Recently, OHI team member Julie Stewart Lowndes was awarded a fellowship with Mozilla – yes, the same Mozilla that created the Firefox browser. That might seem like a leap from her duties on the OHI team but the aim of Mozilla Fellowships is to keep the internet a force for good, which includes making scientific research more open.

This post is part of the NCEAS Portrait series and features the 2018 cohort of OHI Global Fellows.

Mariculture as a food provision

We get asked a lot whether the OHI Toolbox can be used for other projects besides the Ocean Health Index (OHI). And the answer is yes, absolutely. This is because the software and workflow we built the Toolbox with are not unique to OHI: we did not develop them, we are simply using them for our project. It’s like how we use Gmail and Skype to effectively communicate within our team, but we did not develop these software programs.

When you first explore the Ocean Health Index (OHI), the thing that usually sticks most is the final score, a number ranging from 0-100. While there are a multitude of ways these scores can catalyze discussion and stakeholder engagement, another question is often what else can OHI be used for?