USC Wrigley Institute | Anthony Michaels

Curriculum Vitae:
Anthony Francis Michaels

Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
Professor of Biology

USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies

University of Southern California	Wrigley Marine Science Center
Allan Hancock Foundation Building 232	Post Office Box 5069
Los Angeles, California 90089-0371	Avalon, California 90704
Phone: (213) 740-6780	Phone: (310) 510-0811
FAX: (213) 740-6720	FAX: (310) 510-1364
Email: tony@wrigley.usc.edu

Education

1976 - 1979		University of California, San Diego.
1980 - 1982		B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. With Highest Distinction and Honors
1982 - 1983		M.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.
1983 - 1988		Ph.D. in Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Postdoctoral Employment

1988		Postdoctoral Researcher with Dr. Mary Silver, University of California, Santa Cruz.
1988 - 1989		Postdoctoral Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
1989 - 1992		Assistant Research Scientist, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc.
1992 - 1996		Associate Research Scientist, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc.
1995 - 1996		Occasional Acting Director of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research
1996 - 2003		Associate Professor, Biology, University of Southern California
1996 - present		Director of the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
2003 - present		Professor, Biology, University of Southern California

Awards

McNichol Fellowship, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, 1989-1991.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Postdoctoral Scholar, 1988 - 1989.

Regents Fellowship, 1983. Regents of the University of California.

The Outstanding Senior Award, 1982. The College of Liberal Arts, University of Arizona.

Phi Beta Kappa. 1982

Professional Societies

American Geophysical Union

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

The Oceanography Society

Phycological Society of America

American Meteorological Society

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Research Interests:
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My primary research interests over the past 21 years involve the role of biological community structure in the cycling and export of organic matter from the surface ocean. In recent years, this has grown to include the study of some unique biological processes, their disproportionate influence on nutrient and carbon cycles and their relative importance on global scales. As my career has evolved to include running the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, I have been able to keep an active research program in this area. However, I have also started to add other research foci that reflect a broader set of marine and environmental interests.

Key publications:
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Karl, D. M., N. R. Bates, S. Emerson, P. J. Harrison, C. Jeandal, O. Llinas, K. K. Liu, J.-C. Marty, A. F. Michaels, J. C. Miquel, S. Neuer, Y. Nojiri and C. S. Wong,. (2003) Temporal studies of biogeochemical processes in the world's oceans during the JGOFS era. In: Ocean Biogeochemistry: The role of the Ocean Carbon Cycle in Global Change (Ed: M.J.R. Fasham), Springer-Verlag, New York. pp. 239-267

Karl, D., A.F. Michaels, B. Bergman, D. Capone, E. Carpenter, R. Letelier, F. Lipschultz, H. Paerl, D. Sigman & L. Stal. (2002) Dinitrogen fixation in the World's Oceans. Biogeochemistry 57: 47-94

Michaels, A.F., D.M. Karl and D. Capone. (2001) Element stoichiometry, new production and nitrogen fixation. Oceanography 14:68-77

Malmquist, D. L., and A.F. Michaels (2000) Severe storms and the insurance industry. In: Storms, R. A. Pielke, Jr. and R. A. Pielke, Sr. (Eds),Routledge Press.

Bates, N.R., A,H. Knap, A.F. Michaels. (1998) Contribution of hurricanes to local and global estimates of air-sea exchange of CO2. Nature 395:58-61.

Dacey, J.W.H., F.A. Howse, A.F. Michaels, and S.G. Wakeham. (1998) Temporal variability of dimethylsulfide and dimethylsulfoniopropionate in the Sargasso Sea. Deep-Sea Research 45:2085-2104.

Michaels, A.F., D. Malmquist, A.H. Knap, A. Close (1997) Climate Science and Insurance Risk. Nature 389:225-227

Michaels, A.F., D. Olson, J. Sarmiento, J. Ammerman, K. Fanning, R. Jahnke, A.H. Knap, F. Lipschultz, J. Prospero (1996) Inputs, Losses and Transformations of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in the Pelagic North Atlantic Ocean. Biogeochemistry 35:181-226.

Michaels, A.F., N.R. Bates, K.O. Buesseler, C.A. Carlson, A.H. Knap. (1994) Carbon System Imbalances in the Sargasso Sea. Nature 372:537-540

Buesseler, K.O., A.F. Michaels, D.A. Siegel, A.H. Knap. (1994). A 3-D time-dependent approach to calibrating sediment trap fluxes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 8:179-193

Michaels, A.F., D.A. Siegel, R.J. Johnson, A.H. Knap, J.N. Galloway. (1993) Episodic Inputs of Atmospheric Nitrogen to the Sargasso Sea: Contributions to New Production and Phytoplankton Blooms. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 7:339-351

Michaels, A.F. and M.W. Silver. (1988) Primary production, sinking flux and the microbial food web. Deep-Sea Research 35: 473-490.