Biography：
Dr. Ben Halpern is the Director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and Professor in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara. He has published nearly 300 peer-reviewed articles and was named one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds by Thompson-Reuters. In 2016 he was awarded the A.G Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science by the Royal Society of Canada, in 2017 the Peter Benchley Ocean Award for Excellence in Science and a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, in 2018 the Ocean Award in Science, and in 2020 elected a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. Dr. Halpern’s research leverages environmental data science and synthesis to address a wide range of topics centered on the many ways that human activities are impacting ocean ecosystems and species, and the consequences of those impacts on the benefits we receive in return. He is a distinguished visiting scholar at the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science (MEL).
Abstract：
The ocean can seem vast and thus able to absorb the many ways that human activities put pressure on marine species and ecosystems. Yet collectively, the cumulative impact from fishing, climate change, land-based pollution, commercial shipping, oil and gas exploration and many more uses can lead to substantial consequences for the ocean. In this talk Dr. Ben Halpern will provide a survey of his work measuring and mapping the cumulative human impact to marine ecosystems and species, and present new work forecasting these pressures to midcentury.
