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What are Tier 1, 2 and 3?

Who Should Pay for ESG Infrastructure? (SSIR) Foundations and nonprofits built the tools that companies now use for ESG reporting, brand credibility, and risk management. Is there a funding model for maintaining these tools so they remain credibl...

Nice piece in Stanford Social Innovation Review by discussing the work that Global Forest Watch (the "other GFW") and Global Fishing Watch are doing to find ways for industry to more directly support our open data work that helps industry to meet their ESG commitments ssir.org/articles/ent...

Underwater image of a sea lion hunting salema fish in the Galapagos Marine Reserve.

Why do some say marine protected areas are just “paper parks”? And are industrial fishers actually staying out of these no-fishing zones?

New in @science.org: We used AI + satellite radar to find out. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

#ScienceResearch #OceanConservation #OceanTransparency #30x30 #Fisheries

Nice cover!

Batteries are so cheap now, solar power doesn’t sleep Batteries are now cheap enough to make 24/7 solar power affordable, unlocking round-the-clock clean energy in the world’s sunniest cities.

Batteries are now so cheap that solar power no longer sleeps. ☀️🔋 2024 marked the inflection point: storage doubled, solar soared, and fossil electricity flatlined. This isn't just a tech milestone—it's a civilisational shift. From fossil dusk to solar dawn. The sun can now power the night! #SolarEra

How do you protect one of the ocean’s most biodiverse corridors? 🌊

Fisheries analyst Joe Fader shares how @globalfishingwatch.org is helping CMAR countries boost enforcement through data and collaboration.

🔗 Read more: globalfishingwatch.org/article/stre...

#CMAR #OceanTransparency #MPAs

Video Producer You will be working with the Film Unit and Campaigns teams and should have experience working on campaigns, factual programming or investigative…

We are #NowHiring a Video Producer 🎬

The role will cover all of EJF’s campaigns to gather the evidence and visual materials that underpin and support our campaigns and advocacy work. Find out more and apply here: ejfoundation.org/jobs/video-p...

🚨 Final call: applications for Global Fishing Watch’s Open Ocean Research Grants close June 17 (end of day, anywhere in the world).

Up to $20,000 for research into ocean transparency + governance.

🌐 Open globally — see priority geographies:

🔗 bit.ly/open-ocean-r...

Today at #UNOC3 , Global Fishing Watch partner @donabertarelli.bsky.social delivered a powerful call to rethink our relationship with the ocean, from one of extraction to one of reciprocity and regeneration.

We thank her for the ongoing support in our mission to unveil human activities at sea.

Cc @skytruth.org

@skytruth.org any chance we can see other trends like this based on long time series analysis of SAR-detected oil slicks?

Apparently they also have a resident porcupine

We spent a couple of hours watching a pair of beaver in a pond on the grounds of the Himalayan Institute in north eastern PA, apparently involved in a grueling grudge match with the grounds keepers over the appropriate height for the dam that blocks the outlet to their pond.

YouTube video by Global Fishing Watch Tracking the Tide: Unveiling the Hidden World of Vessel Activity

🚢 75% of industrial fishing vessels aren’t publicly tracked.

In this @pbs.org film, @globalfishwatchceo.bsky.social joins voices from Brazil and @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social on how transparency can reshape ocean governance.

🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPU3...

#OceanTransparency

@oceanknigge.bsky.social we got the verified domain set up! Now all we need is the blue checkmark 😁

Fig. 3. Whole fish and fish by-product materials classified by species' functional groups.

The unseen link between trawling and fish farming:

New paper finds roughly 40% of fish feed inputs reported as ‘byproduct’ actually come from wild-captured seafloor-dwelling species.

🌎🦑🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Imam colorblind myself so my graphs always look like "see it from space"

Thanks Travis. Looks like the team has confirmed that this is something coming from the host provider where our WordPress site is hosted. That's for being the squeaky wheel Travis!

Thanks Travis. I reached the same conclusion myself - something wonky with cloudflare. I forwarded this to the team, but I don't know if we will be able to reproduce the problem.

Ok looking a little deeper it looks like this is a firewall issue on our end and the "please wait" message might be coming from cloudflare. Curiouser and curiouser. I will investigate further

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Hmm....so something weird with the buff.ly url shorter then. Thanks for troubleshooting. Maybe I should turn off the automatic url shortening

Open Ocean Research Grants Program This research grant program aims to enhance ocean governance by publicly sharing data on human activity at sea to grow our community of practice and expand and improve Global Fishing Watch datasets.

That's strange. The link redirect is working for me now. It should go here globalfishingwatch.org/open-ocean-r...

We’re offering up to $10k for individuals and $20k for teams using our data to tackle key ocean research questions.

Perhaps your research project will end up producing a something new to integrate into our public map!

globalfishingwatch.org/open-ocean-r...

Open Ocean Research Grants Program This research grant program aims to enhance ocean governance by publicly sharing data on human activity at sea to grow our community of practice and expand and improve Global Fishing Watch datasets.

GFW needs your help! We have too much data and not enough researchers to investigate all the possibilities. So today we're piloting a new research grant program to encourage researchers to do novel things with our data. Find out more here buff.ly/MDL4xLE
#OceanScience #Fisheries #ResearchFunding

Yep - that's the first thing I commented on in slack when this was posted internally to the team. Hope to have that dfone soon. @oceanknigge.bsky.social do you know if there are any trusted verifiers that are doing NGO verifications? Would be great to have someone in the community take that on.

I love it

Hooray! We now have an official company BlueSky account for Global Fishing Watch! #globalfishingwatch

So this would be a paper studying the titles of other papers. Measure the viral potential of papers based solely on the title, which is the only part most of the internet will ever read anyway.

China Launches First of 2,800 Satellites For AI Space Computing Constellation China launched 12 satellites on Wednesday as part of the âoeThree-Body Computing Constellation,â the worldâ(TM)s first dedicated orbital computing network led by ADA Space and Zhejiang Lab. SpaceNews reports: A Long March 2D rocket lifted off at 12:12 a.m. Eastern (0412 UTC) May 14 f...

China Launches First of 2,800 Satellites For AI Space Computing Constellation

https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/05/15/2326249/china-launches-first-of-2800-satellites-for-ai-space-computing-constellation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

This is exactly where my wife and I are now, for cost reasons and also for climate reasons. A road trip driving an EV is looking much more attractive than a flight for the foreseeable future.