[Ecolunch] Ecolunch 4/19 SPEAKER CHANGE

[Allen Hurlbert]

Unfortunately, John Klironomos had to cancel his Ecolunch seminar at the last minute. Instead, we will have the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Ben Halpern, current Project Coordinator for the Ecosystem Based Management program here at NCEAS. The title of his talk is "Mapping the global impact of human activities on marine ecosystems". A summary is provided below.

Allen


SUMMARY
For the past two and half years I have been working with a large number of collaborators to develop a global, high-resolution (1km2) map of the impact of land- and ocean-based human activities on marine ecosystems.  I'll describe a variety of novel analytical methods used to develop these results, show all of the data layers used, and then present the final results from this effort, which will be literally hot-off-the-press (hours before ecolunch).

GENERAL INFORMATION Ecolunches are Thursdays, at 12:15 pm (Brown Bag Lunch) National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State St., Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Phone: (805) 892-2500

A schedule of upcoming Ecolunch seminars is available on the web at: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/fmt/doc?/nceas-web/center/local/ecolunch.html

DIRECTIONS FROM UCSB BY BUS: You can get to NCEAS by taking the 11:40  a.m. bus (# 24x) from campus. From the transit center, walk one block  east to State Street and two blocks south to the Balboa Building at 735  State Street. To return to campus, you can take the 1:30 p.m. bus (#24x) from the transit station and be back on campus by 1:49 p.m. Or you can take the 2:20 p.m. bus and arrive on campus at 2:39.

BY CAR: take Highway 101 South. Once in Santa Barbara, exit on Carrillo Street. Turn left onto Carrillo. Drive 5 blocks and turn right on State Street. NCEAS is located on the right side at 735 State St., Suite 300. To Park: Drive past NCEAS on State Street and make your first right on Ortega Street. Drive 1 block and turn right on Chapala Street. Park in the underground Mall parking lot on your right. (First 75 minutes free). Once you are at the Balboa Building: We are on the third floor in the lounge area.