Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions
The GEOS Programme
The Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions (GEOS) is a new Programme endorsed by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science and Sustainable Development that aims to “establish a vibrant, global ocean solutions community of researchers, innovators, investors, decision-makers and other stakeholders to co-design and co-deploy equitable, durable, and scalable ocean-based solutions for climate change and ocean grand challenges”
Recent Events
Learn more about GEOS activities at the recent Ocean Visions Summit
Ocean Visions Summit 2021
Towards a Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions
May 18-21, 2021
Get Involved
USA
Ocean Visions
- Canada
- Russia
- South Korea
- Japan
- China
- USA
Australia
Future Seas
- University of Tasmania
- CSIRO
Currently working with Indigenous Groups
- South Pacific
- SnowChange Coop.
- ICCA Consortium
- Haida Nation
- Nordic Council Nation & Others
France
Ocean Climate Platform
>70 international organizations, NGOs, academic, private and public
India
Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services
Canada
Ocean Networks Canada
- University of Victoria
- Memorial University
- Dalhousie University
- University of British Columbia
- University of Calgary
International
A coalition to accelerate Ocean Impact Innovation
- OceanHub Africa
- Blue Ocean Partners Katapult
- Ocean
- Uplink - World Economic Forum
- Investable Ocean
- Ocean Exchange
- Aiim Partners
- Ocean Futures Innovation Hub
- Others
Ocean Climate Platform
- Blue Growth (UK)
- Forum Oceano (Portugal)
- Marine Institute (Ireland)
- Ocean Advance (Canada)
- PLOCEAN (Spain)
- Pole Mer Mediterranee (France)
- TMA BlueTech (USA)
- GCE Ocean Technology (Norway)
Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOP) Network
IGO
GEOS Steering Commitee
Alexis Grosskopf
Co-Founder, OceanHub Africa
Alfredo Giron
André Hoffmann Fellow, Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and the World Economic Forum
Anna Zivian
Senior Research Fellow, Ocean Conservancy
Brad Ack
Executive Director, Ocean Visions
Carlos Barrera
Head - Ocean Vehicles Unit, PLOCAN
Daniel Kleinman
Founder & CEO, Seaworthy Collective
Emanuele Di Lorenzo
Chairman, Ocean Visions & Professor and OSE Director, Georgia Institute of Technology
Erin V. Satterthwaite
Marine Ecologist, California Sea Grant at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Fiorenza Micheli
David and Lucile Packard Professor Co-director, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University
Giovanni Coppini
Director of Ocean Predictions and Applications, Center for Euro-Mediterranean Climate Change
Gretta Pecl
Professor & Director Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania
Janice Lachance
Executive Vice President, Strategic Leaders & Global Outreach, American Geophysical Union
John Dutton
Head of UpLink & Member of the Executive Committee World Economic Forum
John E. Fernández
Professor & Director Environmental Solutions Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Karen Evans
Team Leader, CSIRO
Kate Moran
President and CEO, Ocean Network Canada
Makino Mitsutaku
Professor, The University of Tokyo
Mark Shimamoto
Program Manager, GeoHealth, American Geophysical Union
Martin Visbeck
Head of the Research Unit 'Physical Oceanography' GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
Matt Classen
Executive Director, TMA BlueTech
Millicent Pitts
Chief Executive Officer & Director ,The Ocean Exchange
Nadia Pinardi
Professor, University of Bologna
Namrata Kolla
Product Engagement Manager, Vulcan Inc
Raghu Murtugudde
Professor, India’s National Ocean Research Institutions
Salvatore Aricò
Head, Ocean Science Section Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
Shally Shanker
Founder & Managing Partner, AiiM Partners
Srinivas Kumar
Director, ESSO - Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services
Ted Jannulis
CEO & Founder, Investable Oceans
Théophile Bongarts
SEA'TIES Project Leader, Ocean & Climate Platform