Sawfish Project Indonesia is an interdisciplinary project that seeks to provide data about sawfish to local and national governments to implement legal protections for them. The project will conduct scientific research using Environmental DNA (E-DNA) and fisheries surveys to investigate the problem of sawfish bycatch, which is one of the major factors leading to the decline of sawfish populations in Merauke, Indonesia. Sawfish Project Indonesia ultimately aims to enhance the capacity of indigenous people in Merauke to continue the important work of sawfish conservation locally. This project will perform an incubator workshop to teach the youth of Merauke about sawfish conservation.

Ichthion is a UK company, with operations in South America that develops and implements award-winning technologies and solutions to decrease plastic pollution in our ocean. The company also designs and executes circular economy programmes for its customers based on data. So far, Ichthion has received around USD 2.2 million in its seed investment round, multiple international grants, and contracts for its R&D development and operations. The start-up is currently raising Series A.

"Life on Planet A" is a podcast hosted by SOA Australia Hub Leaders, Bella Charlesworth and Heidi Dumesich. During the course of 2021, they produced an online resource hub for young ocean leaders in Australia and abroad as well as hosted and produced podcasts that interviewed Ocean Experts from across all sectors of ocean science, policy, technology, and sustainability.

On January 15, 2022, a Repsol tanker spilled 6,000 barrels of crude oil off the coast of Peru after being struck by “abnormal waves” caused by the volcanic eruption in Tonga. 1.7 million sq meters have been greatly harmed, including a highly biodiverse region with two protected areas and over 1,000 small-scale fishers that depend on the region for their livelihood. SOA Peru is building disaster relief centers in each district impacted by the spill (Ventanilla, Santa Rosa and Ancón) to gather supplies like gloves and masks, transport and tend to injured wildlife, and support volunteers and organizations on the ground.

Blue Tribe uses federated machine learning and patented processes to predict coastal natural disasters at a hyperlocal level, replacing current flood models based on periodic, static surveys and statistical simulation, which can't predict local floods.

Blue Cradle Foundation creates a short video about sea mining, including indigenous perspectives and the voices of Pacific Islanders, premiering at COP 2022. The Cook Islands could be one of the first nations to issue exploratory licenses for deep sea mining in its EEZ.

Due to the lack of sustainable energy in Cameroon, coastal community members rely on coastal mangroves to fuel fish-drying, greatly degrading the mangrove forest. This project educates coastal community members about the importance of the mangrove ecosystem to the ocean and the environment. Through capacity-building training, like how to grow mangrove nurseries and planting coconut trees as alternative energy sources, they empower the most vulnerable populations to restore mangrove ecosystems and protect the shoreline.

Kelapa Dua is one of the many small islands in Kepulauan Seribu. The island/waters are part of a National Park system, and the island itself is heavily influenced by tidal waves. In order to help protect the coastline from erosion, this group has proposed a coral reef restoration/artificial reef project. The plan is to use a concrete transplantation method to plant a test track of reef, to monitor the growth of the transplanted corals, to hold a training session for the Island society, and to work with the local government to impose limitations on human activity in the transplantation area.

The grant will be used to set up a coral nursery in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. After establishing the artificial coral nursery and reef, we aim to conduct further research involving policy makers in Sri Lanka to establish a marine protected area in the southern coastal belt. The grant also will be used to establish a school curriculum in Sri Lanka on ocean literacy and education.