanic Activity, Species, and military Activity
• Disturbance of Wintering Snowy Plovers at Coal Oil Point and Other Pacific Coast Populations
• Ecological Effects of Contaminant Burdens on Waterbird Food Organisms in Estuarine Systems: Dynamics of Ribbed Mussel (Geukensia demissa [Dillwyn]) Population in Contaminated and Less Contaminated Sites, San Francisco Bay
• Ecological Research to Support the Natural Community Conservation Planning Program in Coastal Sage Scrub in Southern California
• Explorations into Biodiversity, and Inventory and Monitoring Research Program for the National Park Service
• Feeding Ecology of Dabbling Ducks in Suisun Marsh and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California
• Habitat Use and Competion by Coyotes (Canis latrans) in Urban and Rural Settings of Coastal California National Parks
• Hierarchies of Contaminants in Waterfowl Prey from San Francisco and Chesapeake Bays
• Interactions Between Sea Otters and Nearshore Communities
• Invasive Exotic Plants of the California Channel Islands
• Lead Distribution in Soil and Biota at a Wetlands Skeet Range
• Monitoring Program for Environmental Contaminants in the Nearshore Marine Ecosystem at Adak Island, Alaska
• Pitcher's Thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) Population Dynamics: Demography and Seed Predation
• Population Biology and Behavior of Sea Otters
• Population Viability of the San Pablo Song Sparrow in the North San Francisco Bay
• Rare Plant Research in the Northern Channel Islands, California
• Reproduction by Black-crowned Night-herons and Snowy Egrets on Alcatraz Island, California
• Restoration of Severely Disturbed Lands to Viable Wetlands, Concord Naval Weapons, California
• Restoration of the Cullinan Ranch to Tidal Salt Marsh
• Restoration of the Knapp Unit of the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
• Restoration of the White Abalone in Southern California: Population Assessment, Brood Stock Collection, and Development of Husbandry Technology
• Safety and Efficacy of Green Crab Biological Control
• San Francisco Bay Estuary Wetland Restoration
• Science Support for Wetland Restoration in the Napa/Sonoma Salt Ponds, San Francisco
• Scientific Review of Channel Island National Park Monitoring Protocols
• Selected Aspects of the Biology of High-priority Species of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles in Coastal Arroyos, San Luis Obispo County, California
• Trend and Power Analysis of Long-term Vegetation Monitoring Data, Channel Islands National Park, California
• Tule Elk Effects on Vegetation at Point Reyes National Seashore, California
• Using Parasites to Monitor Ecosystem Health