Giving Tuesday 2025
We’re lifting science to new heights. This Giving Tuesday, December 2, we’re launching an effort that means a lot to us: raising $100,000 to strengthen our research and conservation facilities.
We’re building the First Rainforest Canopy Observatory and a Permanent Lab for researchers and Students in the Mamoní Valley and connecting it to the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, a global system across 30+ countries that tracks the movements of tagged birds, bats, and other species. It gives us real data on how wildlife is moving and how ecosystems are changing.
Harvard MIT professor, innovator, and author Jeff Karp is stepping up from Geoversity’s Global Advisory Board Head of Innovation into the position of Executive President.
With a track record of 14 startups, 650 million dollars raised, and bioinspired innovations ranging from surgical glues to practical tools in his book LIT: Life Ignition Tools, designed to help people intercept societal algorithms, awaken consciousness, and live with greater intention, Jeff brings a bold entrepreneurial mindset to the task of deepening and scaling the Geoversity mission of biocultural leadership. Check Jeff’s background.
We completed the construction of the breathtaking Bamboo Ark Pavilion and the spacious Casa Melanie Nelson in our science and biocultural learning center, Centro Mamoní.
The design and related construction workshops were led by the Panamanian architect and Geoversity Design graduate, Anthony Lay. And, best of all, it was built with home grown and cured bamboo by local people of the Mamoní Valley and Geoversity volunteers. Watch the video of the whole process.
Rising in one of the most significant ecological hotspots in the world, at the rainforest campus of Geoversity, Nature’s University, are extraordinary works of organic design.
Home-grown green steel and home grown talent creating places and spaces where the next generation of biocultural leaders will be connecting with nature, culture, and with each other.
Our Vision
A world where humans fully embrace our unity with nature.
Our Mission
Creating conservation communities and empowering biocultural leaders committed to renewing and growing our unity with nature.
Geoversity is Nature’s University. Our main campus is Centro Mamoní, in the upper watershed of the Mamoní Valley, located less than a two-hour drive from Panama City, Panama.
Geoversity leads a growing ecosystem of individuals and organizations united in the mission of biocultural renewal. Our programs are grounded in the hard day-to-day work of watershed conservation and the fight to avert global ecological collapse, always in team with local communities, indigenous authorities, and youth activists. We offer immersive learning experiences, guided by applied science, natural design, and indigenous wisdom, for emerging and accomplished biocultural leaders.
Join us on a journey of intellectual and personal discovery, benefiting from three decades of experience empowering biocultural leaders.
Thanks to the leadership and ongoing commitment of marine biologist and world authority on water treatment Dr. Howard Dryden, Ph.D. and his wife Diane Duncan, an economic development professional, we ended 2023 with the formal launch of the Geoversity Ocean Centre at Seahorse Point on Bastimentos Island, Bocas del Toro, Panama.
Thanks to Geoversity Global Advisor Thomas Hannaher and indigenous authorities, Geoversity is leading the repatriation to Panama of the largest collection of Guna art and artifact in the world. For background, here is the foreword to the soon-to-be published Guna Art that we have produced in partnership with Guna elders and youth leaders –and the related virtual museum and cultural center, arteindigena.org
Areas of Work
Location
Geoversity’s administrative headquarters are located in the City of Knowledge in Panama City and our main campus is Centro Mamoní in the Eastern Panama Forest, one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots.
Join Us and Get Involved!
With your support and participation, we can, together, protect the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems and empower waves of biocultural leaders working to restore our unity with nature and, ultimately, create the world we want.
Partners and Collaborators
