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title: BioSea Atlas
description: "The BioSea Atlas: an open-source machine learning platform integrating climate, 3D biodiversity, and governance to support better marine protection."
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## **What if every MPA decision used the best available evidence?**

##### **The BioSea Atlas: an open-source machine learning platform for marine protection, built with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and WRI.**

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### Integration

**The problem is one of integration.**

Marine data exists. It just sits in silos: different institutions, incompatible formats, inaccessible to the people designing protected areas. Existing platforms solve pieces of the puzzle. The BioSea Atlas brings them together.

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### Biodiversity in three dimensions

**The first framework to model marine biodiversity in three dimensions.**

Existing tools treat species as static 2D distributions. The Atlas captures depth and climate-driven population movements, forecasting where protection is most needed across three compounding forces no existing tool integrates:

- Climate stressors
- Geopolitical governance risks and opportunities
- Shifting marine populations

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### Security Integration

**The first MPA planning framework to treat ocean protection as a strategic security challenge.**

Dominant MPA frameworks remain narrowly ecological. The Atlas integrates three security dimensions (military, economic, climate) aligned with conservation goals.

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### Open by design

**The Atlas is open-source and built to be used.**

Designed for NGOs, scientific organisations, and institutions to accelerate MPA creation. Built with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and WRI, drawing on data from:

- ProtectedSeas
- National Geographic Pristine Seas
- Mission Blue
- Global Fishing Watch

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## From evidence to protection.

Deployed first in Cagayancillo, Philippines, with WWF: **~1.4 million hectare enhanced Marine Protected Area in the Coral Triangle.**

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