Jennifer BECKENSTEINER
Economiste
POST-DOC
UBO / ISBLUE
- Research interests
- Fisheries & aquaculture management
- Social-Ecological Systems adaptation
- Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries
- Marine Spatial Planning
- Artisanal and Small-scale fisheries
- Current postdoctoral position
- Nov. 2020 to Nov. 2022
- Funding: ISblue
- Co-Pi: Oliver Thebaud (Ifremer) and Tony Charles (St Mary’s University)
- FishAdapt: Enhancing fishery sustainability through adaptation of socio-ecological systems to global changes
- This project investigates how fishers and fishery management institutions have responded to large-scale changes (ecological, economic and/or political driven changes). We expect that adaptations of fishers and of fishery governance occur at different temporal and spatial scales, having different adaptive capacity. One specific question that this research aims to answer is how institutional and governance mechanisms can facilitate or limit fisher’s adaptation to changes.
- A balanced-method approach formed of conceptual bio-economic models and institutional analyses will allow for a more comprehensive assessments of the long-term responses of fisheries systems, identifying key adaptation processes at the sector, community and institutional levels.
- The research focuses on a comparative analysis of two case studies on the North Atlantic Ocean coasts that have experienced dramatic changes in their fisheries and are in the middle of one at the moment. The first one includes the analysis of the anchovy fishery in the Bay of Biscay that collapsed in 2004 and was closed from 2005 to 2010. The second case study involves the response of communities to the collapse of the cod fishery and the resulting development of the lobster fishery in Nova Scotia, Canada. Based on combined natural and social sciences methods, this research framework enables conceptualizing global change adaptation processes, as experienced by fishers and management institutions, with a focus on the role of response timing.
- Past postdoctoral position
- Feb. 2020 to Oct. 2020 : An agent-based modeling framework has been developed to assess the economic impacts of the proposed offshore wind energy development on the surfclam fishery. The model simulates the uniquely consolidated and vertically-integrated surfclam fishery, under a variety of offshore wind energy development and fishery management scenarios by integrating spatial dynamics in surfclam stock biology, fishery captain and fleet behavior, federal management models and decisions, fishery economics, and port structure. Combinations of proposed wind farm array configurations that prevent fishery access or transit within wind energy areas were simulated to estimate effects on fishing costs, revenues from landings at major fishery ports, and stock abundance dynamics.
- Funding: BOEM
- Co-Pi: Munroe (Rutgers University, USA), E. Powell (University of Southern Mississippi, USA), J. Klinck (Old Dominion University, USA), E. Hofmann (Old Dominion University), A. Scheld (Virginia Institute of Marine Science, USA)
- Evaluating economic impacts to the commercial surfclam fishing industry from offshore wind energy development.
- Publications
- Beckensteiner J., Scheld A.M., St-Laurent P., Friedrichs M.A.M., Kaplan D.M. (2021) Environmentally-determined production frontiers and lease utilisation in Virginia’s eastern oyster aquaculture industry, Aquaculture, 542. DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.736883
- Beckensteiner J., Kaplan D.M, Scheld A.M. (2020) Barriers to eastern oyster aquaculture expansion in Virginia, Frontiers in Marine Science,7:53, DOI: 3389/fmars.2020.00053
- Beckensteiner J., Scheld A.M, Fernández M., Kaplan D.M. (2020) Drivers and trends in catch of benthic resources in Chilean TURFs and surrounding open access areas, Ocean & Coastal Management, 183, DOI: 1016/j.ocecoaman.2019.104961
- Huynh Q.C., Beckensteiner J., Carleton L.M., Marcek B.J., Nepal V.K.C., Peterson C.D., Wood M.A., Hoenig J.M. (2018) A comparison performance of the length-converted catch curve and Beverton-Holt total mortality estimator, Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 10, 298–313, DOI: 1002/mcf2.10027.
- Nomura K., Scheld A.M., Beckensteiner J., and Kaplan D. M. (2017) Comparative analysis of factors influencing spatial distributions of marine protected areas and territorial use rights for fisheries in Japan, Marine policy, 82, 59-67. DOI: 1016/j.marpol.2017.05.005.
- Beckensteiner J., Kaplan D.M, Potts W.M., Santos C.V. and O’Farrell M.R. (2016) Evaluation of population status from length frequency data of coastal marine fish species in southern Angola, PlosOne, DOI: 1371/journal.pone.0147834.
- Léopold M., Beckensteiner J., Kaltavara J., Raubani J. and Caillon S. (2013) Community-based management of near-shore fisheries in Vanuatu: What works? Marine policy, 42, 167-176 DOI: 1016/j.marpol.2013.02.013.
- Education
- 2014-2019: PhD at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (William & Mary, USA)
- Dissertation title: Efficacy and unintended outcomes of spatial property rights for fisheries and aquaculture management in Chile and in Virginia, U.S.A.
- 2013: M2 Sciences halieutiques et aquacoles at Agrocampus-Ouest (France)
- Thesis title: Evaluation of population status and potential for conservation with marine protected areas of coastal marine fish species in southern Angola.
- 2009-2011: M1-M2 Ingénierie en Écologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité at the University of Montpellier II (France)
- Thesis title: Artisanal reef fisheries community-based management in Vanuatu.
- 2014-2019: PhD at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (William & Mary, USA)
