Benjamin S Halpern

Biographic Data

ID1824522
NAMEBenjamin S Halpern
GIVEN NAMESBenjamin S
FAMILY NAMEHalpern
SIGNATUREHALPERN B S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
ORCID0000-0001-8844-2302
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS99
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Implementation of automated biodiversity monitoring lags behind its potential

    Open AccessRachel A King, Benjamin S HalpernARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Efforts to conserve and restore biodiversity rely on widespread, accurate, and timely monitoring to understand where and how fast biodiversity is changing and develop appropriate responses. The current landscape of biodiversity assessments typically requires time-intensive and costly field surveys that rarely match the pace of monitoring needs. Automated biodiversity monitoring could increase the speed and accuracy at which information on species…

  • Reaping the synergies between ocean aquaculture and fisheries

    Open AccessBenjamin S Halpern, Kimberly A SelkoeARTICLEOne Earth2024

  • Winners and losers in U.S. marine aquaculture under climate change

    Open AccessCaitlin R Fong, Joseph M DeCesaro et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Mariculture will be important to meeting global seafood food demand in the coming decades. Yet, the threat of climate change—such as rising ocean temperatures—on mariculture performance remains uncertain. This is particularly true at small spatial scales relevant to most producers. Additionally, mariculture is often limited by regulations that impose restrictions on production, creating potential hurdles for anticipating and adapting to climate c…

  • The distribution of environmental pressures from global dietary shift

    Open AccessJoseph M DeCesaro, Edward H Allison et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    The production and consumption of food is one of the main drivers of environmental change globally. Meanwhile, many populations remain malnourished due to insufficient or unhealthy diets. Increasingly, dietary shifts are proposed as a means to address both environmental and health concerns. We have a limited understanding of how dietary shifts could alter where food is produced and consumed and how these changes would affect the distribution of e…

  • Co-creating coastal sustainability goals and indicators

    Open AccessStine Engen, Vera H Hausner et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2024References: 3

    Indicators can be powerful tools to measure progress towards achieving societal goals, and many indicators have been developed for sustainability goals nationally and internationally. When indicators are developed solely through top-down approaches without engaging local knowledge, they often fall short of capturing local perceptions and concerns relevant to decision-making. The aim of this project was to co-create a Coastal Barometer and its com…

  • Vulnerability of blue foods to human-induced environmental change

    Open AccessLing Cao, Benjamin S Halpern et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 1References: 2

    Global aquatic or ‘blue’ foods, essential to over 3.2 billion people, face challenges of maintaining supply in a changing environment while adhering to safety and sustainability standards. Despite the growing concerns over their environmental impacts, limited attention has been paid to how blue food production is influenced by anthropogenic environmental changes. Here we assess the vulnerability of global blue food systems to predominant environm…

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    Open AccessBenjamin S Halpern, Melanie Frazier et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023References: 2

  • Enabling conditions for effective marine spatial planning

    Open AccessRachel Zuercher, Natalie C Ban et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2022

    As marine spatial planning (MSP) continues to gain global prominence as an approach to ocean governance, planners and other stakeholders are eager to evaluate its social and ecological outcomes and to better understand whether plans are achieving their intended results in an equitable and cost-efficient manner. While a plan’s outcomes for marine environments and coastal communities may be of particular interest, these results cannot be separated …

  • The future of ecosystem assessments is automation, collaboration, and artificial intelligence

    Open AccessCarmen Galaz García, Kenneth J Bagstad et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Robust and routine ecosystem assessments will be fundamental to track progress towards achieving this decade’s global environmental and sustainability goals. Here we examine four needs that address common failure points of ecosystem assessments. These are (1) developing rapid, reproducible, and repeatable ecological data workflows, (2) harmonizing in situ and remotely sensed data, (3) integrating socioeconomic and biophysical data, and (4) increa…

  • The environmental footprint of global food production

    Open AccessBenjamin S Halpern, Melanie Frazier et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Cited by: 7References: 6

  • Environmental performance of blue foods

    Open AccessJessica A Gephart, Patrik J G Henriksson et al.ARTICLENature2021

  • Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate

    Open AccessEnric Sala, Juan Mayorga et al.ARTICLENature2021

  • Ocean health in the Northeast United States from 2005 to 2017

    Open AccessJamie Montgomery, Courtney Scarborough et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2021

    People in the Northeast United States have a long history of benefitting from the ocean in many ways, exemplified by the region's important cod and lobster fisheries, coastal tourism and recent expansion of offshore energy. Over the past few decades, the region has become one of the fastest warming spots on the planet, has seen significant growth in coastal populations, and expansion of new sectors into the marine environment, resulting in ecosys…

  • The Baltic Health Index (BHI)

    Open AccessThorsten Blenckner, Christian Möllmann et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2021

    Improving the health of coastal and open sea marine ecosystems represents a substantial challenge for sustainable marine resource management, since it requires balancing human benefits and impacts on the ocean. This challenge is often exacerbated by incomplete knowledge and lack of tools that measure ocean and coastal ecosystem health in a way that allows consistent monitoring of progress towards predefined management targets. The lack of such to…

  • The overlooked importance of food disadoption for the environmental sustainability of new foods

    Open AccessRichard S Cottrell, Jason Maier et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    With human food production a major driver of global environmental change, there is increasing recognition of the importance of shifting towards more sustainable dietary patterns. With wholesale dietary change notoriously difficult to implement at scale, various new food analogues have emerged to serve as qualitatively similar (e.g. taste, texture) but lower environmental impact alternatives for existing foods, particularly animal protein. While n…

  • Historical food consumption declines and the role of alternative foods

    Open AccessDanielle M Ferraro, Richard S Cottrell et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    The adoption of sustainable alternative foods could potentially reduce the environmental burden of human food production if it can reduce demand for products with higher environmental impact. However, there is little empirical evidence for how frequent food consumption declines are when alternative foods are introduced, limiting our knowledge of the potential for such introductions to drive food system transformations. Using 53 years of food supp…

  • Building on a Decade of the Ocean Health Index

    Open AccessBenjamin S HalpernARTICLEOne Earth2020

  • Integrating Life Cycle and Impact Assessments to Map Food's Cumulative Environmental Footprint

    Open AccessCaitlin D Kuempel, Melanie Frazier et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

    Feeding a growing, increasingly affluent population while limiting environmental pressures of food production is a central challenge for society. Understanding the location and magnitude of food production is key to addressing this challenge because pressures vary substantially across food production types. Applying data and models from life cycle assessment with the methodologies for mapping cumulative environmental impacts of human activities (…

  • To Achieve a Sustainable Blue Future, Progress Assessments Must Include Interdependencies between the Sustainable Development Goals

    Open AccessKirsty L Nash, Jessica L Blythe et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

  • Area Requirements to Safeguard Earth's Marine Species

    Open AccessKendall R Jones, Carissa J Klein et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

    Despite global policy commitments to preserve Earth's marine biodiversity, many species are in a state of decline. Using data on 22,885 marine species, we identify 8.5 million km2 of priority areas that complement existing areas of conservation and biodiversity importance. New conservation priorities are found in over half (56%) of all coastal nations, including key priority regions in the northwest Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean. We identify w…

  • Integrating climate change in ocean planning

    Open AccessCatarina Frazão Santos, Tundi Agardy et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Cited by: 2References: 12

  • Recent pace of change in human impact on the world’s ocean

    Open AccessBenjamin S Halpern, Melanie Frazier et al.ARTICLEScientific Reports2019

    Humans interact with the oceans in diverse and profound ways. The scope, magnitude, footprint and ultimate cumulative impacts of human activities can threaten ocean ecosystems and have changed over time, resulting in new challenges and threats to marine ecosystems. A fundamental gap in understanding how humanity is affecting the oceans is our limited knowledge about the pace of change in cumulative impact on ocean ecosystems from expanding human …

  • Ten tips for developing interdisciplinary socio-ecological researchers

    Open AccessRachel Kelly, Mary Mackay et al.ARTICLESocio-Ecological Practice Research2019

  • Food production shocks across land and sea

    Open AccessRichard S Cottrell, Kirsty L Nash et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 11References: 10

  • Avoiding the ecological limits of forage fish for fed aquaculture

    Open AccessHalley E Froehlich, Nis Sand Jacobsen et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2018Cited by: 2References: 2