Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology

University of California

Santa Barbara, CA

Email: brooks@lifesci.ucsb.edu

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Project:  Population Trends and Trophic Dynamics in Pacific OCS Ecosystems: What Can Monitoring Data Tell Us?

Education:          B.A.                     Biology with Marine Emphasis, Occidental College                                        1984

                             Certificate Aquatic Biology and Fisheries Management,
University College of North Wales, U.K.                                                        1987

                             M.A.                    Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara                           1993

                             Ph.D.                   Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology,

                                                          University of California, Santa Barbara                                                         1999

 

Positions:          2001-Present        Director, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, University of California

                            1999-Present        Assistant Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara

               1998-Present        Lecturer, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of    

                                           California, Santa Barbara

                            1998-1999            Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara

               1998                      Teaching Associate, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology,

                                           University of California, Santa Barbara

                            1990-1998            Research Assistant, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara

               1988-1989            Instructor, Department of Physics, Los Angeles Valley College

                            1988-1991             Instructor, Department of Biology,  Occidental College

               1987-1989            Marine Ecologist and Project Leader, Vantuna Research Group, Occidental

                                            College

                            1984-1986            Marine Ecologist, Vantuna Research Group, Occidental College fishes

 

Research Interests:

Population and community dynamics of marine and estuarine fishes.

 

Grants:               2002-2005            W.M. Keck Foundation

                             2001-2004            US Environmental Protection Agency

                             1994-1996            Mildred Mathias Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

                             1994-1996            Crocker Grant

 

Distinctions:     2002-2004            Minerals Management Service CMI Project Award

                             1997-2001            Minerals Management Service CMI Project Award

                             1997                     University Award of Distinction, University of California, Santa Barbara

                             1995-1999            UC TSR&TP Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara

                            1994-1995            Continuing Graduate Student Fellowship, University of California, Santa   Barbara

Publications:

Swearer, S. E., Forrester, G.E., Steele, M.A., Brooks, A.J., and D.W. Lea. 2003. Spatio-temporal and interspecific variation in otolith trace-elemental fingerprints in a temperate estuarine fish assemblage. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (in press).

Holbrook, S.J., Brooks, A.J., and R. J. Schmitt. 2002. Are fish assemblages on coral patch reefs predictable? Marine and Freshwater Research 53 (2):181-188.

Brooks, A.J., Schmitt, R.J., and S. J. Holbrook. 2002. Declines in regional fish populations: have different species responded similarly to environmental change? Marine and Freshwater Research 53 (2):189-198.

Holbrook, S.J., Brooks, A.J., and R. J. Schmitt. 2002. Variation in structural attributes of patch forming corals and in patterns of abundance of associated fishes.  Marine and Freshwater Research 53 (7):1045-1053.

Brooks, A.J. 1999. Factors Influencing the Structure of an Estuarine Fish Community: The Role of Interspecific Competition.  Ph.D. Dissertation.  University of California, Santa Barbara, 219 pp.

Nisbet, R.M., Muller, E.B., Brooks, A.J., and P. Hosseini. 1997. Models relating individual and population response to contaminants. Environmental Modeling and Assessment 2: 7-12. 

Love, M.S., Brooks, A.J., and J.R.R. Ally. 1996. An analysis of the commercial passenger fishing vessel fisheries for kelp and barred sand basses (Paralabrax clathratus and P. nebulifer) in the Southern California Bight.  California Fish and Game 82: 105-121.

Nisbet, R.M., Ross, A.H., and A.J. Brooks. 1996. Empirically-based dynamic energy budget models:  theory and an application to ecotoxicology. Nonlinear World 3: 85-106. 

Love, M.S., Brooks, A.J., Busatto, D., Stephens Jr., J., and P. Gregory. 1996. Aspects of the life histories of the kelp bass and barred sand bass  (Paralabrax clathratus and P. nebulifer) from the Southern California Bight.  Fisheries Bulletin 94: 472-481. 

Love, M.S., Hyland, J., Ebeling, A., Herrlinger, T., Brooks, A.J., and E. Imamura. 1994. A pilot study of the distribution and abundance of rockfishes in relation to natural environmental factors and an offshore oil and gas production platform off the coast of Southern California. Bulletin Marine Science 55: 1062.-1085.

Love, M.S. and A.J. Brooks. 1990. Size and age at first maturity of the California halibut, Paralichthys californicus, in the Southern California Bight.  Pp. 167-174 in:  The California halibut, Paralichthys californicus, resource and fisheries.  California Fish and Game Fisheries Bulletin.

Love, M.S., Axell, B., Morris, P., Collins, R., and A.J. Brooks. 1987. Life history and fishery of the California scorpionfish, Scorpaena guttata, within the Southern California Bight. Fisheries Bulletin 85: 99-116. 

Brooks, A.J. 1987. Two species of Kyphosidae seen in King Harbor, Redondo Beach, California. California   

            Fish and Game 73: 49-61.

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