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MINDY YANG shared thisThis Nesta piece shares our compelling case for designing close-loop food systems that can sustain people during long missions, and for the ways space innovation can help build more resilient food systems here on Earth. As a member of the Deep Space Food Consortium, our World Taste & Smell Association Space Sensory Lab is glad to be part of this research, development, and strategy work. Food has to work for the people who eat it, so taste, smell, texture, and the pleasure of eating belong in the conversation alongside nutrition, safety, shelf life, and production. Great to see Angela Herblet, PMP and her colleagues bringing this future into focus.Why the future of space travel depends on reimagining how we eatWhy the future of space travel depends on reimagining how we eat
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MINDY YANG shared thisBravo!MINDY YANG shared thisWe made a nature documentary about humans. Why? Because movement is in our nature. But in our modern habitats, some days we hardly move at all. New ASICS research shows that people now report spending 86% of their waking day not moving. So ahead of World Mental Health Day, we’re looking at human movement through a conservation lens. The result is Human Nature. Narrated by the brilliant Sigourney Weaver - no stranger to a nature documentary. The good news? Research shows that just 15 minutes of movement can positively impact our mental wellbeing and help humans thrive. So this World Mental Health Day, we’re hoping everyone can find just 15 minutes to move. Because when you move your body, you move your mind. Gary Raucher, Esther Turkenburg, Anna Nikolaenko, Yuzo Itami, Yuri Igarashi, Golin Ketchum London, Elliot Riordan, Alex Wood, Sam Mildner, Natasha Weeks, Lydia Goldman, Charlie Briegal, Vicky Plato, Dr Brendon Stubbs, Hayley Jarvis, Gemma Combellack, Amy Walford, Rob Leggatt, Francis Mildmay-White, KNUCKLEHEAD, Antonio Talarico
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MINDY YANG shared thisSounds like an incredible opportunity!MINDY YANG shared thisI'm setting out on a 650 km scientific expedition across Arabia. And I'm inviting researchers with questions worth pursuing to join me. In February 2027, I'll embark on THE NABATAEAN TRAVERSE - six weeks on foot, from Petra in Jordan to Hegra in Saudi Arabia. But this isn't simply about walking 650 kilometres I want to turn this journey into a moving scientific laboratory, a platform for original research, discovery, STEM education and meaningful outreach. Supported by a Kensington Tours Exploration Grant and carrying The Explorers Club Flag 244, this not-for-profit expedition will bring together scientists, clinicians, historians, explorers and educators. 650 kilometres. Six weeks. Eight disciplines. Two countries. Our programme spans: 🦠 Extreme microbiology - life at the limits of heat, salinity and drought. 🌿 Desert ecology - biodiversity across hyper-arid landscapes. 🌋 Geology and volcanology - lava fields and landscape evolution. 🏛️ Heritage science - Nabataean trade routes and ancient water engineering. 🛰️ Remote sensing and AI - mapping and field survey. 🩺 Human performance - physiological adaptation in extreme environments. 🚀 Space analogue science - desert operations informing planetary exploration. 🎓 STEM education - connecting classrooms with real science, live from the field. The Nabataeans mastered some of Earth's most demanding environments. Their ingenuity in water management, logistics and desert survival still has much to teach us. And this is where I'd love your involvement. We're inviting scientists, academics, researchers and specialist contributors to put themselves forward. Have a research project that could benefit from this environment? A scientific question you've wanted to investigate but lacked the logistical platform to pursue? Or expertise that could add an entirely new dimension to the expedition? You don't need to commit to the full six weeks. Opportunities exist to join agreed expedition legs alongside our scientific and field teams. If you have an idea, I genuinely want to hear it. Register your interest and tell us about your proposed research: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eCMSEYwk Explore the expedition: 🌍 https://lnkd.in/ehTZG_t5 After four decades of leading expeditions, I've become convinced that exploration is most valuable when it creates opportunities for others. The expedition is the vehicle. The legacy is the purpose. Know a scientist, researcher or explorer who should be involved? Please tag them or introduce us. And one question for the scientific community: If you had six weeks and 650 kilometres of extraordinary desert landscape at your disposal, what would YOU investigate? #NabataeanTraverse #ExplorersClub #FieldScience #ExtremeMedicine #ScientificExpedition
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MINDY YANG reposted thisMINDY YANG reposted thisHow do we build a food system for people living on the Moon 🌘, and what would it take to adapt it for a journey to Mars and beyond? 🪐 At IAC2026, we’ll explore this together in an interactive fishbowl discussion with Consortium members and our wider community. Starting with a lunar mission scenario, panelists will make choices under real mission constraints, weighing nutrition, food safety, habitat resources, crew time, and the experience of sharing a meal. Audience members can then rotate into the discussion to challenge assumptions and propose solutions. We’ll map the decisions live, identify what a reliable lunar food system needs, and explore what must change for longer missions. The findings will help shape the Deep Space Food Consortium’s roadmap. Attending #IAC2026? Join the discussion and bring your perspective to help shape the future of food beyond Earth! 🗓️ Friday, 9 October 🕐 13:45-14:55 📍 Room G3, NEST Congress and Exhibition Centre Featuring Robyn Gatens, Annie Shelton, Tor Blomqvist, Kyunghwan Kim, Madelyn MacRobbie, and 🚀 Jarin Chu. https://lnkd.in/enhxbGFG
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MINDY YANG shared thisIt’s climate week in NY, and as an advocate of biodiversity and regenerative agriculture, Yoann’s point really resonates. Clearly, there is a knowledge gap. We need to teach people why this work matters, not simply award progress through vanity metrics. #ClimateWeek #Biodiversity #RegenerativeAgriculture #ClimateAction #Sustainability #FoodSystemsMINDY YANG shared thisWe are planting millions of trees that will never become a forest. The rush to a number did this. One trillion trees. Buy one product, plant one tree. Biology does not count trees. It counts diversity. A monoculture plantation is endless rows of one fast-growing species, usually a non-native pine or eucalyptus. Green from a satellite. Close to lifeless on the ground. People who work in restoration call them green deserts, and the name is fair. Almost nothing lives there. The soil biology does not recover. It is a crop with a longer rotation, and it is being counted and sold as ecosystem restoration. I am not against planting trees. I am against a metric that cannot tell the difference between a forest and a field of identical stems. If a project cannot tell you what species went in and where the seed came from, it is not restoring anything. It is farming, and it should be priced as farming. Image via Louis De Jaeger.
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MINDY YANG reposted thisWhat does space smell like—and why does it matter? 👃🚀 I’m incredibly grateful to be part of the Space Sensory Lab and to have contributed to this work exploring olfaction as an emerging human factor in spaceflight. As we prepare humans for longer-duration missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, our senses are about far more than the enjoyment of food. Smell and taste intersect with nutrition, psychological well-being, crew cohesion, human performance—and even operational safety. If sensory perception changes in space, what does that mean for appetite? Memory and comfort? Or recognizing smoke and other environmental hazards? This is where neurogastronomy, sensory science, space psychology, and human factors begin to converge—and exactly why I believe we need to think about the whole human as we design for exploration. Proud of our team for bringing this conversation to ECRO 2026 at Sorbonne University in Paris. There is so much more to learn. Huge Shoutout to Caroline McMillan, PhD 🚀 Jarin Chu MINDY YANG After all, creating “Normalcy in the Extraordinary” isn’t just about making space livable—it’s about understanding the humans who will live there. #HumanSpaceflight #SpaceHumanFactors #Neurogastronomy #SensoryScience #Olfaction #SpaceFood #SpacePsychology #CrewPerformance #SpaceSafety #LongDurationSpaceflight #MoonToMars #SpaceExplorationMINDY YANG reposted thisWhat does space smell like? And why should mission planners care? This week we presented our poster at ECRO 2026 at Sorbonne University in Paris, on olfactory processing and behaviour as an emerging human factors frontier in human spaceflight. Smell is easy to overlook in mission design, but it's tied to things crews depend on: 🔹 Appetite and food intake, already a known challenge on long missions 🔹 Hazard detection, such as smoke. 🔹 Mood, memory and well-being in isolated, confined environments Astronauts also report changes in how they perceive odours in microgravity, which is often linked to fluid shifts. As we plan for lunar and Mars missions, understanding these changes matters for both crew performance and safety. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our poster for questions, challenges and ideas. The conversations across disciplines, from neuroscience to food innovation to interaction design, were the highlight! We'd love to hear from others working in space human factors, sensory science or habitat design. Where do you think chemosensory research should fit into mission planning? #ECRO2026 #Olfaction #HumanSpaceflight #SpaceHumanFactors #SpaceScience #SensoryDesign
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MINDY YANG reposted thisMINDY YANG reposted thisHow do unfamiliar flavors become familiar? From bitterness and minerality to pandan, matcha and kimchi, the next wave of flavor innovation is about giving consumers a familiar way in. In Part 2 of Mapping the Global Senses, MINDY YANG explores how global flavors move from niche to mainstream, and why familiarity can be the bridge to experimentation. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/gMxTHnJd #FlavorInnovation #FlavorTrends #FoodAndBeverage #SensoryScience #PerfumerFlavoristMapping the Global Senses (Part 2 of 3): Novelty & FamiliarityMapping the Global Senses (Part 2 of 3): Novelty & Familiarity
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MINDY YANG reposted thisMINDY YANG reposted thisWhat would change if we tracked taste, smell, and chemesthesis across our lives the way we track blood pressure? ❤️ We know these senses change with age, physiological state, disease, injury, medications and other aspects of health. ⏳🤒💉 Yet most of us have no baseline for either of them. We usually start paying attention only when something changes. 📈 For World Taste & Smell Day (September 14), I joined MINDY YANG, Stephanie Feuer, and Rachel Herz to discuss findings from our World Taste & Smell Association's 2026 Human Taste & Smell Spectrum survey. A few results stood out (in addition to those in the image): More than 90% of respondents said a smell had brought back a personal memory. More than 75% said a smell had recovered a memory they had completely forgotten. And 50% said smell affects their quality of life. These findings are a good reminder that taste and smell are not simply “food senses.” They are involved in memory, emotion, appetite, behaviour, safety, identity, health, quality of life, and our very survival. Taste and smell are not properties of a stimulus alone; they are perceptual experiences generated by a living nervous system, and when the organism changes, the experience can too. 🔺 Change the physiology, and you can change the experience. We measure plenty of biological functions longitudinally because change can tell us something important. Should taste and smell be among them? The answer is yes, yes they should. 👅 👃 Full World Taste & Smell Day conversation link in the comments. #TasteAndSmell #SensoryScience #WorldTasteAndSmellDay
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MINDY YANG reposted thisMINDY YANG reposted thisFor decades, astronauts aboard the International Space Station have helped scientists by taking part in experiments and collecting valuable data about how the human body responds to life in microgravity. A single long-duration mission can provide years of equivalent data, helping scientists understand how the body adapts and how we can make conditions better for astronauts on future missions. These studies don’t just help protect astronauts. They can also help us better understand certain diseases and advance healthcare here on Earth. 🌎
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Pontus Linderholm Intentions matter—but so does design. I own and manage a working farm and forest, and I research and grow variations of the Three Sisters: corn, beans, and squash. If you understand why this works above ground and within the soil, you’ll understand it too is infrastructure. A roof can grow food, support pollinators, regulate temperature, manage stormwater, and add beauty. Not every acre needs to do everything, but every project can do more than one thing. Carbon without soil life, insects, water, and resilience is a pretty narrow definition of success. I believe biodiversity shouldn’t be outsourced. It should be layered in.
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MINDY YANG reacted on thisMINDY YANG reacted on thisHistorically, medical research has relied heavily on male participants, with findings often generalized to women and children. If women’s health is discussed at all, it’s largely framed around reproduction. This special issue of Science highlights the research that is seeking to close the critical gaps in women’s health. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4yeD4QV
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MINDY YANG reacted on thisMINDY YANG reacted on thisYOU ARE NOT THE MAIN CHARACTER. Something has happened to us. People have always been inconsiderate. They left shopping carts in parking spaces long before Instagram. But social media gave something very old a powerful new weapon: An audience. Now everyone has a camera, microphone and platform. Somewhere along the way, having an audience became confused with deserving one. Everyone became the star of their own movie. The problem is nobody told the rest of us we were cast as extras. Speakerphone in an elevator. FaceTime in a restaurant. Videos blasting on an airplane. Influencers filming in stores while strangers navigate around their production. The world has become somebody’s soundstage. The restaurant is their studio. The grocery store is their set. Everyone else is background talent. That isn’t confidence. It’s arrogance. It isn’t individuality. It’s entitlement. And it isn’t authenticity. It’s bad manners. Social media didn’t invent narcissism. It gave it distribution. Yelp made everyone a critic. Instagram gave everyone a close-up. TikTok gave everyone a stage. LinkedIn gave everyone a podium. Now everyone is a film critic, music critic, business expert and life coach. Everyone is reviewing the movie. Very few have ever made one. Qualifications optional. Self-importance required. Having followers is not a résumé. Going viral is not an accomplishment. Attention is not authority. An audience is not expertise. Worse, the screen removed something that once regulated human behavior: awareness of the person standing in front of you. People publicly write things about colleagues and strangers they would rarely have the nerve to say three feet across a table. The screen became armor. The audience became applause. And arrogance got rebranded as authenticity. Freedom of speech matters. But freedom of speech never meant freedom from judgment, manners, consequences or accountability. You are entitled to your opinion. You are not entitled to everyone’s attention. You are entitled to use your phone. You are not entitled to make everyone around you participate in it. You are entitled to live your life. You are not entitled to cast the rest of us in it. We traded television for phones. But television never told us we were famous. It never counted followers. It never convinced us that because people were watching, we must be worth watching. That may be social media’s greatest trick: It gave everyone a camera and convinced everyone they deserved a close-up. They don’t. The world is not your set. The public is not your crew. Strangers are not your extras. And your name does not belong above everyone else’s on the poster. Sometimes the most impressive person in the room is the one who doesn’t need the room looking at them. No camera. No performance. No audience required. Just awareness. Consideration. Manners. Before demanding top billing, remember: There are 8.3 billion other people in the cast.
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MINDY YANG liked thisMINDY YANG liked thisFrom Space Food to Flow State. Astreas x Cognizin® Citicoline: we're proud to share a two-page feature and the back cover in USA TODAY's NASA Special Edition. For decades, performance nutrition has forced a choice between function and flavor. We built Astreas because we refuse to settle. Engineered with 70% dark VALRHONA chocolate, stone-ground coffee beans, and Cognizin® citicoline from our partners at Kyowa Hakko USA, formulated for sustained focus, mental clarity, and zero jitters. Behind this space-grade innovation is a world-class, multi-disciplinary team driving our vision forward everyday. Founder & CEO Shahreen Reza, Chief Medical Officer Scott Parazynski, MD, master chocolatiers Michael Recchiuti and Dany Kamkhagi, nutritional biochemist Joey Savage, guidance from NASA veterans along the way, and our partners at Kyowa Hakko, whose Cognizin® citicoline is central to the cognitive performance Astreas delivers. From the International Space Station to the conference room, Astreas is built for those who demand excellence at the edge of performance. Read the feature here. Link to the Special Edition in comments. #Astreas #Cognizin #HumanPerformance
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MINDY YANG liked thisMINDY YANG liked thisI'mm proud to see Astreas featured across a two-page spread and the back cover of USA TODAY's NASA Special Edition. I've spent my career thinking about human performance at the edge, across seven spacewalks, a summit of Everest, and now as Chief Medical Officer at Astreas applying that same thinking to what I call Flow State: the focused, fully engaged performance people need in the moments that matter most. It's rare to find a product that actually earns that framing. Astreas does. Grateful to Shahreen Reza for building something that actually earns the "designed for astronauts" claim, and to our partners at Kyowa Hakko USA for the science underneath it. https://lnkd.in/gawJircU
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MINDY YANG reacted on thisMINDY YANG reacted on this🌲🫁 That sharp pine smell when you walk into a forest? It isn't just pleasant. It's part of the forest's chemistry. Trees release volatile compounds called phytoncides, including compounds such as alpha-pinene and beta-pinene. These chemicals are part of the trees' natural defense systems. And researchers have been asking an intriguing question: Could some of the benefits of being in a forest come from breathing these compounds? Studies led by Dr. Qing Li and colleagues have found that forest exposure was associated with increased natural killer cell activity and lower levels of some stress hormones in small groups of healthy participants. Similar effects were observed in a small experiment using hinoki cypress oil in a hotel room. But there's an important nuance. The research is promising, not definitive. Many studies are relatively small, and it's difficult to separate the effects of phytoncides from everything else that happens during time in a forest: walking, sunlight, quieter surroundings, exercise and simply stepping away from urban stress. A recent review also notes substantial variation in study designs and the need for stronger research. Still, the idea is fascinating. A forest isn't just something we see. It's something we breathe. And perhaps that's another reason cities filled with trees can offer benefits that concrete alone never can. 🌳 More trees don't just create prettier streets. They create living environments. Sometimes nature's most interesting technologies are invisible. You just have to breathe them in. #Forests #Phytoncides #ForestBathing #Nature #UrbanForests #Biodiversity #Wellbeing #NatureBasedSolutions #ClimateResilience 📌PS: Found this helpful? Join 21,000+ founders and investors leveling up their game to fix this climate mess. 👉 Subscribe to my newsletter and get actionable insights delivered weekly! 🌍🚀 https://lnkd.in/ektv3C_s Credit: Louis De Jaeger
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MINDY YANG reacted on thisMINDY YANG reacted on thisLast week marked the end of an incredible chapter for me, as I completed my NASA Postdoctoral Program fellowship with the Space Crop Production team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Working at NASA has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember, and the reality somehow exceeded it. Alongside the science, I’ve watched rocket launches from Kennedy (including Artemis II!), met and worked around astronauts, supported experiments being conducted aboard the International Space Station, and had the opportunity to work hands-on with real spaceflight hardware, including the Veggie plant growth system. There have been many moments where I’ve had to remind myself just how extraordinary it is that this became my job. Much of my work at NASA has focused on plant nitrogen acquisition. We’ve shown that lettuce can preferentially acquire ammonium over nitrate in hydroponics, explored how that preference changes under the elevated CO₂ concentrations relevant to spaceflight, demonstrated that ammonium-dominant nutrition can be viable when solution pH is appropriately controlled, and developed approaches that harness plant nitrogen uptake itself to regulate nutrient-solution pH. Collectively, this work has helped me think differently about how plant physiology can be used not simply as a constraint on system design, but as part of the engineering solution. Along the way, I’ve had opportunities I could never have anticipated: leading a NASA-funded research project, developing new technologies, mentoring an incredible group of interns, and collaborating with scientists across NASA and around the world. A particular highlight was leading our New Phytologist Viewpoint, bringing together more than 40 scientists from 11 countries and 6 space agencies to identify priorities for advancing plant-based regenerative life-support systems. None of this would have happened without the people around me. I’m especially grateful to Gioia Massa for giving me the freedom, trust and mentorship to develop as an independent scientist; to Elison Blancaflor , whose mentorship and encouragement to lead our New Phytologist paper opened doors I could never have anticipated; and to Raymond Wheeler , whom I first contacted as a PhD student after reading his work and who played an enormous part in making this entire journey possible. To the whole Space Crop Production team, my collaborators, and the students I’ve had the privilege of mentoring: thank you. Leaving Kennedy is bittersweet, but I’m incredibly excited for what comes next. Later this month, I’ll begin a new chapter as a Senior Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University, UK, where I’ll continue developing research at the intersection of plant physiology, controlled-environment agriculture and space crop production. Thank you, NASA. 🚀🌱
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MINDY YANG reacted on thisMINDY YANG reacted on thisOne year on the Moon. 15 people. How would you feed and sustain them? To help answer that question, join us at IAC2026 on Friday afternoon during our public session "Beyond Rations: The Challenge of Dining in Deep Space." Facilitated by Omar Alayli with Tor Blomqvist, Robyn Gatens, Kyunghwan Kim, Annie Shelton, and 🚀 Jarin Chu, we’ll work through a lunar mission scenario inviting attendees to join in on the discussion and explore how we’ll grow, prepare, and share food for Moon missions and beyond. We'll prompt the audience to identify their top three: 💡 Priorities and concerns 💡 Points where systems and disciplines need to connect 💡 Opportunities for investment, applications on Earth, and collaboration 💡 Questions for the panelists We welcome various perspectives, from architects, astronauts, engineers, and researchers to chefs, entrepreneurs, investors — anyone curious about the future of food. 📅 Friday, October 9 - Public Day (open to the public) 🕐 13:45-14:55 📍 Room G3, NEST Congress and Exhibition Centre #IAC2026 The Consortium will review session feedback for inclusion in our comprehensive roadmap. Bring your expertise, ideas and curiosity as well as an appetite for a fantastic discussion with the folks shaping the future of space food.
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MINDY YANG reacted on thisMINDY YANG reacted on thisWe have been misreading nutrition requirements since the 1950s (at least). While researching for a review, I found some gold nuggets in a 1995 FAO piece looking back over 50 years of its own expert committees. The first one (on calories, 1949) laid out a principle: ⚡Requirements are set for groups of people, not individuals ⚡"An average requirement can never be compared directly with an individual (requirement)" They even warned the numbers needed adjusting depending on how, and for whom, they were used (ya think?) And while this specific statement was focused on calories, it holds for every nutrient, including, of course, protein. When FAO's first protein committee met in 1955, the protein requirement wasn't set as an average, but as a "safe level of intake": high enough to cover the needs of almost all healthy people. In addition, even back then, it was recognised that both quantity and quality were important in meeting these needs. Now, more than 65 years on: 😐 A number estimated for a population still gets reported by some as if it's proof of one's personal requirement 😐 A safe level set to prevent deficiency in almost all healthy people gets read as the ideal threshold for everyone 😐 A requirement based on high-quality protein is still applied to diets based primarily on lower-quality protein sources In essence, while our founding expert committees told us that the number was for populations, not individuals, somehow this still hasn't hit home across the board. So why even have population numbers at all? Because they're very good at the job they were built for: ✅ Checking whether a country's food supply can meet population needs ✅ Planning and monitoring nutrition for whole groups ✅ Providing a 'safe' starting point when planning an individual's intake Reference intakes play a key role in nutrition and health guidelines and policy. But they can't say what one specific individual needs.
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MINDY YANG reacted on thisMINDY YANG reacted on thisAfter 93 years without a single offspring, a 100-year-old tortoise just had 16 babies. Her name is Mommy. She arrived at the Philadelphia Zoo in 1932 as a Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise. No offspring for nearly a century. 0% genetic representation in the breeding pool. In 2020, the zoo paired her with Abrazzo, another centenarian tortoise. Zoo biologists tracked her nesting, secured the clutch, and monitored incubation. This summer, 16 hatchlings emerged, making her the oldest known first-time mother of her species. The population shift: ↳ 35,000 wild tortoises collapsed to roughly 3,400 on Santa Cruz Island ↳ 2% estimated survival rate for hatchlings in the wild ↳ 0% representation of Mommys lineage in the captive pool before 2025 ↳ 44 to 60 animals: a 36% instant increase in the global captive population A single clutch introduced critical founder genetics, cutting inbreeding risk across the entire managed population. These tortoises are keystone ecosystem engineers. They graze native vegetation, clear paths through dense undergrowth, churn the soil, and disperse seeds across vast distances. When their numbers collapse, the physical architecture of the island shifts. Captive breeding cannot replace an intact ecosystem on its own. With wild numbers down 90%, these 16 animals buy critical time while teams restore native habitat on Santa Cruz. When was the last time you saw patience or persistence pay off long after everyone assumed the window had completely closed? Sources: Philadelphia Zoo, Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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Conscious Beauty Trends Panel
A panel that explores the current trends in conscious beauty and the underlying drivers or challenges. It will also delve into alternative practices and examples, discuss the future state of conscious beauty, and provide recommendations for stakeholders to prepare for the future.
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Currnt: Sensing Trends & Disruptions Impacting the Retail Workforce
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See projectSensing for workforce disruptions in the RETAIL Industry due to social, economic, demographic, environmental, technological, or geopolitical trends. As a Panelists, I contribute to Actionable Insights with other C-Suite executives from around the world.
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"Nose" (Fragrance/Flavor Expert) Educator & Trainer, Moët Hennessy
Collaborating with Moet Hennessy's esteemed Master Distillers and their dynamic marketing team, I've brought innovative concepts to life. I serve as a Consultant for brands within the MH portfolio from Glenmorangie, Ardbeg, Hennessy Master Blenders, and Veuve Clicquot to Chandon.
Among my favorites is developing cutting-edge nano-encapsulated scent mailers, elevating sensory experiences and forging powerful connections with our audience when in-person tasting was impossible during the…Collaborating with Moet Hennessy's esteemed Master Distillers and their dynamic marketing team, I've brought innovative concepts to life. I serve as a Consultant for brands within the MH portfolio from Glenmorangie, Ardbeg, Hennessy Master Blenders, and Veuve Clicquot to Chandon.
Among my favorites is developing cutting-edge nano-encapsulated scent mailers, elevating sensory experiences and forging powerful connections with our audience when in-person tasting was impossible during the pandemic.
As their Educator and "Nose," I take immense pride in creating official Train-the-Trainer Kits, empowering our team to master the art of flavor. As an On-Media Personality, I'm on their official training video, hosted masterclasses, and crafted engaging materials for on-premise and VIP events across the USA. Together, we embark on an aromatic adventure, setting new standards in luxury beverages. -
Currnt: Building Consumer Trust
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Currnt: The Relationship Between Big Brands and Women Small Business Owners
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Honors & Awards
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Winner: Most Innovative Sensory Company
LuxeLife Magazine
Health, Beauty & Wellness Awards 2023
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Winner, Hospitality Award 2022
LuxeLife Magazine
“Best Retail Lab” USA
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2020 Beauty Awards Winner Voting Committee
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Speaker & Olfactory Artist
FutureFest
In collaboration with Master Perfumer Michel Roudnitska.
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Olfactory Artist
Cannes TWFA
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Olfactory Artist
Pitti Fragranze
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Olfactory Artist
Esxence Milano
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Olfactory Artist
Pitti Fragranze
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Luxury Interactive
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Deep Space Food Consortium
Subject Matter Expert, Member, Mars To Table Deep Space Food Challenge Judge
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World Taste & Smell Association’s (WTSA) Space Sensory Lab explores the human side of food systems, advancing research on taste, smell, favor perception, appetite, and sensory well-being in space and other extreme environments. By bringing together scientists, clinicians, chefs, designers, and human factors experts, we help ensure that future food systems are designed for humans, informed by science, and ground in the realities of how food is perceived, experienced and enjoyed. Visit DeepSpaceFood.org for more info.
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Perfumer & Flavorist Magazine
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Food Industry Excecutive
Contributing Writer
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MOFAD [Museum of Food & Drink]
Flavor Advisory Committee
- PresentNow open through the end of 2024, Flavor is a sensory journey through our bodies and our world, designed and curated by food scientists and culinary anthropologists. Unpack what really happens in our heads when we experience the flavors of food, discover the ways flavor companies engineer and design the flavors that we eat almost every day, and learn what natural and artificial flavoring really mean. With millions around the world losing their senses of smell and taste due to COVID-19, Flavor…
Now open through the end of 2024, Flavor is a sensory journey through our bodies and our world, designed and curated by food scientists and culinary anthropologists. Unpack what really happens in our heads when we experience the flavors of food, discover the ways flavor companies engineer and design the flavors that we eat almost every day, and learn what natural and artificial flavoring really mean. With millions around the world losing their senses of smell and taste due to COVID-19, Flavor is a timely look at the sensory experience that makes us love food and drink!
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NY Women for the Land Stakeholder Coalition 2024
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Alphasights
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Squarespace Circle
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International Taste and Smell Day
Steering Board Member & Sponsor
-The senses of taste and smell have gained awareness because loss of these senses are symptoms of COVID-19. It is critically important to continue to grow awareness because smell and taste are deeply linked to our health and well-being. But the impact of these senses is rarely appreciated until they are diminished. Smell loss was already a public health and quality of life concern; the pandemic adds millions more to the ranks of individuals who are impacted. Please join us and visit…
The senses of taste and smell have gained awareness because loss of these senses are symptoms of COVID-19. It is critically important to continue to grow awareness because smell and taste are deeply linked to our health and well-being. But the impact of these senses is rarely appreciated until they are diminished. Smell loss was already a public health and quality of life concern; the pandemic adds millions more to the ranks of individuals who are impacted. Please join us and visit TasteAndSmell.World for more information.
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Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research
Advocate
-Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research unites chemosensory scientists worldwide to understand reports of COVID-19 chemosensory issues & advance science in the chemical senses. We are conducting a world-wide scientific study to assess the possible relationships between respiratory illness (e.g., COVID-19, influenza or the common cold) and their effects on smell & taste. Please join us: https://gcchemosensr.org/ @GCChemosensoryR #GCCR
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