NAD Roundup #4
New Atlantis is hitting the road! Courtney and Gordon are presenting at the International Ocean Conservation Summit: Connect to Protect.
Courtney and Gordon are in Baja California all week sharing what we are working on and learning from others. Big thank you to Beta Diversidad and The Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Project (PBOL) for inviting us to be a part of this incredible event.
We’ve been greatly inspired by people like Mario Gomez, Executive Director of Beta Diversidad as well as by headlines like this recent one in the Financial Times: Biodiversity quickly rises up the ESG investing agenda. Investors are continuing to understand how critical biodiversity is to our planet which will help provide the necessary funding to projects around the world.
Our Oceans team is processing our first batch of metagenomes from the Tara Ocean open repository and preparing to run our pilot metagenome data analysis within our decentralized cloud-based lab. This is the first step towards establishing a quantitative framework in biodiversity assessment.
Positive news from around the globe
The Oceana Annual Report highlights page after page of progress. One example of the work they’ve championed: The National Marine Fisheries Service in the United States has enacted a new rule in the New England fishery that will prevent excessive bycatch and overfishing. This will ensure that science-based catch limits can be properly set and enforced. You can read more here.
Community Spotlight
Jeff Romero— an incredibly talented graphic artist — dove into the New Atlantis community head first. Barely a day begins without a GM from Jeff and he’s doing an amazing job helping us visually tell the NA story. His generosity not only of his time and skills but also of spirit is infectious. You can read more about Jeff here.
What we’re reading, what we are listening to, who we are following.
101:
- An article in Bloomberg on the financial risk of not addressing biodiversity loss.
- Protected Planet compiles up-to-date data on protected areas around the world.
201:
- This article in Nature on harnessing the microbiome to prevent biodiversity loss.
- This episode of the DeSci Podcast explores the decentralized science reformation
What we need:
We need you! Follow us on Twitter and join our Discord. Also, every week, we have an open video call where we talk about what we are doing, answer questions, and get to know one another and what interests you in this field. You can find dates and times on the Events channel in Discord.
