Positions:

1971-present	Assistant, Associate , Associate and Professor, Department of Biological Science, California State University, Fullerton
June 1996	Invited Instructor, NSF Chautaugua short Course, The Marine Life of Santa Catalina Island and its Surrounding Waters
Summer 1996	Invited Instructor, Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Phycology Course
1985-93	Research Associate, University of California, Irvine
Summer 1990	Invited Instructor, Escuela de Sciencias Marinas, Universidad Autonoma Baja California Norte, Ensenada, Mexico
1983,1985	Invited Instructor for Marine Ecology course, Western Canadian Universities Consortium
Summer 1974	Invited Instructor for Marine Plant Life in the Sea, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Distinctions:

1989-1990	A.J. Diefenderfer Dean's Award
1993-94	Student Health Professions Outstanding Professor Award
1994-95	Student Athletes Professor of the Year Award
1993-94	Student Service Awardee
1994-95; 1996-97	Distinguished Faculty Member, School of Natural Science and Mathematics
1994-95; 1997-98	Faculty Marshal; School of Natural Science and Mathematics
1995,96	Nominee, Outstanding Professor Award
1997	Performance Salary Step Increase (PPSI) program: Recipient, three-step merit pay increase for performance in scholarly and creative activity

Selected Publications:

• Hall, J.D. and S. N. Murray. 1998. Environmental control of the life history of a Santa Catalina Island population of Liagora californica (Nemaliales, Rhodophyta) in the field and laboratory culture. Phycologia 37:184-194.
• Pearson, E. and S.N. Murray. 1997. Patterns of reproduction, generic diversity, and genetic differentiation in California populations of the geniculate corraline alga Lithothrix aspergillum (Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 33:753-763.
• Murray, S.N. 1996. Peter D. Dixon, Prominent Phycologists of the 20th Century. Pp. 262-270 in: Phycological Society of America Special Publication, D. Garbary and M.J. Wynne, eds. Lancelot Press, Hantsport, Nova Scotia.
• Murray, S.N. and R. B. Bray . 1993. Benthic Macrophytes. Pp. 304-368 in: Ecology of the Southern California Bight: A Synthesis and Interpretation, M.D. Dailey, D.J. Reish, and J.W. Anderson, eds. University of California Press, Berkeley.
• Bokn, T.L., F.E. Moy, and S.N. Murray. 1993. Long-term effects of diesel oil on rocky shore communities in mesocosms. II. Effects on selected populations. Botanica Marina 36:313-319.
• Bokn, T.L., F.E. Moy, J.B. Magnusson, and S.N. Murray. 1992. Changes in fucoid distributions and abundances in the Inner Oslofjord, Norway: 19874-80 vs. 1988-90. Acta Phytogeographica Suecica 78:117-124.
• Murray, S.N., P.S. Dixon. 1992. The Thodophyta: some aspects of their biology. III. Oceanography Marine Biology, Annual Review 30:1-148.
• Littler, M.M., Littler, D.S., R.R. Seapy, and S.N. Murray. 1991. Southern California rocky intertidal ecosystems. Pp. 272-296 in: Ecosystems of the world, Volume 24: Intertidal and Littoral Ecosystems, A.C. Mathieson and P. Nienhuis eds. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam.
• Horn, M.M., M.B. Fris, C.D. Irelan, and S.N. Murray. 1990. Diurnal feeding periodicity of an herbivorous blenniid fish, Parablennius sanguinolentus (Pallas). Pp. 170-182 in the western Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 24th European Marine Biology Symposium Trophic Relationships in the Marine Environment.
• S.N. Murray and M.M. Littler. 1989. Seaweeds and seagrasses of southern California: checklists for twenty-one rocky intertidal sites. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 88:61-79.
• S.N. Murray and M.H. Horn. 1989. Variations in standing stocks of central California macrophytes from a rocky intertidal habitat before and during the 19 82-83 El Niņo. Marine Ecology Progress Series 58:113-122.
• S.N. Murray and M.H. Horn. 1989. Seasonal dynamics of macrophyte populations from an eastern North Pacific rocky intertidal habitat. Botanica Marina 32:457-473.
• Brophy, T.C. and S.N. Murray. 1989. Field and laboratory culture studies of a population of Endarachne binghamiae (Phaeophyta) from southern California. Journal of Phycology 25:6-15.