The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is an American foundation established by

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 ser ...

co-founder

Gordon E. Moore Gordon Earle Moore (born January 3, 1929) is an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation. He is also the original proponent of Moore's law. As of March 2021, Moore's net worth is report ...

and his wife Betty I. Moore in September 2000 to support scientific discovery, environmental conservation, patient care improvements and preservation of the character of the Bay Area. As outlined in the Statement of Founder's Intent, the foundation's aim is to tackle large, important issues at a scale where it can achieve significant and measurable impacts. According to the

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, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation provided USD 60 million for development in 2020 by means of grants.

Funded projects

Astronomy

All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae The All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) is an automated program to search for new supernovae and other astronomical transients, headed by astronomers from the Ohio State University, including Christopher Kochanek and Krzysztof Stane ...

(ASAS-SN) * Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) *

Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) is a radio telescope dedicated to observing large scale structure during and prior to the epoch of reionization. HERA is a Square Kilometre Array (SKA) precursor instrument, intended to observe t ...

(HERA) *

South Pole Telescope The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a diameter telescope located at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica. The telescope is designed for observations in the microwave, millimeter-wave, and submillimeter-wave regions of the electroma ...

(SPT) * Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) * W. M. Keck Observatory * BICEP and Keck Array

Biology

* Center for Ocean Solutions * Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis * Foldscope *

Global Ocean Sampling Expedition The Global Ocean Sampling Expedition (GOS) is an ocean exploration genome project whose goal is to assess genetic diversity in marine microbial communities and to understand their role in nature's fundamental processes. It was begun as a Sargass ...

Advanced Imaging Center (AIC) , Janelia Research Campus
* Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing , UC Davis

Quantum materials

* Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative

Data-driven discovery

* Jupyter *

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* Data Carpentry * NumPy Python Package * Numba Python Package * Dask Python Package * R Consortium in support of R programming language projects

Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments

* Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) *

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Center for Data Science * UW eScience Institute

Marine Microbiology Initiative (initiative ending in 2021)

* Investigator awards for high-risk microbial ecology research (2012)

Other (standalone) projects

* PLOS (Public Library of Science) *

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* ASAPBio

Controversies

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has contributed US$200 million towards construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope. A proposed extremely large telescope (ELT), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is considered controversial due to its planned location on

Mauna Kea Mauna Kea ( or ; ; abbreviation for ''Mauna a Wākea''); is a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii. Its peak is above sea level, making it the highest point in the state of Hawaii and second-highest peak of an island on Earth. The peak ...

, which is considered sacred land according to the native Hawaiians, on the island of Hawaii in the United States. Native Hawaiian cultural practice and religious rights are the main points of opposition towards the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, along with concerns over the lack of meaningful dialogue during the permitting process. On October 7, 2014, protesters demonstrated outside the headquarters of the foundation in Palo Alto, California. On July 14, 2019, protesters had created an online petition titled "The Immediate Halt to the Construction of the TMT Telescope" that was posted on Change.org and directed towards the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as well as other financial backers. The online petition gathered over 278,057 signatures worldwide.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Conservation and environmental foundations in the United States Organizations established in 2000 Organizations based in the San Francisco Bay Area Scientific research foundations in the United States Science and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area 2000 establishments in California