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  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Michael G. Hadfield is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their primary field of research is Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Oceanography, Ocean Engineering, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. The scope of their work is oriented toward marine biology and related environmental studies.

Key topics in Hadfield's research include:

  • Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Cephalopods and Marine Biology
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine Sponges and Natural Products
  • Mollusks and Parasites Studies

Hadfield has contributed several publications in notable academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Health Affairs
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Communications Biology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Hadfield are as follows:

  • The natural sequence of events in larval settlement and metamorphosis of Hydroides elegans (Polychaeta; Serpulidae), 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Bacterial lipopolysaccharide induces settlement and metamorphosis in a marine larva, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Understanding Drivers of Variation and Predicting Variability Across Levels of Biological Organization, 2021, Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Laser ablation of the apical sensory organ of Hydroides elegans (Polychaeta) does not inhibit detection of metamorphic cues, 2021, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Evolutionary genomics of endangered Hawaiian tree snails (Achatinellidae: Achatinellinae) for conservation of adaptive capacity, 2021, PeerJ

Hadfield collaborates with several researchers, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Marnie L. Freckelton
  • Brian T. Nedved
  • Natalie Levy
  • Crawford Drury
  • Christopher P. Jury

Throughout their career, Hadfield was recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

    Margaret McFall-Ngai;Michael G. Hadfield;Thomas C. G. Bosch;Hannah V. Carey

  • Biofilms and Marine Invertebrate Larvae: What Bacteria Produce That Larvae Use to Choose Settlement Sites

    Michael G. Hadfield

  • Natural Chemical Cues for Settlement and Metamorphosis of Marine-Invertebrate Larvae

    Michael G. Hadfield;Valerie J. Paul

  • Marine Tubeworm Metamorphosis Induced by Arrays of Bacterial Phage Tail–Like Structures

    Nicholas J. Shikuma;Martin Pilhofer;Martin Pilhofer;Gregor L. Weiss;Michael G. Hadfield

  • Role of bacteria in larval settlement and metamorphosis of the polychaete Hydroides elegans

    C. R. C. Unabia;M. G. Hadfield

  • The Decimation of Endemic Hawai'ian Tree Snails by Alien Predators

    Michael G. Hadfield;Stephen E. Miller;Anne H. Carwile

  • Composition and density of bacterial biofilms determine larval settlement of the polychaete Hydroides elegans

    Shuyi Huang;Michael G. Hadfield

  • The apical sensory organ of a gastropod veliger is a receptor for settlement cues

    Michael G. Hadfield;Ella A. Meleshkevitch;Dmitri Y. Boudko

  • Metamorphic Competence, a Major Adaptive Convergence in Marine Invertebrate Larvae

    Michael G. Hadfield;Eugenio J. Carpizo-Ituarte;Kimberly del Carmen;Brian T. Nedved

  • Microbial Biofilms Facilitate Adhesion in Biofouling Invertebrates

    John D. Zardus;Brian T. Nedved;Ying Huang;Cawa Tran

  • EXCESS POTASSIUM INDUCES LARVAL METAMORPHOSIS IN FOUR MARINE INVERTEBRATE SPECIES

    Andrea J. Yool;Susan M. Grau;Michael G. Hadfield;Rebecca A. Jensen

  • Variability, flexibility and plasticity in life histories of marine invertebrates

    M. G. Hadfield;M. F. Strathmann

  • Why and how marine-invertebrate larvae metamorphose so fast.

    Michael G. Hadfield

  • Settlement requirements of molluscan larvae: New data on chemical and genetic roles

    Michael G. Hadfield

  • What is metamorphosis

    C. D. Bishop;D. F. Erezyilmaz;T. Flatt;C. D. Georgiou

  • Evidence for a soluble metamorphic inducer in Phestilla: ecological, chemical and biological data

    M. G. Hadfield;D. Scheuer

  • Larvae of Pocillopora damicornis (Anthozoa) settle and metamorphose in response to surface-biofilm bacteria

    Cawa Tran;Michael G. Hadfield

  • Metamorphosis of the marine gastropod Phestilla Sibogae Bergh (nudibranchia: aeolidacea). I. Light and electron microscopic analysis of larval and metamorphic stages

    Dale B. Bonar;Michael G. Hadfield

  • Settlement and recruitment of marine invertebrates: a perspective and some proposals

    M. G. Hadfield

  • Rapid behavioral responses of an invertebrate larva to dissolved settlement cue.

    Michael G. Hadfield;M. A. R. Koehl

  • Extinction in Hawaiian achatinelline snails

    M. G. Hadfield

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Marioni
John C. Marioni European Bioinformatics Institute
M. A. R. Koehl
M. A. R. Koehl University of California, Berkeley
Scott A. Rice
Scott A. Rice Nanyang Technological University
David J. Bottjer
David J. Bottjer University of Southern California
Paul Tafforeau
Paul Tafforeau European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
Roger P. Croll
Roger P. Croll Dalhousie University
Edward G. Ruby
Edward G. Ruby University of Hawaii at Manoa
Eric H. Davidson
Eric H. Davidson California Institute of Technology
Martha U. Gillette
Martha U. Gillette University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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