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Damien Bright is a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2022. Damien's research engages critical natural history, animal studies, and the psychosocial dimensions of modernist technoscience. He is currently conducting a multi-sited ethnographic investigation of the technopolitical dimensions of ocean engineering as part of the EU-funded OceanNETs consortium. Whither the Reef?, his first book manuscript, is in preparation and builds on his dissertation research into efforts to salvage the Great Barrier Reef from its predicted demise. The book explains the practical and moral quandaries that the sciences of marine life encounter, along with their supporters and detractors, in the push to design large scale and largely experimental “interventions” in the name of planetary care. Damien’s writing has appeared in Techniques & Culture and Diseña.