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7521
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Overview

Milton S. Love is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with a significant focus on Ocean Engineering as a subfield. Their work has also engaged with Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Pollution.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Offshore Engineering and Technologies
  • Identification and Quantification in Food

Milton S. Love has published several recent papers with diverse collaborators. Some of the notable publications include:

  • "Calibrating Environmental DNA Metabarcoding to Conventional Surveys for Measuring Fish Species Richness," 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Origins and evolution of extreme life span in Pacific Ocean rockfishes," 2021, Science
  • "Influence of offshore oil and gas structures on seascape ecological connectivity," 2022, Global Change Biology
  • "Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico," 2021, Zootaxa
  • "Offshore decommissioning horizon scan: Research priorities to support decision-making activities for oil and gas infrastructure," 2023, The Science of The Total Environment

Within their collaborative network, Milton S. Love frequently works with several researchers, including:

  • Ann Scarborough Bull
  • Jeremy T. Claisse
  • Mary M. Nishimoto
  • Dianne McLean
  • Li Kui

Their work has been published in various respected venues, with multiple contributions appearing in:

  • Bulletin Southern California Academy of Sciences
  • Bulletin of Marine Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Best Publications

  • Fisheries Sustainability via Protection of Age Structure and Spatial Distribution of Fish Populations

    Steven A. Berkeley;Mark A. Hixon;Ralph J. Larson;Milton S. Love

  • The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific

    Milton S Love;Mary Yoklavich;Lyman K Thorsteinson

  • Oil platforms off California are among the most productive marine fish habitats globally

    Jeremy T. Claisse;Daniel J. Pondella;Milton Love;Laurel A. Zahn

  • Assessing marine debris in deep seafloor habitats off California.

    Diana L. Watters;Mary M. Yoklavich;Milton S. Love;Donna M. Schroeder

  • Fishes: A Field and Laboratory Manual on Their Structure, Identification, and Natural History

    Gregor M. Cailliet;Milton S. Love;Alfred W. Ebeling

  • Probably More Than You Want to Know About the Fishes of the Pacific Coast

    Milton S. Love

  • The ecology of substrate-associated juveniles of the genus Sebastes

    Milton S. Love;Mark H. Carr;Lewis J. Haldorson

  • SIZE‐SELECTIVE HARVESTING ALTERS LIFE HISTORIES OF A TEMPERATE SEX‐CHANGING FISH

    Scott L. Hamilton;Jennifer E. Caselle;Julie D. Standish;Donna M. Schroeder

  • Ecological and political issues surrounding decommissioning of offshore oil facilities in the Southern California Bight

    Donna M Schroeder;Milton S Love

  • Benthic invertebrates that form habitat on deep banks off southern California, with special reference to deep sea coral

    Brian N. Tissot;Mary M. Yoklavich;Milton S. Love;Keri York

  • RECREATIONAL FISHING AND MARINE FISH POPULATIONS IN CALIFORNIA

    Donna M. Schroeder;Milton S. Love

  • Worldwide oil and gas platform decommissioning: A review of practices and reefing options

    Ann Scarborough Bull;Milton S. Love

  • Management of Pacific Rockfish

    S. J. Parker;S. A. Berkeley;J. T. Golden;D. R. Gunderson

  • Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: A checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska - Yukon border

    Milton S. Love;Catherine W. Mecklenburg;T. Anthony Mecklenburg;Lyman K. Thorsteinson

  • Overview and trends of ecological and socioeconomic research on artificial reefs.

    Juliano Silva Lima;Ilana Rosental Zalmon;Milton Love

  • Calibrating environmental DNA metabarcoding to conventional surveys for measuring fish species richness

    Mary E. McElroy;Terra L. Dressler;Georgia C. Titcomb;Emily A. Wilson

  • Life History Aspects of 19 Rockfish Species (Scorpaenidae: Sebastes) from the Southern California Bight

    Milton S. Love;Pamela Morris;Merritt McCrae;Robson Collins

  • Potential use of offshore marine structures in rebuilding an overfished rockfish species, bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis)

    Milton S. Love;Donna M. Schroeder;William Lenarz;Alec MacCall

  • Origins and evolution of extreme life span in Pacific Ocean rockfishes.

    Sree Rohit Raj Kolora;Gregory L. Owens;Gregory L. Owens;Juan Manuel Vazquez;Alexander Stubbs

  • Fish assemblages around seven oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel area

    Milton S. Love;Jennifer E. Caselle;Linda Snook

  • Hierarchical partitioning of evolutionary and ecological patterns in the organization of phylogenetically-structured species assemblages: application to rockfish (genus: Sebastes) in the Southern California Bight.

    Sandrine Pavoine;Sandrine Pavoine;Milton S. Love;Michael B. Bonsall;Michael B. Bonsall

  • The ecology of substrate-associated juveniles of the genusSebastes

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Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer E. Caselle
Jennifer E. Caselle University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert J. Miller
Robert J. Miller University of California, Santa Barbara
Libe Washburn
Libe Washburn University of California, Santa Barbara
Gregor M. Cailliet
Gregor M. Cailliet Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Robert R. Warner
Robert R. Warner University of California, Santa Barbara
Christopher G. Lowe
Christopher G. Lowe California State University, Long Beach
Mark A. Hixon
Mark A. Hixon University of Hawaii at Manoa
Michael B. Bonsall
Michael B. Bonsall University of Oxford
Sandrine Pavoine
Sandrine Pavoine French National Museum of Natural History
Antoni Lombarte
Antoni Lombarte Spanish National Research Council

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