Positions:

1992-present	Ecologist and Environmental Biologist, Project Resources, Inc.
1987-present	Ecologist and Partner, Ecometrics
1989-present	Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, San Diego State University
1985-87	Research Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1978-85	Allan Hancock Foundation Fellow and Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Publications:

• Thompson, B., J.D. Dixon, S.C. Schroeter, and D.J. Risesh. 1993. Chapter 8. Benthic invertebrates. In: The Ecology of the Southern California Bight, M. Dailey, J. Anderson, and D.J. Riseh, eds. University of California Press.
• Schroeter, S.C., J.D. Dixon, J. Kastendiek, J.R. Bence, and R.O. Smith. 1993. Detecting the ecological effects of environmental impacts: a case study of kelp forest invertebrates. Ecological Applications 3:331-350.
• Ebert, T.A., S.C. Schroeter, and J.D. Dixon. 1993. Inferring demographic processes from size-frequency distribution: the effect of pulsed recruitment on simple models. Fishery Bulletin 91:237-241.
• Zabloudil, K., J. Reitzel, S. Schroeter, J. Dixon, T. Dean, and T. Norall. 1992. Sonar mapping of giant kelp density and distribution. Pp.391-406 in: Coastal Zone'91 , O.T. Magoon, H. Converse, V. Tippie, L.T. Tobin and D. Clark, eds.
• Lissner, A.L., G.L. Taghon, D.R. Diener, S.C. Schroeter, and J.D. Dixon. 1991. Recolonization of deep-water hard substrate communities: potential impacts from oil and gas development. Ecological Applications 1:258-267.
• Dean, T.A., S.C. Schroeter, and J.D. Dixon. 1984. Effects of grazing by two species of sea urchins. (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus and Lytechinus anamesus) on recruitment and survival of two species of kelp. (Macrocystis pyrifera and Pterygophora californica). Marine Biology 78:301-313.
• Oberndorfer, R.Y., J.V. MacArthur, J.R. Barnes, and J.D.Dixon. 1984. The effects of invertebrate predators of leaf litter processing in an alpine stream. Ecology 65:1325-1331.
• Schroeter, S.C., J. Dixon, and J. Kastendiek. 1983. Effects of the starfish Patiria miniata on the distribution of the sea urchin Lytechinus anamseus in a southern California kelp forest. Oecologia 56:141-147.
• Sih, A. and J.D. Dixon. 1981. Tests of some predictions from the MacArthur-Levins competition models: a critique. American Naturalist 117:550-559.
• Kastendiek, J., S.C. Schroeter, and J.D. Dixon. 1981. The effect of the seawater cooling system of a nuclear generating station on the growth of mussels in experimental populations. Marine Pollution Bulletin 12:402-407.
• Dixon, J.D., S.C. Schroeter, and J. Kastendiek. 1981. Effects of the encrusting bryozoan, Membranipora membranacea, on the loss of blades and fronds by the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera (Laminariales). Journal of Phycology 17:341-345.