The scientists at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) who helped launch the Ocean Health Index to objectively measure the value and sustainability of marine services are now pioneering new means of collaboration in global research. Ocean scientists of all stripes, from Indonesia to Scandinavia, are sharing data in real time along models established by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and academics. If your eyes are glazing over, you’re missing a vital point: we have no time to spare in adapting shoreline management and fishing practices to a world in which oceans are both rising and dying.

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