Morgan Stanley Builds Digital Platform to Help Billion Oyster Project Speed Up Oyster Bed Growth
08 Junho 2021 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
In recognition of World Ocean Day, Billion Oyster Project
announced a new data collection system powering its efforts to
restore one billion oysters by 2035 to benefit the N.Y. Harbor
habitat and water quality
Billion Oyster Project (BOP) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) today
announced BOP’s data collection efforts will now be powered by a
brand new digital, cloud-based platform that will allow them to
accelerate data collection and more effectively manage its efforts
to restore and grow oyster beds in and around the New York Harbor
area. The project’s goal is to scale to one billion oysters by
2035, which will help clarify the water, remove pollutants and
restore marine habitats.
Over the past seven years, BOP has made impressive strides to
restore oysters to N.Y. Harbor after they had been nearly extinct.
The restoration initiative, which has been supported by 10,000
volunteers, is driven by community scientists, volunteers and
8,000+ local students in STEM education from 100 New York City
schools — and seeks to raise awareness of the importance of
protecting local waterways and their inhabitants.
“It took less than 100 years for New Yorkers to wipe out the
native oyster population in and around New York City”, said Ann
Fraioli, Director of Education at Billion Oyster Project. “As we
seek to restore one of New York Harbor’s keystone species, the
Billion Oyster Project Digital Platform has the power to transform
how we operate. Digital data collection allows us to better manage
contributions from community scientists, monitor oyster growth
across our Harbor, and effectively plan how to scale our efforts
over the next decade.”
The creation of the BOP Digital Platform was facilitated by the
Morgan Stanley Technology Change Makers Program, a pro- bono
initiative providing technical expertise and executional support
for nonprofits and charity partners. In the past 18 months, a
rotating team of Morgan Stanley volunteers worked with BOP to
design and build the Billion Oyster Project Digital Platform
(BOPDP), delivering a user-friendly, reliable platform that can
easily be maintained by the BOP community. The new platform is
cloud-based and will enable BOP to easily register and manage
volunteer profiles, record and secure data, supervise oyster growth
and allow the organization to pull reports from all boroughs to
share with scientific, educational and civic partners.
“We are proud to have teamed up with BOP for this exciting
project and to have made over 55 lessons available to teachers for
the BOP education curriculum. Additionally, we’ve registered 175
oyster research stations to the new system bringing them on-line
for collecting oyster measurements using cloud technologies”, said
Stephen Kuster, Executive Director at Morgan Stanley. “It has been
a rewarding experience to not only work on building this new
platform and launching it, but also being able to take part in the
restoration process first hand along with my sons.”
On April 22, Earth Day, the BOPDP was put to the test. To date,
and we have collected over 750 oyster measurements with the new
platform. Moving forward, Morgan Stanley plans to develop tools for
migrating residual data from BOP’s legacy platform to the new
platform.
“Our tech for good programs are about giving a charity the tools
they need to be successful on their digital transformation
journey”, said Stephen Mavin, CIO, Institutional Securities
Technology and Co-Chair of Technology's Philanthropy Committee. “An
organization like BOP is doing so much for the New York community –
the ecosystem, science, students and educators. When we learned
they needed help starting up their cloud-based digital platform, it
was a no brainer to leverage our expertise in that area.”
The Morgan Stanley Technology Change Makers global program
supports nonprofit and charity partners on their digital
transformation journey, leveraging the power of technology to drive
greater impact in the communities and populations they serve. In
the past two years, the initiative has supported more than 30
nonprofit organizations. Recent projects have focused on deploying
cloud technologies to crowdsource environmental data, using machine
learning to optimize client onboarding processes, and advising
organizations on best practices around cybersecurity.
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About Billion Oyster Project
Billion Oyster Project is a nonprofit organization on a mission
to restore oyster reefs to New York Harbor through public education
initiatives. Why oysters? Their reefs provide habitat for many
marine species, have the ability to filter water, and help shield
New York City shorelines from storm damage. Founded on the belief
that restoration without education is temporary, and observing that
learning outcomes improve when students have the opportunity to
work on real restoration projects, Billion Oyster Project
collaborates with public schools. The crew designs STEM curriculum
for NYC schools through the lens of oyster restoration, and engages
Urban Assembly New York Harbor School students in large-scale
restoration projects, collects discarded oyster shells from 75 NYC
restaurants, and engages the local community. The project has
planted more than 47 million oysters across 12 acres and 15 reef
sites, with the help of more than 8,000 students and 10,000
volunteers.
Additional enhancements and features on the BOP CCERS Digital
Platform will continue over the next three years through funding
provided by the National Science Foundation, NSF DRL EHR
1759006/1839656 Principal Investigator Dr. Lauren Birney, Professor
Pace University.
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Morgan Stanley Media Relations: Christine Alberti,
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Billion Oyster Project: Helene Hetrick,
hhetrick@nyharbor.org
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