The Pribilhof Islands are often described as one of the most remote parts of the world - a perception reinforced by their positioning at the periphery of the World Map. However, in many ways they are a key node in global networks of avian and marine biodiversity, human trade, industry, and as a result, environmental conservation.

Home to large populations of seabirds, marine mammals, fish, and other.

Following the initial release of the Bering Watch system, the project leader received significant interest from other communities to access the capability. However, many of these expressions of interest included requests to adjust or modify the design, and the additional complexity required of the software reached the limits of the legacy technology 'stack'. A new

Having been carefully designed to meet the requirements of environmental projects - including their need for customization, data sovereignty, security, reliability, scalability and more - the Open Landscape Network was a good match with the needs of the ISN project. However, because the community was already operationally using an existing system, this had to be matched in functionality (as well as provide additional features) before adoption could occur. This required development and customization work.

In balance, the advantages from gaining access to a proven infrastructure, established technical and project community, and long-term ambitions convinced the ISN team to adopt the OLN project.

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The next-generation ISN system will be implemented with robust, open-source software with next-generation capabilities, and supported by the full capabilities of the OLN community. We look forward to working with all of them to advance our shared vision of technology in service of environmental systems.