Page values for "Submissions:2024/Coral Reef Digital Twins and a Distributed Genetic Ark for Coral Conservation"
"2024_submissions" values
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title | String | Coral Reef Digital Twins and a Distributed Genetic Ark for Coral Conservation |
status | String | Accepted |
theme | String | Community Engagement, Education, GLAM (Galleries/Libraries/Archives/Museums), Open Data, Research, Technology, Wild Ideas |
type | String | Lightning talk |
abstract | Wikitext | The oceans are no longer a safe place for corals: we need a 100-year plan to keep them alive so that future generations also have a chance. Embracing Wikimedia’s core principles of openness, free access, and community contribution, I propose a strategy to create digital and genetic twins of the world's coral reefs. This involves capturing the topology, species diversity, abundance, and biogeochemistry of the reefs using existing technologies, alongside establishing a living, distributed genet ark of coral diversity. Corals are remarkable ecosystem engineers, capable of clonal reproduction, which will be crucial for this initiative. As a living complement to digital twins of reefs, I propose using a distributed network of university, public, and home aquaria to keep corals alive indefinitely. This will be tracked in an open ledger system based on proof-of-life, with all coral genets monitored and balanced through the network, using a leveling system to incentivize the preservation of diversity. We must explore the scope of our symbiotic nature with corals: for all of human time, we have relied on them. Now they rely on us. |
author | String | Anthony J Bellantuono |
username | String | anthjbell@gmail.com |
List of Email, delimiter: , | anthjbell@gmail.com | |
affiliates | String | anthjbell@gmail.com |
scholarship | String | No |
time | String | 10-15 minutes |
livestream | String | Yes |
remote | String | No |
presented | Wikitext | Yes, the 2024 UN VECOP Conference. |
requests | Wikitext |