🌊 I’m really enjoying the One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, France this week, in the lead-up to the UN Ocean Conference next week. If you’re in Nice and interested in using Global Fishing Watch data or tools, feel free to reach out!

Just under one month left to apply for a grant through the Open Ocean Research Grant Program!

🌊 Just launched: the Open Ocean Research Grant Program! We’re offering up to $10k for individuals and $20k for teams using our data to tackle key ocean research questions. Independent researchers & small teams welcome. 🔗 Apply: bit.ly/open-ocean-r... #OceanScience #Fisheries #ResearchFunding

A new paper said our fishing algorithm overestimates effort! academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... However, it is based on how you interpret our algorithm. I think this paper interprets our algorithm incorrectly, but it may be our fault that we did not better communicate how to use our algorithm.

We are now estimating carbon dioxide emissions from all vessels at sea! Learn more here: globalfishingwatch.org/article/mapp...

We have just updated our public fishing activity data. You can now download data for 2012-2024! Learn more: globalfishingwatch.org/insights/ask... Here is fishing effort by latitude and day, across 12 years.

Currently on a flight to Tokyo -- amazed to have wifi over the middle of the Pacific (even if it is slow). Looking forward to meetings in Tokyo, then Taiwan, then Korea, over the next eight days. Here's an image of fishing from AIS data in the region.

One year of vessel traffic in the Arctic, animated with sea ice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw_f...

Our paper in Annual Review of Marine Science, "Improving Ocean Management Using Insights from Space," is now open access: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Seeing friends and colleagues abandon their homes and flee the smoke and fire is bringing back painful memories of when we had to evacuate for the Caldor fire in 2021. It feels like no one is safe. Thinking of everyone in LA.

And because very extra 0.1 degree of warming is worse than the one before it, it is actually more important, not less.

We are currently trying to come up with a name for this new map projection. Any suggestions? Shown is vessel activity from AIS.

If you follow us at Global Fishing Watch, be prepared to start seeing more maps with this projection :-). It is conceptually like Spilhaus, but with less distortion along the global coastline.

We are starting interviews for our new Senior Scientist, Head of Research Impact role. We have 105 candidates on the recruiting "short list", so this might take a while😅. Applications close tomorrow, so share if you know someone we should be talking to. job-boards.greenhouse.io/globalfishin...

Two weeks ago I said "hey we should use this crazy new map projection" and today there is python code! Showing here global vessel presence density (from AIS) using the spilhaus projection in a single view where you can see the whole ocean.

I have a new analysis over at The Climate Brink exploring how rates of warming have changed over the past century. Post-1970, GHGs (CO2, CH4, etc.) would have led to just under 0.2C per decade, but falling aerosols (SO2) have increased that rate to 0.25C. www.theclimatebrink....

Very happy with the work we are doing with @odihq.bsky.social to develop a robust data ethics practice to complement our use of AI, especially as we evolve to detecting smaller and smaller vessels. Read more in the ODI blog

Today at Global Fishing Watch, on Slack, we are discussing the best map projections for showing off the ocean (this is partially us procrastinating). Our default is an equal earth projection. But some argue we should use the Spilhaus projection instead, which is how "fish see the world."

@paulwoods.io @davidkroodsma.bsky.social I played around with this over break and managed to map vessel presence in the Spilhaus projection. It really shows how little vessel traffic the southern oceans have. It's also a good candidate for a black light poster with this color scheme.

One of my resolutions for 2025 will be to share more of the maps we make at Global Fishing Watch. Here is all vessel traffic from AIS across five years. And if you want a 50 megabyte file of this image where you can zoom in to really high resolution, go here: drive.google.com/file/d/1RgBQ...

Do you want to hear more about Global Fishing Watch Research? Sign up for our research newsletter: globalfishingwatch.org/stay-informe... Here is our latest newsletter, covering whale strikes, our new R package, recent publications, events, and the role we are hiring for mailchi.mp/globalfishin...

10 years ago (!) I self-published a book about my climate-change-awareness-raising bicycle adventure across North and South America. Reflections on the adventure and the self-publishing journey: rideforclimate.com/blog/?p=1490

Scary article about how vulnerable our satellite-dependent way of life is: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🚨🚨Job Alert!🚨🚨 #globalfishingwatch is on the lookout for a skilled Fisheries MCS Data Analyst to work alongside the Joint Analytical Cell (JAC) and global partners in our mission to combat Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. #job #careers #hiring

What happens on this side of the world? It turns, a lot of fishing and shipping! Here's one year of fishing activity (yellow) and shipping (green) in the Pacific. This is Global Fishing Watch's data. bsky.app/profile/hank...

In addition to oil slicks, we will also use this satellite to find dark vessels that are trying to avoid being tracked thanks to ESA #remotesensing

🚨🚨Job Alert!🚨🚨 We are looking for a senior scientist to help my team at Global Fishing Watch drive impact. This is an opportunity to build relationships that apply our technology to help make change. Please share! job-boards.greenhouse.io/globalfishin...

I really enjoyed this paper – the first global assessment of preferential access areas (PAAs), which are areas, usually along the coastline, where small-scale fishers are given preferential access to fish. Over 44 countries have PAAs! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A belated welcome to bluesky for GFWs new-ish head of strategic communications @sojoben.bsky.social !

I was updating our bathymetry data with the latest global dataset (ETOPO 2022), and I couldn't help but make a few pretty maps. This was made using our Python library, github.com/GlobalFishin...

Happy Thanksgiving! I’m enjoying sitting on the beach and reading The High Seas by @oliveheffernan.bsky.social — chapter 3 features Global Fishing Watch’s / @skytruth.bsky.social ‘s Bjorn Bergman!

WATCH: Did you miss our seminar on November 15? Dr. Rocio Joo from Global Fishing Watch discussed "Vessel movement analysis to investigate forced labor at sea." You can watch it now on #UBCOceans' channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxy...

Come work for us and my team! We are hiring a new senior scientist to help us drive impact from the Open Ocean Project (globalfishingwatch.org/open-ocean-p...).

(1 of 5) Imagine you are a blue whale swimming up the California coast, as you do every spring. You are searching for krill in the Santa Barbara Channel, a zone that teems undersea life, but also vibrates with noise from ship traffic. Suddenly, the noise gets louder.

Global risk of ship strikes on whales, new paper in Science by Anna Nisi et al. [incl. me] www.washington.edu/news/2024/11... Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

🚨🚨 New Paper 🚨🚨 In Science -- over 400k whale sightings combined with Global Fishing Watch data reveal how shipping traffic puts whales at risk across the global ocean. 🌊🐋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilm_... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... globalfishingwatch.org/news-story/g...

How much more activity will @planetlabs.bsky.social let us see? Here's an example of Long Island. The first image is the vessels with AIS at the time of Planet Images. The second shows all the vessels that we can detect with Planet. Now we can truly map human activity in the ocean.

Global Fishing Watch just signed a new deal with Planet Labs that will allow us to detect small vessels on all of the world's coastlines every day. We are going to have a LOT of new data next year! #globalfishingwatch #planetlabs #remotesensing #earthobservation markets.ft.com/data/announc...

What would you do if you had detections of every boat larger than 10 meters every day in nearly all of the world’s coastal waters? And all the other structures that are out there too?

Excited to join Bluesky! I loved the science discussion on the other site, and hope I can find something similar here. My research focuses on AI on satellite imagery and vessel GPS data to reveal human activity in the ocean (globalfishingwatch.org/research/). Follow to learn more!