About Us

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eOceans is a Canadian, women-led, scientist-founded company on a mission to create a better world in our lifetime — equipping people and organizations with the intelligence needed to navigate rapid change and make decisions that benefit both people and the planet.

eOceans is a location, sector, and target-agnostic spatiotemporal data science engine. It is not a web-scraping tool. The platform features an automated three-dimensional data pipeline: 1. Agnostic Data Ingestions via mobile field application for trusted observations, automated IoT sensors and AI categorization, or legacy csv historical file uploads; 2. Automated Spatiotemporal Processing that instantly generates maps, statistical graphs and analytical data tables without code or GIS; and 3. Flexible Data Governance, supporting fully private enterprise-level compliance or public open-source reporting and open-access publication — right in the platform.

For global decision-makers, eOceans works across diverse workflows, including environmental impact assessments and reports (EIAs), operational monitoring, corporate ESG and TNFD compliance, Nature-based solutions (NbS), insurance mapping, urban and remote public health hazard and intervention tracking (e.g., needle hunting, tick and disease, surveillance), crisis journalism, commercial fisheries management, regional wildlife and conservation tracking and intervention assessments, protected area design and evaluations, and academic field research across ecology, biology, social science, resource and environmental science, and blue economy.

Research-Grade Ethics: The Backbone of our Policies

Built by academic experts with decades of experience navigating human and animal ethics approvals, permits, and research oversight, eOceans sets a new standard, where people and organizations own their data and decide how they can be used — supporting responsible data practices at scale.

“I know how waiting for results can delay impact. eOceans® is designed to fix that — because the challenges you’re working on don’t have time to wait.”

Dr. CA Ward-Paige, Founder + CEO

History

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Our founder, Dr. Christine Ward-Paige, came from the famous RAM Lab (Ransom Myers' lab), where students joked that “if he could, he would have stacked us {data analysts} floor to ceiling”—determined to analyze 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.