Running Tide Technologies, Inc. builds technologies to sustainably scale the natural processes of the ocean.
Running Tide is deploying and testing free-floating microforests in the open ocean to sequester carbon before sinking into the deep ocean for durable storage. A proprietary system remotely monitors the microforests, quantifying kelp growth, carbon content, and sinking locations.
Independent Senior Forest Advisor
Board Member and Founder, Headwall Photonics
Professor of Marine Biogeochemical Modelling at GEOMAR and the University of Kiel, Germany
Senior Scientist and Benthic Ecologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Associate Professor at University of California - Irvine
The Advisory Board reviewed the following key documents provided by Running Tide:
*Engagement with the Scientific Advisory Board concluded with the dissolution of Running Tide in June 2024.
Richard Zell Donovan is an independent forest advisor with 45+ years’ experience in sustainable forestry, community forest enterprises (CFEs), rural development, forest certification, and climate sensitive forest practices. Richard co-founded the FSC in 1990-93 with various other individuals and organizations. From 1992-2019 he was the forestry leader at Rainforest Alliance (RA) and an experienced forest auditor. He was the original designer and co-author of the Preferred by Nature global field auditing standard for ecosystem restoration. He provides technical support for multiple organizations focused on forestry and forest sourcing, restoration, certification, CFEs and climate issues in forests globally. Richard lives in rural Jericho, Vermont and has deep family roots in rural northern Minnesota. He has lived in the US, Paraguay, Mexico, and Costa Rica and has worked in 50+ countries in temperate, tropical, and boreal forests for non-profit organizations and companies. He speaks fluent English and Spanish, has working knowledge of Portuguese, and formerly spoke fluent Guarani.
David Bannon is founder of Headwall Photonics and was responsible for shaping the Company’s vision and corporate direction. He currently serves as a member of the Headwall’s Board of Directors and Advisor. Through his entrepreneurial leadership, David positioned Headwall as a worldwide provider of instrument-based spectral sensing solutions that touch many aspects of daily life. From remote sensing applications such as precision agriculture & mining to critical areas of military & defense and small satellite applications, David has driven the science of spectral imaging from the laboratory to new application areas while ushering in entirely new and affordable commercial hyperspectral solutions.
As a successful entrepreneur with 20 years of technology “start-up” experience, David has authored numerous technology and application articles. In driving new applications & market capabilities, David has established patents in areas of spectral sensor design for remote sensing, food safety, machine vision, as well as biomedical applications for non-invasive detection Alzheimer’s disease.
David has also chaired industry association forums and often speaks to diverse audience groups on the topic of spectral sensing and imaging technology.
David has a Bachelors of Science degree in biology and a Masters degree in Finance.
Andreas Oschlies is Professor of Marine Biogeochemical Modelling at GEOMAR and the University of Kiel, Germany. Having studied Theoretical Physics at Heidelberg and Cambridge, he moved into Oceanography for a PhD in Kiel and worked as PostDoc in Toulouse, Assistant Professor in Kiel and Professor of Physical Oceanography in Southampton, before becoming head of the Marine Biogeochemical Modelling group in Kiel in 2006. His research interests include the global carbon, nitrogen and oxygen cycles, their sensitivities to environmental change, and the development and quality assessment of numerical models appropriate to investigate these. He was chair of the Collaborative Research Centre “Climate-Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean” (SFB754) investigating ocean deoxygenation and initiated the Kiel Declaration on Ocean Deoxygenation, and he is co-Chair of the Global Ocean Oxygen Network (GO2NE) and the Global Ocean Oxygen Decade (GOOD) program. He has led the Priority Program “Climate Engineering: Risks, Challenges, Opportunities?” (SPP1689) and currently is co-chair of the German Marine Research Alliance research mission “Marine carbon sinks in decarbonization pathways” (CDRmare).
Jim is a Senior Scientist and marine ecologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. His research centers on the influence of natural and human driven ocean change on the biology and ecology of marine animals, and ranges from intertidal rocky shores to deep-sea seamounts and reefs. He has broad experience and expertise using remotely operated vehicles and advanced subsea technology for deep-sea scientific research.
In addition to his research program, Jim has been involved in national and international studies to assess the global impacts of climate change in ocean ecosystems and related changes in key benefits for society. He serves on scientific technical working groups concerning ocean acidification and hypoxia monitoring for the California Ocean Protection Council and the Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality. Jim has served on panels for the National Academies of Sciences and has helped inform policy-makers on ocean issues by speaking at congressional hearings, briefings, and meetings with congressional members.
Dr. Davis joined the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Irvine in 2012. She is a physical coastal oceanographer who is interested in studying circulation in the coastal ocean, its natural variability, and its influence on marine ecosystems and human-nature interactions.
Kristen earned a Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University in 2009 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington.