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eOceans was founded, designed, and built by PhD scientists who saw the need for a better way to track and understand our rapidly changing world.

Geoff is smiling, wearing glasses and an orange shirt in front of a stone wall.

Christine Ward-Paige is standing outdoors next to a weathered wall next to the ocean, wearing a black eOceans shirt and a necklace, with a body of water in the background.

Dr. Christine Ward-Paige, Founder

Christine has contributed to some of the most top-cited papers in marine policy and conservation, driving significant international change.
While working at Canada’s Fisheries and Oceans, she evaluated biodiversity, fisheries policies, functional diversity, and protected areas. It was there she realized that the existing methods were too manual, siloed, expensive, and slow to keep up with the rapid changes unfolding in marine ecosystems.
It cost upwards of a million dollars to assess whether a protected area was effective or to determine the sustainability of a fishery or the impacts of invasive species. As a result, the majority of areas and issues went unassessed.
Determined to change this, she set out to create a solution where every protected area, fishery, species, and ecosystem could be assessed in real-time for less than $5000 a year—saving an estimated $291 billion in time and data, and unlocking the capacity for smarter, faster decisions.

Dr. Geoffrey Osgood, CTO

Geoff has a passion for the oceans, ocean exploration, statistics and visualization, and education – a great fit for eOceans. Through his PhD, Geoff developed an expertise in analyzing disparate ocean field data, from standardized 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 organizations and communities around the world.

Made in Canada

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 organizations, NGOs, businesses, and more.

What we do for you

After 20 years of doing data analysis and publications manually for government, industry, fisheries, tourism, and more, we built the eOceans app for you to use on your own. We also provide bespoke data analysis and full-service consulting.

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 secure and compliant platform for responsible data-driven decision-making.

Stance on flying

We only fly when absolutely essential—never for meetings or conferences that can be done virtually. This means travel is limited to field work and meeting with communities where virtual meetings are not possible. This isn't just about reducing our environmental footprint and leading by example, it also keeps our marketing and travel budgets low so we can keep prices low for you.

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History

Founder, Dr. Christine Ward-Paige, came from the renowned RAM Lab (Ransom Myers' lab), where students joked that if he could, he’d stack them floor to ceiling—determined to analyze all the world’s data to document the state of our oceans and planet.

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, analyze, and visualize 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 revolutionize driving with people logging potholes and accidents, why couldn’t science work the same way?

While on maternity leave in 2017, she began designing eOceans—a global platform for managing projects effortlessly, in real time. With just an annual subscription, researchers, organizations, and businesses can save thousands of hours per project, foster ethical collaborations, and avoid spending millions on custom-built software.