RandR ADMIN, Author at Revive & Restore

Feb 24

The Audacious Experiment of Pleistocene Park

By RandR ADMIN Pleistocene Park, Revive & Restore, Woolly Mammoth

An artist's renderings of the mammoth steppe. Courtesy Pleistocene Park Foundation. Through the work spearheaded by one family, an ecosystem reengineering experiment is bringing new life to the Arctic. It's an effort to stop the thaw of permafrost and the...

Feb 04

Citizen Science for the Passenger Pigeon – Join the Project!

By RandR ADMIN Ben Novak, De-Extinction, Get Involved, Passenger Pigeon

-Ben J. Novak Revive & Restore’s Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback began in 2012 with two questions: Can we bring back the passenger pigeon to the eastern forests of the United States? And if so, why bring it back? To answer…

Jan 24

Beth Shapiro: The Young Science of Ancient DNA

By RandR ADMIN De-Extinction, Genetic Rescue, Woolly Mammoth

It is difficult to overstate the influence and guidance Beth Shapiro has lent to the field paleogenomics and the work of Revive & Restore. Beth is one of our Board Members as well as an advisor for our Passenger Pigeon...

Jan 10

Our New Director of Conservation Innovation

By RandR ADMIN Jobs, Revive & Restore

Revive & Restore Welcomes Michele Weber, Director of Conservation Innovation SAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA. JANUARY 10, 2020 Executive director Ryan Phelan announces today that Michel Weber has joined Revive & Restore in a senior role as Director of Conservation Innovation. In this senior...

Dec 05

A Call for Biotechnology in Ocean Conservation

By RandR ADMIN Ocean Genomics Horizon Scan, Revive & Restore, Ryan Phelan

As 2019 comes to a close, we are likely to remember it as a remarkable year for the environment. When sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg sailed into New York Harbor earlier this year, she produced an enormous global response. “Entire ecosystems are...

Aug 26

By Land and Sea, Looking to Restore a Planet in Crisis

By RandR ADMIN De-Extinction, Heath Hen

The Vineyard Gazette Noah Asimow – August 22, 2019 Buried deep within the woods of the Manuel Correllus State Forest is a statue of Booming Ben, the world’s final heath hen. Once common all along the eastern seaboard, the species…

Jun 21

Ocean Genomics Horizon Scan Press Release

By RandR ADMIN Ocean Genomics Horizon Scan

New Tools to Accelerate Ocean Conservation Read Online at PRNewswire Here The world’s oceans are in great peril. To help conservation and to reverse the trends of oceanic degradation, we must innovate and employ every available tool. More help is...

Oct 25

First Catalyst Fund Grant Awarded

By RandR ADMIN Catalyst Science Fund

Advancing Coral Conservation Revive & Restore is pleased to announce that the first grant from our recently launched Catalyst Science Fund has been awarded to marine biologist Steve Palumbi’s laboratory at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station. The $100,000 research grant...

Oct 10

Meet the Scientists Bringing Back Extinct Species From the Dead

By RandR ADMIN De-Extinction, Passenger Pigeon

Meet the Scientists Bringing Extinct Species Back From the Dead Wall Street Journal – October 9, 2018 “The last known passenger pigeon—a bird named Martha—died in captivity at a Cincinnati zoo in 1914. Her demise sparked the passing of modern...

Aug 23

Revive & Restore’s Catalyst Science Fund

By RandR ADMIN Catalyst Science Fund

Traditional conservation tools can be limited in addressing challenges like climate change, but advances in biotech provide fertile ground for breakthroughs. @Promega commits $3M to @Revive_Restore's Catalyst Science Fund to develop new biotech tools for conservation. (1/2) — Revive &...

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