Software:EOceans

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eOceans Research and Consulting Inc.
eOceans
TypePrivate
IndustryResearch
Founded2013
FounderDr. Christine Ward-Paige
Area served
Worldwide
ProductseShark, eManta, eWhale, eSeahorse, Ocean Snapshot, Great Fiji Shark Count
ServicesMPA Health Tracker & MPA Health Score, Smart Fishery Tracker & Smart Fishery Score, Shark & Ray Tracker, Blue Economy Tracker
Websitewww.eoceans.app

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:

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

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

  1. ↑ Snell, Laurie (2020-01-02). "Volta - eOceans speeding up marine sciences". https://voltaeffect.com/eoceans/. 
  2. ↑ "eOceans - Apps on Google Play". https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.eoceans.app&hl=en_CA. 
  3. ↑ "eOceans". 2023-06-04. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eoceans/id1495841229. 
  4. ↑ "eOceans". https://www.eoceans.app/. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Stanford, Ben (2023-03-13). "IMPAC5 MPA Pitch Challenge Winners Announced". https://www.impac5.ca/2023/03/12/pitch-challenge-winners/. 
  6. ↑ "The oceans are changing - here's how to help researchers monitor them". https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933282-600-the-oceans-are-changing-heres-how-to-help-researchers-monitor-them/. 
  7. ↑ Bundale, Brett. "Start It Up: Three companies shaping Atlantic Canada's green tech startup scene | SaltWire". https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/business/start-it-up-three-companies-shaping-atlantic-canadas-green-tech-startup-scene-416191/. 
  8. ↑ "eOceans". https://www.eoceans.app/. 
  9. ↑ Global catches, exploitation rates, and rebuilding options for sharks
  10. ↑ "History of CITES listing of sharks (Elasmobranchii)". https://cites.org/eng/prog/shark/history.php. 
  11. ↑ 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. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0074835. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 24040348. Bibcode: 2013PLoSO...874835W. 
  12. ↑ CITES Appendix II
  13. ↑ Shark Guardian
  14. ↑ 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. doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.05.023. ISSN 0964-5691. Bibcode: 2018OCM...163....1W. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964569117310414. 
  15. ↑ 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. https://www.publish.csiro.au/pc/PC22009. 
  16. ↑ 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. 
  17. ↑ 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. 
  18. ↑ Redmap
  19. ↑ Marine Debris Tracker
  20. ↑ eShark
  21. ↑ Snell, Laurie (2020-01-02). "eOceans speeding up marine sciences". https://voltaeffect.com/eoceans/. 
  22. ↑ "Inaugural cohort". https://maritimeblue.org/inaugural-cohort/. 
  23. ↑ TOOL
  24. ↑ "100 Inspirational Female Founders 2023 - TOOL Spawn". https://toolspawn.com/blog/643929dbc0506d02cf52acec. 



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