Eddy Analytics, Inc

THE 3 key features of an Ocean Digital Twin Many people have asked me: what's the difference between a model and a digital twin? Good question! Digital twins are models but not all models are digital twins. Here are some key differences: 1) Digital twins are constantly updated in near-real time to reflect variability and change in the real life system. If a harbor is built, a sandbank is re-positioned in a storm, a heatwave decimates the coral population, those changes are made in the digital twin. 2) Digital Twins are connected to their real life systems via strategically placed sensors that feed observational data to the twin, allowing it to more accurately simulate the real system. 3) Perhaps most critically, Digital Twins are designed to help people make better decisions using “what-if scenarios” i.e., by changing something in the system and seeing what happens. Users can do this many times over without destroying a thing! Here we're testing out various causeway-removal scenarios in the digital twin of Palmyra Atoll, a US National Wildlife Refuge. We want to know whether we should a) remove the entire causeway, b) the south section only, or c) will punching a few strategically placed holes do the trick? In the twin, we can determine which intervention yields the maximum effect with minimal environmental impact, and then implement the best solution in the real world. That's what Digital Twins are made for!! Anne Cohen Martin Visbeck Fei Chai National Science Foundation (NSF) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Aurali Dade Glenn Robinson Hambleton Lord John Dougherty Karen Olcott Adam de Sola Pool Paul Seaton Dawn Wright, PhD mark huang Emiley Zalesky Lockhart

Eddy Analytics was at the Plymouth Foundation's Blue Future event this month. It was great to connect with law-makers, educational groups and other entrepreneurs on the future of the blue economy in the state. We know the ocean is changing and it is imperative that we learn how to best understand it via observations and high-fidelity simulations! Thank you to the Plymouth Foundation for hosting a great event and to my co-panelists: Andy Whitman, Chad Hunter and Michael Cahill for an engaging discussion on the future of aquaculture.

We are thrilled to be a part of Sea Ahead and the New England Aquarium's Blue Swell program. We are all about accelerating our commercial launch and making our unique digital twin technology more widely available to marine customers!

We are excited to launch our digital presence today! We look forward to helping you address coastal ecosystem questions with our cutting edge hydrodynamic models and digital twin!