Positions:

1987-present	Ecologist and Partner, Ecometrics
1987-present	Reviewer for Ecology, Ecological Monographs, Journal of Ecology Marine Biology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, American Naturalist
1995-present	Lecturer, University of California, San Diego Extension Program
1996-present	Associate Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
1989-present	Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, San Diego State University
1983-88	Research Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
978-83	Allan Hancock Fellow and Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Distinctions:

1988	Outstanding publication in the Marine Fisheries Review for 1985, with Susumu Kato
1985-87	Faculty Research Incentive Grants, University of Southern California
1982-88	Contracts with the Marine Review Committee, Inc. for studies of benthic and epiphytic invertebrates in kelp beds near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Stating.
1977-82	Contracts with the Marine Review Committee, Inc. for studies of benthic and epiphytic invertebrates in kelp beds near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
1976-77	Ford Foundation Fellowship
1975-76	Sea Grant Traineeship, University of California
1975	University Fellowship, University of California
1971	NSF Graduate Traineeship, Brigham Young University
1971	University Fellowhsip, Brigham Young University

Selected Publications:

• Bence, J.R., A. Stewart-Oaten, and S.C. Schroeter. 1996. Estimating the size of an effect from a Before-After-Control Impact-Pairs design: the predictive approach applied to a power plant study. Pp. 133-149 in: Ecological Impacts Assessment: Conceptual Issues and Application in Coastal Marine Habitats, R.J. Schmitt and C.W. Osenberg, eds. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
• Bernstein, B.B., S.C. Schroeter, and K.H. Mann. 1983. Sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) aggregating behavior investigated by a subtidal multifactorial experiment. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 40:1975-1986.
• Cameron, R.A. and S.C. Schroeter. 1980. Sea urchin recruitment: effect of substrate selection on juvenile distribution. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2:2434-247.
• 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 (Macrosystis pyrifera and Pterygophora californica). Marine Biology 78:301-313.
• 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.
• Ebert, T.A., S.C. Schroeter, and J.D. Dixon. 1993. Inferring demographic processes from size-frequency distribution. Effect of pulsed recruitment on simple models. Fishery Bulletin 91:237-243.
• Ebert, T.A., S.C. Schroeter, J.D. Dixon, and P. Kalvass. 1994. Settlement patterns of red and purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus and S. purpuratus) in California. Marine Ecology Progress Series 111:41-52.
• Kato, S. and S.C. Schroeter. 1985. Biology of the red sea urchin, (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) and its fishery in California. Marine Fisheries Review 47:1-20.
• Kastendiek, J., S.C. Schroeter, and J.D. Dixon. 1981. The effect of seawater cooling systerm of a nuclear generating station on the growth of mussels in experimental populations. Marine Pollution Bulletin 12:402-407.
• Lissner, A.L., G.L. Taghon, R.R. Diener, S.C. Schroeter, and J.D. Dixon. 1991. Review of recolonization and recovery of deep-water hard substrate communities. Ecological Applications 1:258-267.
• Schroeter, S.C, J.D. Dixon, and J. Kastendiek. 1983. Effects of the starfish Partifia miniata on the distribution of the sea urchin Lytechinus anamesus in a southern California kelp forest. Oecologia 56:141-147.