Benjamin Halpern

Benjamin S. Halpern[2] is a marine biologist and ecologist currently working at the University of California, Santa Barbara and was the recipient of the 2016 A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences.

Benjamin Halpern
Born
Benjamin S. Halpern
EducationCarleton College (B.A. 1995)
University of California, Santa Barbara (Ph.D. 2003)
EmployerUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Awards2016 A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences
2018 Ocean Award[1]
Websitebenhalpernlab.org

Early life and education

Halpern earned his B.A. from Carleton College in 1995 and earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2003.[3]

Career

Halpern, who works at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management was featured in Nature for his team's scientific collaboration on the southern tip of Australia's Great Barrier Reef in 2012.[4] He has also been published in Nature and is an advocate of integrating marine protected areas into networks.[2][5]

He is recognized for marine conservation and resource management and is the recipient of the 2016 A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences.[6]

gollark: The original brain scanee gets a yearly gift basket to show our appreciation.
gollark: Then execute them at 100x speed (and many instances at once) on parallel processing clusters.
gollark: Instead of "hiring" people and "paying" them, we basically do nondestructive neural scans.
gollark: We don't mostly, I'm sure this was explained.
gollark: Also direct matter synthesis, but the energy costs are sometimes a bit prohibitive.

References
  1. https://www.bluemarinefoundation.com/2018/05/09/2018-ocean-awards/
  2. Halpern, Benjamin S. (February 13, 2014). "Conservation: Making marine protected areas work". Nature. 506 (7487): 167–168. doi:10.1038/nature13053. PMID 24499821.
  3. "Smith Fellows - Abstract - Benjamin Halpern". conbio.org. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  4. Gewin, Virginia (July 9, 2015). "Collaborations: Recipe for a team". Nature. 523 (7559): 245–247. doi:10.1038/nj7559-245a. PMID 26161446.
  5. Stokstad, Erik (February 5, 2014). "Why Won't Simply Creating Lots of Marine Reserves Save Sea Life?". Science. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  6. Cohen, Julie (September 6, 2016). "From Sea to Shining Sea". www.news.ucsb.edu. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
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