Ocean memory Project
About Ocean Memory Project
Ocean Memory is a concept born in 2016 at a transdisciplinary conference of the National Academies of Science, Medicine and Engineering devoted to the Mesopelagic (or deep ocean). At that workshop, a group gathered to explore concepts around biodiversity and the microbiome came up with a question:
“Does the ocean have memory, and if so, what form does it take?”
The Ocean Memory Project, born from that early seed, seeks to bring together researchers from across disciplines in science, the humanities and the arts, as well as from diverse cultures, to explore and develop this question through a trans-disciplinary lens.
Our primary modality is to organize thematic workshops in which participants are invited to present and collaborate in a horizontal and open way. These are followed by a funding opportunity meant to support collaborative research across disciplines and cultures to explore and develop ocean memory.
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Whats Ocean Memory
Ocean Memory could be summarized in this fictional wikipedia:
Ocean Memory: The ability of biological and physical oceanic systems to encode, store, and release information across a variety of timescales, from hourly to geological, impacting the future.
(Predicted Wikipedia entry, 2025)
However, as a concept born at the intersection of disciplines and cultures, it is not one thing but a multitude of intersecting points of view through which humans might attempt to fathom the ocean as a dynamic living thing, capable of exhibiting the kind of feedback processes which in humans lead to memory. Bringing together the concept of Ocean and the concept of Memory is evocative and inspires new areas of inquiry and research.
Ocean Memory could be summarized in this fictional wikipedia:
Ocean Memory: The ability of biological and physical oceanic systems to encode, store, and release information across a variety of timescales, from hourly to geological, impacting the future.
(Predicted Wikipedia entry, 2025)
However, as a concept born at the intersection of disciplines and cultures, it is not one thing but a multitude of intersecting points of view through which humans might attempt to fathom the ocean as a dynamic living thing, capable of exhibiting the kind of feedback processes which in humans lead to memory. Bringing together the concept of Ocean and the concept of Memory is evocative and inspires new areas of inquiry and research.
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