Anne L Cohen

Anne Cohen, leader and innovator of Digital Reefs, is a tenured scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, faculty in the MIT-WHOI Joint Graduate Program in Oceanography and author of more than 100 scientific papers on climate change and coral reef ecosystems. She served as Expert Witness to the US House of Representatives, on the Science Steering Committee for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and on NOAA’s Science Advisory Board Working Group for Ecosystem Sciences and Management. She represented the US State Department at the Our Oceans Conference in Chile, addressed the UN General Assembly in New York City, and the Polynesian Leaders Group in Funafuti, Tuvalu. Dr Cohen holds the Oliver Davies medal for outstanding scientific contributions, was named Coral Champion by the Lewis Pugh Foundation and featured in ECO Magazine’s Top Coral Reef Researchers. Her new initiative, Digital Reefs, transforms ocean ecosystem management and sustainability by bringing intuitive, immersive, actionable data to the diversity of decision makers via 21st century Digital Twin technology.