Who we are

39Alpha is a nonprofit independent scientific research organization envisioned and founded by doctors of physics, information science, and geochemistry.

What we are doing

We are conducting original open-source research on topics which further our scientific mission: To explore and quantify human interactions with the Earth. We carry out this research under the direction of guiding principles which represent paradigm shifts in how open source research is conducted. This 39Alpha method stands apart from modern scientific orthodoxy in three differentiating ways:

1. We operate and publish as a team. There are no individual authors!
2. We publish our tools (software) in full, integrated within and alongside our scientific publications.
3. We make our failures public. Tools, methodology, everything other researchers might need to learn from our expeirence, correct our mistakes, and avoid out pitfalls.

Why we are doing it

We believe that there is inherent value in quantifying our biological, chemical, and integrated place on Earth, and we believe that modern scientific practices can be evolved to be more creative, more efficient, and more consequential.