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We foster path-breaking scientific discovery, environmental conservation, and preservation of the special character of the Bay Area.
Corine Vriesendorp, Conservación Amazónica’s science director, is a conservation ecologist with deep experience in the Amazon Basin. In this forward-looking interview from The Future of Amazonia, she reflects on what gives her hope amid challenges in the Amazon.
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📳 Informed by decades of data on rapid earthquake detection, scientists at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @caltech.edu, U. of Washington and the USGS developed algorithms to trigger automatic safety shutdowns and pioneered the use of GPS with seismic data for accurate earthquake alerts.
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🛰️🔥 FireSat — an advanced satellite system designed to detect and monitor wildfires with unprecedented precision — was recently featured on @cnn.com, highlighting how it will use AI to analyze fire data and deliver almost continuous intelligence to responders worldwide.
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🦦 We are grateful to collaborate with the many leaders and orgs who've helped create the Bajo Putumayo Yaguas Communal Reserve, spanning nearly 400K acres of Amazonian forests and rivers. The reserve will help ensure connectivity between several protected areas and Indigenous lands.
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⚛️ Moore grantee Peter Maurer and colleagues at the University of Chicago have turned a protein found in living cells into a functioning qubit, which can be used as a quantum sensor capable of providing unprecedented insight into biological processes. 🧬
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⚖️ In this insightful interview from The Future of Amazonia symposium, César Ipenza, an environmental lawyer and university professor, stresses the urgent need to strengthen environmental governance to ensure the long-term viability of the Amazon.
#AmazonConservation #Moore25 #Philanthropy
We are accepting applications for the 2026 Experimental Physics Investigators. Grants provide $1.25M over five years with additional equipment funding and opportunities to connect with peers across disciplines. Visit moore.org for details & please share with colleagues! www.moore.org/initiative-a...
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We’re excited to announce the 2025 cohort of the Experimental Physics Investigators – a distinguished group of 22 mid-career researchers pushing the boundaries of experimental physics!
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Sudden oak death has killed hundreds of thousands of oaks and tanoaks along the Pacific Coast.
🌱 With Moore Foundation support, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social researchers traced the pathogen to a single European source — informing conservation efforts + commercial trade.
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Moore Foundation alumni Karen Cosby, Daniel Yang and Thomas Wang recently authored an article for Diagnosis that discusses the role of philanthropy in advancing diagnostic excellence, and the legacy of the Moore Foundation’s involvement in this space.
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🌿 Last month, the Power of Connections project hosted its third workshop in Manaus, Brazil, focused on Indigenous- and community-led management of natural resources. Leaders from across the Amazon came together to advance collaborative management of forests, rivers and territories. 🌎
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Adrian Forsyth, co-founder of Amazon Conservation and conceptual architect of our Andes-Amazon Initiative, is a tropical ecologist and conservationist with 45+ years of experience. Watch this interview from The Future of Amazonia to hear Adrian’s perspective on strategies for ecological protection ⤵️
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🌌 A distant star, ASASSN-24fw, mysteriously dimmed by 97% for eight months before returning to its normal brightness. Ohio State researchers identified a massive dust disk and a companion star as the likely culprits of the eclipsing effect, revealing new insights into stellar evolution.
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🌿 In 2003, we invested $11M to acquire and support initial stewardship planning of the Cargill Salt Ponds into vibrant wetlands — protecting wildlife habitat and increasing public access to green spaces in the California’s South Bay.
Learn more about this #BayAreaConservation effort ⤵️
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Our latest newsletter highlights the new phase of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative. Building on 12 years and $188M in investment, we’re committing another $230M over the next decade to advance the field.
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🌊 Through multiple grants — spanning science, ocean monitoring and artificial intelligence — we’re supporting the development of environmental sample processors, automated underwater vehicles, and deep-water imaging tools that push the boundaries of #OceanExploration and engineering. 🛰️
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A new @pewtrusts.org report unpacks the global trade of Pacific tuna, showing how these fisheries connect small island nations, major processing hubs and consumer markets across the globe.
#SustainableSeafood #FoodTransparency #FisheriesManagement
At The Future of Amazonia, a symposium we hosted in May, Adriana Ramos (@socioambiental.org) emphasized the need for Indigenous-led territory management and conservation as the most effective means of protecting the Amazon. 🌳
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🌊 The world’s high seas are now set to benefit from stronger conservation through the High Seas Treaty — a framework to establish protected areas, strengthen resource stewardship and protect more of Earth’s oceans by 2030.
Congratulations to everyone who helped make this historic step possible. 🌍
🔥 The Western Fire & Forest Resilience Collaborative is tackling unanswered questions about ecologically beneficial fire, and about the fastest moving and most destructive wildfires in the Western U.S. This effort is deepening our understanding of fire behavior and how to build resilience.
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After 12 transformative years and $188 million in grants awarded, we are excited to launch the next phase of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative — with a new $230 million commitment over the next decade to continue to advance the field.
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“Nature is a communion of subjects — we coexist with it.”
Martín von Hildebrand, secretary general of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, shares deep insights from his five decades of advancing Indigenous rights in the Amazon. 🌎
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🎖️ Today, Louie Porta, our Arctic Ocean Initiative program director, received the King Charles III Coronation Medal for being a leading conservationist “who has worked to create and sustain civil society organizations that support a healthy ocean in Canada and around the world.”
🎉 Congrats, Louie!
🗞️ The Science Philanthropy Alliance’s recently released 2025 Science Philanthropy Indicators Report reveals how philanthropic investment is reshaping the U.S. research landscape — underscoring philanthropy’s vital role in advancing science and discovery.
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In 2014, inspired by Gordon Moore’s own childhood experiences, we partnered with @society4science.bsky.social to reimagine the chemistry set. The goal was simple: ignite curiosity in the next generation through hands-on exploration. 👩🔬
Learn more ➡️ www.societyforscience.org/blog/winners...
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🌍 Greenland’s people, environment and way of life show what it means to live in balance with nature. Today, its #MarineConservation landscape is at the center of the Arctic story. The Arctic is home to 5 million people; their future depends on how this fragile environment is managed.
📸: Louie Porta
☄️ Moore grantee Jessica Barnes and her team at @uarizona.bsky.social’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (@uarizonalpl.bsky.social) used the nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometer (NanoSIMS) — a tool built for asteroid/planetary analysis — to study samples from asteroid Bennu.
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🌎 In May, we hosted The Future of Amazonia in Peru — the first of our five-part 25th anniversary symposia series — convening experts to discuss conservation in the Amazon.
🎥 Learn what gives Mariana Montoya (@wcs.org) hope to mitigate threats to the region ⤵️
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⚛️ Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Experimental Investigator Ming Yi and colleagues have shown the first direct experimental proof that the unique patterns of electrons know as active flat electronic bands exist within a special type of material called a kagome superconductor.
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🩺 Over the course of five years, the Moore Foundation invested $100M+ in our Diagnostic Excellence Initiative. To extend the impact of our Patient Care Program, which concluded in 2023, we established a national coordinating center for diagnostic excellence at @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social.
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