The goal of this project is to help establish a rainwater harvesting and filtration system on Pari Island to rebuild sustainable drinking water supply for local residents. This project also conducts educational programs for locals tourists on island resource-management.

Our mission at Finless Foods is simple – we want to create a future for seafood where the ocean thrives. We work toward this every day by creating delicious, alternative seafood products that help you satisfy your cravings without bait or a hook. We are using ground-breaking (or rather ocean-breaking) plant and cell culture technology to revolutionize the way the world sources delicious and sustainable food. Good for us, good for the ocean.

Navier is bringing change to the maritime industry through the development of clean and efficient technology to unlock a future where small vessels are clean, efficient, and easy to operate. The company’s unique multidisciplinary heritage combines deep maritime experience with rigorous expertise in aerospace and autonomous system engineering.

Sway combats plastic pollution and its devastating effects by replacing single-use plastics with packaging made from seaweed. Sway's technology drops into traditional plastic infrastructure, while simultaneously replenishing ocean health, sequestering carbon, promoting benevolent materials, and ultimately creating a more inclusive climate movement. The company is based in Berkeley, California, and works with seaweed farmers across the Western Hemisphere.

This project led by the Mounu Ocean Academy contributes to reef monitoring and whale conservation through community education, participation, and volunteer training. A training course will be developed to teach volunteers how to conduct regular reef surveys. The data will inform citizen science initiatives such as Reef Check and Coral Watch.

"Life on Planet A" is a podcast hosted by SOA Australia Ocean Solutions Hub Leaders Bella Charlesworth and Heidi Dumesich. During the course of the year, they will produce an online resource hub for young ocean leaders in Australia and abroad as well as host and produce podcasts that interview Ocean Experts from across all sectors of ocean science, policy, technology and sustainability.

CarbonEthics is a startup, non-profit organization that aims to educate individuals and institutions about how to reduce and offset their carbon footprints. Blue Carbon Ecosystem is a project to directly sequester carbon through the conservation and restoration of coastal habitats (mangroves, seagrass, and coral) while also enhancing the livelihood of local communities. Project leaders will build stakeholder maps, assess carbon stock potential, and gain formal government accreditation. Income generated from offsets as a result of this project goes directly to blue carbon-farmers.

Feeding fish without feeding them fish: This project explored the "Economic Feasibility of a Microalgae-Based Fish Feed." Verdant Seas is the exclusive licensee of a superiorly performing aquaculture feed (patent pending) that does not rely on wild marine fish. Instead, we use a blend of marine microalgae for protein and omega-3 fatty acids to achieve up to 70% faster growth rate and improved nutrition. This funding helps Verdant Seas conduct an economic feasibility study of our feed, as well as develop a land use conservation metric to understand the impact of our feed compared to conventional feeds.

Mymizu (“mizu” is water in Japanese) provides a free water refill platform that connects people to 200,000+ locations globally where they can refill their water bottle, instead of buying bottled water. This project supported the development of educational materials for Mymizu volunteers and community members to carry out their own workshops across Japan.