Michael S. Foster
Michael S. Foster is a Professor Emeritus at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. He has a BS degree in physical science (1964) and an MA degree in education (1965) from Stanford University, and a PhD in biology (1972) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and a Fulbright Scholar. His research interests center around the ecology of subtidal and intertidal reefs, particularly algal populations and assemblages in kelp forests, rhodolith beds and rocky shores, and have resulted in 70 peer-reviewed professional papers, 4 books and numerous reports. He is also interested in anthropogenic impacts to these habitats, and has worked and published on the impacts of oil spills (1969 Santa Barbara and Exxon Valdez), as well as on the effects of coastal power plant cooling systems on the marine environment. He has consulted on the latter for the Marine Review Committee, Southern California Edison, Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board and the California Energy Commission.
Selected Papers and Reports Related to Anthropogenic Impacts
Foster, M., M. Neushul and A.C. Charters. 1971. The Santa Barbara oil spill. I. Initial quantities and distribution of pollutant crude oil. Environmental Pollution 2:97113.
Foster, M., M. Neushul and R. Zingmark. 1971. The Santa Barbara oil spill. II. Initial effects on littoral and kelp bed organisms. Environmental Pollution 2:115134.
DeVogelaere, A. and M. Foster. 1994. Damage and recovery of intertidal Fucus assemblages following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Marine Ecology Progress Series 106:263-271.
Schiel, D.R., Steinbeck, J.R., and Foster, M.S. 2004. Ten years of induced ocean warming causes comprehensive changes in marine benthic communities. Ecology 85:1833-1839
Steinbeck, J., Schiel, D.R. and Foster, M.S. 2005. Detecting long-term change in complex communities: a case study for the rocky intertidal zone. Ecological Applications 15:1813-1832
Foster, M.S., York, R. et al. 2005. Issues and environmental impacts associated with
once-through cooling at California's coastal power plants. California Energy
Commission, Staff Report CEC-700-2005-013, Sacramento. 74 pp. + appendices
Dominic E. Gregorio
Mr. Gregorio is Senior Environmental Scientist, managing the Ocean Unit in the Division of Water Quality of the State Water Resources Control Board. The Ocean Unit is responsible for the development and updating of statewide water quality control plans, policies, and standards involving marine waters, including the California Ocean Plan, the California Thermal Plan, and the development of sediment quality objectives in bays and estuaries.
Previously, Mr. Gregorio was Environmental Projects Coordinator at the Southern California Marine Institute (SCMI). While at SCMI he was a principle investigator on harmful algal blooms and pollution research, aquaculture projects, and marine grass surveys in Los Angeles Harbor. He has been a marine biology instructor at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), and at Cypress College in Orange County, California. At CSUDH his assignments included the teaching of distance learning classes in Marine Biology and Global Warming, over cable television and the Internet. From 1979 through 1987 Mr. Gregorio was an environmental coordinator for Texaco USA, West Coast Producing Division. At Texaco he managed a number of marine biological surveys and studies of offshore oil drilling projects, and was also responsible for oil spill contingency planning.
Mr. Gregorio holds a M. S. Degree in Environmental Biology from California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Steve Saiz
Steve earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology from the University of CA at Davis in 1985. He has held various biology positions including: a US Forest Service intern biologist searching for spotted owls in the Siskiyou National Forest, a UCD deer researcher mapping radio-telemetry tagged mule deer in the John Muir Wilderness, and a laboratory technician at the California Department of Fish and Game’s Water Pollution Control Laboratory in Rancho Cordova. Steve was an Environmental Research Scientist for the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the California Department of Pesticide Regulation for 7½ years. While at these agencies he conducted technical studies to determine environmental hazards associated with pesticide use. As an Environmental Scientist for State Water Resources Control Board for the last 12 years, Steve has assisted in the development of water quality standards for the California Ocean Plan and derived the statistical procedures used in assessing impaired water bodies.
GREGOR MICHEL CAILLIET
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, California 95039
(831) 771-4432; FAX (831) 632-4403;
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1972, B.A. 1966, Biology, UCSB.
POSITIONS
Professor, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and California State University, Fresno, 1972present.
Consultant, Regional Water Quality Control Board, California Energy Commission, and Aspen Environmental Group, Power Plant Entrainment (316b studies), 1997 to present.
MAJOR PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
Ichthyology, population ecology, estuarine ecology, and fishery biology.
COURSES TAUGHT AND GRADUATE STUDENTS ADVISED AT MLML
Courses: Ichthyology, Marine Ecology, Population Biology, Marine Fisheries, various Graduate Seminars
Graduate Students: To date, 89 have finished their M.S. degrees, with 23 additional graduate students presently working toward their degrees.
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ecology of marine fishes: age, growth, reproduction, demography, & feeding habits of marine deep-sea and chondrichthyan fishes.
GENERAL ENTRAINMENT AND IMPINGEMENT QUALIFICATION SUMMARY
Experienced for ~ 8 working as a consultant for both the Regional Water Quality Control Board in San Luis Obispo and the California Energy Commission (via the Aspen Environmental Group, on the Diablo Canyon, Moss Landing, Morro Bay, Huntington Beach, and El Segundo Power Plants and their 316B studies, reports, and evaluations. Work covered everything from designing the sampling strategy to reviewing the final report and assessing the level of impact, mainly on fish and crab species entrained.
SUMMARY OF RECENT RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Total number of publications in refereed journals is approximately 130.
Major focus has been on age, growth, age validation (radiometric and bomb radiocarbon methodology), feeding habits, reproduction, and demography of marine, primarily deep-water and chondricththyan, fishes.
Most relevant paper (to be submitted for publication):
John R. Steinbeck, John Hedgepeth, Peter Raimondi, Gregor Cailliet, and David L. Mayer. 2006). Assessing Power Plant Cooling Water Intake System Entrainment Impacts. Report to California Energy Commission, 99 pages.
John Steinbeck
Education
M.S. Biological Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, 1986
B.S. Biological Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, 1980
Continuing Education
Multivariate Community Analysis using PRIMER, 2002
Analysis of Messy Data, Professional Education, Inc., 1996
Scientific Writing, California Polytechnic State University, Extension, 1994
Environmental Regulatory Compliance, University of California Extension, 1992
Experience
Mr. Steinbeck is the Vice President of Tenera Environmental and has over 20 years of experience as a professional environmental scientist. He is responsible for the management of Tenera’s San Luis Obispo offices. He is also the Principal Investigator for environmental monitoring conducted at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant by Tenera under contract to Pacific Gas and Electric Company. This program is one of the largest and most extensive environmental monitoring programs conducted in the United States. Mr. Steinbeck combines a broad background of involvement in field and laboratory biology with extensive experience in data analysis and data management. He is recognized as an expert in the design and statistical analysis of environmental impact studies. He has also helped develop and was primarily responsible on several projects for fishery based modeling used to assess the effects of power plant cooling water systems on nearshore planktonic organisms. In his management role at Diablo Canyon and on other projects, Mr. Steinbeck is able to utilize his extensive experience on issues related to state and federal water regulation. This experience has included expert witness testimony in formal agency hearings and participation in workshops on issues related to water quality, study design, and thermal and ecological modeling. He has several papers published in scientific and technical journals and has been a contributing author on numerous technical reports.
Position: Vice President/Principal Scientist, Tenera Environmental, LLC, San Luis Obispo, California
Selected Publications and Technical Reports
Steinbeck, J.R., D.R. Schiel, and M.S. Foster. 2005. Detecting long-term change in complex communities: a case study from the rocky intertidal zone. Ecological Applications 15:1813-1832.
Schiel, D.R., J.R. Steinbeck, and M.S. Foster. 2004. Ten years of induced ocean warming causes comprehensive changes in marine benthic communities. Ecology 85:1833-1839.
Ehrler, C.P., J.R. Steinbeck, E.A. Laman, J.B. Hedgepeth, J.R. Skalski, and D.L. Mayer. 2003. A process for evaluating adverse environmental impacts by cooling-water system entrainment at a California power plant. In Defining and Assessing Adverse Environmental Impact from Power Plant Impingement and Entrainment of Aquatic Organisms. Dixon, D.A., J.A. Veil, and J. Wisniewski (eds). A.A. Balkema Publ., Lisse.
Kimura, S. and J. Steinbeck. 1999. Can post-oil spill patterns of change be used to infer recovery? Pages 339-347 in Proceedings of the 1999 International Oil Spill Conference. American Petroleum Institute Publication No. 4686B. Washington, D.C.
Tenera Inc. 1997. Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Thermal Effects Monitoring Program, Analysis Report. Chapter 1 - Changes in the marine environment resulting from the Diablo Canyon Power Plant discharge. Prepared by Tenera, Inc. for Pacific Gas and Electric Company, December 1997 (Principal Investigator / contributing author / principal statistical analyst).
James, D.E., J.R. Steinbeck, E.K. Anderson, and W.J. North. 1986. Use of long-term mean background temperatures to analyze changes and trends in waters off Diablo Canyon, 1986. In Environmental Investigations at Diablo Canyon. Volume I: Marine Ecological Studies. D.W. Behrens and C.O. White (eds.). Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Peter T. Raimondi
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Long Marine Laboratory, Santa Cruz, CA 95060; ph 831-459-5674; fax 831-459-3383; e-mail:
EDUCATION: B.A. 1972-1976, Northern Arizona University (Philosophy and Art); University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 1980-1982; Ph.D. 1982-1987, University of California, Santa Barbara (Biology-Aquatic Sciences, Population Ecology)
POSITION:
Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ( 60 total):
Reed DC, Raimondi PT, Washburn L, Gaylord B, Kinlan BP and PT Drake. 2005. A metapopulation perspective on patch dynamics and connectivity in giant kelp. In: P. Sale and J Kritzer eds. Marine metapopulations. Academic Press. In Press.
Menge B.A., Blanchette C, Raimondi P.T., Gaines S., Lubchenco J, Lohse D., Hudson G., Foley M., and J. Pamplin. 2004 Geographic variation in keystone predation: a whole-coast experiment. Ecological Monographs, 74:663-684
Reed, D.C., S.C. Schroeter,and P.T. Raimondi. 2004. Spore supply and habitat availability as sources of recruitment limitation in giant kelp, Macrocystis Pyrifera. Journal of Phycology 40:275-284
Forde, S.E. and P.T. Raimondi. 2004 An experimental test of the effects of variation in recruitment intensity on intertidal community structure. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 301:1-14
Luengen, A.C., Friedman, C.S., Raimondi, P.T., and Flegal, A.R. 2004 Evaluation of immune responses as indicators of contamination in San Francisco Bay, CA; Development of a novel phagocytosis and phagocytic index method for mussels. Marine Environmental Research. 57(3):197-212
Gaylord, B., D.C. Reed, L. Washburn and P.T. Raimondi. 2004 Physical-biological coupling in spore dispersal of kelp forest macroalgae. Journal of Marine Systems, 49:19-39
Raimondi, P.T.;Lohse, D; Blanchette, C. 2003. Unexpected dynamism in zonation and abundance revealed by long-term monitoring on rocky shores. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. 88:275.
Raimondi, P.T., Wilson, C.M., Ambrose, R.F., Engel, J.M., and Minchinton, T.E. 2002. El Niño and the continued declines of black abalone along the coast of California. Marine Ecology Progress Series 242:143-152
Technical Reports
Strange E., Allen D., Mills D., and P.T. Raimondi. 2004. Research on estimating environmental benefits of restoration to mitigate or avoid environmental impacts caused by California Power Plant Cooling Water Intake Structures. Agreement MRA#015-007, California Energy Commission.
Minchinton T.E and P.T Raimondi. 2004. Effect of temporal and spatial separation of samples on estimation of Impacts. Coastal Research Center, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California. MMS Cooperative Agreement Numbers 14-35-0001-30758. 89 pages.
Roe, C. A., Raimondi, P. T., and S. E. Forde. 2003. Variability in the accumulation and persistence of tar in four intertidal communities along the central and southern California coast. MMS OCS Study 2003-033. Coastal Research Center, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California. MMS Cooperative Agreement Numbers 14-35-0001-30761. 44 pages.
Holbrook, S.J., Ambrose, R.F., Botsford, L., Carr, M.H., Raimondi, P.T., and Tegner, M.J. 2000. Ecological issues related to decommissioning of California’s offshore production platforms. Report to the University of California Marine Council. 41 pages.
Raimondi, P.T., Engel, J., Ambrose, R.A., Murray, S.N., Wilson, M. and Sapper, S. 1998. Rocky Intertidal resources in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Orange Counties, 3 year Report. Minerals Management Service. OCS Study 98-0000. 103 pages.
Dr. Elizabeth M. Strange, a Managing Scientist at Stratus Consulting Inc. in Washington, DC, has over 15 years of experience analyzing the responses of aquatic ecosystems and water resources to natural and human stressors and developing and evaluating restoration options. From 1998-2006, Dr. Strange was the lead environmental scientist assisting EPA’s Office of Water in its benefits analyses for Clean Water Act section 316(b) regulations concerning cooling water intake structures. Her environmental work includes the analysis of fisheries, water quality, and other environmental data for regulatory and policy analysis, climate change studies, ecological risk assessment, and a variety of applied research topics for state and federal agencies. Dr. Strange also works closely with natural resource economists to develop and implement methods for integrating environmental and economic analyses. Before joining Stratus Consulting, Dr. Strange was a staff research associate in marine resources for the California Sea Grant Extension Program. She has published results of her research in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Environmental Management, Ecological Economics, Fisheries, Environmental Biology of Fishes, and Marine Fisheries Review. Dr. Strange holds a PhD and an MS in ecology from the University of California at Davis and a BA in biology from San Francisco State University.
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