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Vecchione
Michael Vecchione
National Marine Fisheries Service
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Vecchione on right |
Michael Vecchione
was born in a town called Neptune and went to sea at 16 as cabin
boy on a three-masted schooner. He studied biology at the University
of Miami, graduating in 1972, and then spent four and a half
years as a U.S. Army officer. He has been working on squids,
octopods, and their relatives since grad school at the College
of William and Mary. After receiving the Ph.D degree there in
1979, he worked briefly for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
before accepting a faculty position at McNeese State University.
In 1986 he moved to a NOAA laboratory located at the Smithsonian's
Natural History Museum, where he is an Adjunct Scientist. He
has been Director of the lab since 1997 and is an Adjunct Professor
at William and Mary. Mike is an AAAS Fellow and Past-President
of the Cephalopod International Advisory Council. His polar
expeditions includes three Antarctic research cruises and one
in the Arctic and he has published several scientific papers
on polar marine biology.
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