Today I will be speaking with marine ecologist Fiorenza Micheli, who has led a highly decorated career in the marine sciences over the last several decades.

She is currently a professor of marine science at Stanford University, where she is also the co-director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions. Her work takes place around the world, from near her childhood home in the Mediterranean, all the way to the south pacific, but her home base is at Stanford University’s facilities in Monterey, CA at Hopkins Marine Station. Over the past thirty years she has combined field work strategies with creative analytical approaches taking advantage of long term datasets compiled through collaborations with fishermen and diver networks to create an astounding body of work, which any marine ecologist would aspire to emulate.

She was awarded a Pew Fellowship in 2009 to study human stressors on Mediterranean reef ecosystems, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and keynote speaker appointments. She has led a fascinating career studying ecosystems under shifting environmental conditions, and has done groundbreaking work in the effects of carbon dioxide vents on ecosystem diversity among other pressing and ongoing changes to reef ecosystems worldwide.

Give it up for Fiorenza Micheli.

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