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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: Fiorenza Micheli: The race to save the ocean
Description: A marine scientist travels the world to understand whether and how the ocean will respond to climate change, overfishing and other challenges.
Fiorenza “Fio” Micheli grew up on the Mediterranean Sea, where she fell in love with the ocean and made it the object of her scientific career. Now a marine ecologist and co-director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions, her research spans the spectrum of marine science.
She has studied the overfishing of sharks and how their absence affects coral reef ecosystems; she has explored the influence of marine protected areas on biodiversity below the waves; she has studie...