COLLABORATE · PRELAUNCH

Different expertise. One accountable experiment.

LFE is assembling the science, operating knowledge, engineering discipline, and public trust required to test a scalable lionfish-control system responsibly.

This is a prelaunch initiative. Collaboration interest does not imply a funded role, formal partnership, procurement, or investment offer.

COLLABORATION PATHWAYS

Enter through the work you know.

Each pathway begins with a concrete question, a defined information exchange, and a decision about whether deeper work makes sense.

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PUBLIC MISSION

Agencies & coastal managers

Explore pilot-zone criteria, permits, reporting expectations, bycatch safeguards, vessel integration, and defensible measures of progress.

Discuss an agency pathway
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OPEN INQUIRY

Scientists & research institutions

Shape ecological baselines, field protocols, perception datasets, validation studies, shared campaigns, and publication-ready research questions.

Propose a research question
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SYSTEMS BUILD

Engineering & technology partners

Evaluate autonomy, low-light perception, navigation, controls, hydrodynamics, communications, safety architecture, data systems, and test infrastructure.

Define a technical workstream
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FIELD REALITY

Operators & seafood chain

Ground the plan in vessel, diving, weather, handling, cold-chain, processing, market, and coastal-community operating realities.

Share operating knowledge
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DILIGENCE

Capital, grants & impact funders

Review staged milestones, evidence ratings, capital needs, non-dilutive pathways, operating assumptions, governance, and impact verification.

Request a diligence conversation
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FUTURE CAPABILITY

Future team & fellows

Register interest across marine science, robotics, autonomy, software, field operations, data, partnerships, communications, and program delivery.

Register future interest
MEDIA + COMMUNITY

Journalists, educators, chefs, citizen scientists, and reef advocates can use the same inquiry route. Choose “Media, education, or community” as the pathway.

HOW ENGAGEMENT STARTS

Small, specific, and honest.

LFE will not turn a first conversation into a public partnership claim. The goal is to determine fit, scope, authority, and the next evidence needed.

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Frame the question

Name the problem, decision, or opportunity clearly enough to test.

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Exchange what is safe

Share only information each party is authorized to disclose.

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Define a bounded next move

Choose a review, introduction, dataset, workshop, test, or written brief.

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Document the relationship

Public attribution or substantive work begins only with explicit agreement.

USEFUL FIRST CONVERSATIONS

Bring a decision, not a performance.

Helpful to bring

  • The question or outcome that matters
  • Constraints, authority, and timing
  • Evidence, assets, or operating context available
  • The smallest useful next decision

LFE can bring

  • Prelaunch concept and systems framing
  • Field, engineering, data, and compliance requirements
  • Representative operations baseline
  • A candid record of assumptions and unknowns
COLLABORATION INQUIRY

Start with enough context to be useful.

This intake is for exploratory, prelaunch conversations. Do not include export-controlled, proprietary, protected-location, health, financial-account, or other sensitive information.

Prefer direct email?

Use the project mailbox for a concise introduction and links that are already approved for sharing.

Open the inquiry form

Applications, roles, fellowships, funding, and partnerships are not offered or guaranteed by submitting this form.

Submitting an inquiry creates no obligation for either party.

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BOUNDARIES

Clarity protects the work.

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No organization or person is represented as a partner, advisor, employee, customer, or funder without explicit authorization.

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Field activity remains subject to permits, vessel and dive safety, wildlife rules, handling requirements, and local authority.

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Future roles and fellowships depend on funding, scope, written terms, eligibility, and actual openings.

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Financial conversations are exploratory diligence, not a public solicitation or promise of returns.