Gonçalo MAR, an artist affiliated with the seabed mining advocacy group Sciaena, creates a deep sea mining mural in Lisbon for the 2022 UN Ocean Conference, whilst Sciaena will coordinate social media activations around his artwork.

Ellipsis Earth scans rivers and coastlines with drones, processes these images with a uniquely-trained algorithm to create detailed heatmaps of hotspots, and advises partners on the best approaches to tackle each pollution challenge.

SOA Romania and NGO Mare Nostrum used a research sailing vessel to collect data among the Romanian coastal waters. The two indicators researched were cetaceans (a bioindicator) and marine debris/litter (a pressure indicator). Through press releases and social media, they shared their results at local and national levels with over 4,000 people to inform national authorities and civil initiatives working towards coastal management, conservation, and more.

This project funded the development of the SOA Timor-Leste Hub. In affiliation with the Timorese Youths Initiative for Development organization, they carried out two ocean literacy projects: an ocean story-telling competition and an educational webinar.

Bodhi is a student at the University of British Columbia and the founder of Oneworldbreath.org, an organization that unites youth around the importance of marine conservation. He will use his innovation prize to reach 1,000 ocean-aware youth in British Columbia and beyond.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Umi o Tsukurukai, the organization has proposed to conduct a clean-up in Yamashita Park, both in the park itself and underwater by scuba diving in the Port of Yokohama. Trash that is flowing out from rivers into Yokohama Bay will be collected, including very commonly found bottles and cans. When the trash is collected, the group will sort the items, weigh them, conduct a brand audit, and publish the results on the website. 

This project seeks to solve one of the most important problems in the ocean: the over-exploitation of fish populations for the production of animal feed. We seek to solve this through the use of undervalued resources such as (insects, microalgae, and undervalued native plants) for the production of fish pellets for aquaculture. We work together with the Integral Cooperative of Mayan-indigenous peasants in Quixaya, Guatemala, providing them with a tool that will help them achieve economic sustainability.

Based on the data collected during the International Coastal Cleanup events, land-based solid waste is the biggest contributor to marine litter along the Kenyan coastline. This team's overall goal is to help reduce and promote recycling of marine litter generated on Kenyan beaches for healthy oceans and healthy communities, through implementation of a waste management program through beach and river delta clean ups.

By regularly convening typically siloed researchers, the Northeast Climate Resilient Fisheries Network fosters rapid sharing of findings, cross-sector research collaboration, champion sharing of ideas and methods, and spur greater connection amongst fisheries researchers, academics, and professionals.