SOLD OUT! Voyages: AI & The Ocean
Sat, Jun 22
|Spaulding Marine Works
We know less about the ocean than we do about outer space. Artificial Intelligence is changing that. Come learn what some of the smallest and largest creatures in the ocean have to teach us. Dinner from new cookbook Forage. Gather. Feast. by Maria Finn
Time & Location
Jun 22, 2024, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Spaulding Marine Works, 600 Gate 5 Rd, Sausalito, CA 94965, USA
About the event
Even though we belly crawled from the ocean some 555 million years ago, today, over 80% of our oceans - from single celled phytoplankton to giant whales and all the millions of creatures in-between - remain a mystery to us. AI is being put to good use as a tool to understand our oceans. Peter Molnar is founder and expedition leader The Ocean Genome Atlas Project (OGAP) , which aims to collect, classify, sequence and map the genomic information of organisms representing at least 80% of the extant marine species worldwide to develop a public atlas of functional biodiversity of our Blue Planet to scientists worldwide. He’ll speak about the expeditions he’s been leading with neuroscientists and biologists who believe phytoplankton have a lot of teach us about our neural networks, longevity, biodiversity, and evolution.
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