We have a Perspective published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution that we’re really excited about! It’s not a typical research manuscript; we took a step back and wrote about how we have been working as we’ve developed the Ocean Health Index program over the past four years, and we realized that it’s a really powerful story to share.

More news from the OHI team — we have been busy!

We are excited to have a paper published in PLOS ONE today: “Aligning marine species range data to better serve science and conservation”. In it we examine global maps of nearly 25,000 marine species ranges that are available publicly from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and AquaMaps. You can read the paper here, or check out our interactive web application where you can explore our results and compare range maps of more than 250 different species.

Hello OHI supporters! We haven’t reached out to you for a while but we haven’t been idle! Here let us update you with a few of our most recent activities:

Open data science is the combination of open science, data science, and team science. We promote and practice this with the Ocean Health Index by using software tools that make our work transparent, reproducible, and shared publicly online. These concepts are being discussed more and more in the news and in the academic literature. There are so many great articles on these topics that we have started this list, along with a quote from the article to give a sense of its content.

If you’re interested in learning more about OHI or leading your own OHI+ assessment, you are in the right place: ohi-science.org has the information you need. It is the technical website accompanying oceanhealthindex.org. Here are some suggestions for getting started.