Publications:

Matern, S. A., C. M. Trujillo, and M. Fernandez. In press. Effective use of e-mail in a traditional biology classroom: An analysis of students’ patterns of use and expectations. Electronic Journal of Science Education.

Matern, S. A. and L. R. Brown. 2005. Invaders eating invaders: exploitation of novel alien prey by the alien shimofuri goby in the San Francisco Estuary, California. Biological Invasions 7:497-507.

Moyle, P. B., R. D. Baxter, T. Sommer, T. C. Foin, and S. A. Matern. 2004. Biology and population dynamics of Sacramento splittail (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) in the San Francisco Estuary: a review. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science [online serial] 2(2):article 3. http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews/vol2/iss2/art3

Feyrer, F., B. Herbold, S. A. Matern, and P. B. Moyle. 2003. Dietary shifts in a stressed fish assemblage: consequences of a bivalve invasion in the San Francisco Estuary. Environmental Biology of Fishes 67:277-288.

Matern, S. A., P. B. Moyle, and L. C. Pierce.  2002. Native and alien fishes in a California estuarine marsh: twenty-one years of changing assemblages. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131:797-816.

Matern, S. A.  2001.  Using salinity and temperature tolerances to predict the success of the shimofuri goby (Tridentiger bifasciatus), a recent invader into California.  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 130:592-599.

Meng, L., and S. A. Matern.  2001.  Native and introduced larval fishes in Suisun Marsh, California:  the effects of freshwater flow.  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 130:750-765.

Matern, S. A. and J. B. Feliciano.  2000.  Drawing to learn morphology in a fish taxonomy laboratory: the allure of a taxonomy course that embraces multiple learning processes.  Journal of College Science Teaching 29(5):315-319.

Matern, S. A., J. J. Cech, Jr., and T. E. Hopkins.  2000.  Movements of bat rays, Myliobatis californica, in Tomales Bay, California:  Evidence for behavioral thermoregulation?  Environmental Biology of Fishes 58:173-182.

Ackerman, J. T., M. C. Kondratieff, S. A. Matern, and J. J. Cech, Jr.  2000.  Tidal influence on spatial dynamics of leopard sharks, Triakis semifasciata, in Tomales Bay, California. Environmental Biology of Fishes 58:33-43.

Feyrer, F. and S. A. Matern. 2000.  Changes in fish diets in the San Francisco Estuary following the invasion of the clam Potamocorbula amurensis.  Newsletter of the Interagency Ecological Program for the San Francisco-San Joaquin Estuary 13(4): 21-27.

Carlson, S. M. and S. A. Matern.  2000.  Mysid shrimps in Suisun Marsh.  Newsletter of the Interagency Ecological Program for the San Francisco-San Joaquin Estuary 13(4): 16-21.

Matern, S. A.  1999.  The invasion of the shimofuri goby (Tridentiger bifasciatus) into California: establishment, potential for spread, and likely effects.  Ph. D. Dissertation.  University of California, Davis, California. 167 pages.

Matern, S. A.  1997.  Suisun Marsh fish trends.  Newsletter of the Interagency Ecological Program for the San Francisco-San Joaquin Estuary 10(2):30-31.

Matern, S. A. and K. J. Fleming.  1995.  Invasion of a third Asian goby, Tridentiger bifasciatus, into California.  California Fish and Game 81(2):71-76.

Brown, L. R., S. A. Matern, and P. B. Moyle.  1995.  Comparative ecology of prickly sculpin, Cottus asper, and coastrange sculpin, C. aleuticus, in the Eel River, California. Environmental Biology of Fishes 42:329-343.

Matern, S. A.  1994.  A third Asian goby found in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary. Newsletter of the Interagency Ecological Program for the San Francisco-San Joaquin Estuary 7(3):4.

Publications in preparation:

Matern, S. A. and D. M. Corcoran. Behavioral interactions between the shimofuri goby (Tridentiger bifasciatus) and Harris’ mud crab (Rhithropanopeus harrisii), two non-native species in the San Francisco Estuary.

Abstracts and presentations:

Moyle, P. B., S. A. Matern, and R. E. Schroeter. 2001. The ever-changing status of native and alien fishes in the San Francisco Estuary. Presented at the Fifth Biennial State of the Estuary Conference, San Francisco, California.

Grimaldo, L., and S. A. Matern.  2001.  Improving native fish communities through breached levee restoration: can the opportunities meet expectations?  Presented at the California-Nevada/Humboldt Chapter Meeting, American Fisheries Society, Santa Rosa, California.

Matern, S. A.  2000.  The invasion of the shimofuri goby (Tridentiger bifasciatus) into California: establishment, potential for spread, and likely effects.  Presented at San Francisco State University - Romberg Tiburon Center, Tiburon, California.

Matern, S. A., and P. B. Moyle.  1999.  The recent invasion of the shimofuri goby (Tridentiger bifasciatus) into California:  establishment, potential for spread, and likely effects. Presented at the Fourth Biennial State of the Estuary Conference, San Francisco, California.

Matern, S. A., J. J. Cech, Jr., and T. E. Hopkins.  1996.  Diel movements of bat rays in Tomales Bay:  Evidence for behavioral thermoregulation.  Presented at the California-Nevada Chapter Meeting, American Fisheries Society, Ventura, California.

Moyle, P. B. and S. A. Matern. 1996.  Fish invasions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin estuary: past, present, future.  Presented at the Third Biennial State of the Estuary Conference, San Francisco, California.

Swenson, R. O. and S. A. Matern.  1995.  Interactions between two estuarine gobies, the endangered tidewater goby (Eucyclogobius newberryi) and a recent Delta invader, the shimofuri goby (Tridentiger bifasciatus).  Presented at the California-Nevada Chapter Meeting, American Fisheries Society, Napa, California.

Matern, S. A., L. R. Brown, and P. B. Moyle.  1993.  Diet analysis of two species of sculpins, Cottus asper and C. aleuticus, in the Eel River, California.  Presented at the Fourth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, Davis, California.