OGAP Selected as a United Nation’s Ocean Shot Project
OGAP’s unique approach combining advanced genomic laboratories with all-oceans capable smaller low-cost research vessels has been recognized by the US National Academy of Sciences and has been designated as an Ocean Shot Project of the United Nations Decade of the Oceans.
“Ocean-Shots” are defined as “ambitious, transformational research concepts that draw inspiration and expertise from multiple disciplines and fundamentally advance ocean science for sustainable development.”
As part of the UN Decade of the Ocean, OGAP is committed to develop it’s 4D+ techniques of sampling, observation, documentation, sequencing and analysis and share and propagate these methods with partners across this globe to build a true genomic atlas of our oceans over the next decade.
The oceans hold the greatest biodiversity of the planet; each organismal lineage holds the keys to many millions of novel biological adaptations and processes.
If we do not collect and analyze known and unknown marine species, countless solutions derived by Nature through 3.5 billion years of evolution, key aspects of our planetary heritage, will be lost forever. The rate of species extinction is accelerating with estimates that 50% of extant biodiversity could vanish within a few generations. There is no time to waste.