Por Salit Kark & Noam Levin (University of Queensland, AU).

The seminar will present our recent work on coastal and marine areas, where we quantified and examined for the first time the marine and terrestrial-based stressors to coastal areas worldwide and created a coastal human footprint map. We also compared the impacts across coastal ecosystems. We will discuss spatial patterns and processes and r conservation in coastal ecosystems and will introduce some of our work on the Mediterranean and the importance of cross-boundary collaboration in conservation and marine 3D conservation (UQueensland PR).

Professor Salit Kark is a conservation scientist who works on spatial, behavioral, and ecological patterns and processes shaping biodiversity across coastal, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems. She works on native and invasive species and on integrating human-related processes into conservation.

Professor Noam Levin is a GIS and remote sensing expert who likes creating and analyzing maps. He works on spatial, human-related, and environmental changes, including night lights, fire, and floods, among other areas from local to global scales and across ecosystems.