eOceans
| eOceans | |
| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Research |
| Founded 📆 | 2013 |
| Founder 👔 | Dr. Christine Ward-Paige |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
| Products 📟 | eShark, eManta, eWhale, eSeahorse, Ocean Snapshot, Great Fiji Shark Count |
| Services | MPA Health Tracker & MPA Health Score, Smart Fishery Tracker & Smart Fishery Score, Shark & Ray Tracker, Blue Economy Tracker |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | www |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
eOceans is an app and analytics platform for ocean organizations, stakeholders, and rightsholders to collaborate and get real-time insights on various aspects of the ocean and coastlines for informed, transparent, and timely decisions and actions.[1]
eOceans has an offline-first mobile app for data collection,[2][3] a web app for launching and controlling projects,[4] and suites of analytics, such as the award winning MPA Health Tracker & MPA Health Score,[5] to track the ocean in a scalable way.[6][7]
eOceans works at any spatial scale to track various ocean dimensions, including:
- biological (e.g., marine life, biodiversity, endangered and invasive species, sharks, whales )
- social (e.g., blue economy, recreational values)
- anthropogenic (e.g., marine heatwaves, plastic pollution, IUU fishing)
- policy (e.g., marine protected areas, fisheries), and
- interactions[8] with physicochemical oceanographic and other environmental data.
Examples of projects that can be done on eOceans include marine protected area performance assessments, fisheries assessment, endangered species monitoring, marine disasters monitoring, marine spatial planning, and local or two-eyed seeing approaches to understanding and actions.
History[edit]
eOceans was conceived and designed by Christine Ward-Paige, a researcher on the impacts of sewage loading on coral reefs and coastal environments and marine participatory science.
The eOceans app and platform were designed to incorporate previous research and policy outcomes so that they can be done in real-time in the future, including:
- “100 million sharks die every year” project, nicknamed from the paper Global catches, exploitation rates, and rebuilding options for sharks,[9] which provided support for listing many shark species by CITES[10]
- eManta, a crowdsourced project that gathered observations from 616,498 dives covering 90 regions of the world, found that manta rays were being caught and sold in markets around the world despite only two countries reporting catching them.[11] This discrepancy showed that IUU fishing and international trade was threatening populations, which supported their listing on CITES Appendix II.[12]
- eShark — a participatory science project initiated by the dive community in Thailand, led by Shark Guardian[13] used 9,524 dives logged on 153 sites to describe spatiotemporal patterns of 12 shark species.[14]
- Great Fiji Shark Count — a participatory science project initiated by the dive community in Fiji to track sharks using divers observations, used 146,304 shark observations of 11 species from 30,668 dives on 592 sites to describe trends and inform conservation[15]
- Shark Sanctuary Review and Evaluation — two studies, including a crowdsourced study where divers from 38 countries contributed 667,033 dive observations, helped understand, raise awareness about, and improve policies on Shark Sanctuaries[16][17]
The eOceans website launched in June 2013, for World Oceans Day, to highlight citizen science projects, including eBird for birds by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Range Extension Database & Mapping project (Redmap),[18] for range extending species led by Gretta Pecl in Australia, Marine Debris Tracker[19] app by Jenna Jambeck for tracking garbage, and eShark[20] led by Christine Ward-Paige for collaboratively tracking sharks and their threats worldwide.
In 2018, eOceans was incorporated in Canada and commenced the design and development of the eOceans app and platform.
eOceans has won internationally competitive awards awards including: IMPAC5,[5] Volta,[21] Washington Maritime Blue.[22]
In 2023, Ward-Paige made the TOOL[23] list of 100 Inspirational Female Founders 2023.[24]
References[edit]
- ↑ Snell, Laurie (2020-01-02). "Volta - eOceans speeding up marine sciences". Volta. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
- ↑ "eOceans - Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ↑ "eOceans". App Store. 2023-06-04. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ↑ "eOceans". www.eoceans.app. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Stanford, Ben (2023-03-13). "IMPAC5 MPA Pitch Challenge Winners Announced". IMPAC5. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ↑ "The oceans are changing - here's how to help researchers monitor them". New Scientist. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ↑ Bundale, Brett. "Start It Up: Three companies shaping Atlantic Canada's green tech startup scene | SaltWire". www.saltwire.com. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ↑ "eOceans". www.eoceans.app. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
- ↑ Global catches, exploitation rates, and rebuilding options for sharks
- ↑ "History of CITES listing of sharks (Elasmobranchii)". cites.org. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ↑ Ward-Paige, Christine A.; Davis, Brendal; Worm, Boris (2013-09-11). "Global Population Trends and Human Use Patterns of Manta and Mobula Rays". PLOS ONE. 8 (9): e74835. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...874835W. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0074835. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3770565. PMID 24040348.
- ↑ CITES Appendix II
- ↑ Shark Guardian
- ↑ Ward-Paige, Christine A.; Westell, Annabel; Sing, Brendon (2018-09-01). "Using eOceans diver data to describe contemporary patterns of marine animal populations: A case study of sharks in Thailand". Ocean & Coastal Management. 163: 1–10. Bibcode:2018OCM...163....1W. doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.05.023. ISSN 0964-5691. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Ward-Paige, C. A.; Sykes, H.; Osgood, G. J.; Brunnschweiler, J.; Ward-Paige, C. A.; Sykes, H.; Osgood, G. J.; Brunnschweiler, J. (2022-10-11). "Community-driven shark monitoring for informed decision making: a case study from Fiji". Pacific Conservation Biology. 29 (5): 402–418. doi:10.1071/PC22009. ISSN 2204-4604.
- ↑ Ward-Paige, Christine A. (2017-08-01). "A global overview of shark sanctuary regulations and their impact on shark fisheries". Marine Policy. 82: 87–97. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2017.05.004. ISSN 0308-597X.
- ↑ Ward-Paige, Christine A.; Worm, Boris (2017-11-01). "Global evaluation of shark sanctuaries". Global Environmental Change. 47: 174–189. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.09.005. ISSN 0959-3780.
- ↑ Redmap
- ↑ Marine Debris Tracker
- ↑ eShark
- ↑ Snell, Laurie (2020-01-02). "eOceans speeding up marine sciences". Volta. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ↑ "Inaugural cohort". Washington Maritime Blue. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ↑ TOOL
- ↑ "100 Inspirational Female Founders 2023 - TOOL Spawn". toolspawn.com. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
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