About Us

eOceans® is a Canadian research and technology company that helps organizations transform monitoring data into reusable, decision-ready intelligence — enabling faster, smarter decisions across ocean industries and governance.

Team

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Dr. Christine Ward-Paige, Founder

Dr. Ward-Paige has contributed to some of the most top-cited papers in policy and science, driving significant international decisions.
While working at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dr. Ward-Paige realised that the existing tools and processes were too manual, siloed, expensive, and slow to keep up with the rapid change.
Determined to change this, Christine set out to create a solution where every team could get real-time insights with the data they have today—saving an estimated $291 billion in time and data, and unlocking the capacity for smarter, faster decisions.

Dr. Geoffrey Osgood, CTO

Dr. Osgood has a passion for the oceans, ocean exploration, statistics and visualisation, and education—a great fit for eOceans.
Through his PhD, Geoff developed an expertise in analysing disparate ocean data, from standardised sampling techniques to opportunistic crowdsourced data. He also taught quantitative ecology and inspired others to appreciate the complexity of the ocean and to value the importance of longitudinal data and deploying spatiotemporal multi-variate analysis when trying to describe the ocean.
He has joined various field research teams around the world and has developed great empathy for those who depend on the ocean – human and wildlife alike.
Geoff is excited to combine his expertise with Christine’s to bring their combined knowledge to deliver expert analytics and insights to organisations and communities around the world.

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Ireland Moro, Science & Policy

As a policy specialist and Science Coordinator at eOceans, Ireland works at the intersection of science, governance, and technology — helping turn big ideas into real-world action.

She is positioned to collaborate with teams around the world to ideate, launch, and scale projects that advance conservation, sustainable development, Indigenous-led governance, and policy.

Ireland thrives on making big ideas actionable, from concept to impact and is here to help you with your project’s journey.

Madeleine Platt, Data Analyst

As a Data Scientist at eOceans, Madeleine supports organisations on the science and data side of projects.
Madeleine specialises in turning complex, messy data into clean, standardised insights that tell the important stories needed to drive real-world impact.
Working at the intersection of science, governance, and technology, she builds analytical tools that help teams visualise patterns, assess risks, and make smart decisions—faster.

From shark trade data and fisheries market assessments to reef fish ecology and beyond, Madeleine is passionate about using data to unlock solutions.
Inside and outside eOceans, she collaborates with teams to design workflows that ensure data quality, accelerate analysis, and strengthen the science-policy connection.
If you're working on a project that could benefit from robust data science and thoughtful design, Madeleine is here to help you go from concept to clarity—and action.

Proudly Canadian

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Designed and built in Canada, eOceans upholds the highest standards of research ethics while balancing needs of governments, academia, First Nations, Indigenous and local knowledge holders, fisheries, industry, research organisations, NGOs, businesses, and more.

Data ethics

Ethical data use is non-negotiable—and built into eOceans.

We facilitate compliance with research ethics, legal frameworks, and data sovereignty, enabling researchers, consultants, businesses, governments, First Nations, fishers, tourism operators, and others to collaborate responsibly.

Unlike many nature-logging apps that expose sensitive species and locations, eOceans integrates safeguards, risk disclosures, and permissions to meet institutional, regulatory, and community standards.

With 30 years of ethics expertise, we provide the most fair and equitable sharing platform — with data democracy and self-determination built in — for responsible data-driven decision-making.

History

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Our founder, Dr. Christine Ward-Paige, came from the renowned RAM Lab (Ransom Myers' lab), where students joked that “if he could, he would have stacked us {data analysts} floor to ceiling”—determined to analyse all the world’s data to document the state of our oceans and planet.

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Over two decades of research, Dr. Ward-Paige led studies on coral reefs, sewage pollution in coastal ecosystems, shark sanctuaries, Caribbean biodiversity, the global status of manta rays and sharks, the Great Fiji Shark Count, eShark Thailand, marine spatial planning, policy evaluations, and more. Each project followed the same painstaking process: collect data then wrangle, process, analyse, and visualise all of it, interpret results, write a report, submit for publication, revise—and finally publish. By then, the findings were years out of date, never updated, and locked behind expensive access fees of pay thousands in Open Access fees.

Christine had had enough. Critical insights that should have informed decisions in real time were arriving years—if not decades—too late. In an era of cloud computing and continuous data streams, she knew science didn’t have to work this way.

If Waze could revolutionise driving with people logging potholes and accidents, Strava could revolutionise the way we track our activities, why couldn’t science work the same way?

While on maternity leave in 2017, she began designing eOceans software to accelerate her research, but then decided to make it available for anyone to use — becoming a global platform for managing projects effortlessly, in real time.

With just an annual subscription, anyone can save thousands of hours per project, foster ethical collaborations, and avoid spending millions on custom-built software.