MICHAEL PAUL MARCHETTI

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
California State University, Chico
Chico California, 95926
(530) 898-5641
mmarchetti@csuchico.edu
http://www.csuchico.edu/~sacperch/ 

 Education:

 University of California Davis, Doctor of Philosophy.  Graduate Group in Ecology,  Jan. 1999.
Advisors: Dr. Peter B. Moyle, Dr. Cathy Toft,
Research area: Interactions between native and exotic fishes in California.
Areas of Emphasis: Ichthyology, Invasion Ecology, Conservation Ecology, Larval Fish Ecology.

University of California Davis, Master of Science, Graduate Group in Ecology, June 1994.
Advisor: Dr. Peter B. Moyle
Thesis Topic: Suspended Sediment Effects on Stream Fauna.
Areas of Emphasis: Fish Ecology, Stream Biology.

Bucknell University, Lewisburg Pa., 1990, Bachelor of Arts, Biology, Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry.

Publications:

                Submitted

-Limm, M., M.P. Marchetti. 2006. Contrasting patterns of juvenile chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytschaw) growth, diet, and prey densities in off-channel and main stem habitats on the Sacramento River., Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  

                Published

 -Light, T. & M. P. Marchetti. 2006, Invasions and habitat change as drivers of diversity loss among  California’s freshwater fishes. Conservation Biology in press
 -Moyle, P. B. & M. P. Marchetti. 2006. Predicting exotic fishes in freshwater systems: freshwater fishes in California as a model. BioScience 56(6): 515-524.
 -Marchetti, M. P., J. L. Lockwood, and T.Light, 2006. Effects of urbanization on California’s fish diversity: differentiation, homogenization and the influence of spatial scale.             Biological Conservation 127(3):310-318.
-Lema, S. C. & M. J. Hodges, M. P. Marchetti, G. A. Nevitt. 2005. Proliferation zones in the salmon  telencephalon and evidence for environmental influence on proliferation rate,    Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology. Part A 141:327-335.
-Marchetti, M.P., P.B. Moyle, R. Levine 2004. Invasive species profiling: exploring the characteristics of exotic fishes across invasion stages in California. Freshwater Biology. 49:646-661.
-Marchetti, M.P., T.S. Light, P. B. Moyle, J. Viers. 2004. Invasion and extinction in California fish assemblages: testing hypotheses using landscape patterns. Ecological Applications. 14(5):1507-1525.
-Esteban, E., M.P. Marchetti. 2004. What’s on the menu?  Evaluating a food availability model with young-of -the-year Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the Feather River of California Tranactions American Fisheries Society, 133:777-788.
-Marchetti, M.P., P.B. Moyle, R. Levine 2004. Alien fishes in California watersheds: characteristics of successful and failed invaders. Ecological Applications, 14(2):587-596.
-Marchetti, M.P., E. Esteban, M. Limm, R. Kurth. 2004. Does size, taxa or color matter?  Evaluating fish-larvae light trap efficiency in the Northern Sacramento River system. Pages269-280 in F. Feyer, L.R. Brown, and J. J. Orsi, Editors. Early life history of fishes in the San Francisco Estuary and watershed Transactions American Fisheries Society, Symposium 39, Bethesda MD.
-Marchetti M.P. and G.A.Nevitt, 2002. Effects of habitat enrichment on brain structures in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Environmental Biology of Fishes. 66: 9-14.
-Golet G.H, D.L. Brown, E.E. Crone, G.R. Geupel, S.E. Greco, K.D. Holl, K.A. Hoover, D.E. Jukkola, G.M. Kondolf, E.W. Larsen, F.K. Ligon, R.A. Luster, M.P. Marchetti, N..Nur, B.K. Orr, D.R. Peterson, M.E. Power, W.E. Rainey, M.D. Roberts, J.G. Silveira, S.L. Small, J.C. Vick, D.S. Wilson, and D.M. Wood. 2001. Using science to evaluate restoration efforts and ecosystem health on the Sacramento River Project, California. in PM Faber ed. Proceedings of the Riparian Habitat and Floodplains Conference. 
-Marchetti, M.P. and P.B. Moyle, 2001. Effects of flow regime and habitat structure on fish assemblages in a regulated California stream. Ecological Applications, 11(2):530-539.
-Marchetti M.P., T. S. Light, J. Feliciano, T.W. Armstrong and Z. Hogan., P.B. Moyle. 2001.  Physical Homogenization and Biotic Homogenization in Aquatic Systems.  in Lockwood J.L. and M. L. McKinney.  eds. Biotic Homogenization: The Loss of Diversity through Invasion and Extinction.
-Marchetti, M.P. and P.B. Moyle, 2000. Spatial and temporal ecology of native and introduced larval fish in Lower Putah Creek (Yolo Co. CA). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 58(1):73-87.
-Marchetti, M.P., 1999, An experimental study of competition between the native Sacramento perch (Archoplites interruptus) and introduced bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), Biological Invasions 1:55-65.
-Marchetti, M.P. 1999. Ecological Effects of Non-native Fish Species in Low Elevation Streams of the Central Valley, California. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Davis. Davis California.
-Moyle P.B., M.P. Marchetti, J. Baldridge, T.L. Taylor.,1998. Fish Health and Diversity: Justifying Instream Flows. Fisheries. 23(7):6-15.
-Moyle P.B., and M. P. Marchetti, 1998. Applications of Indices of Biotic Integrity to California streams and watersheds. in Simpson T.P., editor. Assessing the sustainability and biological integrity of water resource quality using fish assemblages. CRC press. pp. 367-380.
-Marchetti, M.P. and P.B. Moyle, 1995. Conflicting Values Complicate Stream Protection. California Agriculture, 49(6), 73-78.
-Marchetti, M.P. 1994. Suspended Sediment Effects on the Aquatic Fauna of Humbug Creek. Masters Thesis. University of California, Davis. Davis California.
-Harvey, T.E., M. Macoubrie, M.P.Marchetti, 1993. Reconnaissance Planning Report Fish and Wildlife Resource Management Options for Lower Putah Creek, CA. US Dept. of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, Sacramento CA.

News and Press articles

                - Interview with Earth and Sky (NPR Radio program 8/28/02)   (http://www.earthsky.com/2002/es020828.html)
                -"Dull Trout"  Science. vol. 289, number 5483, Aug. 25, 2000, pg. 1285.
                -"Easy Life Makes for Dull Fish"  Science Now. Aug. 16, 2000. (http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2000/816/5).
                - "Wild trout outsmart stockees"  Fly Fisherman, March, 2001      

Post-Doctoral Work

                Multivariate analysis of fish introductions and GIS data set for California
                Peter Moyle. Wildife, Fish, and Conservation Biology Dept. U.C. Davis.  1999 

                The neurobiological basis for hatchery effects in salmonids
                PI - Gabrielle Nevitt, Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior Dept. U.C. Davis.  1999-2000 

Teaching Experience: 

Associate Professor CSU Chico. 2000-Present
Teach undergraduate upper division courses in ichthyology, freshwater ecology,  non-majors undergraduate courses in conservation biology, and general biology and a graduate course in community ecology.

Teaching Assistant Consultant Fellowship. 1997-1999
A program designed to provide peer consultation and support for UC Davis teaching assistants.  Duties included,  TA orientation, interactive workshops, video consultation, one-on-one consultation and mid-quarter interviews.

Professors for the Future Fellowship. 1998-1999
A year long professional development fellowship, focused on an independent project addressing the needs of the graduate student community at UC Davis.

Program in College Teaching. 1995-1996
A year long program at UC Davis in which graduate students examine aspects of teaching as a profession, and sharpen their skills in the classroom through mentored teaching experience.

Teaching Assistant
I was a TA for various courses (14 quarters), including  ichthyology, ecology , nature and culture,  wildlife conservation, evolution and general biology.

-EPA working group on Propagule Pressure and Invasive species.  Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC. July 23-25, 2006. “What we have learned from CA fishes: a road map to the future”
-Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting, San Jose CA, June 2006. Co-led an hour long professional development workshop entitled “Teaching  non-majors Conservation”
-American Fisheries Society, CalNeva Chapter 39^th Annual Meeting, Sacramento CA, March 17-19, 2005. Watershed change promotes invasion and extinction but not homogenization in California fishes,. Contributing Authors: Marchetti, M., J. Lockwood & T. Light
-Museum Without Walls Lecture Series, California State University Chico. Oct. 2004. “Effect of flow alterations on aquatic systems in California”  Contributing Author: M. Marchetti, & M. Limm.
-Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting. NY, NY. July 2004. “Does urban development play a role in the homogenization of California’s waters?”  Contributing Authors: M. Marchetti, T. Light, J. Lockwood.
-University of Nevada Reno, Dept. Env. & Resource Science, Invited speaker. March 4, 2004, “Effect of flow alterations on aquatic systems in the West”  Contributing Author: M. Marchetti & M. Limm.
-Museum Without Walls Lecture Series, California State University Chico. Oct. 2003. “Biodiversity: what it is and why we should care”
-Wildlife Society Symposium, October 2003, Sacramento CA: Accidental and Purposeful Introductions of Animals: Investigating Species Interactions at different Trophic Levels. Title: "Exotic fishes in California: characteristics of success and failure" Contributing Authors: M. Marchetti, P.B. Moyle, R. Levine
-Society for Neuroscience, November 2003, New Orleans: Environmental rearing conditions produced differences in relative brain size in wild Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha Contributing Authors: R. Kihslinger; A. Alvarado; M. Hodges; I. Silverman; S. Lema; M. Marchetti; P. Swanson; G. Nevitt
-27^th Annual Larval Fish Confrence, Santa Cruz, CA. Aug. 2003. Evaluating aspects of larval light trap bias and specificity in the Northern Sacramento River system: Do size and color matter? Contributing Authors: M. Marchetti, M. Limm, E. Esteban, R. Kurth
-Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting, Duluth MN. July 2003, Homogenization of the fishes of California: scale dependance and future trends.  Contributing authors: M. Marchetti, J. Lockwood, P. Moyle
-UC Santa Cruz, Department of Environmental Studies. Nov. 25, 2002. Why area there so many aliens around here? Patterns of fish invasion across California.
-Plenary Session, American Fisheries Society, California-Nevada Chapter Meeting.  Tahoe City April 2002, Processes, patterns and prediction: exotic fishes across California.
-American Fisheries Society California-Nevada Chapter Meeting.  Tahoe City, April 2002, Captive rearing produces changes in brain development in rainbow trout.  Contributing Authors: M. Marchetti, G. Nevitt
-Phylogeny and Conservation Workgroup on Invasive Species.  NCEAS, Santa Barbera. Feb. 2002
-Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Madison WI. Aug. 2001. Predicting Fish Invasions in California: A Multidisciplinary Analysis. Contributing Authors: M. Marchetti, P. Moyle, T. Light
-Society for Conservation Biology, Annual Meeting, Hilo HI. July 2001. Predicting Fish Invasions for the island of California: A Multivariate and Geographical approach.  Contributing Authors: M. Marchetti, P. Moyle, T. Light
-American Fisheries Society, Western Regional Meeting, Santa Rosa CA, March 2001 . Predicting fish invasions in California: characteristics of invasive species.  Contributing Authors: M. Marchetti, P. Moyle, R. Levine
-Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Snowbird UT. Aug. 2000. Hatchery or wild: effects of habitat enrichment on brain structures in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Contributing Authors: M. Marchetti, G. Nevitt
-Society for Conservation Biology, Annual Meeting, Missoula MT. June 2000. Characteristics of successful and unsuccessful fish invasions in California.
-Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Spokane WA Aug. 1999. Assemblage Structure and Conservation of Native Fishes: A Multivariate Approach.
-American Fisheries Society, Western Regional Meeting, Reading CA, March 1999 . Assemblage Structure and Conservation of Native Fishes in a Flow Regulated Stream.
-North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Environment and Community, Weber State University, Ogden UT. Feb. 11, 1999. Patterns in Nature: Studying Stream Ecology.
-North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Environment and Community, Weber State University, Ogden UT. Feb. 11, 1999. Bio-Regional Theater.
-Intra-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN), Invasive Fish and Plants, workshop to develop framework for hemispheric database for information sharing. participant, NCEAS, Santa Barbara. CA. October 1998
-American Fisheries Society, Western Regional Meeting, Sacramento CA. May 1998, An    experimental study of competition between the native Sacramento perch (Archoplites interruptus) and introduced bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)
-Invited speaker, Feb. 26, 1998, Davis Community Television: Natural History of Davis: Putah Creek
-Audobon Society Yolo Co. Duck Days 1997 &1998 Natural History of the Fishes of Putah Creek
 -Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque NM Aug. 1997. Competitive effects of an exotic species on the behavior of Sacramento perch  Archoplites interruptus
-Society for Human Ecology, Annual Meeting, Reno NV. February 1996, Paradigms in ecology.

Professional Service:            

Formal Review of USFWS de-listing proposal for northern tidewater goby. 
Reviewer for: Ecology, Ecological Applications, Transactions of American Fisheries Society, Biological Invasions, Biological Conservation, Ecology of Freshwater Fish, Arch. fur Hydrobiologie, California Fish and Game, Hydrobiologia, Pacific Science, N.Am. J. Fish. Mgmt., N.Z, J. Mar. & Fresh. Res.
Reviewer CALFED research proposals, 2000

Professional Societies and Awards:

                Associate in the Agricultural Experiment Station, WFCB Dept. U.C. Davis 2002-2004
                Ecological Society of America
                American Fisheries Society
                Society for Conservation Biology
                Putah Creek Keeper Award - Scientific and Creative Research - December 1998
                Best Student Paper - American Fisheries Society, Western Regional Meeting 1998               

References:  Available Upon Request