What can I do with eOceans?

Built for people who need to get the science right, today.

Whether you're responsible for an environmental impact assessment, long-term monitoring program, fisheries management plan, marine protected area, biodiversity strategy, restoration initiative, pollution assessment, BBNJ implementation, regulatory compliance, or conservation program—or you're investigating an emerging issue that has never been systematically monitored before—your decisions depend on timely, trusted evidence.

Whether your information comes from field teams, consultants, researchers, government agencies, industry partners, Indigenous and local communities, citizen scientists, stakeholders, automated sensors, or existing databases, eOceans brings it together into one transparent, quantitative, and decision-ready system.

From protecting wildlife and understanding environmental risks to evaluating conservation outcomes, informing policy, demonstrating compliance, and measuring environmental change, eOceans helps organizations generate trusted evidence faster, more consistently, and at significantly lower cost than traditional workflows.

What can eOceans help me do?

eOceans supports the complete journey from survey design, to collecting high-quality data, reporting, and decisions.

Design
Create monitoring programs, surveys, projects, and data collection systems tailored to your objectives.

Collect
Capture standardized observations from staff, consultants, researchers, community members, industry partners, or citizen scientists using web and mobile tools. Review and validate data as it comes in.

Integrate
Combine multiple datasets, organizations, historical records, sensors, and stakeholder contributions into one consistent evidence base.

Analyze
Automatically generate quantitative summaries, indicators, trends, maps, dashboards, spatial analyses, and reports as new information arrives.

Understand
Identify patterns, risks, changes, opportunities, and emerging issues across space and time.

Share
Publish interactive results, communicate progress, engage stakeholders, and support transparent decision-making.

Decide
Support planning, management, permitting, compliance, research, investment, conservation, and adaptive management with decision-ready evidence.

What can I use eOceans for?

eOceans is designed for any initiative that depends on understanding change across space and time.

Organizations can use the platform to support:

  • Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs)

  • biodiversity and wildlife monitoring

  • fisheries and aquatic resource management

  • marine and freshwater ecosystems

  • protected area planning and management

  • offshore energy and infrastructure

  • pollution and water quality monitoring

  • invasive species detection, mitigation evaluations

  • ecosystem restoration and nature-based solutions

  • BBNJ implementation and high seas monitoring

  • climate adaptation and resilience

  • environmental compliance and permitting

  • cumulative effects assessment

  • ESG and sustainability reporting

  • tourism and recreation management

  • stakeholder engagement and participatory monitoring

  • Indigenous and community-led stewardship

  • citizen science initiatives

  • academic research and discovery

  • education and outreach

  • long-term environmental monitoring

If your work depends on understanding the real world through observations collected over space and time, eOceans can support it.

Why choose eOceans

Many organizations already have data — archives or incoming new data.

What they lack is an efficient way to turn that data into evidence that is consistent, transparent, and continuously updated.

Instead of managing disconnected, not-interoperable surveys, spreadsheets, databases, GIS software, statistical scripts, figures, and reports, eOceans brings the entire workflow together into one integrated system.

This means your team can spend less time processing data and more time understanding what it means.

This also means that organizations are well-positioned to scale — with new projects or partnering with other projects, consultants, and organizations.

Built for complex, quantitative decision making

eOceans was developed by scientists to support robust, quantitative environmental decision-making.

The platform helps organizations:

  • standardize data collection across teams and projects

  • integrate observations from multiple sources

  • automate quality assurance and reporting

  • generate repeatable analyses and visualizations

  • identify trends through space and time

  • monitor change as new observations arrive

  • maintain complete transparency and reproducibility

  • scale projects from local initiatives to global programs

Whether your project contains hundreds of observations or millions, the workflow remains consistent.

Designed to help you do more

Where traditional workflows rely on disconnected software, manual processing, and repeated analyses, eOceans automates much of the technical work behind the scenes.

As a result, organizations can:

  • deliver results faster

  • reduce analytical and reporting costs

  • improve consistency across projects

  • update outputs automatically as new data arrive

  • increase transparency and reproducibility

  • spend more time making decisions and less time managing data

Who uses eOceans

eOceans supports organizations of every size, including:

  • governments and regulators

  • environmental consultants

  • offshore developers

  • fisheries organizations

  • NGOs and conservation organizations

  • Indigenous organizations and local communities

  • researchers and universities

  • industry and corporate sustainability teams

  • multilateral organizations and funders

  • educators and citizen science programs

Whether you're managing one project or hundreds, eOceans scales with your mission.

When is eOceans the right fit

eOceans delivers the greatest value when:

  • decisions depend on quantitative information

  • evidence must support important decisions

  • data have both space (location) and time components

  • observations are collected repeatedly over time

  • projects need to scale without proportional increases in effort

  • transparency and reproducibility are essential

  • reporting consumes too much time

  • teams need to do more with limited capacity

From questions to decisions, eOceans has you covered.

Enter eOceans Platform

Clients, Partners

  • Logo of Blue Nature Alliance featuring a circular design with blue, orange, and teal geometric shapes resembling a stylized ocean wave or coral, accompanied by the text 'Blue Nature Alliance' in bold blue letters.
  • Marine Conservation Institute
  • MPAtlas
  • Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Researc
  • Logo of the Ocean Frontier Institute featuring a stylized circle with waves and a sun above the water, and the text "OCEAN FRONTIER INSTITUTE".
  • Dalhousie University
  • Ocean Science Analytics
  • Maldives Underwater Initiative
  • Canadian flag next to text that reads 'Fisheries and Oceans Canada'
  • Logo of The Pew Charitable Trusts featuring a spiral design.
  • Southwest Lobster Science Society
  • Rewild logo with a green circle and the word 'rewild' in black
  • Logos of IUCN and WCPA with green and blue color schemes and text indicating their collaboration on protected areas.