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Anthony Michaels Joins NCSE Board of Directors
February 24, 2004--Dr. Anthony (Tony) Michaels, Director of the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology at the University of Southern California, has joined the Board of Directors of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE). Dr. Michaels played a key role in the formation of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD), the nation's first professional association for leaders of interdisciplinary academic environmental programs, for which NCSE serves as secretariat. He served as the first CEDD President from December of 2001 until January, 2003.
Dr. Michaels conducts research on the role of ocean biology in global biogeochemical cycles and on a variety of environmental science topics at the interface between human activities and the natural world. As Director of the University of Southern California (USC) Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, he supervises a research unit that integrates marine and environmental programs in departments across the university. The Wrigley Institute strives to make its research relevant and usable to decisionmakers in business and society.
Before moving to USC, Dr. Michaels was a researcher at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, where he helped develop an ocean time-series program to research the link between climate and the way that oceans influence greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. He also helped initiate a program to link academic scientists studying climate with the property insurance industry.
NCSE Board Chair Dr. Stephen Hubbell stated, “I am delighted to welcome Tony Michaels to the Board. He brings tremendous talent, vision, energy and leadership. In addition, having served as the founding President of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors, Tony provides a strong link between the NCSE Board and CEDD, our key partnership program with the environmental leaders on campus.�
Dr. Michaels earned his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona.
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