Fiorenza Micheli

David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science, Professor of Oceans, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Biology
Department:
Oceans
Fiorenza Micheli
Fiorenza Micheli is co-director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions, and a marine ecologist at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, where she is the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science. Micheli’s research focuses on the processes shaping marine communities and coastal social-ecological systems, and incorporating this understanding in marine management and conservation. She investigates climatic impacts on marine ecosystems, particularly the impacts of hypoxia and ocean acidification on marine species, communities and fisheries, marine predators’ ecology and trophic cascades, the dynamics and sustainability of small-scale fisheries, and the design and function of Marine Protected Areas. Her current research takes her to Mexico, Italy, and Palau, in addition to California. She is a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, research advisor to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Seafood Watch and the Benioff Ocean Initiative, and senior fellow at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment.

Publications

Jorgensen, S. J., Micheli, F., White, T. D., Van Houtan, K. S., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Andrzejaczek, S., … Ferretti, F. (2022). Emergent research and priorities for shark and ray conservation. ENDANGERED SPECIES RESEARCH, 47, 171–203.
2022
Lee, J., Gambi, M. C., Kroeker, K. J., Munari, M., Peay, K., & Micheli, F. (2022). Resilient consumers accelerate the plant decomposition in a naturally acidified seagrass ecosystem. Global Change Biology.
2022
Low, N. H., Micheli, F., Aguilar, J. D., Arce, D. R., Boch, C. A., Bonilla, J. C., … Woodson, C. B. (2021). Variable coastal hypoxia exposure and drivers across the southern California Current. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 10929.
2021
Beas-Luna, R., Micheli, F., Woodson, C. B., Carr, M., Malone, D., Torre, J., … Torres-Moye, G. (2020). Geographic variation in responses of kelp forest communities of the California Current to recent climatic changes. Global Change Biology.
2020
Arafeh-Dalmau, N., Schoeman, D. S., Montano-Moctezuma, G., Micheli, F., Rogers-Bennett, L., Olguin-Jacobson, C., & Possingham, H. P. (2020). Marine heat waves threaten kelp forests. Science (New York, N.Y.), 367(6478), 635.
2020
Krumhans, K. A., Okamoto, D. K., Rassweiler, A., Novak, M., Bolton, J. J., Cavanaugh, K. C., … Byrnese, J. E. K. (2016). Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 113(48), 13785–90.
2016
Stock, A., & Micheli, F. (2016). Effects of model assumptions and data quality on spatial cumulative human impact assessments. GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY, 25(11), 1321–32.
2016

Contact

Telephone
(831) 655-6251

Research Interests