Gitcoin Beta Rounds: DeSci + Climate Solutions + Metacrisis.xyz

Updates:

January - April 2023 Updates Pt. 1
Q1-2023
 - Assemble transdisciplinary experts and core members for MesoReefDAO.

✓ We are still looking for transdisciplinary scientists and many guilds.

 - Acquire mesoreefdao.eth and create a safe.global for funds.

 ✓ We are looking to acquire the ENS domain.

 - Promote the proposal on social media.

✓ We have created a Twitter, Instagram, Discord, a GitHub repo, and Notion the information about the initiative and to engage potential members.

January - April 2023 Updates Pt. 2
Q2/Q3-2023
 -Create the framework for the MesoReefDAO [DeSci DAO: protocol, governance, incentives, organization, operations, and applications.

✓ We are working on this DeSciDAO framework, and we need more engagement.

 - Apply for both traditional and decentralized grants.

✓ Our initiative has made it through the first round of the Mar+Invest program

and we are expecting to hear back by the end of April regarding our status for

the next round.

✓ We create a giveth project of MesoReefDAO.

✓ We look for support to scale or initiative in terms of DeSci DAO with Origami (we must have at least +100 active members to scale with their help).

✓ We applied for Beta Gitcoin Grants: Climate Solutions + DeSci + Metacrisis Rounds.

January - April 2023 Updates Pt. 3
Q2/Q3-2023


- Monitor project growth and promote it through social media, summits, forums, and academic conferences.

✓ We talked with members of NGOs like Healthy Reefs Initiative and Coral Reef

Alliance to create positive synergies in the region.

✓ We promoted our initiative on the Mesoamerican Reef Day

2023 and FLII ROOTS 2023.

May - July (part 1)
One of our members has joined Greenpill.network and is actively engaging with GreenPill México to create synergies with MesoReefDAO for onboarding stakeholders to regenerative conservation practices. He participated in the 1st Cohort of Regen writers and presented three essays entitled: "Bridging the Gap: A Regen Guide to Integrating Conservation Biology and DeSci Web3 Tools in the Anthropocene" (part 1),(part 2),(part 3).




We applied to bio.xyz biotech acceleration program as MesoReefDAO.




Participation with DeSci divulgation articles on T2.world within the DeSci Territory.




Application to the ReFi Talents: An 18-Week Mentoring Program Empowering Talent for Leadership in the Regenerative Finance Space.




la dream machine 🔮’s surveys: Web 3 con Impacto Social en LATAM 📈 with Ashoka Cono Sur




We celebrate and divulge scientific knowledge on #worldoceansday 🌊🎉




We raised ~1000 USD in total of Climate Solutions+Metacrisis+DeSci on QF Gitcoin Beta Rounds 




We have received the blue check verification on MesoReefDAO’s Twitter.




Project Update to CONAHCyT: Restoration of the biodiversity of fish assemblages in coral reef ecosystems of the Mexican Caribbean. (ES Technical Report)




Scientific paper Release: Triviño, J. C., Rojas-Cano, D. M., Niño-Torres, L. A., Colín-García, N., Hernández-Landa, R., Blanco-Pimentel, M., ... & Rioja-Nieto, R. (2023). Rebuilding Coral Reefs: How tourism can be a driver behind solutions in a changing ocean. https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/5642/.

May - July (part 2)




LEEAC Lab Cinvestav - Unidad Mérida: 2 Field Trips to Reserva de la Biósfera Banco Chinchorro and Xcalak: Fish Biodiversity assessments, RUVs and Photomosaics.




Press: Presence of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in Banco Chinchorro.




Assistance in Coral Colonies Rescue and Microfragmentation/Fragmentation Coral Techniques Workshop by Wave of Change/Iberostar Hotel Group.




We are members of the Island Innovation network.




Participation in the Monitoring Season throughout the Mesoamerican Reef with Healthyreefs and other stakeholders.




Accepted oral presentation: "The role of fish in coral outplanting restoration areas: a functional ecology approach." 10th World Conference on Ecological Restoration. Darwin, Australia, September 26-30, 2023. Society of Ecological Restoration.




Oral presentation: "Temporal patterns in fish biodiversity in protected and non-protected sites of the Mesoamerican Reef." XVIII National Congress and IX Latin American Ichthyology Symposium. La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. May 30 to June 2, 2023.

Same Updates with links: https://giveth.io/project/mesoreefdao-regenerating-reef-conservation-with-desci?tab=updates