Oceanic Citizen Science

Oceans goal is to make the underwater world universally accessible to everyone. We believe digital technology is a great way to reach this goal, and creating awareness of a world otherwise hidden to most of us.

With Oceans 2.0, introducing features to log environmental reports and observations, we are building a platform for citizen science, allowing our global user base to act as a crowd sourced team of field workers, together collecting vast amounts of oceanic data — and enabling visual projections on the health and state of marine habitats.*

Coral Bleaching

90% of the Great Barrier Reef is hit by coral bleaching — killing almost one third of the reef’s coral due to global warming and ocean acidification caused by human CO₂ emissions.

Plastic Pollution

Without change, the oceans is expected to contain more plastic than fish in 2050. One example is the Great Pacific garbage patch, a collection of marine debris at the size of Texas, and spans waters from the West Coast of North America to Japan.

Illegal Fishing

Over the last 30 years, 90% of the ocean’s shark population has been wiped out, leaving over one third of all species endangered. Illegal fishing is the main reason for the decrease in shark population.

* Oceans will use crowd sourced anonymized and non-personal observations to visualize the global ocean's environment starting in 2020.