Teams

Blue Lotus Energy Corporation

Manufacturing and selling portable wave energy converters.

Team Members: Rowdy Malchow II, Alexander Colton, Vijay Kulkarni

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Center for Environmental Imaging (CEI)

Specializing in the design, collection and analysis of underwater large-area imagery.

Team Members: Clinton Edwards, Stuart Sandin, Vid Petrovic, Brian Zglicznski, Nicole Pedersen

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Coastal Carbon

Developing AI models that enable satellites to see underwater.

Team Members: Thomas Storwick, Kelly Zheng

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FjordPhyto

Pioneering polar citizen science, a social innovation enterprise that enhances tourist engagement in polar science and connects travelers to the importance of phytoplankton research on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Team Members: Allison Cusick, Christian Johnson, Martina Mascioni

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Greenwater Scientific

Producing natural, negative-emission air purifiers that harness the photosynthetic prowess of oceanic plankton and algae.

Team Members: Dhruv Mehta, Eli Gray

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New Tides Distillery

Using a proprietary marine yeast, New Tides is able to ferment and distill ocean water directly without needing to desalinate it first.

Team Members: James Burdick, Kasey Pinter, Bradley Abramson

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Parley Labs

Developing Mollusks (Multisensor Location and Surveillance Cluster (MLSC)), a globally decentralized network of low-cost maritime sensors.

Team Members: Bryan Bui-Tuong, Marvin Magcamit

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Wild Genomics

Precision pest monitoring through autonomous sampling and analysis of environmental DNA.

Team Members: Eirik Torheim, Bilgenur Baloglu, Charlotte DiBiase

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Mentors

Nick Ainslie

Nick Ainslie

Vice President of Business Development at GT Research
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Chris Coyle

Founder and CEO, TAO-Blue Economy/Blue Tech Consultancy
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Chiara Dorigo

Strategy Consultant
Robert Feldman

Robert Feldman

Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategic Initiatives, Fluxus, Inc.
Chris Fessenden

Chris Fessenden

Co-founder / COO, Oasis Travel Platform
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Abigail Jones

Executive Director, Walter Munk Foundation for the Oceans
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Mark Juergensen

Vice President of Development, RAI Energy
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Luc Lenain

Director, Air-Sea Interaction Laboratory, Scripps Oceanography
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Albert Liu

Mentor, Institute for the Global Entrepreneur
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Mike Martinez

Partner at Pineshore Ventures
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John Neagley

Founder, Blue Native Consulting, LLC
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Guy Noll

Associate Director, Mapping Systems products, ESRI
Steve Pearlman

Steve Pearlman

V.P. / General Manager, InterOcean Systems
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Tom Perkowski

Founding Principal, Apex View Management
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Gregory Peters

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of BrilliantBiome
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Nickelle Presley

Oceans Project Director for Conservation Innovation at The Nature Conservancy
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Brock Rosenthal

President, Ocean innovations
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Carolyn Saunders

Digital strategy & customer lifecycle marketing
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Joseph C. Sullivan

Chief Executive Officer, AuraVax Therapeutics, Inc.
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Neil Trenaman

Chief Operating Officer, AUUSV, LLC