Power your most ambitious protected area initiatives.
MPA teams collect vital data, but expert analysis is costly and often out of reach—leaving it unused. With an affordable monthly subscription, eOceans delivers instant insights, real-time metrics, and powerful storytelling tools to help you demonstrate success, secure support, and maximize MPA success.
Demonstrating MPA effectiveness is crucial for securing support and long-term success—but traditional assessments are slow, costly, and often out of reach. MPA teams can collect vast amounts of data, but without analysis, it’s wasted. eOceans transforms your data into real-time intelligence, tracks key metrics, and evaluates your impact—so you can secure resources and drive real change.
The app you’ve been dreaming of
Built by PhD scientists, eOceans eliminates the barriers slowing you down.
Instead of guessing that your protected area is working, or trying to prove it by wrangling messy data, writing and debugging code, and endlessly formatting reports—or outsourcing—let eOceans handle it in real-time, so you can focus on evaluating and demonstrating effectiveness fast.
Engage and collaborate effortlessly—connect with partners, funders, stakeholders, rightsholders, and decision-makers right in the app to share insights, drive action, and amplify your mission.
How eOceans helps Protected Area managers
eOceans was created to solve a critical problem: the need for real-time, affordable, and transparent protected area evaluations — to know they are effective and increase their support.
Before eOceans, protected area assessments were slow, costly, and out of reach—each one exceeding $1 million and requiring experts to divert from their core work just to compile data on biodiversity and environmental conditions. Few assessments considered anthropogenic threats, and social values were extremely rare, often limited to visitor counts.
As a result, many protected area teams couldn’t afford to measure or demonstrate their effectiveness.
We set out to change that. With eOceans, any protected area can be assessed in an ongoing way starting at under $100 per month—bringing real-time intelligence within reach.
Our goals:
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Streamlining your workflow—from data collection to reporting and dissemination—so you get the results you need fast.
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Every observation is a piece of the puzzle that describes what’s happening in that location at that time. eOceans stitches them together to tell meaningful stories.
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By helping organizations, researchers, and others avoid reinventing the wheel—analyzing data for just one question at a time—we enable them to use data for multiple purposes, keeping everyone focused on what truly matters.
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Unlock the full potential of our planet—by protecting and restoring ecosystems, we can double Earth’s $150 trillion in natural assets, securing a thriving future for all.
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Through accountability, transparency, and inclusivity, MPA teams can gain the support they need to ensure their MPAs thrive and deliver lasting impact.
What jobs can the eOceans app do for you?
Every project needs clean, interoperable data, analysis, compelling maps, graphs, and other visuals, and reporting. But juggling multiple tools and skillsets drains time, resources, energy, and slows you down. Let eOceans handle the heavy lifting—so you can focus on the big picture.
Data to spreadsheets, visualizations, dissemination
eOceans streamlines parts or all of your workflow—from data collection, quality control, interoperability, sharing, analysis, reports, and dissemination. No more wasted hours on writing and entering data, quality checking, writing and debugging R code, pointing and clicking your way to making outdated maps or reports, or guessing what your impact is. With automated visualizations and flexible sharing options, your work stays relevant, visible, and actionable.
Make the most of your data
Enrich your research with historical context by uploading existing datasets to your project. Need full access? Enable Data Downloads to seamlessly retrieve all your project’s data and metadata—whenever you need it.
Magic Uploads
If you have existing datasets, you can upload them to your project. Once you do, all the data get mapped, graphed, and added to your reports.
Data Downloads
If you add Data Downloads, then you get all your data and metadata exported in a clean, interoperable format for archives, sharing, self-analysis.
Adding data to all your projects is effortless.
eOceans automatically shares based on the location, sampling methodology, and variables added.
Effortless metric tracking
Track your survey effort, metrics of success, biodiversity, social values, threats, and more through space and time.
Built for teamwork
Invite your team—colleagues, students, scientists, rangers, guardians, fishers, observers, field staff, the public, and more—to contribute data to your project. As they do, the results come to life in your dashboard.
They can even help you co-interpret the results in the app.
Launch your project in under an hour
To get started, it’s as simple as filling out a form that defines your study area, variables, analyses, and data sources.
Our mission is your mission.
We help you get there faster, easier, and smarter.
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“This is what we’ve been dreaming of.”
Fishery biologist
“eOceans offers invaluable tools for seamless data collection-to-analysis, enabling unprecedented collaboration and insights.”
Liz Ferguson, CEO, Ocean Science Analytics
“eOceans empowers us to optimize our data collection by engaging dive centres, resorts, and local communities. By maximizing our field time, we can focus on gathering insights while eOceans seamlessly manages the data processing and analysis.”
Jess Hodge, Marine Biologist, Maldives Underwater Initiative at Six Senses
See it in action.
Watch this short video for a quick look at the eOceans app in action.
“It all starts with your question. Whether you're tracking a species, fishery, wildlife, restoring ecosystems, tackling pollution, or shaping smarter policies, eOceans gets you there faster, easier, smarter.
Dr. Christine Ward-Paige, CEO eOceans
Join other researchers who are moving towards fast, seamless, transparent science and dissemination.
Use the mobile app or dashboard to create and join projects, upload data, analyze results, contribute to science, and more.