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MICHAEL HALL GRAHAM
Associate Professor
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
8272 Moss Landing Road
Moss Landing, Ca. 95039
office: (831) 771-4481
lab: (831) 771-4421
fax: (831) 632-4403
email: mgraham@mlml.calstate.edu

 

EDUCATION

2000

Doctor of Philosophy in Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography , University of California San Diego
Supervisor: Dr. Paul K. Dayton

1995 Master of Science in Marine Science
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories , San Jose State University
Supervisor: Dr. Michael S. Foster
1992 Bachelor of Arts in Aquatic Biology and Geography
University of California Santa Barbara


EXPERIENCE

2007-pres. Associate Professor of Marine Ecology, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San Jose State University

2003-2007

Assistant Professor of Marine Ecology, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San Jose State University

2003-pres. Collaborating investigator, Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones (CEAZA)

2001-2002

University of California Faculty Fellow , U.C. Davis. Supervisor: Dr. Richard K. Grosberg

2001-2002

National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, Working Group: Long-Term Ecological Records of Marine Environments, Populations and Communities (Leader: Dr. Jeremy B. C. Jackson)

2001-2002

Lecturer, U.C. Davis (Marine Ecology)

2000

Lecturer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Statistical Techniques)

2000

Scientific Consultant, Pixar Animation Studios Finding Nemo(PDF)

1999-2000

Statistical Consultant, Cabrillo National Monument

1997-2000

Guest Lecturer, U.C. San Diego/Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Benthic Ecology, Marine Ecology), University of San Diego (Oceanography), Hawaii Pacific University (Ecology)

1995-2000

Dissertation, Planktonic patterns and processes in the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (PDF)

1997

Teaching Assistant, U.C. San Diego (Marine Ecology)

1994-1996

Research Assistant, Monterey Bay Aquarium , Life Science Research Division, Population dynamics of giant kelp

1994-1995

Teaching Assistant, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (Quantitative Marine Science and Sampling & Experimental Design)

1992-1995

Masters Thesis, Regulation of the shallow limit of giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, at three sites along the Monterey Peninsula

1991-1992

Research Assistant, U.C. Santa Barbara, Mate selection in Xiphophorus spp.

1991

Research Assistant, University of Maine, Behavioral ecology of American lobster


GRANTS

2008-2012 NSF #0752523. Effects of ocean climate change on recruitment of kelp populations. $571,027 (PI, w/C. Harley)
2008-2011 NOAA/ California Sea Grant. Seaweed strain selection and preservation to optimize harvest yields for abalone culture. $301,479 (PI)
2006-2008 NOAA/ California Sea Grant. Integrated culture of seaweeds and red abalone in Monterey Harbor. $239,387 (PI)

2005

NOAA/ California Sea Grant. Development of rope-culture methods for red seaweed aquaculture in California. $9,993 (PI)

2004-2006 EPA: Development of a regional monitoring program for central California wetlands. $180,500 (co-PI w/ R. Burton)

2004-2008

NSF #0351778. Collaborative Research: Biodiversity and ecosystem function in seaweed communities. $266,489 (PI, collaborative grant w/ J. Stachowicz)

2003-2004 NSF #0407937. US-Chile: Planning visit to incorporate Chilean kelp forests into study of kelp life history evolution. $5,241 (PI)

2003-2006

NSF #0320972. MRI/RUI: Acquisition of a high-speed digital motion analysis system for studying multi-scale interactions in a fluid environment. $196,195 (PI, w/ L. Ferry-Graham, J. Geller)

2001-2002

NOAA/ California Sea Grant: Reproductive biology of Undaria pinnatifida , a seaweed recently introduced to southern California: assessing the potential for establishment and spread. $9,916 (PI w/ J. Stachowicz, C. Thornber)

2001-2002

NSF #0120789: Integrative approaches to natural history. $10,950 (PI w/ S. Gilman)

2000-2001

NSF #0087359: Natural history in the 21st century: A student symposium. $9,250 (co-PI w/ P. Dayton)

1998-2000

NOAA/California Sea Grant #R/CZ-141: Effect of spore abundance on recruitment and maintenance of subtidal kelps. $100,654 (co-PI w/ P. Dayton)


FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2008-pres

California Academy of Sciences, Fellow

2005

Young Investigator of the Year, SJSU Foundation

2001

Best Published Paper (2nd out of 80), MarinAlg Best Paper Competition (for Graham and Mitchell 1999)

2000

Best Student Paper, Western Society of Naturalists Annual Meeting

1999

E. W. Fager Award for contributions in quantitative ecology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

1995-1997

Cota-Robles Fellowship, University of California


UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2003-pres.

Governing Board member, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

2003-pres.

Diving Control Board (chair), Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

1998-2000

Diving Control Board, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

1998-1999

Editorial and Publications Committee, Scripps Institution of Oceanography


PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2009 Local Chair, Western Society of Naturalists
2006-2010 Associate Editor, Ecology/Ecological Monographs.
2006-2010 Associate Editor, Journal of Phycology.
2006-2010 Editorial Board, Botanica Marina.
2006-2009 Editorial Board, Journal of Phycology.
2006-2008 Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Ecology (Elsevier).

2004-2005

Local Chair, Western Society of Naturalists

2002-pres.

Editorial Advisory Staff, Marine Ecology Progress Series

2000

Workshop Coordinator (w/ M. S. Foster): Variability and scale. 5th Temperate Reef Symposium. Capetown South Africa.

1999, 2001

Nomination Committee, Western Society of Naturalists

1999

Symposium Organizer: Fundamental principles in ecology. Western Society of Naturalists Annual Meeting. Monterey, California.

 

Reviewed manuscripts for:

Reviewed grants for:

American Naturalist

National Science Foundation (USA)

Botanica Marina

National Research Council (Canada)

Ecological Applications

National Research Foundation (South Africa)

Ecology

National Geographic Society

Global Change Biology

California Sea Grant

Journal of Applied Phycology

Journal of Ecology

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Journal of Phycology

Marine Biology

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Oikos


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Society of Limnologists and Oceanographers

Ecological Society of America

International Seaweed Association

Phycological Society of America

Sigma Xi

Western Society of Naturalists


PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed Journal/Book Publications

Stachowicz, JJ, RJ Best, MES Bracken, MH Graham. 2008. Complementarity in marine biodiversity manipulations: reconciling divergent evidence from field and mesocosm experiments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (in press).

Stachowicz, JJ, MH Graham, MES Bracken, AI Szoboszlai. 2008. Diversity enhances cover and stability of seaweed assemblages: the importance of environmental heterogeneity and experimental duration. Ecology (in press).

Graham MH, BS Halpern, MH Carr. 2008. Diversity and dynamics of Californian subtidal kelp forests. Pp. 103-134 in McClanahan, TR and GR Branch (eds), Food Webs and the Dynamics of Marine Benthic Ecosystems, Oxford University Press. (PDF)

Rick, TC, JM Erlandson, TJ Barje, JA Estes, MH Graham, RL Vellanoweth. 2008. Historical ecology and human impacts on coastal ecosystems of the Santa Barbara Channel region, California. Pp. 77-102 in, Rick, TC and JM Erlandson (eds), Human impacts on ancient marine ecosystems: a global perspective, University of California Press.

Graham, MH. 2007. Sea-level change, effects on coastlines. Deny, MW and SD Gaines (eds), Encyclopedia of Tidepools, University of California Press, pp. 497-498.

Erlandson, JM, MH Graham, RS Steneck, JA Estes, BJ Bourque, and D Corbett. 2007. Peopling the Americas via a kelp highway. Journal of Island and Coastal Archeology 161-174. (PDF)

Graham, MH, BP Kinlan, LD Druehl, LE Garske and S Banks. 2007. Deep-water kelp refugia as potential hotspots of tropical marine diversity and productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104:16576-16580 (PDF available from authors; click here to listen to NPR report).

Graham, MH, JA Vasquez and AH Buschmann. 2007. Global ecology of the giant kelp Macrocystis: from ecotypes to ecosystems. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review 45:39-88 (PDF available from authors).

Hernandez-Carmona, G, B Hughes, and MH Graham. 2006. Reproductive longevity of drifting kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (Phaeophyceae) in Monterey Bay, USA. Journal of Phycology 42:1199-1207 (PDF).

Kinlan BP, MH Graham, JM Erlandson. 2005. Late Quaternary changes in the size and shape of the California Channel Islands: implications for marine subsidies to terrestrial communities. Proceedings of the California Islands Symposium (PDF).

Erlandson, JM, TC Rick, JA Estes, MH Graham, TJ Braje, RL Vellanoweth. 2005. Sea otters, shellfish, and humans: a 10,000 year record from San Miguel island, California. Proceedings of the California Islands Symposium (PDF).

Munoz, V, MC Hernandez-Gonzalez, AH Buschmann, MH Graham, and JA Vasquez. 2004. Variability in per capita oogonia and sporophyte production from giant kelp gametophytes (Macrocystis pyrifera, Phaeophyceae). Revista Chilena De Historia Natural 77: 639-647 (PDF)

Graham, MH. 2004. Effects of local deforestation of the diversity and structure of southern California giant kelp forest food webs. Ecosystems 7:341-357 (PDF)

Thornber, CS, BP Kinlan, MH Graham, and JJ Stachowicz. 2004. Population ecology of the invasive kelp Undaria pinnatifida in California: environmental and biological controls on demography. Marine Ecology Progress Series 268:69-80 (PDF)

Graham, MH. 2003. Confronting multicollinearity in ecological multiple regression. Ecology 84:2809-2815 (PDF).

Graham, MH. 2003. Coupling propagule output to supply at the edge and interior of a giant kelp forest. Ecology 85:1250-1264 (PDF).

Kinlan, BP, MH Graham, E Sala, and PK Dayton. 2003. Arrested development of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera, Phaeophyceae) embryonic sporophytes: a mechanism for delayed recruitment in perennial kelps? Journal of Phycology 39:1-12 (PDF).

Graham, MH, PK Dayton, and JM Erlandson. 2003. Ice-ages and ecological transitions on temperate coasts. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18:33-40 (PDF).

Steneck, RS, MH Graham, BJ Bourque, D Corbett, JM Erlandson, JA Estes, and MJ Tegner. 2002. Kelp forest ecosystems: biodiversity, stability, resilience and their future. Environmental Conservation 29:436-459 (PDF).

Graham, MH, PK Dayton, and MA Hixon (editors). 2002. Paradigms in Ecology: Past, Present, and Future. Special Feature in Ecology 83:1479-1480 (PDF).

Graham, MH and PK Dayton. 2002. On the evolution of ecological ideas: paradigms and scientific progress. Ecology 83:1481-1489 (PDF).

Graham, MH. 2002. Prolonged reproductive consequences of short-term biomass loss in seaweeds. Marine Biology 140:901-911 (PDF).

Sala, E and MH Graham. 2002. Community-wide distribution of predator-prey interaction strength in kelp forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99:3678-3683 (PDF).

Graham, MH and MS Edwards. 2001. Statistical significance vs. fit: estimating relative importance of individual factors in ecological analysis of variance. Oikos 93:505-513 (PDF).

Graham, MH. 1999. Identification of kelp zoospores from in situ plankton samples. Marine Biology 135:709-720 (PDF).

Graham, MH and BG Mitchell. 1999. Obtaining absorption spectra from individual macroalgal spores using microphotometry. Hydrobiologia 398/399:231-239 (PDF).

Graham, MH. 1999. Where will all the PhDs go? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 5:208 (PDF).

Graham, MH. 1997. Factors determining the upper limit of giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, along the Monterey Peninsula, central California, USA. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 218:127-149 (PDF).

Graham, MH, Harrold, C, Lisin, S, Light, K, Watanabe, J, and MS Foster. 1997. Population dynamics of Macrocystis pyrifera along a wave exposure gradient. Marine Ecology Progress Series 148:269-279 (PDF).

Graham, MH. 1996. Effect of high irradiance on recruitment of the giant kelp, Macrocystis (Phaeophyta), to shallow water. Journal of Phycology 32:903-906 (PDF).


In review:

Graham, MH, BP Kinlan, and RK Grosberg. Late-Quaternary climate forcing of southern California kelp forests. Submitted to Ecology Letters.


Books

In preparation:

Graham, MH, J Parker, and PK Dayton. Viewing Nature from the Shoulders of Giants: Readings in Natural History. To be published by University of Chicago Press.


Non peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

Graham, MH and BP Kinlan. 2004. Effects of climate change on kelp distributions and productivity. Pp. 22-26 in: Kim, N. and G.H. Kim (eds.), Proceedings of International Symposium on Construction of Seaweed Forests. The Korean Society of Phycology, Daejeon, Korea.


PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

Graham, MH., A Szoboszlai, M Bracken, J Stachowicz. 2006. Algal diversity manipulations: How do seaweeds structure rocky shores? Journal of Phycology 42 (Supplement):2

Graham, MH. 2004. Predicting past and future effects of climate change on kelp distribution and productivity. Proceedings of the XVIII International Seaweed Symposium. Bergen, Norway.

Graham, MH. 2003. Ice age kelp forests: Climate-driven changes in kelp forest distribution since the last glacial maximum. Journal of Phycology 39 (Supplement):19.

Thornber, CS, BP Kinlan, MH Graham, and JJ Stachowicz. 2002. Invasion ecology of the Japanese alga Undaria pinnatifida in California. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts 87:282.

Graham, MH. 2002. Climate-driven changes in kelp forest distribution and productivity in the Southern California Bight since the last glacial maximum. EOS Transactions 83 (Supplement):381.

Graham, MH, M Kahru, BG Mitchell, MJ Tegner, RC Zimmerman. 2000. Satellite applications in support of management of national marine sanctuaries and parks. EOS Transactions 81 (Supplement):218.

Graham, MH. 2000. The secret life of kelps: planktonic processes and population dynamics. Journal of Phycology 36 (Supplement):25.


INVITED SYMPOSIA, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Graham, MH. Temperate kelps in deep tropical waters Moss Landing Marine Labs Seminar, January 2007.

Graham, MH, A Szoboszlai, M Bracken, J Stachowicz. Algal diversity manipulations: How do seaweeds structure rocky shores?. Presented in: Changing coastal oceans: a challenge to phycologists at Phycological Society of America Annual Meeting. Juneau, Alaska, July 2006

Graham, MH. Life history evolution and the dynamics of kelp populations. Bodega Marine Labs Seminar, July 2005, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Ecology Seminar, July 2005, and San Jose State University October 2005.

Graham, MH and BP Kinlan. Effects of climate change on kelp distributions and productivity. Presented at: International Symposium on Construction of Seaweed Forests. Gangneung, Korea, September 2004.

Graham, MH. Predicting past and future effects of climate change on kelp distribution and productivity. Presented in: Kelp ecology and global environmental change at International Seaweed Symposium. Bergen, Norway, June 2004.

Graham, MH. Ice age kelp forests: climate-driven changes in kelp forest distribution since the last glacial maximum. Presented in: Changing coastal oceans: a challenge to phycologists at Phycological Society of America Annual Meeting. Glendenen Beach, Oregon, June 2003.

Graham, MH. Foundation species and the dynamics of natural communities: a kelp forest case study. UC Santa Cruz Ecology Seminar, May 2002 and Bodega Marine Labs Seminar, May 2002.

Graham, MH. Kelps as foundation species: from population to community dynamics. Moss Landing Marine Labs Ecology Seminar, April 2002.

Graham, MH. Contemporary and historical processes in kelp population and community dynamics. University of Washington, Zoology Department Seminar , April 2001 and UC Davis, Center for Population Biology Seminar , April 2001.

Graham, MH. Contemporary and historical processes in kelp population dynamics. San Diego State University, Ecology Seminar, February 2001 and Moss Landing Marine Labs Ecology Seminar, March 2001.

Graham, MH. The secret life of kelps: planktonic processes and population dynamics. Presented in: Ecology of big brown algae at Phycological Society of America Annual Meeting. San Diego, California, July 2000.

Graham, MH. Symposium Organizer: Fundamental principles in ecology. Western Society of Naturalists Annual Meeting. Monterey, California, December 1999.


PUBLIC OUTREACH

Graham, MH. Invited speaker. Understanding the functional role of seaweed’s in nearshore marine systems. Annual Board Meeting, San Jose State University Foundation, September 22, 2005.

Graham, MH. Public seminar. Diversity benefits from the bottom up: how seaweeds structure rocky shores. Friends of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, September 16, 2005.

Graham, MH. Public seminar. Wakame: a kelp invasion of Monterey Harbor. Open House, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, April 27, 2003.

Graham, MH. Invited speaker. Current health of California’s kelp forests. Annual retreat of US Congressman Sam Farr and Associates, January 29, 2004.

Graham, MH. Ocean Day Presentation, Miss Barbara’s Child Development Center (pre-Kindergarten, Spring 2004

Graham, MH. Kelp invasions. NPR-KCLU story on Undaria invasion in Santa Barbara harbor. KCLU 102.3 FM. Santa Barbara, California, July 3, 2003. Digital recordings of the 6 minute NPR story. (MP3; 7.5 MB). This is not a streaming file. To listen, Save Link Target As to your computer.

Graham, MH. Kelp forests in motion: the struggle for survival in a turbulent environment. Meet the Scientist Lecture: Stephen-Birch Aquarium . La Jolla, California, May 1998.

 

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