Hello MARMAM community, This summer, I ran a few small-group feedback sessions with many marine mammals researchers from the MARMAM community — and the response was so good that I wanted to share what we learned and offer more support.
The sessions were a nice opportunity for researchers and others to share what they urgently need help with, and what we can build to help further. Although everyone came from different parts of the world, organizations, and with different primary study species and reasons for joining, there was a common thread. Everyone wanted more capacity, faster results, better collaboration, and more trust from their audiences — funders, stakeholders, rights holders, and decision-makers — in the evidence they’re producing to guide smarter decisions. We also got great input on what we need to focus on next for the analysis of marine mammal data for monitoring, research, and conservation. A key theme was the need to go further beyond field observations and bring diverse sources of data together into their projects — eDNA, temperature, autopsy and other lab results, rescue, patient, and autopsy data. This would be particularly valuable for issues that require collaboration across countries and organizations, such as tracking emerging diseases like H1N1 and rabies in marine mammals and other animals, understanding the impacts of marine pollution, fisheries, and heatwaves on mammal populations, or evaluating conservation initiatives such as IMMA success or EIAs across populations and sites. We’ve been working with the scientists who made these recommendations to add these capabilities into eOceans — enabling shared workflows with their collaborators and, ultimately, making them available to everyone. (Want to try these new capabilities? Sign up to be a beta tester for your own project.) And I also heard that everyone is busy. Although eOceans can save hundreds of hours or more in data processing, finding time to learn about it can still be hard. So, we've also added more group onboarding sessions, but cut them down to just 30-minutes, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. My goal is to give you the right training in those 30 minutes to create, launch, and deliver your own project on your own, whenever you are ready. I hope you can join me in one of the sessions this month — I'd love to help and answer any questions you have about launching and delivering your projects. → Learn more <https://eoceans.co/sign-up-group-onboarding-sessions-eoceans> or find a session in September that works for you <https://eoceans.co/contact/training-sign-up> Still unsure? We created this *20-minute video* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODRVjtPkJSM&feature=youtu.be> summarizing what we covered in the summer sessions. Please feel free to share this with colleagues outside the MARMAM community, and DM me if you need support more urgently. Thanks, Chris -- *Chris Ward-Paige, PhD* CEO *eOceans* [email protected] website: eOceans <https://www.eoceans.org/> mobile app: iOS <https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/eoceans/id1495841229> and Android <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.eoceans.app&hl=en_CA&gl=US> Book a meeting: *here* <https://calendar.app.google/7eZwdjZSnptjVrpu8> eOceans is located in *Mi’kma’ki*, the unceded and ancestral territory of the *Mi’kmaq People*. This message is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, distributing, copying, or in any way using this message. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and delete copies you received.
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