🌿 The Integrated Legacy of the Amazonian Region (LIRA) project aims to secure long-term conservation gains in the Brazilian Amazon while ensuring its communities and ecosystems can thrive together.

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⚛️ With Moore Foundation support, M. Zahid Hasan and his team identified materials that host the elusive Weyl fermions — massless, free-flowing quasiparticles — a breakthrough that helped launch a new direction in quantum materials research.

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🌿 Moore Foundation grantees are driving transformative conservation across the Amazon through innovative Project Finance for Permanence initiatives in Colombia, Peru and Brazil. These efforts are securing the future of the Amazon rainforest.

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In 2002, we invested $9.1 million in grant funding to establish the Laboratory for Adaptive Optics at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social — an investment that helped strengthen UCSC’s position as a national center for advancing astronomy research.

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🛰️ In 2013, with our support, Greg Asner and his team at the Global Airborne Observatory launched CLASlite Classroom, a collection of free and open-to-the-public advanced forest monitoring tools — enabling people to monitor forests globally. 🌳

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Teams from Cal Academy, Chabot, the Exploratorium, The Tech Interactive & the Lawrence Hall of Science joined the conversation to discuss shared challenges and future opportunities. #Moore25 #BayArea #InformalScience

We’re grateful for their insights.
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The Moore Foundation has long supported these institutions as part of our commitment to expanding science-rich learning across the Bay Area. Their role in sparking curiosity for all ages remains essential. #Moore25 #OutOfSchoolLearning #BayArea #ScienceEngagement www.moore.org/article-deta...

Museums Reimagined, part of our 25th Anniversary Symposia series, brought together Bay Area science museums to explore how they can continue engaging communities in a rapidly changing world. #Moore25 #ScienceLearning www.moore.org/article-deta...

Our Data-Driven Discovery Initiative advanced transparent, reproducible research — uniting academic institutions, funders and scientific associations — and filled a critical gap through investment in quality, user-friendly tools that enable reliable, accessible science.

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Identidad Madidi — a Moore Foundation-supported series of expeditions in Bolivia’s Madidi National Park — investigated 14 habitats spanning 6K meters from the Andes to the Amazon in one of Earth’s most biodiverse protected areas.

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25 years of impact thanks to partners like you!

We’re grateful for the partners and grantees whose dedication and insight make meaningful progress possible. Thank you for all you do. We look forward to what we can continue to accomplish together. #Moore25

📡 The Moore Foundation enabled the global Event Horizon Telescope by supporting development of ultrafast data acquisition electronics that made it possible to link telescopes around the world to create an Earth-sized virtual observatory capable of imaging #BlackHoles.

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What if the powerful particle accelerators of big physics labs could fit on a silicon chip? That’s precisely the vision behind the Accelerator on a Chip (ACHIP) — a Moore Foundation-funded, international, long-horizon effort to create a dielectric laser accelerator.

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Since 2004, we’ve invested in 20+ open-access projects to advance cutting-edge DNA sequencing technologies that are unlocking nature’s ecological mysteries and improving our understanding of the evolution of life.

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💧 With Moore Foundation support, Stanford U. researchers pioneered a method for imaging California’s groundwater based on surface, airborne and satellite measurements — prompting the state to invest more than $10M in mapping aquifers throughout the Central Valley.

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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, a Moore Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative investigator at @mit.edu, revealed that twisted bilayer graphene could become superconducting — a discovery that sparked an entirely new field of research: twistronics.

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The Future of Amazonia Reflections: Lilian Painter, Wildlife Conservation Society YouTube video by moorefoundation

In this interview from The Future of Amazonia symposium, Lilian Painter, Bolivia program director at @wcs.org, highlights the crucial role Indigenous communities play in advancing conservation efforts across the Amazon.

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For 20+ years, we’ve supported conservation in the Great Bear bioregion of British Columbia. The Great Bear Rainforest Agreement, finalized in 2016, and the Great Bear Sea Project Finance for Permanence, established in June 2024, now stand as global models of Indigenous-led conservation.

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For our second 25th anniversary symposium, we partnered with the American Society for Microbiology to spotlight a new report on “Early Microbial Life,” released at #ASMicrobe, reinforcing the value of community building and connecting researchers globally.

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What if every wildfire on Earth could be detected in real time? 🔥

🛰️ That’s the goal of FireSat, a constellation of multispectral infrared imaging satellites led by Earth Fire Alliance + Muon Space. FireSat launched its first satellite in March 2025 and plans to deploy another 50+ by 2030.

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Earthquake early warning system becomes West Coast-wide The ShakeAlert earthquake early warning program has hit a milestone by becoming a West Coast-wide system. Moore Foundation grantees at the U.S. Geological Surve…

📳 Informed by decades of data on rapid earthquake detection, scientists at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @caltech.edu, U. of Washington and the USGS developed algorithms to trigger automatic safety shutdowns and pioneered the use of GPS with seismic data for accurate earthquake alerts.

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The Future of Amazonia Reflections: César Ipenza YouTube video by moorefoundation

⚖️ In this insightful interview from The Future of Amazonia symposium, César Ipenza, an environmental lawyer and university professor, stresses the urgent need to strengthen environmental governance to ensure the long-term viability of the Amazon.

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Sudden oak death introduced to U.S., study finds A genetic analysis of 151 isolates of the Sudden Oak Death pathogen provides new evidence that the commercial plant trade possibly helped introduce the microbe …

🪾 Sudden oak death has killed hundreds of thousands of oaks and tanoaks along the Pacific Coast.

🌱 With Moore Foundation support, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social researchers traced the pathogen to a single European source — informing conservation efforts + commercial trade.

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Government officials announce transfer of ownership of Cargill Salt-Ponds to the public Governor Gray Davis, Senator Dianne Feinstein and Interior Secretary Gale Norton today announced that title to 16,500 acres of salt-ponds and salt making rights…

🌿 In 2003, we invested $11M to acquire and support initial stewardship planning of the Cargill Salt Ponds into vibrant wetlands — protecting wildlife habitat and increasing public access to green spaces in the California’s South Bay.

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🌊 Through multiple grants — spanning science, ocean monitoring and artificial intelligence — we’re supporting the development of environmental sample processors, automated underwater vehicles, and deep-water imaging tools that push the boundaries of #OceanExploration and engineering. 🛰️
 
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The Future of Amazonia Reflections: Adriana Ramos, Instituto Socioambiental YouTube video by moorefoundation

At The Future of Amazonia, a symposium we hosted in May, Adriana Ramos (@socioambiental.org‬‬‬‬) emphasized the need for Indigenous-led territory management and conservation as the most effective means of protecting the Amazon. 🌳
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🔥 The Western Fire & Forest Resilience Collaborative is tackling unanswered questions about ecologically beneficial fire, and about the fastest moving and most destructive wildfires in the Western U.S. This effort is deepening our understanding of fire behavior and how to build resilience.

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In 2014, inspired by Gordon Moore’s own childhood experiences, we partnered with @society4science.bsky.social to reimagine the chemistry set. The goal was simple: ignite curiosity in the next generation through hands-on exploration. 👩‍🔬

Learn more ➡️ www.societyforscience.org/blog/winners...

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🩺 Over the course of five years, the Moore Foundation invested $100M+ in our Diagnostic Excellence Initiative. To extend the impact of our Patient Care Program, which concluded in 2023, we established a national coordinating center for diagnostic excellence at @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social.

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🦎 With Moore Foundation support, @inaturalist.bsky.social has become a global force in #CommunityScience — turning smartphone photos from more than 9 million users into research-grade biodiversity data, advancing conservation around the world. 📱🌱

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