ference at MIT about ocean they were like, oh, greet this professor and I said, no it's actually at the MIT Media Lab and it's about how to connect people through art and culture with the ocean and they said, oh, why? So that's not so normal so I'm really curious to ask you do you feel that outside of this room of very specific interested people there's actually a will in the robotics engineering community to make these resources very available and understood for society and yeah, if that is actually something that you think is being yeah, communicated more outside of the normal engineering box, as you might say. Yeah, so I think there is there's certainly a movement to open source a lot of the technology and that's been very common in the robotics field and it's less common in the marine field and so I think open sourcing I'll talk about the technology first open sourcing the technology itself can help make it more accessible so that people can do these sorts of things and then in terms of bringing in other people like artists a lot of the places we're going a lot of the things we're getting back are new and no one has seen them before and sometimes they've been seen before but they're being seen in different ways a lot of the things we do at Qualcomm Institute which Dominique mentioned yesterday is visualization so when we're going out it's kind of emerging of not only robotics and scientific data but getting data that sort of can also be used to bring in the public like I personally think the coral reef models are really cool I've been lucky enough to dive on a coral reef but a lot of people haven't and so if you can use what you're getting with technology and bridge that gap to art and like public communication and use some of these incredible things that we're able to get through technology these visualizations and this data I think that's a really cool way to bring people in so I hope that answers your question Anybody else wanna contribute before I move on? Yeah, could I just add one? It's been amazing to me how how common the following scenario happens you're working on a project you get an email from someone saying I'm an engineer at this fancy company and I do the stuff and I love it and I think it's great but I wanna do it for the ocean so can I give you spare time advice? Can we just like help? And it's amazing how in informal ways the bulk of people who are serious professional roboticist engineers of various different stripes want to give their expertise maybe the canonical channels don't lend themselves to that gift but informal routes really do and so if you go around there's this emerging market of emerging circle of companies targeting citizen science in the ocean and if every single one of them is backed by a list of ridiculously skilled engineers in academia, in industry who give their time so I don't know if I'd say it's super well supported within academia proper but academics support it and so making that fit together better is certainly something we should be working on but there's a huge will to do it you'll find people to play with Thanks, any other questions? Oh God. Thank you very much my name is Jack Whitaker I'm from UMass Boston I was kind of curious a lot of you are working with data someone with one billion pieces of data Almost Yes, so do you have any recommendations for thinking about the right mindset to have when approaching large data sets? Are there sci-fi books or movies that have stuck out to you because Google just released this thing called like searchable data sets and now you can just search like the weather in Wisconsin for like the last whatever how many years how do we start to approach data sets in productive ways and not have them overwhelmed Thank you. Thanks. So I was just at the UN World Data Forum and there's lots of talk about this there and someone briefly brought up an academic I've never heard of but he got the point across which was we're entering into the fourth paradigm the third paradigm was big data don't ask me what the first and second paradigm were but what's critical now is how you ask questions of the data so yes, data is important to get quality, all those things but the really we're in the age of targeted important creative questions don't know if that helps and if I might add I mean I think big data, any data is important but quite frankly if it's not accessible or usable it's not important at all so one key is making it accessible the other one is making it nimble and light and agile and usable to as many different user communities as possible that's not a trivial problem but that is a key, right because you can look I love the state of Wisconsin I grew up in the state of Wisconsin I love the weather in Wisconsin but if I go to that website and I can't use that data and information it's useless to me if I'm wanting to ask these curious questions All right, one last question oh, this is never gonna happen Yeah, it will Woo, yeah Excellent, so it's connecting the dots over here because this is very interesting Alan, you guys are making these accessible and affordable ocean exploration tools and how are you guys planning then with Elizabeth getting into the hands because I'm grassroots on the floor guy getting things going I'd like to get my hands on those tools as they are planned for rolling that out Yeah, totally so we're in early days so just a little background I grew up as a theoretical physicist and did string three for 20 years and then had my coming to Jesus moment and here I am so we've been ramping up just over the past few years getting these projects going and so the projects that as we put projects out we're putting them repositories on GitHub instructions on Instructable and a website for each project that will be coming for the lab and the goal will be to be and God we should be using Open Explorer as we go out in the field which we haven't been doing but the goal is definitely to do that and to partner with as many people as we can look, let me just talk about the modem as an example it's not like people haven't built low cost low power modems before it's been done 100 times the point of doing that is not to do it the point is to never have it done again that development effort should never be done again it's a waste of time so we will have failed if it doesn't go out and get used both in the citizen science community because there are schematics in an Instructable it'll be a failure if it doesn't get manufactured so it's viable so this is something we're struggling with a lot and it's a key thing we're thinking about let's talk afterwards Any final comments? If not, please join me in thanking our amazing Explorer panel again we're done everyone, how are you doing? It's a pleasure to be with you today my name is Danielle Wood and we're going to invite some amazing panelists please join me thank you, hello thank you so much hi there wonderful before I introduce our panelists if you don't mind I'm going to start by reading a brief quote from a poem because I find that poetry helps us connect better as we start and our theme now is connection this is written by George Moses Horton I'll just read the first stanza he says I feel myself in need of the inspiring strains of ancient lore my heart to lift my empty mind to feed and all the world to explore now clearly he's an explorer but he was also born a slave and lives and was able to write and as a poet it's obviously he was able to think beyond his circumstance to explore we're here for discussions with some who are going to think about with us how we help people connect even when their circumstances may make it seem like it's difficult he'll just hand me that clicker that would be amazing this one, thank you so much I'm going to start by just highlighting a few points about my background since I have a new organization here and I'll introduce our other panelists so we can have the slides I'll go next to the first slide so I lead a research team here at the Media Lab called Space Enabled and our work, it really lines closely with open oceans in the sense that just as oceans ask us how can we bring together everyone to be an explorer and a steward of the ocean our work also says we want to ensure everyone has access to technology from space as part of their local and national development activity so we see this as advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space and for us we measure our success along with many of the people around the world by asking are we helping use technology from space as part of the global effort towards sustainable development goals how many of you in some ways use the sustainable development goals as an inspiration or as part of your daily work it's amazing that the more I ask this question the more I see the hands go up which is very exciting we are coming at least to have common languages to describe where we're trying to head by 2030 and hopefully beyond so in our work we see that there are six technologies from space that already help us use technology as part of the long term effort toward development this includes satellites to observe the environment satellites for positioning and communication systems which are often particularly useful when you're on the ocean but also when you go to sea or you go to space we create special technology to help the humans survive so that technology is often useful both as a technology transfer and because in space we also take away the impact of gravity and think about how that influences us and that knowledge is very useful and finally both in space and in the ocean we'd ask how are countries around the world investing in basic research as part of their development process so a lot of my work is interacting with organizations at the international level but also national and local to ask how they are pursuing these activities and we bring a team of people who are artists and designers social scientists modelers and complex systems thinkers as well as satellite engineers and data scientists and all of us are asking how our skills together cannot make technology such a space or other related skills more effective I just want to give one example as I show my team here there's 10 amazing graduate students and we're forming a team now and learning to work together across these boundaries and I want to highlight some work we were doing recently in Benin and did welcome a guest if I can have Genevieve stand up this is Genevieve Yanme so just give her a hand she's one of our research collaborators thank you so much for the close and the conference for allowing her to be here as we're working together to think about the health of coastal communities and particularly we're asking how invasive plants are affecting her native area as well as asking what's happening in mangrove areas this is a view of the ocean looking at the Atlantic coast from Benin and I want to highlight another scientist as well her name is Dr. Lola Patiembo she teaches me about the importance of mangroves as this place where the ocean and the land come together and with her I've been able to travel around through Benin and see both the beauty but also the cost because it is an area where deforestation is a major concern and so we are asking what kind of options as people become both explorers but also stewards and of course people who need to figure out how to meet daily needs in this environment how can fishing and access to firewood or some kind of fuel also be sustainable even as people are working toward their daily needs so that's an opportunity that kind of links to some of the people who are here on the panel so I'd like to jump into introducing them as well so just here next to me which is exciting is an old friend and somebody that we've known for a while here at the Media Lab we should introduce you freshly to make sure people know your latest work so I'm happy to introduce Marguerita Mora who many of you may have known as the managing director of the Conservation Stewards Program for Conservation International but today we're introducing you when you roll in the Otero and there you're focusing on building partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities so we look forward to hearing about that when you present thanks for being here I also want to talk thank you so much to Tierney Tyson for being here as well and Tierney is a National Geographic Explorer as well as a Biologist and Filmmaker and Research Associate at the California Academy of Science so we look forward to your discussion next go to Mark Pierce thank you for being here I think we'll hear a lot about volunteerism from you especially in your role as City Year of Boston's senior management of student engagement and on the far side we have Madeline Foote and she is Associate Director at National Geographic focused on science and exploration and building this community of open explore so a few minutes for each person to discuss and we're asking the question how do we connect people to the ocean but also to each other and so I look forward to each of you taking about six minutes to discuss that and we'll start on this side with Margarita thank you thank you good morning everyone I have a confession I come from the mountains I was born and raised surrounded by the Andes in Ecuador and it is so wonderful to be here surrounded by people that love the ocean most of what remains of nature is in the hands of indigenous peoples these are the areas with the highest diversity of plants and animals the largest carbon stocks areas that are important for us for freshwater cycles and for food security actually these are also the areas that have the highest cultural value to humanity where 95% of all languages are spoken people living in these areas deserve the same opportunities as us however we have to be very very mindful that it is not for us to decide but it is for them to accomplish their vision on how determine their culture and maintain their culture and their territories in the future last century and actually in some places nowadays protected areas were established by pushing people out of their lands by fencing them in many cases there was a lot of miscommunication and manipulation of the people and it caused changing the lives and the ways of being of people this created a lot of resentment and for a good reason actually and it has not been good for the people living in those areas it has not been good for us and it has not been good for the entire planet our future and actually the future of some of the planet's healthiest ecosystems is in the hands of indigenous peoples and they need to defend those territories in order for all of us to thrive how can that happen? If you start thinking a bit about the planet you realize that indigenous peoples have their own knowledge systems that have been tested over hundreds of years in some places thousands of years they have place anchor technologies and that has led them to be what we call the guardians and to accomplish guardianship of those lands which is having the rights accepting the responsibility and having the capacity to sustain vital ecosystems within collective territories this is not an easy task however if you look at the entire world you will find out that more than 25% of the land is managed by indigenous peoples of what is actually registered right there is much more that is not registered and of the waters we actually don't know but if we go to the Pacific islands you will find 17 indigenous island nations that manage 10% of the planet's surface and actually more than 60% of all the tuna catch as Nainoa mentioned this morning they are voyagers, they descend from voyagers they have known how to get from island A to island B by knowing their stars, by knowing the water currents by knowing the waves, by knowing the animals and they are still committed nowadays to maintaining that ocean examples include the Cook Islands and the Yermarae Moana Initiative if we go to the other side of the world to the northern Amazonia region which is one of the most remote regions in the Amazon basin you will have find more than 300 indigenous groups managing an area that is six times the state of California they have been there despite of being wiped out by colonization they know they are forests they know they are animals they know they are water cycles they know the rivers and if you leave them alone they can actually thrive in those areas indigenous peoples are actually facing a lot of pressures and what they need and what they want it is recognition, it is support and it is partnership and what means to be a partner, right? When you start thinking about it it means not imposing our knowledge systems not imposing our ways of learning not imposing what our ways of thinking it ends up meaning being able to listen listen attentively to what these people that have been living in those places have to share with us and it also means acknowledging that it doesn't matter how long you spend in a place you might not ever came to understand it so profoundly as the people that have been born there I have a four year old son he is beautiful and he makes me smile every single day and constantly I am thinking whether he is going to be able to experience and learn from people that see the world in a very different way because that is magic and it makes me ask one question to myself on a regular basis which is what kind of ancestor will I be? What kind of ancestor will we collectively be? And this is not a new question this is a question that indigenous peoples have been asking themselves for generations for hundreds of years for thousands of years in many places and this leads me also to think that if we have the capacity to start thinking about well-being not in terms of what we take but thinking about what we can leave behind maybe we will be able to manage the identity crisis that we have as a society and face some of the most pressing environmental challenges of this century thank you very much I think I'll call on Mark next Thank you so much Thank you Gonna stand I think as well so I didn't bring any slides it's a little less fun I brought just a still but I'm just gonna set this here this still describes a lot so my name is Mark Pierce here from City Year Boston City Year, first I have to describe a little bit of what City Year is City Year is an organization we are funded largely in part by AmeriCorps we're derived from AmeriCorps so we are thinking a lot about every day how we can put volunteers into classrooms in urban public schools and create additional opportunities and give additional I heard it described yesterday as an additional set of eyes additional set of ears and then an additional heart in that classroom so we're in 29 Boston public schools this year constantly expanding last year we were in 23 to give a little bit of a scope of that we're in about I'm gonna misquote it so check City Year.org later and you'll get the real number I think we're in about 28 cities as of this year in the United States and then also interestingly enough we have some across the Atlantic we have a few sites in the UK and a site in South Africa as well but it actually all started here in Boston 30 years ago 30 years and two months ago 1988 so what we do and what we're doing this year especially we put AmeriCorps members young volunteers we usually say around the ages of 17 to 24 some of them are just out of high school and some of them are coming right out of college post undergrad they're looking for something to do something to engage with before they enter the workforce in a different capacity we put those young volunteers into classrooms alongside teachers they don't serve as the primary teacher in the classroom they're alongside the teacher who has been with those kids for years and years we're in we work in third through 10th grade across 29 different schools in Boston what these AmeriCorps members do so we have these very flashy red jackets as well if you don't know the branding of City Year it can be pretty explosive sometimes so here's an example of one of our AmeriCorps members just a shot a moment of working with a student in a classroom we see these, these are happening actually in many cases right now we have almost 300 AmeriCorps members in classrooms right now as we speak or as I speak I should say their goal is to just be that additional set of eyes, ears and heart in the classroom to be there for a student and to create opportunities and to be able to differentiate instruction in ways that they, that students don't always get when you have one teacher in front of 30 students just by having one additional adult in that classroom or reducing that ratio in the educational realm that adult to student ratio is very important because it creates more meaningful experiences for students my role at City Year Boston I did a service year as well I was a bit of a trader I did it in Chicago but Chicago is a great city as well my role at City Year Boston for the past three years I've been really helping organize and promote our after school programs some are before school programs so we call it extended day internally but I'll just call it after school here because it's probably what most people know about it our goal with our after school programs is to extend the school day so our AmeriCorps members are there before the beginning of the first class and they're there through the end of the school day after doing after school programs it's very rigorous year that's why it's a sprint they're volunteering for a year we call it a sprint they're there they are engaging with the students all day they're buy them in the classroom and then at the end of the school day they're taking a break for 10 seconds to catch their breath and then they're out there putting on a program what we can do in those what we have the privilege of doing in those after school programs is delivering curriculum packages delivering instruction delivering opportunities really to the students that they don't get in their everyday classroom experience with math and ELA being huge focuses for our US education system that's obviously a huge priority for increasing likeliness of graduating from high school and that's important that's one of our mission one of our goals what we can do with our after school programs is give them that extra stuff that extra fun engagement opportunity and I heard a lot of kind of passion and philosophy around the idea that we need to support young people and give them opportunities to explore and I think that's what everyone here is really trying to figure out how to capture in their own way and what one thing we have the opportunity to do this year we've committed to working with the our heroes over here at MIT who are developing the Lego program the Lego Robotics program we've committed to bringing that program to a couple of our schools at least a couple we're figuring it out still as we speak but how we can get that opportunity into our classrooms where students who live just in many cases a mile or less from the ocean but don't necessarily get to explore it how we can give them the opportunity to do that both in the classroom at the end of the school day with maybe an aquarium building some Legos I mean I think about how awesome that would have been when I was young building some Legos and being told hey you're gonna be able to take these over to the ocean and explore the ocean floor possibly with some camera maybe collect some data and getting into those new opportunities is really invigorating and inspiring to me so when the question was asked and the partnership came to our door essentially it was very easy to say yes absolutely we want to bring this program to some of our students and our Boston public schools and that's what we're looking forward to do and that's it for me, thank you Thank you so much Mark I want to invite Tia and me to go next if you don't mind just to highlight, I appreciate the notes you gave me at the beginning of the fresh ways you'll help us define connections I look forward to you sharing Oh, yes Well, so first a big thank you to Katie for gathering this amazingly diverse group of people and it's exciting to be here at my dad's alma mater actually first time speaking here I think most of us would love we love looking at scenes like this incidentally this was just taken from one of Sven Lindblad's ships just a couple days ago before in the Channel Islands and we love looking at images like this but I think most of us look at more at images like this and we sit in traffic for many of the hours of the day now we are officially an urban species metrosapiens as some anthropologists have come to call us and we, you know, more of us live in cities than don't and we spend 90% of our time indoors clicking away at our computers and perhaps this is having some influence on our mental health and our rising mental health issues so now I think intuitively we all know that being outside is good for us but recently there's been a slew of evidence-based research that is giving hard science behind why it feels so good to be a tree-hugger there's hard science behind that there's, you know, everything from boosting your microbiome to bolstering your immune system to cognitively restoring you to I'm bringing back your, you know helping your creativity to reducing ADD in schools and it's good for the planet people understanding this natural these natural benefits there's just a slew of information out there now that's supporting this and yet we are careening into being a fully urban species so the research I'm gonna share with you today are a series of research projects that I've been working on that are working to boost our knowledge of and accessibility to nature's benefits and one of these is working with severely nature-deprived populations specifically with incarcerated populations and this is a project with my wonderful colleague Nalini Nadkarni where we've been placing nature imagery into solitary confinement prisons to lower stress and violence and we've had, you know, tremendous success with this we had after a year of deployment 26% reduction in discipline referrals and I just talked to the prisons a couple days ago and they're like we don't have just one of these rooms now we have nine and so great news from that one prison we're working in and then we've had prisons and jails around the country wanting to adopt these blue rooms is what they call them so exciting, exciting stuff there did the time, am I out of time? Oh, oh, huh and so now we're putting what? Oh, okay because my timer said zero so we're now testing soundscapes both songbird and waves and wind and we're testing those to be to put in prisons as well so that research got me more interested in how do we actually process nature imagery and why does it have these benefits? Advertisers know how important imagery is when we read a website we know through eye tracking studies that we use this F pattern of reading a website and we know that when we look, we're drawn to faces and when we look at faces we'll just look at the face and we won't look at the text next to it but we can change the direction of the face and what the face is looking at that will direct our attention more to the text these are things that advertisers know of course we also know that we have a left gaze bias that we tend to look more at the left our left field of a person's right side and we look there for emotional information so all this information that marketers have we need this as conservation biologists and so I've partnered now after a blue mind conference where I met Nick Savet at Stanford I'm now involved in a neuroscience project with Nick at Stanford where we've taken 900 of National Geographic's top Instagram images National Geographic has the largest Instagram account in the world and we are looking at how the brain responds to the nature imagery as we run people through an fMRI scanner and we also, so we see what's going on in their brains when they like the image and also when we ask them to protect that so we can see correlative brain pattern brain activity patterns predictive brain activity patterns that overlap is where we can have behavioral change and where we can optimize our messaging platforms and we're also so what we're also doing with these images is trying to get into the nitty gritty of the components of the imagery whether it has ocean in it or greenery or fractal dimensionality or spatial frequency all those things that you can use to categorize and quantify visual imagery and we tag those we've hand tagged those with RAs at Stanford lots of them we've also partnered with the University of Chicago to get algorithmic tags and in doing this we've been able to then map this with some amazing complex visualization mapping software that's all available on GitHub complements of vibrant data my friend Eric Berlow started that and oh I'm running out of time but we can see that mapping these images they cluster into different fields and we can start to see what parts of those images are most powerful, optimize those and then have that enter into our messaging for environmental campaigning I think that as we careen into being a fully urban species we need to be able to navigate the not only navigate our way into this fast moving future but also figure out how to navigate the dark waters of our cerebral seas that reside inside our bony skull caps and we need to be able to wave find without leaving the blue and the green and our humanity and our sanity behind so thank you Next we welcome Madeline to share about Ocean Explorer, the community, thank you so much Yes, we do have the largest Instagram following of any brand I'm really glad you mentioned that because it's a point of pride it's one of those vanity things, it's great So I work for National Geographic and one of the things that I think a lot about is how we engage people in conservation science and exploration topics and it's been, I only have two slides because every time I do one of these and I listen to all these amazing speakers I end up rewriting my talk like three or four times and I'm like, I should include that or I should mention this So I only had two but I really wanted to go back to the transmedia workshop that we did yesterday when we talked about, you know, Wade, swim and dive into topics a lot of science journalism and science communication does a really good job of the Wade and the swim but how do we create an accessible way for the public to dive deep into topics that they care about? Someone who's mesmerized by a video of a swimming feathered star or, you know, filled with wonder when they see a playful seal or in awe of, you know, the amazing and weird and beautiful things that we find in the deep ocean how do we take those viral moments whether they be funny or profound and get someone to engage more deeply in some of the more complicated, nuanced and sophisticated science conservation exploration narratives that don't span the 39 seconds of the Facebook video but actually often span years and are filled with failure and successes and changes in direction really the scientific process how it really works out. One of the things that I have encountered a lot in thinking about this is, you know in science journalism we often cover discoveries and successes but no one walks into a forest or into a tidal pool and picks up an animal and is like, new species but it appears that way from sometimes how we write about these things usually it was years of returning to that field site lots of work, lots of mistakes maybe they weren't even looking for it in the first place and there's amazing stories on that path that the public very rarely hears from the pages or from the Instagram places like National Geographic so how can we provide that? We ended up helping build a community called Open Explorer which we envisioned as a community for science conservation and exploration and really is like a digital field journal where people can follow scientists and their work and their teams or their labs or their projects over the course of weeks, months even years of research being done and we continue to build digital tools on this platform to try to connect people directly to scientists but also to try to get people not just observing but actually potentially participating more and more in science and conservation one of the things that we observe about how people dive into new things is they observe initially and then often what they do is they imitate and off imitation they end up iterating and that's only after that that we get into iteration or into innovation but it's really hard for them to get to innovation or really engaging if they can actually see how these processes evolve and besides just making science more transparent and engaging people in this process we also wanted to create a community where we could actually like literally empower people like it's great to be like oh great stories that's very important but one of the things that I've always really wanted to do is like actually get people tools and actually get them exploring the ocean and if you want people to do something you have to make it easy and that's actually really hard to do in design and in community building and stuff but we have partnered with a ROV company named OpenROV which has actually gotten a couple mentions from the stage and with funding from Rolex from the Moore Foundation for the Avatar Alliance OceanX and the Schmitt Marine Technology Partners through Open Explorer we're actually gonna be giving away a thousand underwater ROVs to scientists, to students, to NGOs, to local communities, to indigenous groups, people who have questions and want to see what's below the surface but either don't have access for like logistical and infrastructure reasons or even if they do have access it's limited by the amount of time they can spend underwater by a brief field season. Our goal in doing this was really to get people excited about exploring and then documenting what they were doing, how were they modifying their ROVs, what are they finding and actually expand the community of people who can do ocean exploration in a really like literal, profound, immediate way and I'm really excited about it which is why I wanted to talk about it today and so I actually have like three things that I wanted to like come out of this talk. One is I would love for you to consider this an invitation to contribute or participate in Open Explorer. We have a ton of people here who I'm gonna embarrass and call out who are already involved including Katie and Diva and Andrew Soller and Carlos who talked about the Manta rays yesterday documented how they were doing that project on our platform. It's become a really vibrant place where people are documenting how they're building tools, protocols and how they're working with local groups to do innovation in ocean exploration. The second thing is that I'm fairly new to this space. I've only been working at National Geographic for about 18 months and we launched Open Explorer in April and we launched the sea initiative less than three weeks ago. So my network is primarily through the National Geographic realm and that means it is predominantly Western English speaking and is not super diverse but there's amazing people here doing work with local groups all over the world and if you have people whose work or research or communities would benefit from tools like these I would love to talk to you. And then lastly, what's the third thing? Yeah, no, I think I'll just end it there and say that I really wanna get tools to more people and I wanna then get their stories out to the National Geographic audience on Instagram, across our magazine, across our online presence and if that is something that sounds like something you would like to do I would really like to talk to you. Thank you so much. Thank you all for sharing so passionately. I wanna go to questions very soon but before I do I really like how you ended your piece with a call to action and invitation. I wanna allow all the other panelists to take just about 30 seconds each and answer two ideas. One is basically what do you feel so urgent about your work right now and what do you want people in the audience to do in response to this urgency? What action can they take or can they encourage other people to take based on the urgent issues you see now? So I'll start with you Marieta. Yeah, for me it is urgent for more and more people to understand and recognize the role of indigenous peoples in actually protecting all of us and I urge you to read some amazing books about it so that you can get to be so passionate about it as I am. One of the amazing books is The Way Finders by Wade Davis. It is a really good introduction that can open a lot of ideas for action. That's great. So read The Way Finders, thank you. Go ahead, Tia. Oh and he also has a series of lectures online if you don't wanna read it. Nobody seems to read these things. All of a sudden there are options for everyone. If you wanna be more visually oriented. I would just say it is so important to culture a love of the natural world as youngsters and if you have access to kids, get your kids outside. Get them comfortable being outside. The thing I worry about most is as we put more and more walls between ourselves and the natural world, especially when we're youngsters, we're not gonna have that deep bond that we need in order to protect our natural resources as adults and that bond has to be made repeatedly and it has to be made deeply and it has to be made when we're young. So get your kids outside and keep them outside even when it's raining. All right, please. Sure. I think one of the most urgent things about that keeps me just kind of focused on why I do what I do is the idea that there's not always enough opportunity to make a connection that's genuine through the curriculum that's being given in the United States at this point. I can't speak for other countries but there's just such a limited scope as we focus in on what is really important to get students to graduation of high school and that doesn't necessarily include all the time the arts and the sciences and different in those more explorative capacities. So I think what's urgent is giving students those empirical experiences to enjoy something and to be engaged in something and for some spark of inspiration to occur when they realize how accessible the outside world is and also you get to play with Legos in this program. That's amazing. Nowadays building is through Minecraft and through Fortnite and that's tough and I would love to see students make connections building with their hands again. Like I once did. Madeline, you get one more chance to give us a call to action. Oh, I think the call to action to me for me. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. You were trying to pass it. You can. No. You really feel like you need one. No, I should. I was sitting back here saying forward is community. Yeah, I guess I'm like a meta level. I really care that I think sometimes we think that if we lower the barriers to science and exploration it means we're lowering the bar and I think Alan like hit on the head with we need more tools that people can use that don't need the fourth and fifth decimal places on them. What we're doing is trying to bring the first of those tools out there. I would love, it's been up three weeks. We've gotten hundreds of applications for these from all over the world. So many interesting organizations. But I'm already like ready to do the next one. Like what's the next tool that we can make available to our community, be it terrestrial or ocean based. And my other call to action would be if you guys have ideas for tools or what we should be addressing next and how to empower ocean exploration or terrestrial exploration. Please come talk to me because I'm like ready for the next thing already. Thank you. I think it's a fun. I get to stand up and I'm going to ask for help. If it's really far away I'm going to ask for multiple throws. All right, I see someone in the back. You want to ask a question? So please do. I'm going to ask for team throwing. Can I get someone to help me get it all the way to the back row? All right, green shirt. Can you help me out? There you go. Keep going fast until it's in the back. Keep raising your hand. She's going back to her. Keep going one more time. And good team. Thank you. Thank you very much. So first of all, thanks a lot. That was a really interesting session. But I have a question. I'm constantly exhausted and somewhat depressed by how indigenous people are treated by our own. So by those of us that travel, whether it's conservation, whether it's the adventurers, whether it's the academics. And I just wanted to know, because I'm constantly hitting a brick wall on how to communicate on this topic, how to the concept of treating people as equals. How do you deal with this? How are you getting the message out to people that we're doing this wrong? Yeah, that is a really good question and a challenging answer, right? Because it all depends who are you talking with. There is a very heavy bias to science. And what people sometimes don't understand that might be part of the traditions on the way of knowledge of indigenous people is seen as like, ah, that is really something not useful, right? What is interesting nowadays is that more and more people are recognizing that the fate of our planet and ourselves is in the hands of indigenous peoples worldwide. If you look at how nature is doing and you compare protected areas with indigenous territories, indigenous territories are way better managed than protected areas, right? So there are numbers for the people that need numbers to show that this is a path that we need to follow. Because otherwise, we are not going to move in the way that we want to move in order to address the social and environmental challenges that we are facing. Thank you, that was very, very clear. If we have another hand, if so, can we get a team toss all the way to the lady here in the red sweater? All right, team. We'll have to coordinate the team a bit more. One more throw, I think we'll get it there. Thank you so much. And maybe if I can ask, it is also a message of hope. It is also a message of hope because despite all of the challenges that indigenous peoples have faced, they are still there. And they will be there. Thank you, Margarita. Please go ahead. Hi, thank you all. I was wondering what advice you might have for how we can encourage minority students here in the US or, I mean abroad, wherever, to find their own personal kind of connection to and stake in science that not only uses their own identity, but leverages that and celebrates it. It might be a good one for City Year to speak of. Yeah, I think incredibly challenging. I think the best thing we can do is create opportunities to explore something new, right? Which is another just example of how we're seeing kind of the genesis of City Year and MIT working together, creating this experience to make a unique opportunity, to allow a student to engage in something that's outside of their technology and outside of their block, their neighborhood, right? I don't know if I could possibly be even qualified to answer the question at a broad, but I think it's really about creating those experiences. And one of the things that we are aiming to do in City Year is put another person there to ask those questions of students. So I think mentorship plays a huge role in it, and that's something that we find really important in our work and in our service is giving opportunities for students to have a mentor to talk to, just to receive questions from and to be asked what is it that you're interested in or what is it that I could get you interested in to see that there's different possibilities that can create that spark to really create this empirical experience that says that you can do something different from what you're experiencing now, and I think that that's important. And then, I think, from open exploring, there's a piece of this as well, right? Yeah, absolutely. I think people really connect with stories on a really fundamental level, and we talk about that natural border being a portal to other worlds. And in order to, if we can get someone to walk through that door, we can get them to walk out of another door as like a slightly different person. That's the power of storytelling. And especially when we talk about science and academia, there is a real anxiety people have about talking about failure and about fear and about the emotional and the personal aspects of their work, and that's actually something that I really actively encourage, that we create an inclusive community that celebrates failure as well as victories. And those stories are more relatable and more emotionally potent, and ultimately I think more representative of what it's like to be a human and to be a scientist. And I think that's gonna be really important in making scientific career seem accessible to people who are not seeing the daily struggles of academics who will all volunteer, that they are struggling with their work and there's failure and they have to make changes in shift direction. And so I think the way people talk about themselves and present themselves is gonna be an important way to make science more accessible to people who don't have access to it. Thank you all so much. We've come to the end of our time. I'll just highlight one angle to your answer is also asking how we make the policies that make systems for education and opportunities for career advancement more available to everyone, which is something we're still working on in space and oceans. Thank you all so much for your discussion and we really appreciate your work and connection. So I'm the last thing that is between you and lunch. So I'll keep it brief. I wanted to introduce a project and here's the clicker that was started just over six months ago. So and really one of the first reasons that I came here to the Media Lab was to bring the lab and National Geographic closer together because as Joey was talking about deploy or die, deploy. There are a whole lot of people at National Geographic who are deploying all the time but don't always necessarily have technologies they need to explore any number of different types of extreme environments. So we held an event here in this room called Here Be Dragons and we brought something like 15 National Geographic Explorers and other ocean explorers of all different kinds to really talk about the gaps that exist in exploration and storytelling and technology. And the end goal of the event was for people to form teams and to come up with project ideas that then would move forward afterward. And so we ended up with 13 proposals for these rapid field deployments and the goals of all of them were to better understand the ocean and to connect people to it in some way. They also had to be uniquely suited to the combination of both the National Geographic and MIT communities. And we used a number of criteria to select them including that they had to be innovative, impactful, compelling and achievable. So outside during lunch you'll see demos from the eight projects that were selected in February. So there's still some of them vary in sort of beta prototyping mode. A lot of them still in progress. But we're very excited that we've made progress in such a very short period of time. And they range, I'm not gonna go into detail on all of them, but they range from using machine learning to automatically track and classify underwater imagery to working with neurodivergent youth here in Boston to bring them into the inner title zone to creating immersive experiences to make you feel like you're a microbe on a slide. One of them we don't have here today is the Connected Coral Project by Emily Salvador who moderated the Imagine panel yesterday. Sorry, Immersed Panel. Because that one is on display at the MIT Museum right now. So you'll all have a chance to see it tonight during the reception this evening. We also have Dominique Rizzolo and Antonella Wilby, excuse me, have a table out there to talk more about their Hundred Islands project. So please definitely take a look at their table. And yes, please have conversations. Everybody is super excited to share their work with you and to give feedback on what we could do next with all of these projects. One final note is that we are not coming back here before breaking up into workshops. So please keep an eye on the time. Workshops will start at 1.30 and just after lunch, disperse to wherever you need to be. Again, it's on the back of your name tag. And telepresence, rather than going to the fifth floor, we're gonna start in the lecture hall which is just across the little hallway here. So if you are in either telepresence section, please start there and then you'll move down to the fifth floor after the live connection with the ship. So that's all for me. Thank you so much and enjoy lunch. We're gonna do our workshop report backs right now and then wrap it up. So I'd like to invite John up to the stage for the Ocean in Transformation. Thank you, Cathy. Ocean in Transformation is a project that we are developing as a long-term research project together with the TBA 21 Academy, Tissemba Namitza Art Academy, which is represented here by Marcus Reimann. I'm John Palmedino from Territorial Agency, which is a group of architects working on the ocean. And we are trying to understand how cohabitation and conviviality can be rethought in the age of the Anthropocene. What we did today were two sessions, each one more or less with 70, 80 participants, looking at two complex data sets, one in the Pacific and one in the Atlantic, overlaying multiple open access data sets on the ocean in order to create this rather complex image of the ocean in transformation that range from, say, the Caribbean all the way to the Philippines or from the Caribbean all the way to the Arctic following the Gulf Stream. Each one of the sessions had groups looking at these images and some of the participants mistook Nova Hezbollah in the Arctic for the Florida coast. Others knew exactly what was going on in the meanders of the fjords of Norway and they could recognize it immediately. So it was a moment of disorientation at the beginning, but that disorientation was for us very important because it allowed us to engage with the key element of the workshop, which was to start thinking the ocean as a set of interrelations, as a set of entities that are completely self-organized and relating to other entities that are equally set for organized without ever having an overview. And so that initial misconception by members of the workshop allowed us to enter that. We had two very different sessions. The first one was probably more energetic. It was a larger group. Out of 10 groups, we had 10 different stories. The second session was quieter but engaging in a completely different dynamic and we had many more overlaps across the stories that were told. The method that we followed was in four steps. We asked the participants to identify an entity that could be sustained in space and time, either in short periods or in very long periods in spaces of time. So we went from identifying little species, inhabiting the reef all the way to identifying the ligno or the Gulf Stream transforming its dynamics. And then we asked, once we started identifying the entities, to look at how they are affecting their immediate surroundings. So we started seeing the entities operating as a transformative agency. We started looking at the agencies of these entities in the ocean being distributed. That was the first step. The second step was to look at it backwards. We started looking at how the immediate surroundings of those entities that we identified were affected, the entity that we looked at. And we started finding couplings and both positive and negative feedbacks. And then came the most difficult part and that was to tell the story of cycles, of entities that were now circular relations in respect to what they are affecting. So a cycle affecting other cycles. And this was probably the most difficult part in terms of storytelling around data sets, where data set became really engaging. And we had people talking about nuclear tests or the relationship between whales and deep sea mining. We had people talking about moratorium on the exploration in the deep sea. Other people talking about the relationship between the long history of slave trade and exploitation of labor at sea and contemporary forms of engagement with international trade and the sea routes that are changing because of the global warming. So the number of stores that we are bringing home today with us are multiplied. We thought that we had too much on the table and we go back with far more. And this is exactly where the project for us is interesting because we start thinking that the ocean is the location of contemporary forms of knowledge production that allows us to think the Anthropocene in a completely different way. When we are on land, we still think that we are disconnected. We still think that we are stable, that the land beneath our feet is only to be owned. When we start thinking the disconnection in the ocean, we start thinking the Anthropocene in a far more interesting way. And the question that we are really bringing up back home with us is a number of conditions through which the groups at the table somehow facilitated a description of the ocean in a way that was non-human. It was a mixture between human and non-human agencies that allowed then maybe for possible future diplomatic encounters and hopefully a climate peace to be in the future. So thank you very much for everyone who participated in the workshop. We really appreciated your time and particularly your phenomenal intelligence. And thank you, Cathy, Dan, Jenny, and all the people here at MIT lab and at NOAA for allowing us to be here and do this experiment with you. Thank you very much. We're gonna tag team this one. So telepresence across scales, we had two very different sets of conversations and Brian and I have spent a little bit of time trying to figure out what we can tease out of both of them that's actionable. And one of the things we did is because it's about telepresence, we had remote participation from the Okeanos Explorer and the Nautilus and we very much appreciate you if you're watching this video at some point. Thank you and all of the participants, thanks very much for your thoughtful and in many cases heartfelt and energetic contributions to the discussion. So one of the things that we were really pushing the participants to think about is that circumstances are changing and so we were not just looking for incremental improvements over current practice but rather we were saying, if you go to the Consumer Electronics Show and you see there are three different brands of consumer undersea drones for sale there and you realize that there are millions of people every day who sit around and watch other people play video games. There is clearly a whole lot of untapped potential in the telepresence space and in the space of watching and creating additional value with regard to the huge volumes of videos that are already being generated and streamed and stored. And I think part of that was building the critical mass of number of vehicles out there like right now where you've got Nautilus, Okeanos and Falcor diving maybe six months or eight months total out of the year but once we start having all these consumer electronic drones posting information in the cloud you can hit this critical mass of enough people interested in it where people might be watching for their subsection but you can draw from all these different sources and one or two people may be watching all the time when something cool happens it'll snowball and the influencers are pulled together and people will start creating their own content based on this raw input and from an outreach and engagement standpoint you get this massive amount of data coming out to the community that is kind of being self-curated and will allow a much larger group of people to interface with the data from all around the world. Now in conjunction with that there were a couple of dimensions that people seemed to agree needed a lot more work and these included how do you create a sense of community among the people who are doing that and second how do you do loop closing? This is no longer just broadcast but in fact if lots of people are looking at your stuff how can you benefit from all of the care that they've put into watching the stuff you didn't have time to watch and look up information about and so thinking about how you create an incentive for that content not just being used for a bunch of middle schoolers to get excited about the ocean but actually for you to think about what is your next cruise going to do based upon what these people found to value in your previous one. And as part of that in looking at it not from just the engagement outreach side but looking at it from the scientific side with this probably precipitous drop in bandwidth and equipment cost that's coming between the drones, the access, the bandwidth, getting that information out there making sure that information is collected and uploaded in such a way that it's scientifically useful as well so it can go out and capture the hearts and minds of people but as well the higher end users, the scientists and the serious citizen scientists can still use that data in such a way that is scientifically relevant. Right, so there was another set of discussions regarding how much context is appropriate in order to give people a proper sense of what it is they're actually looking at and the discussion of the previous workshop brought in that notion a little bit that do you just want to show video? Do you have other pieces of curated information that allow people to get a better sense of what it is that they're working with? Anything else to add? I have to check my notes. Too many people talking too often. I can't keep track of that. I was trying to reread our great note taker Susan Haynes' notes before I came up here and I didn't have time to even finish them all. It was quite a lively crew in there. Great. I think that was pretty much it. I think that was it as well. So thank you all. And if you'd like to talk to us about what do we do about it, I think we're both going to be trying to do something about it and looking for other people to join in with us. Absolutely. Thank you all. Thank you. Hello, everyone. I'm going to keep this short and sweet. So I'm Clarice Sullivan and I participated in the workshop on designing a pop-up discovery lab this afternoon and during the workshop when they asked what our thoughts were, our definitions of a pop-up discovery lab, a few words and concepts came to mind. A lot of people said that it should be something that is low cost, something that can easily be replicable. And especially accessible to more people, especially those that are in areas that are hard to reach. Like in our country, most of our aquariums and museums are mainly found in the city. It's harder to build a museum in the provinces. So having a pop-up lab for sure would be something that is easily to carry to an area would be great. It is also a sort of tangible media that can mainly teach children and even adults different scientific concepts using hands-on activities as well. And during the workshop, they also talked about having a framework or a structure that teachers, researchers and scientists can use so that they can design their own pop-up discovery lab. And the main bullet points of that is you need to identify a question that you're trying to ask. What is your area of interest? What do you want to teach these children or the adults? Who is your audience? Will it be children? Will it be middle schoolers? Will it be high schoolers? And what are the constraints and physical and financial considerations that you will need to address if you are gonna build a discovery lab that you will be taking to different places? It's, you can't essentially log around an Illumina sequencer to, I don't know, a remote island easily, so maybe you could try an Anapor sequencer or you could try bringing, if you wanna talk about microbes, maybe a very small compound microscope inside of like the big other microscopes. And then the other, I know. And then when they also asked us to do some hands-on creation of our own labs, a couple of ideas that they had was to build a remotely operated mini-tank that essentially rides along the bottom of the reef or of the vent thick area to explore the splash zone because you don't wanna send in little children or other students into a break zone and there's like a wave that's about to just like essentially wipe them out. Other ideas that they had was having a float cam in the middle of the water column. Somebody mentioned an augmented reality tool and also a motion camera for the water. And all of these ideas that they had mainly focused on citizen science and essentially making science accessible to all. So thank you. Hi, I'm Neil. So in this workshop we talked about how do you design crowdsourcing or crowd computing system. We started with the science of crowd computing. We talked about strengths and limitations of artificial intelligence algorithms. We looked at like how data is growing and what kind of techniques that will help us to get labeled data so that we can train AI algorithms in a better way. When doing crowd computing, we don't realize the risks associated with it. Lot of time we engage with the crowd like, oh, they're gonna label the data. But can we make crowd as a partner? Can we build the platform for them to succeed? Why should they contribute? So we discussed those topics. We briefly talk about previous platforms that are successful. We looked at the success stories and failures and we concluded with ethical discussions like what it means to kind of involve the crowd. But not to misuse them in the scientific exploration process. In the end, we had two different projects. We asked people to engage into and people then break into two groups. And both of those groups discussed more problems which often arise in these kind of ecosystems. So one of the problems Ben will talk and other Jeremy, Rebecca and Max will talk about. So the problem that I was talking about and generally was dealing with the vast amounts of video and imagery data that exists in across scales in ocean exploration. So in the theme of crowdsourcing and crowd computing, it was interesting that the two sessions kind of broke across different, in the first session, there was a lot of talk around engagement and talking about the logistical challenges in getting people involved and determining what the right questions to ask people are and what the level of expertise and error you might want to get people engaged in that. And in the second session, it was a lot more around a common theme that we're hearing of how do you solve the underlying challenge of accessibility and there is no place for you to go and upload everyone's underwater data on the internet so that it can be accessible to everyone in one of these platforms. So it kind of highlighted the technical and the logistical challenges around building some of these systems. So I introduced some case studies of use of actually like satellite imagery and satellite data for ocean exploration. And people discussed those case studies in a couple of different ways. First, how you can engage like a wider audience using that data because it is undeniable that data such as sea surface temperature or even just like imagery is much harder to wait to for a wider audience than personal video of an encounter with an octopus on the sea floor. So in terms of using or leveraging like crowd computing for science, people talked about perhaps using ground truth in situ like verification of data collected for all these satellites. You can contact like local communities to actually go out and study and collect samples of their coastal ecosystems to verify the data they're getting from these satellites. Another aspect we talked about were ethical considerations. So as one example, you can track fishing data from fishing ships all around the world and you could theoretically source out so people can identify illegal fishing activity, but that might enable a whole fleet of kind of like vigilante people who are going out and trying to prosecute illegal fishing activity. And that might be what we want. It might be not what we want. So it was an interesting discussion. I think people had different thoughts on that topic. You want to share other thoughts? So Jeremy, Max and I all working on the same project, largely focusing on how we can use the satellite data that's already available to solve different problems around the oceans. So one of the big things that I took away from this is while a lot of this data from like NASA and NOAA and other international organizations is technically available online. It's not necessarily usable. So while NASA and NOAA have all these great data sets, how can we make those more usable for people who are interested in trying to solve ocean problems to try to use that data in a better way? And I think all that I would add is it gave me a sense of truly the magnitude of the problem, just how much data is out there and how much is used for a specific purpose and then the challenge at like accessing that data for other purposes and bringing that from wherever it was stored into use for another purpose. So before we conclude, there's one thing which kind of like came out in both of the workshops that most of the time we are so fascinated with having access to big data, but we often forget like what kind of problem that we are trying to solve. So it's very important to kind of like spend at least few months figuring out what's the research question or exploration question that as a stakeholder we want to solve and how to kind of like decompose that problem so that citizen science community can understand it. So I think focus needs to shift from a lot of data to like what are the challenging problems out there and how to break them down so that people from high school to senior citizens can participate and solve them collectively. Okay, so I'm Randy Rogin, I'm from Boston University and it was a pleasure to run this workshop with many other people, all of whom were still in the room and about 80 of you who came. So we covered a lot of ground and I know it's late so I'll try to briefly sum up here. My Deepsea My Backyard was a project that was born from the Dragon's Workshop that happened here in the MIT Media Lab in February. And what it's really about is democratizing the oceans. It's really about broadening ocean access and making anybody an explorer and an explorer on your terms where you get to explore your own backyard for the purposes that you want for the reasons that you would like on your time scale and on, you know, at your convenience. In order to operationalize that, we had the pleasure of putting out two pilot experiments that were still going on, two pilot programs, using Nat Geo drop cams, the open ROV Trident and a custom made reel cam that Bren and Phillips wherever you are in this room built is part of our team. We are in the midway through those projects and we've actually been both to Trinidad and Tobago and to Kiribis to bring this technology, teach people how to use it, train them on the finer points of troubleshooting things when they go wrong or how to tweak things and how to access the data, try to figure out what they might be looking at and then have left the tech in country for everyone to be able to explore again on their own terms. This is part of building a distributed model of exploration where anybody can contribute. And so at our workshop, what we did is we tried to take that example and open it up to everybody to try to figure out how everyone in the room, regardless of where you're from or where you work or where you think you might want to work or even in a virtual space, might be able to embrace my deep sea, my backyard to be able to bring exploration to anyone. And a huge thank you to Noah and Katie and MIT Media Labs for hosting a workshop that was able to take something that was developed in a pilot project and really turn it into something that we could have a really important visioning conversation about for everyone. So our workshop was broken into three pieces. We talked about technology, culture and capacity and the next generation. And from the tech point of view, we really came to a few conclusions both as a team and as a workshop that it has to be easy to use in this kind of model and it has to be low maintenance and logistically simple. And one of the other things that came out of both sessions of our workshop was the desire for increased capacity of this technology, things like adding sound or adding extra sensors or even the ability to potentially stream live to some extent or stream quickly afterwards so that more and more people could access what people were seeing. It's the kind of idea where you're excited about it and so your parents are gonna be excited about it and your neighbors are gonna be excited about it and whatever community you have, you would like to be able to have the ability to engage even with small tech. From a culture perspective, there was a lot of conversation about how this works in landlocked parts of the United States or other parts of the world. And the workshops came to a couple of general thoughts and conclusions, for example, using lakes or rivers as proxies for ocean exploration, just any way to engage and taking a watershed approach through that. So understanding how all of these freshwater ecosystems relate to the ocean because of course everything does and really just exciting and igniting this culture of exploration with whatever body of water you have. One of the other really important cultural pieces that came out was the importance of having a key person as a project champion without the one person who's going to take this, embrace it, be passionate about it and run with it. It would never have the traction that it needs and it was really exciting to see 80 people in the room over two workshops, each one of which could have been that one person and who knew a lot more. So I think those people exist and are out there. We also talked about culture in terms of even the coastal parts of the United States, but there's so much urbanization. So what does exploration in an urban context look like versus a rural one? And how can we use some of those concentrations of geography and space and people and what opportunities that opens up to have exploration and engage a larger body. And we also talked about engaging community leaders both in a traditional sense or not and what that might mean in different parts of the country or the world. From a capacity perspective, there was a lot of talk about increasing capacity from an educational standpoint, engaging students, engaging citizen scientists, engaging recreational fishers, but there were some also really creative ideas that came out of these workshops. For example, one of the best things about My Deep Sea, My Backyard is that you can take low cost, small, easily accessible tech and deploy it off of any boat, even a kayak. But at that point, the explorer is limited to one or two people or if you have a small ship, maybe three or four or a larger ship or boat ship. But if you really want to reach a lot of people and you still have small tech, how can you augment that? And one of the creative ideas that came out of our workshop was maybe having a drone fly overhead so that you can have a shore based audience while you're actually putting something in the water. And about creating physical spaces for students where this becomes a gathering point. And I think there was just a lot of really creative and energetic ideas that came from the concept of capacity and culture by using this technology. In the end, My Deep Sea, My Backyard really is about inspiring and contributing to a community based program for ocean exploration wherever your community is. And I think that we had a lot of excitement in the room about what's possible, the tech that exists, the tech that's yet to be, and all of the explorers who are out there. So thank you. Pick up the clicker and I've also got knitted toys to play with. It's really great, so. Okay, so yesterday I was the last speaker before the reception and today I'm the second to last speaker so things are moving up for me. Which is great. And my talk is shorter so that's even better for you. What the, I think we can all agree we've had a great time here and it's been a very impressive event in every possible way. As someone who's been involved with the Ocean Exploitation Forum since the first one in 2013 where I collaborated very closely with Jerry Schuble, it's really gratifying for me to see them evolve and change and take advantage of the venues, invite more diversity in all different ways you want to define that. Discipline, diversity, age, gender, everything. We've really, I think, come a long way from the first one, however important that was. So really appreciate Katie and the team here working with us and Carly Weiner and others to pull this one off. So the question, I think we're all energized, we've also all been to workshops where we can't really remember what we said or did in about two weeks. Okay, so what do we do about that? So what we've done, and I like to explain a little bit about our process which is a bit of an experiment for us, is a couple of things. First of all, all this material, the transcripts, the video. We hope the presenters will allow the presentations to be archived and used. We'll be collated and shipped off to a group called Human Design in Boulder. So Human Design is a very important part of the XPRIZE workshops and some of you may have talked to John or Reid who just had a dash off to get their flight back to Boulder but they're a design agency, a messaging agency, a marketing company and they're very passionate personally about the ocean. So they're going to help us structure this report to be a bit different than maybe we shouldn't call it a report, maybe we should call it something else but a document, a book that will help to capture the spirit and the great ideas that we've come up with here. So we're pretty excited about that because quite frankly, those of us involved in production of these before have other jobs and they take a while so the document that you I hope picked up on the table back there was from October, 2017 and it was printed last week so that you could have it here. We'd like to do better than that next time, okay? So that's one thing. The second thing is we had rapid tours in each of the workshops. So rapid tours, if you're here, please stand up. Okay, these are mostly NOAA people, also Allison Fundes and some others, Carly. I want to give a big round of applause for these people who worked very hard. Okay, so if you forgot what you did in two weeks, they remembered because they took notes so we'll also use those but we need more help and in the spirit of creating community and promoting community and not forgetting what we did here in two weeks after Thanksgiving, you're going to get a survey on Tuesday, Katie, right? Okay, so in addition to resources page on the website we'll have things like the X Prize presentation and Jodica's paper and perhaps the other presentations and other material. We're going to rely on you to take the survey quickly within a week, I think a week's reasonable, otherwise you'll forget, right? And it's going to have three simple questions because ultimately we need to capture your ideas and your energy and your perspective. I don't want to sit here with Katie and kind of try and put together what happened here and then produce something that may not be very interesting in a few months. You can help prevent that from happening so this is why you have to take the survey. So who knew? That's a question about what was unexpected or what was interesting about this event and it doesn't have to be, I mean, plenty of stuff in the presentations or the workshops, no question but in the spirit of community we also all had sidebars. I might have had more sidebars than actual workshop experience but never mind. What happened in those sidebars that was unexpected or new to you, changed your thinking or opened up a new vista. Okay, so we're giving you these questions now it's kind of cheating, so you're not getting this cold but we want you to be thinking about these so that you can quickly answer and respond because we want to capture this stuff. So the second thing is, and I'm famous on my team for this question, also provided to my undergraduate professor who would write on my papers so what at the end of them, so big deal. You learn something, what are you going to do but why is this significant, why does it matter? Why does it matter to you but also why does it matter to the community and why does it matter in terms of how we engage with public and ocean issues? So that's ultimately, we can all have a good time if you're really warm and fuzzy about our experiences here but if you don't start to translate it into the so what question, all we've done is have a great time, not insignificant, certainly but it doesn't have the impact I think we all want to have. And then the final thing is the let's go question is two parts, one is what are we going to do about that, okay? We all have skills and talents, we all have passion. I'm a little bit famous for also saying this perhaps regrettably but great, you're passionate, what can you do, okay? Passion isn't enough, it's necessary but not sufficient. So what everyone in this room has a skill or something they know how to do that can make this equation different in six months a year, five years. Okay, so what is that? It could be data science, you could be a media person, you could make films, you could be developing the low cost innovative technologies that we've talked a lot about which are fascinating to me. There are lots of skill sets in this room that need to be applied to these problems that we've identified or these opportunities that we have identified. So what can you do and how can you contribute? Are the questions of let's go? So I would like us all to think about this in a year and realize that we were different, our work is different, the world is different in some tiny way, probably not gonna change the entire world but maybe a corner of it because we were here and because we were energized by each other and by this ocean exploration community. Okay, so we're providing other resources for you as well. The all hands on deck hashtag will be active so you'll be here, you'll monitor that, you'll be seeing things on social media, inviting you to build and add to the community. As I mentioned, the resources page will be available and will definitely be in touch. So thank you very much. It was a pleasure getting to know many of you. I've got some more time with the reception and with that I'm going to turn it over to Katie after she's got her kids going away there. I'll carry the water. We can have lots of water after. Somebody wanted to help me. Have some water and then come up. All right, sorry. Moving on. First I would like to thank our organizing committee for all hands on deck, David and Adrienne from the No Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Carly from the Schmidt Ocean Institute and our Media Lab team that really were the core team that put all of this together. Also our amazing speakers, especially those who said, I don't do anything in the ocean so I don't know why you're inviting me. Thank you for trusting me and being here and I really thought it brought a huge new different dimension to what we're doing here. Also all of our workshop leads, our rapporteurs and all of our demos, they put a ton of work into all of these projects for the last six to nine months and I couldn't be more excited about everything that happened here. And thanks to all of you for being here. So please keep yourselves. Because we can book caterers, we can book an awesome production team but the energy, the magic, everything that happened here is really because you all were here and made it possible. So I've dedicated, oh and really made it possible with all of our sponsors of course, particularly the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and everyone else who is able to contribute and help us financially to make it possible for our ocean discovery fellows to be here, for us to eat amazing food and really for all of this to happen. So I've spent my entire career, about half my life now, to ocean exploration. And I'm still amazed by the new perspectives that come to light by events like this, by serendipitous encounters. I've like, and all the conversations that I've been hearing. Wanna sit with me? There we go. Naenoa this morning said that the movement is the ultimate voyage and that movement is starting here today right here in this room and I'm gonna get all weepy again. And I think there are incredible number of reasons to be optimistic, I truly do. So what we've started here really feels like something new and I'm not just saying that so many people have come out to me and said the exact same thing. And as Alan, Leonardo, said in his remarks yesterday, and has been the theme throughout both of these days is that this gathering is about opening the ocean to everyone, new ideas, new approaches, ancient voices, new voices, all joining into conversation together. The planet doesn't have time, we don't have time to keep doing things the way we have been. We need to accelerate how we're learning about the ocean and how we're communicating and engaging the entire planet in the conversation. And to do that, we really need to do things differently. In our lightning talk today, Lee Marsh said, well, we've never turned on that instrument at that depth so why would we do it now? But we did and they discovered something new. So we need to keep doing the unexpected, keep pushing ourselves to do things that break the cycles of how we've always done things. We've seen some awesome examples of how to do things differently from Lego and comedy and knitting and volunteerism. And by bringing all of these ideas together collectively, I think we truly can make a difference. No one organization, no one person can navigate the solution to the challenges that face us alone. It's really the connections that we made here today and beyond that will help us get there. The MIT Media Lab is about convening these groups in crazy ways and really harnessing their power and deploying results and I'm sorry Reese isn't here but I am stoked that we had the opportunity to host the National Ocean Exploration Forum this year and to explore these ideas over the last two days. I hope that the connections made here can help us find this new path forward to a discovered open ocean. Thanks guys. Thanks everybody. So we have our final reception at the MIT Museum. The address is up here. If you'd like to take a picture of it or read it down and take a walk, it's about a 10 minute walk or we also have a shuttles. I think we're actually running a little bit early so we won't wait until 6.15 whenever shuttles get packed up. Please jump in them. Head over again the connected coral exhibit will be there on the first floor. That's Emily Salvador's work and I hope you're all able to check it out and enjoy the new Harishoff exhibit which is a big naval architecture exhibit that just opened a couple weeks ago at the museum which should be stunning. So really looking forward to it and enjoying the last evening with you all and tomorrow at the IMAX Theater at the New England Aquarium. Please join us. All sorts of really fun events that are open and free to the public. So please join us and tell your friends. Thanks guys. Oh, wait, Beth has a question or something.


Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. Welcome to an upcoming webinar titled Trade in the Side of Institutional Money in Gaps. It is a webinar by me, Melissa Armell. I own a company called the StocksWish LLC. If you're interested in more information, you can email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com and feel free to go to my website, www.thestockswish.com, or follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Peninterest, or Skype. This is me. My name is Melissa Armell. Again, I own a company called the StocksWish LLC, and I have been trading now for seven years. I used to do mortgages, and then I wanted to change careers, and I decided that I wanted to trade stock market, and now here I am. It's 2015, and time really flies. I love to trade gaps. That is specifically the only strategy that I trade, and I'm trading gaps in reference to looking at positioning of institutional money in the market. That is what I'm going to be discussing in the upcoming webinar. The webinar is free. It's completely free. It is Wednesday, February 25th. Time is 4.30 Eastern Time. It is online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it. If you want to register, all you have to do is click on this link right here and register for the webinar. Registration is required ahead of time, and it's absolutely free.  All you have to do is just sign up there. eSignal is sponsoring the webinar, and it's going to be very informative, and I'm going to be discussing specifically, not just the market, which is amazing right now, by the way, the bullish rally that we've had, the marketing ETFs I'm going to talk about, but I'm also going to talk about stocks and institutional positioning and stocks in the stock market. You've got to learn how to trade really on the side of institutional money, and how do you do this? You read power money in a chart. You read the trend. You read the price, and you read the price in the gaps, and that's how you know where something's going to go, where the target is, or how to take it, whether long or short. Becoming a successful trader and investor requires becoming a specialist and defining where the institutions are buying or selling a stock. Learning advanced technical analysis is required to read charts in this fashion. Comprehending how to redefine and trade with this power will have a huge positive impact on your profitability as a trader. So elevate yourself, your trading and your profits to a higher level of consistency and success by learning how to read the footprints of institutions trading in the market. And really, this is how it's possible for me and anyone as one individual to become successful, and not only that to become wealthy, because there is a lot of money that trades to the market, billions of dollars, and all you need is a small, small piece of that to do well and be successful. You've just got to ride the coattails of those institutional moves. It's about flowing with the power and not against it, and if you can do that, you will produce consistent and large winning trades for yourself. If you want to consistently make a lot of money in the market, the only way that that will happen is if you're trading on the side of institutional money. It's just about learning how to read it, and I specifically know how to do that. This is what I'm going to discuss in the live webinar. Here's a chart here of AOL. This is a one minute chart. You can see here where the stock closed up here. This is the night before at four o'clock Eastern time, around 44 something, and then open the next day down here around 41 something. So the stock gap. And we're going to talk about this then. The stock sold off on the live day here in the morning. If you had shorted the stock, you would have had a beautiful huge trade. Terrific move. The trade was over a seven R trade, meaning the risk to reward was for every dollar that you risked, you made $7. Really nice move. So I'm using these signal charts and you can see that there's a huge benefit to the signal charts because of the fact that they go back and show such specific length of time and data. I'm a real stickler for looking at price levels. And that's really how I trade. I trade based on technical analysis, advanced technical analysis. In fact, I don't use fundamentals at all. And so you really need to have a very proficient charting platform. You need to have charts that you can look at that's going to give you all the information. And the thing I like about a signal is the length of time that it goes back to look at the data and looking on the very smaller timeframes like that, even on the one minute to hold in on the details. If you want to sign up for a signal, you can click on this link right here and sign up. They have a 30 day money back guarantee. And you can check it out and see what you think as well. So come to the free webinar that I'm doing on Wednesday. Learn a successful strategy for 2015 that pinpoints the power because trading the side of institutional money makes sense. It makes sense and not only that, it gives you an edge in the market. Again, you can click on this link right here, www.e-signal.com, backslash, the stocks, whoosh. The webinar is Wednesday, February 25th at 4.30 Eastern time. It's online. Registration is required ahead of time. However, it is free. I will see you at the free webinar. If you have any questions in the meantime, email me at Melissa at the stocks, whoosh.com. Thanks, everyone. Have a great day.


The proposed Lightweight Dynamic Edition Network, LBANET, is a novel approach for automatic road extraction from remote sensing images. It uses an improved asymmetric convolution block, ACB, based inception structure to extend the low-level features in the feature extraction layer. Additionally, it introduces depth-wise separable convolution, DSC, to reduce the computational complexity of the model and an adaptation-weighted overlay to capture the salient features. Furthermore, a dynamic weighted combined loss is used to solve the sample imbalance problem and improve segmentation accuracy. The results show that LBANET outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy and runtime efficiency. This article was authored by Bohoalu, Jin Lee Ding, GSO, and others.