I'm a complex systems marine scientist focused on global-scale biodiversity conservation and restoration, and also a mother of submarines, experiential artist, and evangelist of embodying wonder. I have now spent over a year of my life underwater and bring the perspective and intuition that creates into each of my endeavors.
I'm currently the Founder/Director of the Upwelling Institute, a company that is simulating natural upwellings for coral reef and other vulnerable marine ecosystem restoration, fisheries and aquaculture enhancement, and climate change mitigation. I am also the Director and Co-Founder of Prism, an underwater sanctuary where humans will be able to comfortably live embedded in a coral reef.
I was formerly the Founder and Director of the Community Submersibles Project, an organization dedicated to bringing submersibles and the importance of awe back into popular imagination.
When not underwater, I like to make large experiential art installations using fire, living butterflies, and boats. My joy is in co-creating not consuming experiences, and I try to be a builder and propagator of objects, concepts, and sentiments whose purpose is beauty, meaning, and sensemaking. I am a wonderwanderer with whole//endless//embodied curiosity and delight in sharing the discoverable fruits in every speck of existence with others. As a human, I'm a benevolent, irreverent, dreamer and potty mouth, with complex thoughts and a simple, gargantuan heart.
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There are new frontiers everywhere. Our job is to find them as they are and create them where they never were. We will illuminate the invisible and imperceptible forms of beauty, treasure-hunt for strange worlds in potential space, lovingly tend idea gardens with making and creating, and chase all of the uncharted possibilities of being human embedded in the natural world.
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'The fact remains that political frontiers are impervious to our verbal cultures, while the substantially nonverbal civilization of playfulness crosses them with the happy freedom of the wind and the clouds.' ~ Primo Levi