Funding for CBRISC comes from:

The University of California Marine Council
The San Diego Foundation

Principal Investigators for CBRISC are:

Kaustuv Roy, Associate Professor of Biology
University of California, San Diego

Paul K. Dayton, Professor of Marine Ecology
Scripps Institution of Oceanography

David R. Lindberg, Professor of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley

James W. Valentine, Emeritus Professor of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley

Additional collaborators on CBRISC are:

Allen G. Collins, postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Kaustuv Roy, University of California, San Diego

Bonnie Becker, graduate student in the lab of Paul K. Dayton, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Emina Begovic, graduate student in the lab of David R. Lindberg, University of California, Berkeley

Lisa Blomberg, undergraduate student, University of California, San Diego

CBRISC Gratefully Acknowledges the Assistance of:

Patricia Beller, collection Manager of marine invertebrates at The San Diego Museum of Natural History

Jack Engle of The Marine Science Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Lindsey T. Groves, Collections Manager of Malacology at The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

Carole Hertz, Editor of The Festivus, the very helpful publication of The San Diego Shell Club

Elizabeth Kools, Senior Curatorial Assistant of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology at The California Academy of Sciences

James H. McLean, Emeritus Curator of Malacology at The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

Paul Valentich Scott, Senior Associate Curator of The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History