Fiorenza Micheli Ph.D.

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Stanford University

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We are in an era of unprecedented need and opportunity for the ocean.

I investigate the impact climate drivers, production subsidies and trophic cascades have on reef fish assemblages in the British Indian Ocean Territory Marine Protected Area.

I have been the principal investigator of this project since 2018, on a grant from the Bertarelli Foundation.

As our impact on ocean ecosystems and services is escalating, so is our ability to learn and support positive change for the ocean and those who depend on it most.

Fiorenza Micheli

Biography

2017 Present

Co-director of Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions

2014 Present

David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science (Endowed Chair)

2014 Present

Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

2010 Present

Full Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University

2008 2009

Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University

2009 2014

Affiliated Faculty, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

2001 2007

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Department, Stanford University

1995 1995

Ph.D. in Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

My Project

Coral Reef Resilience

Coral Reef Fish in the British Indian Ocean Territory

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Other interests

My research area focusses on the processes shaping marine communities as well as coastal socioecological systems, and incorporating this understanding in marine management and conservation.

Additionaly, my research group investigates the climatic impacts of coastal hypoxia and ocean acidification on marine species and communities, marine predators’ ecology and trophic cascades, the dynamics and sustainability of small-scale fisheries, as well as the design and function of Marine Protected Areas. We investigate worldwide, from Italy to Palau via Mexico, BIOT and California.