New Atlantis
Chief Architect at New Atlantis Labs — decentralized marine science, ocean biodiversity regeneration, and precision medicine for the oceans.
The ocean is the largest, least-read library on Earth. Every reef, every kelp forest, every drop of seawater holds molecules that evolution spent hundreds of millions of years inventing — potential medicines, enzymes, answers to questions we haven't learned to ask yet. And it's disappearing faster than we can read it.
New Atlantis Labs set out to change that math. It was an enterprise marine data science research institution built around a single reframing: precision medicine, but for the oceans. Rather than treat conservation as charity, it used decentralized science to fund and govern the work — biodiversity credits that put a real value on a living reef, DAO governance that let a distributed community steer research funding, and a pipeline that ran from ocean biodiversity data through protein language models all the way to drug discovery.
As Chief Architect, I was responsible for the technical spine of that system: marine bioinformatics, eDNA analysis, decentralized governance, and scientific foundation models for marine biology. eDNA is the quiet marvel underneath it all. Every creature sheds a little of itself into the water as it passes, so a single cup of seawater carries a census of everything that swam through. Teach a model to read those traces, and the ocean begins to narrate its own inventory.
The work pulled together everything I'd been building toward: the computational rigor from Google, the DeSci governance I'd learned at LabDAO, and a growing conviction that open science infrastructure could serve the whole planet, not just the lab down the hall.
New Atlantis was one link in a longer chain. The marine science thread runs from LabDAO through New Atlantis, into the IMAC project, and on into the World Genome Academy — each turn deepening the commitment to ocean AI and citizen science. The eDNA biomonitoring work connects directly to the UCSD marine science partnership and the ocean genomics curriculum at Venice High, where students read the same water the models do.
Precision medicine for the oceans. The lab is archived now, but that framing still holds — and the thread runs on.