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We’re thrilled to see the Coastal Risk Index (CRI) go live! The CRI is a powerful, data-driven platform designed to empower financial institutions, investors, insurers, and policymakers with insights to assess coastal risk and make smarter decisions. Designing, building, and bringing this platform to life alongside the full Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance team has been an absolute pleasure. We’re proud to create digital tools that bridge data and impact for environmental resilience! Alexander Safchuk Mikołaj Szczepkowski Megan Ahearn Arek Romanski Dan Hammer Mason Grimshaw Magda Gauger Lukasz Knasiecki Peter J. Sherman

We’re thrilled to announce that Clay, an innovative platform we've been developing to drive impactful change, has been selected as a finalist for The Anthem Awards! Built as an open-source, nonprofit initiative, Clay provides accessible, ethical tools that support global efforts in areas like climate resilience, carbon removal, wildfire prevention, and ecosystem restoration. We are competing in the Responsible Technology - Best Use of AI category and we need your vote to help us win! PLEASE VOTE! Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuño Dan Hammer Laura Chen Stephen Downs Avery Cohn, Ph.D. Cassie Kloberdanz Lee Alexander Safchuk Lukasz Knasiecki Arek Romanski Nakisa Kashanian Jed Sundwall

Please vote! Clay is up for The Anthem Awards in the Responsible Technology category. Clay is an open, nonprofit project to help guide the field of geospatial AI toward environmental and social benefit. The early Clay foundation model is already used in a host of applications, ranging from carbon dioxide removal to wildfire prevention and aboveground biomass estimation. Please vote for Clay! https://lnkd.in/giH86SHr Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuño, Jed Sundwall, Michal Nachmany, PhD, Matt Gray, Nathaniel Manning, Jahed Momand, Kari Stoever, Maxime Lenormand, Gill Einhorn, Fabien J.G. Laurier, PhD, Marcius Extavour, Cassie Kloberdanz Lee, Avery Cohn, Ph.D., Sweta Chakraborty, PhD, Rajiv J. Shah, Vilas Dhar, Nick Cain, Adam Aston

Marcius Extavour is a big brain. He doesn’t consume food or water, subsisting only on electricity and ideas. Marcius received his masters and doctorate in quantum optics and atomic physics from the University of Toronto, and was a AAAS Fellow in the US Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources. And then! Marcius was the Chief Scientist at XPRIZE and the Chief Climate Solutions Officer at TIME CO2. His work has been featured everywhere, including The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Nature Magazine. Plus, he's a thoughtful and kind person. We, at Ode, believe that Marcius can do for nature and technology what Neil deGrasse Tyson did for space and science. Translate the hard stuff for the rest of us.

We're proud to have partnered with Counterstream Media to design and launch impactful stories for The Margin, a publication dedicated to exposing environmental injustice. By combining investigative journalism, personal narratives, and data visualization, The Margin brings critical issues to light, ensuring the voices of those most affected are heard and amplified. Check out the latest story, "Eroding Indigenous Sovereignty" by Ottavia Spaggiari, co-published with The Nation and Bryce Cracknell. https://lnkd.in/efssRVyd #EnvironmentalJustice #Storytelling #CounterstreamMedia

A few Ode Partners will be at the following events in June, speaking and even keynoting on tech, design, and strategy to support climate and nature. (1) A roundtable on blue natural capital at SDA Bocconi with Ralph Chami and Carlos Duarte. (2) A four-day retreat at the Bellagio Center with the The Rockefeller Foundation on big bets in AI with Allen Institute for AI (AI2), Schmidt Futures, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Clay, Meta, the Omidyar Network, and Girls Who Code. (3) The FII Institute Priority Summit in Rio de Janeiro, leading conclaves on the Food & Agriculture transition and AI in support of nature and climate. (4) The NEXUS Global Summit in NYC with HRH Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud and Alexandra Cousteau, who will be keynoting on the role of new technology to engage many, many more people in conservation. Find them! Find the Partners! They have a budget to take people for drinks!  (Wait, really? Someone has unauthorized access to the Ode company page.) Marcius Extavour, PhD, Avery Cohn, Ph.D., Cassie Kloberdanz Lee, Stephen Downs, Arek Romanski, Lukasz Knasiecki, Megan J Smith, Andy Karsner, Brandy Schultz, Megan Ahearn, Eric Gundersen, Bronwyn Agrios, Jason Titus, Alexandre Spitz, Will Cadell, Mike French, Dan Pasette, Michal Nachmany, Ian Schuler, Sassan Saatchi, Jed Sundwall, Riley Duren, Brett Loubert, Joey Couture, Craig Mills

We have some exciting news to share with you all! We couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome two incredible individuals to our team - Cassie Kloberdanz Lee and Peter J. Sherman. Cassie brings decades of technical and creative leadership to our executive team, where she’ll lead growth into new markets, shape Ode’s partnership structure, and expand our AI for Earth practice. She’s been our partner in crime at Sound Future for some time now, and we are so excited to pair up to build even more solutions that matter. Peter and his big brain are in a league of their own. He joins us as a data scientist to drive the delivery of solutions that address nature’s most pressing challenges across oceans, emissions, and AI model benchmarking.  We are super psyched for what's to come!

We’re excited and humbled to share that we’ve won a pair of Webby Awards — the Jury Award and the People’s Voice Award — for our work with WWF on @Oceans Futures. 🏆🌊 This award underscores the urgent need to prioritize ocean issues. Oceans Futures provides early warning of fisheries conflict hotspots to enable collaborative action for people and nature. The platform is just beginning. To learn more, visit www.oceansfutures.org. Thanks to everyone who voted! The Webby Awards https://lnkd.in/gkZS_zhg Johan Bergenas Sarah M. Glaser, PhD Dan Hammer Megan Ahearn Scott Quill Arek Romanski Lukasz Knasiecki Mason Grimshaw Jacqui Vogel Alice Thomas-Smyth

We want to give a quick shoutout to our partners and everyone working on behalf of Mother Nature today and every day. Sound Future Activist Artists Management WWF Carbon Mapper Climate TRACE CTrees WAVE Arctic Basecamp Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance Clay The Margin