NCEAS Working Groups
Ranking and mapping human threats and impacts to marine ecosystems in the California current
Project Description
Building on a similar global effort (Mapping current threats and impacts of human activities on global marine ecosystems this project will map current threats and impacts of human activities on the California Current marine ecosystem. The project will first survey experts in six subregions of the California Current to explore geographic variation in the effects of threats. A workshop will then be held to use decision theory to evaluate the tradeoffs of using expert opinion to assess threats and associated impacts. Data on ecosystems and threats will be gathered at resolutions of approximately one square kilometer. By synthesizing information and inferences regarding anticipated impacts of threats, project participants will develop a spatially-explicit understanding of the distribution and magnitude of human threats in the California Current. Project collaborators are based at University of California, Santa Cruz; The Nature Conservancy; University of California, Santa Barbara; and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
Principal Investigator(s)
Benjamin S. Halpern
Project Dates
Start: January 31, 2007
End: September 30, 2008
completed
Participants
- Joe Arvai
- Michigan State University
- Marjorie L. Brooks
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Roger M. Cooke
- Resources for the Future
- Caitlin Crain
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Hadi Dowaltabadi
- University of British Columbia
- Colin M. Ebert
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Baruch Fischhoff
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Benjamin S. Halpern
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Carrie V. Kappel
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Caitlin Kontgis
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Rebecca Martone
- Stanford University
- Fiorenza Micheli
- Stanford University
- Grant Murray
- Institute for Coastal Research
- Kimberly A. Selkoe
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Christine Shearer
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Sarah J. Teck
- University of California, Santa Barbara
Products
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Journal Article / 2009
Mapping cumulative human impacts to California current marine ecosystems
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Book Chapter / 2008
Modeling stakeholder preferences with probabilistic inversion: Application to prioritizing marine ecosystem vulnerabilities
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Journal Article / 2010
Using expert judgment to estimate marine ecosystem vulnerability in the California Current