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Resilience:
Disaster Relief and Developing Resilience

COMPOUND EYES
DISASTER RESILIENCE PROGRAM

Learning for the future

As we enter 2024 we will continue to stock up on the equipment needed for rapid responses natural disasters for rapid disaster relief.

SAVE LIVES

From experience, clean water, solar generators, wifi hubs are almost always needed, and are the most difficult to provide. We do it quickly and efficiently.

Woman and child sit in front of other evacuees of a humanitarian mission

RECOVERY WITH RESILIENCE

As the emergency stabilizes we work with local communities to monitor the effects of the disaster on the biodiversity. 

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Cracks in dry soil fill with fresh new green grass

We seek to support local scientists and communities who are asking questions such as:

 

  • What plants or animals resisted the calamity?

  • Which plants have returned?

  • Based on rapid pollinator surveys, which have returned?

  • Are invasive species arriving?

  • What if any new more resilient seeds are needed to replant crops

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Then once again we ask “What do you need?” and we provide it.

COMPOUND EYES GRANTESS

2021-2022 Grantees

In the inaugural year of the foundation's founding, Compound Eyes provided operational grants to researchers both in academia and private sectors.

A close image of a seed from Ukraine

Making tiny parasitoid wasps available for research. Compound Eyes grant enabled the researchers to experiment with high-resolution imaging (in part provided by the foundation).

WASPS

A archival photo of a wasp found during Compound Eyes bioblitz

Capturing the beauty of seeds in a natural history collection. Compound Eyes grant supported the photographic capture of the beauty of seeds.

SEEDS

Carnivorous glands found on ordinary plants in Provence

Studying the structures of the glandular hairs in sundews. The grant supported increases in sampling as well as public engagement with the resulting images at exhibits.

CARNIVOROUS GLANDS

Ecomorphological aspects in the evolution of symbiotic crustaceans. Compound Eyes grant supported making the research images publicly visible. The grant sponsored enlarged modeling of 30 different models the public.

SHRIMP

A white shrimp tending water plants
Maxon Foundation leader scales an opening inside a Georgian cave

In the Caucasus caves, urgent documentation of biodiversity was necessary in light of magnesium mining. Compound Eyes grant enabled a dedicated imaging component to the study.

CAVES

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