Positions:

1995-present	Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
1994-present	Program Director, Coastal Marine Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
1991-present	Program Director, Coastal Toxicology Program, UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program
1989-present	Program Director, Southern California Educational Initiative, University of California, Santa Barbara
1987-present	Director, Coastal Research Center, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
1993-1995	Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
1987-1992	Associate Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
1981-1987	Assistant Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara

Distinctions:

1989	George Mercer Award for 1989, Ecological Society of America (best published research in field of Ecology by a scientist under age 40; Awarded for "Indirect interactions between prey: apparent competition, predator aggregation and habitat selection," Ecology 68:1887-1897)

Selected Publications:

• Schmitt, R.J. and S.J. Holbrook.  Habitat-limited recruitment of coral reef damselfish.  Submitted manuscript.

• Holbrook, S.J., Forrester, G.E. and R.J. Schmitt.  1999.  Spatial patterns in abundance of a damselfish reflect availability of suitable habitat.  Oecologia, In press.

• Schmitt, R.J., S.J. Holbrook and C.W. Osenberg.  1999.  Quantifying the effects of multiple processes on local abundance: A cohort approach for open populations.  Ecology Letters 2:294-303.

• Schmitt, R.J. and S.J. Holbrook.  1999.  Settlement and recruitment of three damselfish species: larval delivery and competition for shelter space.  Oecologia 118:76-86.

• Schmitt, R.J. and S.J. Holbrook. Mortality of juvenile damselfish: implications for assessing processes that determine abundance. Ecology. In press.
• Schmitt, R.J. and S.J. Holbrook. Settlement and recruitment of three damselfish species: larval delivery and competition for shelter space. Oecologia. In press.
• Holbrook, S.J. and R.J. Schmitt. 1998. Have field experiments aided in the understanding of abundance and dynamics of reef fishes? Pp. 151-169 in: Issues and Perspectives in Experimental Ecology, W.J. Resetarits and J. Bernado, eds. Oxford University Press.
• Holbrook, S.J., R.J. Schmitt, and J.A. Stephens Jr. 1997. Changes in an assemblage of temperate reef fishes associated with a climate shift. Ecological Applications 7:1299-1310.
• Holbrook, S.J. and R.J. Schmitt. 1997. Settlement patterns and process in a coral reef damselfish: in situ nocturnal observations using infrared video. Proceedings of the VIIIth International Coral Reef Symposiums 2:1143-1148.
• Holbrook, S.J. and R.J. Schmitt. 1996. On the dynamics and structure of reef fish communities: are resources tracked? Pp. 19-48 in: Long-term Studies of Vertebrate Communities, M.L. Cody and J.A. Smallwood, eds. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
• Schmitt, R.J. 1996. Exploitation competition in mobile grazers - trade-offs in use of a limited resource. Ecology 77:408-425.
• Schmitt, R.J. and S.J. Holbrook. 1996. Fine-scale patterns of larval settlement in a planktivorous damselfish - do they predict recruitment? Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 47:449-463.
• Ambrose, R.F., R.J. Schmitt, and C.W. Osenberg. 1996. Predicted and observed environmental impacts: can we foretell ecological change? Pp. 345-369 in: Detecting Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Applications in Coastal Habitats, R.J. Schmitt and C.W. Osenberg, eds. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
• Osenberg, C.W. and Schmitt, R.J. 1996. Detecting ecological impacts caused by human activities. Pp. 3-16 in: Detecting Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Applications in Coastal Habitats, R.J. Schmitt and C.W. Osenberg, eds. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
• Osenberg, C.W., R.J. Schmitt, S.J. Holbrook, K. E. Abu-Saba, and A. R. Flegal. 1996. Detection of environmental impacts: natural variability, effect size, and power analysis. Pp. 83-108 in: Detecting Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Applications in Coastal Habitats, R.J. Schmitt and C.W. Osenberg, eds. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. [Republication of Osenberg et al. 1994, Ecological Applications 4:16-30.]
• Schmitt, R.J. 1996. Exploitation competition in mobile grazers: trade-offs in use of a limited resource. Ecology 77:408-425.
• Schmitt, R.J. and C.W. Osenberg (editors and contributing authors). 1996. Detecting Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Applications in Coastal Marine Habitats. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 401p.
• Schmitt, R.J., C.W. Osenberg, W.J. Douros, and J. Chesson. 1996. The art and science of administrative environmental impact assessment. Pp. 281-293 in: Detecting Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Applications in Coastal Habitats, R.J. Schmitt and C.W. Osenberg, eds. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
• Holbrook, S.J. and R.J. Schmitt. 1995. Compensation in resource use by foragers released from interspecific competition. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 185:219-233.
• Holbrook, S.J., M.J. Kingsford, R.J. Schmitt, and J.S. Stephens Jr. 1994. Spatial and temporal patterns in assemblages of reef fish. American Zoologist 34:463-475.
• Osenberg, C.W., R.J. Schmitt, S.J. Holbrook, K.E. Abu-Saba, and A.R. Flegal. 1994. Detection of environmental impacts: natural variability, effect size and power analysis. Ecological Applications 4:16-30.
• Osenberg, C.W. and R.J. Schmitt. 1994. Detecting human impacts in marine habitats. Ecological Applications 4:1-2.
• Holbrook, S.J., S.L. Swarbrick, R.J. Schmitt, and R.F. Ambrose. 1993. Reef architecture and reef fish: correlates of population densities with attributes of subtidal rocky environments. Pp. 99-106 in: Proceedings of the Second Temperate Reef Ecology Symposium, C.N. Battershill, D.R. Schiel, G.P. Jones, R.G. Creese, and A.B. MacDiamid, eds. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA Marine), Auckland, New Zealand.
• Schmitt, R.J. 1993. Geographic variation in population characteristics of an intertidal gastropod: demographic differences or settlement history? Pp. 257-271 in: Proceedings of the Third Channel Islands Symposium, F.E. Hochberg, ed., Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, CA.