Welcome to the Ruttenberg Marine Conservation Lab
Our research focuses on marine conservation and ecology.
Our current projects include:
We are also wrapping up projects on:
Our current projects include:
- The potential for offshore renewable energy production along the California central coast, and how we evaluate costs and benefits
- Factors controlling the decline and recovery of Pismo clams
- Development of new approaches in Aquaculture, including evaluating Pismo clams as a candidate species
- Nearshore fisheries, Marine Protected Areas, and the impacts of oceanography and marine heat waves
We are also wrapping up projects on:
- How parrotfish feeding and behavior impacts coral reef ecosystems
- Using artificial intelligence to improve monitoring in marine (and other) systems