Dr. Julie Pullen is an oceanographer, Partner at venture capital firm Propeller, and Ocean Visions board. Dr. Pullen shares her perspective on why Ocean Visions is essential to the field of ocean-climate solutions and worthy support. The post Meet Dr. Julie Pullen appeared first on Ocean Visions ..read more

Ocean Visions fully supports the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's new national strategy to advance research into marine carbon dioxide removal. The post Statement: White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Releases National Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Research Strategy appeared first on Ocean Visions ..read more

Ocean Visions Biennial Summit 2025 Advancing Solutions for Ocean-Climate Restoration Mark your calendars for the Ocean Visions Biennial Summit 2025! The Summit will be an exceptional opportunity to advance the sharing of knowledge and solutions to critical challenges at the ocean-climate nexus. During this action-oriented event, global and local scientists, policymakers, innovators, funders, and others […] The post appeared first on Ocean Visions ..read more

Ocean Visions' digital road map designed to mobilize efforts to advance collective knowledge The post First-ever assessment of pathways to slow Arctic sea ice loss identifies potential mitigation approaches and highlights need to increase collaborative, careful research appeared first on Ocean Visions ..read more

Introduction With the recent announcement of the shutdown of Running Tide, a Maine-based company working to sequester excess carbon dioxide in the ocean, there has been a swirl of speculation, inaccurate statements, and sweeping conclusions about why Running Tide closed its doors, and what this portends for the field of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and for marine-based forms of carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) specifically.   As a science-based ocean conservation organization that has worked with Running Tide for more than three years, as well as with 13 other mCDR startups through o ..read more

The climate crisis is fully upon us; recent data show the globe hasn’t been this hot in 100,000 years. The two trillion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution humans have added to the biosphere since the industrial revolution have trapped an almost unfathomable amount of excess heat energy on our planet, referred to somewhat neutrally as the earth’s “energy imbalance”. That energy imbalance is driving dangerous change across the entire planet, with around 90 percent of the excess heat energy absorbed into the ocean, leading to devastating impacts like marine heat waves that bleach co ..read more

The climate crisis is fully upon us; recent data show the globe hasn’t been this hot in 100,000 years. The two trillion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution humans have added to the biosphere since the industrial revolution have trapped an almost unfathomable amount of excess heat energy on our planet, referred to somewhat neutrally as the earth’s “energy imbalance”. That energy imbalance is driving dangerous change across the entire planet, with around 90 percent of the excess heat energy absorbed into the ocean, leading to devastating impacts like marine heat waves that bleach co ..read more

Recent data show the globe hasn’t been this hot in 100,000 years. The two trillion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution humans have added to the atmosphere since the start of the industrial revolution are the biggest challenge to our ocean, driving severe ocean warming and acidification—with a host of related effects that threaten the structure and function of the whole system. These threats are deserving of significantly more attention on the global agenda. Around 90 percent of the massive amount of excess heat energy trapped in the Earth’s system by greenhouse gas pollution has been a ..read more

Effort to support research on the viability of OIF as a climate solution  ATLANTA, Georgia, April 10, 2024 — Ocean Visions and Esri have collaborated to create a first-of-its-kind Ocean Iron Fertilization Site Suitability Planning Tool. The tool will support the design and siting of locations for field trials designed to help evaluate the effectiveness and safety of Ocean Iron Fertilization (OIF) as a possible method to draw down and safely store atmospheric carbon dioxide.  After nearly 30 years of scientific investigation, including both field trials and modeling studies, esti ..read more

Ocean Visions CEO Brad Ack As we look ahead to a new year, I’m inspired by the growing ocean-climate solutions community that Ocean Visions has been proud to help nurture. Some of you may remember when Ocean Visions first launched in 2019. Propelled by visionary founders and a network of leading academic and oceanographic institutions, Ocean Visions was born with the purpose to create new solutions to the most pressing ocean problems by galvanizing multisector collaborations to help invent, shape, and test innovations to repair and restore the ocean—improving the wellbeing of humanity and n ..read more