Mike VecchioneNOAA, NMFS Adjunct Scientist
National Systematics Lab

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  Smithsonian Institution
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  Smithsonian Institution
  National Museum of Natural History
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  Washington, DC 20560-0163
  

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:
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

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.

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

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.

Young, R. E., Lindgren, A. and Vecchione, Michael 2008. Mastigoteuthis microlucens, a new species of the squid family Mastigoteuthidae (Mollusca : Cephalopoda). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 121(2): 276-282.

Shigeno, S., Sasaki, T., Moritaki, T., Kasugai, T., Vecchione, Michael and Agata, K. 2008. Evolution of the cephalopod head complex by assembly of multiple molluscan body parts: Evidence from Nautilus embryonic development. Journal of Morphology, 269(1): 1-17.

Bergstad, O. A., Falkenhaug, T., Astthorsson, O. S., Byrkjedal, I., Gebruk, A. V., Piatkowski, U., Priede, I. G., Santos, R. S., Vecchione, Michael, Lorance, P. and Gordon, J. D. M. 2008. Towards improved understanding of the diversity and abundance patterns of the mid-ocean ridge macro- and megafauna. Deep-Sea Research. Part II, Topical Studies in Oceanography, 55(1-2): 1-5.

Felley, J. D., Vecchione, Michael and Wilson, R. R. 2008. Small-scale distribution of deep-sea demersal nekton and other megafauna in the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Deep-Sea Research. Part II, Topical Studies in Oceanography, 55(1-2): 153-160.

Unger, M.A., Harvey, E., Vadas, G.G. and Vecchione, M. 2008. Persistent pollutants in nine species of deep-sea cephalopods. Marine pollution bulletin, 56(8): 1498-1500.



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