Positions:

1992-present	Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering Program, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
1991-present	Associate Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
1985-1991	Assistant Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
1983-1984	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
1982	Visiting Lecturer, Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
1976-1981	Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests:	Restoration ecology, especially for coastal marine and estuarine environments
	Development and scientific evaluation of mitigation techniques
	Long-term ecological monitoring
	Development of habitat valuation techniques
	Ecology of artificial and natural reefs
	Ecology of Coastal wetlands and estuaries
	Marine ecology
	Interface between environmental biology and resource management policy

Selected Publications:

• Stein, E.D. and R. F. Ambrose. Cumulative impacts of Section 404 Clean Water Act permitting on the riparian habitat of the Santa Margarita, CA watershed. Wetlands. In press.

• Ambrose, R.F. and D.J Meffert.  1999.  Fish-assemblage dynamics in Malibu Lagoon, a small, hydrologically altered estuary in southern California.  Wetlands 19:327-340.

• Stein, E.D. and R. F. Ambrose. A rapid impact assessment method for use in a regulatory context. Wetlands. In press.

• Palmer, M.A., N.L. Poff, and R.F. Ambrose. Ecological theory and community restoration ecology. 1997. Restoration Ecology 5:291-300.
• Dunaway, M.E., R.F. Ambrose, J. Campbell, J.M. Engle, M. Hill, Z. Hymanson, and D. Richards. 1997. Establishing a Southern California rocky intertidal monitoring network. Pp. 1278-1294. in: California and the World Ocean '97, O.T. Magoon, H. Converse, B. Baird, and M. Miller-Henson, eds. American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia.
• Engle, J.M., R.F. Ambrose, and P.T. Raimondi. 1997. Synopsis of the Interagency Rocky Intertidal Monitory Network Workshop. Final Report, OCS Study MMS 97-0012. U.S. Minerals Management Service, Pacific OCS Region. 18p.
• Ambrose, R.F. 1997. Ecological value in restored coastal ecosystems. Pp. 67-86 in: Saving the Seas: Values, Scientists, and International Governance, L.A. Brooks and S.D. VanDeveer, eds. Maryland Sea Grant College, College Park, MD.
• Alltstatt, J.A., R.F. Ambrose, J.M. Engle, P.L. Haaker, K.D. Lafferty, and P.T. Raimondi. 1996. Recent declines of black abalone Haliotis cracherodii on the mainland coast of central California. Marine Ecology Progress Series 142:185-192.
• Ambrose, R.F., R.J. Schmitt, and C. W. Osenberg. 1996. Predicted and Observed Environmental Impacts: Can We Foretell Ecological Change. Pp. 343-367 in: Detecting Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Applications in Coastal Habitats, R.J. Schmitt and C.W. Osenberg, eds. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
• Ambrose, R.F. 1995. Performance standards for coastal wetland restoration. Pp. 395-397 in: Proceedings of the National Interagency Workshop on Wetlands: Technology Advances for Wetlands Sciences, M.C. Landin, ed. Technical Report, Wetlands Research and Technology Center, US Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
• Ambrose, R.F., J. Boland, W.W. Murdoch, P.T. Raimondi, and D. Reed. 1995. The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station mitigation reef: monitoring issues. Proceedings of Ecoset '95, the International Conference on Ecological System Enhancement Technology for Aquatic Environments, pp. 587-592.
• Ambrose, R.F., J.M. Engle, P.T. Raimondi, M. Wilson and J.A. Altstatt. 1995. Rocky intertidal and subtidal resources: Santa Barbara County mainland. Final report to the Minerals Management Service. OCS Study MMS 95-0067.
• Ambrose, R.F. 1994. Mitigating the effects of a coastal plant on a kelp forest community: rationale and requirements for an artificial reef. Bulletin of Marine Science 55:694-708.
• DeMartini, E.E., A.M. Barnett, T.D. Johnson, and R.F. Ambrose. 1994. Growth and production estimates for biomass-dominant fishes on a southern California artificial reef. Bulletin of Marine Science 55:484-500.
• Holbrook, S.J., S.L. Swarbrick, R.J. Schmitt, and R.F. Ambrose. 1994. Reef architecture and reef fish: correlates of population densities with attributes of subtidal rocky environments. Pp. 99-106 in: Proceedings of the Second International Temperate Reef Symposium, C.M. Battershill et al. eds. NIWA Marine, Wellington.
• Johnson, T.D., A.M. Barnett, E.E. DeMartini, L.L. Craft, R.F. Ambrose, and L.J. Purcell. 1994. Fish utilization of a southern California artificial reef. Bulletin of Marine Science 55:709-713.
• Ambrose, R.F., J.A. Coyer, J.M. Engle, and B.V. Nelson. 1993. Changes in urchin and kelp densities at Anacapa Island, California. Pp. 199-209 in: Third California Islands Symposium: Recent Advances in Research on the California Islands, F.G. Hochberg, ed. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, CA.
• Coyer, J.A., R.F. Ambrose, J.M. Engle, and J.C. Carroll. 1993. Interactions between corals and algae on a temperate zone rocky reef: mediation by sea urchins. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 167:21-37.
• Bonsack, J.A., D.L. Johnson, and R.F. Ambrose. 1991. Ecology of artificial reef habitats and fishes. Pp. 61-107 in: Artificial Habitats for Marine and Freshwater Fisheries, W. Seaman, Jr. and L.M. Sprague, eds. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.