RESOURCE SHOCKS AND POLITICAL CONFLICTS
Climate change is modifying ecosystems on land and in the oceans and increasingly causing conflicts through disturbances in trade and cross-boundary negotiations. To apprehend the link between resource dynamics under climate change and conflicts, I am working with a team of ecology and policy scientists from Rutgers University, the University of California in Santa Cruz and Princeton University funded by the US Department of Defense. To do this, I am:
(i) providing expertise on a European fisheries conflict case study and interacting with stakeholders from national and international fisheries organizations. (ii) conducting a synthesis of fisheries, agriculture, and water resources under climate change to contextualize cross-sector resource scarcity hotspots with international trade and climate agreements. |
SPECIES AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework sets the 2030 biodiversity conservation targets for the world biodiversity on land and in the oceans. My work on biodiversity synthesis integrates species taxonomy, spatio-temporal distributions, and expert knowledge on habitats to map diversity patterns and their overlap with protected areas and jurisdictions:
(i) I investigated the representation of benthic unique habitats in the oceans in national and international marine protected areas, and quantified the progress needed to reach 30% of protected areas in the oceans by 2030, in relation to Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal GBF. (ii) I studied the complex methodologies behind biodiversity synthesis across taxonomic groups and systems for best accuracy in biodiversity assessments with an interdisciplinary team of experts from taxonomy up to conservation and management practice. |
CONSORTIUM & INFRASTRUCTURE COORDINATION
As marine populations move from one jurisdictional zone to another in response to climate change, our socio-ecological systems for assessing and managing ecological change are challenged. Since 2019, I have been coordinating a project called FISHGLOB focusing on international collaboration between national agencies sampling demersal ecosystems with scientific bottom-trawl surveys. This project is responding to goals on biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries management by allowing work across jurisdictional borders:
(i) I have created the largest bottom trawl survey collection and open database to date by integrating regional survey metadata and data from coastal regions of the world to increase visibility and usage broadly. (ii) I created a consortium of 100 experts from 38 countries of the world to develop collaboration, knowledge and survey data exchange allowing a previously fragmented community to be more cohesive across marine regions facing global change impacts. |