Blog
Announcements
The Growing COMPASS Team
The COMPASS team has grown in the last few months! This year we’ve welcomed six fantastic new people on our team to help us meet our ambitious plans for the future. As fall is a time for reflection, we wanted to ask our new staff members to share a piece of content that has had an impact on their work and life. We hope their recommendations give you a glimpse int...
Coaching & Strategic Support
Simple Steps to Improve Time Management
Throughout the ongoing pandemic, how and where we spend our time has changed. Whether your commute has been drastically reduced to a short walk to a home desk, you’re traveling less, or spending more time on zoom than you thought possible - we’ve all been figuring out how to adapt our working lives to operate in more virtual environments. Although how we spend ...
Reflections
Cardinal Points
When I came across the job posting for my role at COMPASS I completed my application in one sitting, submitting my materials just a couple hours after I found the opening. I felt like I’d finally found the niche I was looking for, a space squarely in between science and solutions.
Starting at COMPASS just over two years ago, I entered the broad and wonderful...
Convening for Solutions
A New Report on Reframing Ocean-Climate Science and Solutions
Between June and November 2020, COMPASS and the California Ocean Science Trust (OST), with funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, convened twenty leaders in ocean and climate science, conservation, and society to discuss pressing issues at the intersections of their collective expertise. This group of ocean-climate science leaders came together to mo...
Stories
Always a Visitor, Sometimes Welcome
I became a US citizen in 2018 after a 17 year immigration process and in just two weeks, I will have lived half my life in the US. In the US, unlike in my own country, I was able to go to college, start my career, feel safe, and had the opportunity to thrive. However, since I started doing conservation with a historical and justice perspective, I’ve felt tokenize...