Unlocking $200 BILLION for the ocean!

eOceans was launched in 2012 by Dr. Christine Ward-Paige.

It was originally designed to be the umbrella for her research program. At the time, her research included various science and citizen science projects, covering sewage pollution, invasive species, biodiversity, functional diversity, marine protected area monitoring. It also included many participatory science (aka., citizen science) projects including eShark, eManta, the Great Fiji Shark Count, the Global Marine Conservation Assessment, the Shark Sanctuary Evaluation, and more.

This work provided important scientific insights and policy outcomes (see IMPACT page).

Tired of doing all this work manually—hand writing observations, entering into spreadsheets, analyzing data and making visualizations in R, SAS, GIS, and then writing reports, etc.,—she began to build an app with automated analytics tools to automate the work.

“I couldn’t stand manual and slow all these projects were. Everything I published was out-of-date! How could we ever dream of keeping pace with business, society, and ocean change?”.

In 2020, she decided that, rather than keeping this power tool to herself, she would make it a subscription-based app and platform that any impact-driven researcher or organization can use—scientists, NGOs, consultants, ecotourism, fisheries, citizen scientists, educators, and more.

Meta-analyses estimate that the eOceans platform has the potential to unlock over $200 billion, while also enabling teams to operate in a more fluid and iterative way.

It is her hope that this revolutionary tool will be used to make better, more informed decisions and actions.

—For the ocean. For us.

Dr. Christine A. Ward-Paige

Founder, CEO, Lead Scientist. With over 25 years of experience leading local and global marine research programs, Dr. Ward-Paige eats, breathes, and sleeps eOceans. Contributing to some of the most top-cited papers in ocean policy and conservation, her research has contributed to important policy changes. Encouraged by the blue economy, she is driven to innovate and modernize ocean science and make her expertise available to answer ocean questions that matter. More about Christine.

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