Gump Station

The IDEA Consortium began with the island of Moorea and the nearby atoll of Tetiaroa, in French Polynesia. It is now extending to other islands in the region through the 4Site: Pacific Transect Collaborative, as well as coastal and island communities in Europe. Research data management is a key aspect of the island avatars, and best practices are being developed through the Fair Island Project.

Recognizing the importance of social-ecological foresight for global society, the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) is carrying out an assessment of the emerging capacity to build Integrated Digital Ecosystem Avatars (see Scientific Anticipatory Brief).

The growing interest in "Digital Twins" is also stimulating fruitful exchanges over the transformational opportunities of social-ecological avatars. For example, at the European Marine Board's 7th Forum: Big Data in Marine Science (see Digital Twin Ocean: Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) for Sustainability, p.27).

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IDEA begins - with the Moorea model ecosystem

The Moorea IDEA will be a sustainability simulator modeling links and feedbacks between climate, environment, biodiversity, and human activities across a coupled marine–terrestrial landscape. As a model system, the resulting knowledge and tools will improve our ability to predict human and natural change on Moorea and elsewhere at scales relevant to management/conservation actions. In the future, other islands could join to form a network that shares the generally applicable tools and approaches generated by the IDEA Consortium. For example, we are already working with the nearby atoll Tetiaroa through Tetiaroa Society, which has launched the Tetiaroa IDEA to aid with its Conservation and Sustainable Use Plan. Further afield, and reflecting the ambition to scale to larger places, scientists and government officials from Crete have expressed a strong interest in the project. See Simulating Social-Ecological Systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) Consortium GigaScience 2016 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13742-016-0118-5

The IDEA Consortium

7th EMB Forum: Big Data in Marine Science

Moorea inspires virtual ecology lab

FAIR's Fair? Local Extraction, Global Value

Island avatars ... Measuring and Modeling

Biocode: The New Age of Genomics

Lectures from BIDS

IDEA begins - with the Moorea model ecosystem