Mike VecchioneNOAA, NMFS Adjunct Scientist
National Systematics Lab

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  National Museum of Natural History
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Responsibilities: Research Zoologist, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service National Systematics Laboratory

Education:


University of Miami, B.S., 1972.
College of William and Mary (Biological Oceanography), Ph.D., 1979.

Recent Publications:
Guerra, Ángel, Portela, Julio M., Roura, Álvaro, Río, José,Luis del and Vecchione, Michael 2012. Morphological variability of the rare bush-club squid Batoteuthis (Cephalopoda, Batoteuthidae)?. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 266(1): 77-83. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0267

Hoving, H. J. T. and Vecchione, M. 2012. Mating Behavior of a Deep-Sea Squid Revealed by in situ Videography and the Study of Archived Specimens. The Biological bulletin, 223(3): 263-267.

Strugnell, J. M., Cherel, Y., Cooke, I. R., Gleadall, I. G., Hochberg, F. G., Ibanez, C. M., Jorgensen, E., Laptikhovsky, V. V., Linse, K., Norman, M., Vecchione, Michael, Voight, J. R. and Allcock, A. L. 2011. The Southern Ocean: Source and Sink?. Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 58(1-2): 196-204. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.05.015

Vecchione, Michael, Young, Richard E. and Piatkowski, Uwe 2010. Cephalopods of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Marine Biology Research, 6(1): 25-52. doi:10.1080/17451000902810751

Judkins, Heather L., Vecchione, Michael, Roper, Clyde F. E. and Torres, Joseph 2010. Cephalopod species richness in the wider Caribbean region. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67(7): 1392-1400.

Shea, Elizabeth K. and Vecchione, Michael 2010. Ontogenic changes in diel vertical migration patterns compared with known allometric changes in three mesopelagic squid species suggest an expanded definition of a paralarva. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67(7): 1436-1443.

Ramirez-Llodra, E., Brandt, A., Danovaro, R., De Mol, B., Escobar, E., German, C. R., Levin, L. A., Arbizu, P. Martinez, Menot, L., Buhl-Mortensen, P., Narayanaswamy, B. E., Smith, C. R., Tittensor, D. P., Tyler, P. A., Vanreusel, A. and Vecchione, Michael 2010. Deep, diverse and definitely different: unique attributes of the world's largest ecosystem. Biogeosciences, 7(9): 2851-2899. doi:10.5194/bg-7-2851-2010

Vecchione, Michael, Allcock, Louise, Piatkowksi, Uwe, Jorgensen, Elaina and Barratt, Iain 2009. Persistent Elevated Abundance of Octopods in an Overfished Antarctic Area. In: Krupnik, Igor, Lang, Michael A. and Miller, Scott E., Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year Science.(IPY) pp.197-204.

Judkins, H. L., Vecchione, Michael and Roper, Clyde F. E. 2009. Cephalopoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, Darryl L. and Camp, David K., Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters and Biota Vol. 1, Biodiversity. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, pp.701-710.



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