Paul Woods
Founder of Global Fishing Watch, sci-fi lover, python developer, arduino hobbyist globalfishingwatch.org
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- Can AI be more than just a one-way ticket towards a dystopian future? At Global Fishing Watch, we’re proving it can be a force for good. 🌊 👉 The question isn’t whether AI will shape the future. It’s whether we’ll use it to protect our planet. 🌍 #UNGA80 #ClimateWeekNYC #AIforGood buff.ly/KXXLhdb
- Congratulations to my good friend @johnamos.bsky.social on being named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list www.forbes.com/sites/elisab...
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- Nice piece in Stanford Social Innovation Review by discussing the work that Global Forest Watch (the "other GFW") and Global Fishing Watch are doing to find ways for industry to more directly support our open data work that helps industry to meet their ESG commitments ssir.org/articles/ent...
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- @skytruth.org any chance we can see other trends like this based on long time series analysis of SAR-detected oil slicks?
- We spent a couple of hours watching a pair of beaver in a pond on the grounds of the Himalayan Institute in north eastern PA, apparently involved in a grueling grudge match with the grounds keepers over the appropriate height for the dam that blocks the outlet to their pond.
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- GFW needs your help! We have too much data and not enough researchers to investigate all the possibilities. So today we're piloting a new research grant program to encourage researchers to do novel things with our data. Find out more here buff.ly/MDL4xLE #OceanScience #Fisheries #ResearchFunding
- Ok looking a little deeper it looks like this is a firewall issue on our end and the "please wait" message might be coming from cloudflare. Curiouser and curiouser. I will investigate further
- Hooray! We now have an official company BlueSky account for Global Fishing Watch! #globalfishingwatch
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- An estimated 75% of industrial fishing vessels do not appear in public monitoring systems. They are ghosts drifting in the vast data void of the ocean. #GlobalFishingWatch #OceanTransparency #IUUfishing #SustainableFisheries #OurOcean #OpenData #BlueEconomy youtu.be/YPU3CEz-mHw?...
- Nice piece by Ian Urbina of Outlaw Ocean on the challenges posed by proposed seabed mining for minerals needed for clean energy transition. Nothing is simple it seems... buff.ly/suym5nB
- The morels are back! Yum! Thanks to our lackadaisical gardening practices, we get these yummy treats coming up every other year in our front garden. I think maybe they like the roots of our redbud tree. #mushrooms
- New paper on ocean noise contributors in southern resident killer whale habitat in British Columbia and Washington State. Using our AIS data plus SAR detects to estimate the population of un-tracked vessels. Ro-ro ferries have the largest impact. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- @skollworldforum.bsky.social searching for a positive way forward following the collapse of Foreign Aid in the US. #skollwf @skollworldforum.bsky.social
- Global Fishing Watch joined forces with UC Santa Barbara’s Environmental Markets Lab (emLab) and @climatetrace.org to conduct a first-ever study to map and estimate the emissions of all large industrial vessels operating at sea, accounting for 3% of global fossil fuel emissions. buff.ly/M2E2tAW
- Just got a preview of Deep Sea Mining Watch, a project we are doing with Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at UCSB. Using our map tools to look at the activity of minerals exploration vessels instead of fishing vessels. You can overlay the planned mining lease blocks with the historic fishing.
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- Does anyone know how to convert Fishing Plotter Files to GPX or some other standard geospatial data format? I want to pull some data on undersea cables from here: kis-orca.org/downloads/. I am looking at our bottom trawling model to see where predicted bottom trawling intersects the cables
- I am seeing this more and more - the problem of conflicting industrial activites in the ocean. This paper looks a the UK as a case study on the friction between offshore wind development and existing fishing activity.
- Reposted by Paul Woods*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
- Talking to a new startup based on Norway that is trying to bootstrap a maritime community based surveillance network. They are crowdsourcing the navigation radar data from participating vessels. I would LOVE to be able to add a data source like this to our GFW map! www.kahu.earth/about-us
- New Open Data Release! Version 3 of our normalized global fishing effort dataset is available for download. Now spanning 12 years 2012-2024! The release adds 4 more years, nearly 370 million hours of fishing activity, and 141,000 new vessels. globalfishingwatch.org/platform-upd...
