Fiorenza Micheli, Stanford University
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Stanford, California
micheli@stanford.edu
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(831) 655-6251
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Fiorenza Micheli is a marine ecologist and conservation biologist conducting research and teaching at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, in California, USA, where she is Professor of Biology. Her research focuses on the processes shaping marine communities, and incorporating this ...
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Fiorenza Micheli is a marine ecologist and conservation biologist conducting research and teaching at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, in California, USA, where she is Professor of Biology. Her research focuses on the processes shaping marine communities, and incorporating this understanding in the management and conservation of marine ecosystems. Current research focuses on responses of marine communities to climate change, and on the function of marine protected areas and other conservation and adaptation strategies in the face of climate impacts. She is the PI on the project “Enhancing resilience of coastal ecosystems and human communities to oceanographic variability: social and ecological feedbacks” funded by the National Science Foundation Coupled Natural-Human Systems. She received her undergraduate degree in natural sciences from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1988, and a PhD in marine sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, in 1995. Between 1996-1999 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, in Santa Barbara. She has conducted research in Italy, east Africa, Australia, the Bahamas, Mexico, California, and the Pacific Line Islands, in a suite of marine ecosystems including mangrove forests, seagrass beds, salt marshes, rocky reefs, coral reefs, pelagic systems, and deep sea hydrothermal vents. Professor Micheli has authored or co-authored 120 peer-reviewed publications, which have been cited 8299 times with an h-index of 41, according to Google Scholar. She is a fellow of the California Academy of Science and the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, a Pew fellow in marine conservation, and past president of the Western Society of Naturalists.
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