NCEAS Roundtable - Casey O'Hara
Camila Vargas Poulsen
Dear Community,
Please mark your calendar for our upcoming Roundtable!
For this opportunity, Casey O’Hara will be presenting on “Cumulative human impacts on global marine fauna highlight risk to biological and functional diversity.”
When: Thursday, November 7, 3:30pm (followed by happy hour)
Where: NCEAS (1021 Anacapa Street), 3rd-floor lounge
Join us virtually by connecting to:
https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/468789779?pwd=aklaUWYrNkNHMDduY2xEWDFyWU03Zz09
Short Abstract
Marine ecosystems provide tremendous benefits and services to people, including food provision, economic livelihoods, recreational opportunities, and cultural or spiritual value. In this NCEAS Roundtable, I will present research in which my colleagues and I examined the current and expected future state of human impacts on the oceans and marine biodiversity through several lenses. Discussing how our various studies help support goals of the UN CBD Global Biodiversity Framework to inform effective conservation strategies that support a healthy and sustainable marine social-ecological system.
*Find the extended abstract in the attached flyer.*
About the Speaker
Casey is a postdoctoral scholar working with the Collaborative Network for Valuing Earth Information (CONVEI), a collaboration between WWF, NASA, NOAA, USGS, and NCEAS. His synthesis research on marine biodiversity and human impacts follows from his work on the Ocean Health Index, and he is working with the NCEAS Learning Hub to train new cohorts of environmental data scientists. Casey holds a Ph.D. and MESM in environmental management from UCSB and a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from Stanford.