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PROCESS & AWARDS
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BACKGROUND & TIMELINE

Fiorenza Micheli, Ph.D.
Professor
Stanford University
Hopkins Marine Station
Hopkins Marine Station
Oceanview Blvd.
Pacific Grove, CA 93950-3094
USA
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1995 - Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Undergraduate Degree, University of Florence
1988 - Natural Sciences, Florence, Italy
TEACHING & PUBLIC SPEAKING
Annual Meeting
2008 - American Society for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Boston, Massachusetts
Invited speaker in symposia on “Where in the world are the last marine pristine ecosystems?” and “Marine reserves: are the investments paying off?”

Peter Yodzis Colloquium in Fundamental Ecology
2006 - Universtiy of Guelph, Canada
Keynote speaker

Annual Meeting
2004 - Ecological Society of Italy, Siena, Italy
Keynote speaker

Annual Meeting
2004 - Society for Conservation Biology, New York, NY
Symposium on “Sea of Cortez: bi-national Science and Conservation in the Aquarium of the World”.

European Union Workshop "Towards the Co-ordination of Scientific Research in Marine Protected Areas"
2002 - European Union, Rome, Italy
Invited speaker.
KEY AWARDS & HONORS
Alden H. and Winifred Brown Faculty Fellow
2005

Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow
2004

Hellman Faculty Scholar
2003 - Stanford University

Post-doctoral Fellowship
1996 - National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)

On-campus Dissertation Fellowship
1995 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Scholarship for graduate studies
1990 - Fulbright Program

Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award
1989 - Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia
ASSOCIATIONS
The Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Honorary Society, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Member
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Halpern, B., S. Walbridge, K. Selkoe, C. Kappel, F. Micheli, C. D’Agrosa, J. Bruno, K. Casey, C Ebert, H Fox, R. Fujita, D. Heinemann, H. Lenihan, E. Madin, M. Perry, E. Selig, M. Spalding, R. Steneck, and R. Watson. 2008. A global map of human impact on marine ecosystems. Science 319: 948-952.

Micheli, F., G. Shester and S. Lluch-Cota. 2008. Linking biophysical and socioeconomic processes in coastal marine ecosystems of Baja California, Mexico. Technical Report. 51 pp.

Halpern, B. S., K. A. Selkoe, F. Micheli, C. V. Kappel. 2007. Evaluating and ranking the vulnerability of marine ecosystems to anthropogenic threats. Conservation Biology 21: 1301-1315.

Stevenson C., L. Katz, F. Micheli, B. Block, K. Heiman, C. Perle, K. Weng, R. Dunbar, J. Witting. 2007. High apex predator biomass in remote Pacific islands. Coral Reefs 26: 47-51.

Mumby, P.J., C. P. Dahlgren, A. R. Harborne, C. V. Kappel, F. Micheli, D. R. Brumbaugh, K. E. Holmes, J. M. Mendes, K. Broad, J. N. Sanchirico, K. Buch, S. Box, R.W. Stoffle, A. B. Gill. 2006. Fishing, trophic cascades, and the process of grazing on coral reefs. Science 311: 98-101.

Worm, B., E. B. Barbier, N. Beaumont, J. E. Duffy, C. Folke, B. S. Halpern, J.B.C. Jackson, H. K. Lotze, F. Micheli, S. Palumbi, E. Sala, K. A. Selkoe, J. J. Stachowicz, R. Watson. 2006. Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services. Science 314: 787-790.

Micheli, F., and B. S. Halpern. 2005. Low functional redundancy in coastal marine assemblages. Ecology Letters 8: 391-400.

Micheli, F., L. Benedetti-Cecchi, S. Gambaccini, I. Bertocci, C. Borsini, G. C. Osio, and F. Romano. 2005. Cascading human impacts, marine protected areas, and the structure of Mediterranean reef assemblages. Ecol. Monogr. 75: 81-102.

Micheli, F., Amarasekare, A., Bascompte, J. And Gerber, L. R. 2004. Including species interactions in the design and evaluation of marine reserves: some insights from a predator-prey model. Bull. Mar. Sci. 74: 653-669.

Micheli, F., B. S. Halpern, L. W. Botsford, and R. R. Warner. 2004. Trajectories and correlates of community change in no-take marine reserves. Ecol. Appl. 14: 1709-1723.

Botsford L. W., Micheli F. and Hastings A. 2003. Principles for the design of marine reserves. Ecol. Appl. S13: 25-31.

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