Juan Mayorga is a marine data scientist working to leverage emerging Earth monitoring technologies and datasets to catalyze marine conservation. Mayorga is based at the University of California Santa Barbara’s Environmental Market Solutions Lab. His work combines data science, marine ecology, economics, and conservation planning to better understand human activities at sea and distill actionable insights to advance conservation. He leads Pristine Seas’ partnership with Global Fishing Watch, an open-source technology platform that tracks industrial fishing activity with unprecedented resolution and in near-real time. By making fisheries data transparent, this collaboration has been instrumental in accelerating ocean protection since it allows us to assess the economic implications of protected areas and have transparent and well-informed decision-making processes. His most recent work involves developing a state-of-the-art conservation prioritization framework to identify the most critical places in the ocean to protect biodiversity, safeguard carbon stocks, and improve fisheries yields. Mayorga holds a master’s in environmental science and management from UC Santa Barbara.