Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Analog Devices Launch Ocean and Climate Innovation Accelerator
20 Abril 2021 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
First-of-its-kind consortium focused on the
critical role of oceans in combating climate change
Consortium to advance knowledge and develop new
solutions at the intersection of oceans and climate
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Analog Devices,
Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) today launched the Ocean and Climate
Innovation Accelerator (OCIA) consortium. ADI has committed $3
million over three years towards the consortium which will focus on
advancing knowledge of the ocean’s critical role in combating
climate change as well as developing new solutions at the
intersection of oceans and climate.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and
Analog Devices launch first-of-its kind consortium focused on the
critical role of oceans in combating climate change. (Photo: Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution)
“Carbon emissions feature as a centerpiece in global efforts to
mitigate climate change. Oceans are among our most important
defense mechanisms against a warming planet – yet their ability to
continue to play this critically important role is being threatened
by the effects of climate change,” said Vincent Roche, CEO of
Analog Devices. “Through the Ocean and Climate Innovation
Accelerator, we are committed to engaging ADI’s engineers and
technologies to advance knowledge of the oceans in order to gain a
better understanding of how oceans are impacted by climate change
and to develop solutions to restore ocean health. By doing so, we
hope to drive meaningful impact on the global fight against climate
change.”
The OCIA consortium is designed to be a highly scalable
collaboration leveraging the unique resources and capabilities of
its partner organizations. Among its goals, the consortium will
focus on the development of the “networked ocean” – placing sensors
across oceanographic environments that will continuously monitor
critical metrics related to ocean conditions with the aim of
informing business and policy decision makers, enabling
evidence-based stewardship of ocean health, and driving more
accurate climate and weather predictions with real-time data.
“On behalf of WHOI’s entire community of ocean scientists and
engineers, we are incredibly excited about this collaboration,”
said Dr. Peter de Menocal, president, and director of WHOI. “The
formation of the OCIA consortium comes at a time when support for
science and ocean research is at a critical juncture. We are
building a research innovation ecosystem that will drive new
understanding to tackle global challenges facing society. It
provides a new, scalable model showing how corporations can engage
deeply on the climate crisis.”
The consortium will be jointly led by WHOI, a world leader in
oceanographic research, technology, and education dedicated to
understanding the ocean for the benefit of humanity, and ADI, a
world leader in the design, manufacturing, and marketing of a broad
portfolio of high-performance semiconductor solutions used in
virtually all types of electronic equipment. Designed to act as an
engine for continuous innovation and powered by some of the world’s
leading minds and businesses, the OCIA consortium is open to
participation by a wide range of leading organizations across
business, academia, and non-profits that recognize the inextricable
links between ocean and climate and wish to have a positive impact
on the global climate crisis.
The OCIA consortium will also establish a robust, multi-stage
innovation ecosystem, building on WHOI’s existing strengths in
education and research to drive solutions-thinking and allow
scientists and engineers to focus on high-impact problems. This
will include the launch of a new Climate Challenge Grant
Program which will award seed-funding for smaller,
competitively selected projects.
Initially, the OCIA will provide two types of awards:
- Incubation Awards: comprised of seed-funding awarded to
dynamic individuals and teams. Incubation Awards will support
design, exploration, and early execution of new, cutting-edge
scientific initiatives that foster new avenues of research and
engineering and encourage and incentivize collaborative
engagement.
- Acceleration Awards: awarded to successful
recipients of prior support for novel ideas and technologies, as
well as other more mature projects, for the purpose of expanding
these programs, increasing public engagement, and positioning and
preparing projects to achieve lasting impact and receive durable
outside support.
As the consortium grows over time, OCIA programs may expand to
invest in people through the establishment of fellowships and other
awards, along with a portfolio of other activities such as support
for collaboration hubs to drive innovations in data processing,
machine learning, and transdisciplinary science and
engineering.
“Now more than ever, it is essential for people to understand
that the ocean and climate are not two separate systems, but rather
part of a single system that spans our entire ocean planet and
affects the lives of people everywhere, even if they live far from
the coast,” said de Menocal. “Recognizing this, it is critical for
organizations like ADI and WHOI to find common cause and work in
shared-mission partnerships to help mitigate the rapidly advancing
threats brought on by a warming planet.”
About Analog Devices
Analog Devices (Nasdaq: ADI) is a leading global
high-performance semiconductor company dedicated to solving the
toughest engineering challenges. We enable our customers to
interpret the world around us by intelligently bridging the
physical and digital with unmatched technologies that sense,
measure, power, connect, and interpret. Visit
http://www.analog.com.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is a private,
non-profit organization on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, dedicated to
marine research, engineering, and higher education. Established in
1930, its primary mission is to understand the ocean and its
interaction with the Earth as a whole, and to communicate an
understanding of the ocean’s role in the changing global
environment. WHOI’s pioneering discoveries stem from an ideal
combination of science and engineering—one that has made it one of
the most trusted and technically advanced leaders in basic and
applied ocean research and exploration anywhere. WHOI is known for
its multidisciplinary approach, superior ship operations, and
unparalleled deep-sea robotics capabilities. We play a leading role
in ocean observation and operate the most extensive suite of
data-gathering platforms in the world. Top scientists, engineers,
and students collaborate on more than 800 concurrent projects
worldwide—both above and below the waves—pushing the boundaries of
knowledge and possibility. For more information, please visit
www.whoi.edu.
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