OceanForesters

About OceanForestERS

OceanForesters is an international engineering and scientific consulting firm. As a California Benefit Corporation it does not aim to gain profits as it coaches, mentors, and supports local coastal communities to design, build, and operate permanent Aquatic Foods Ecosystems. Our 2050 goal is to support an increase from the current ~200 to 500 million tonnes/year of aquatic foods with a byproduct of a billion tonnes/year of CO2 nature-based climate mitigation and sequestration.

SanctuaryReef

SanctuaryReef provides seafood while accomplishing carbon dioxide removal (CDR). SanctuaryReef retains the circular nutrient economy and tidal fishing weirs for women-owned businesses in Science Enables Aquatic Foods (SEAFoods) a proposed programme to the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development.

US Government Funding

OceanForesters organized a $500,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to do a techno-economic analysis for a SEAFood structure designed to withstand a direct hit from a Category 5 cyclone.

Who We Are

OceanForesters principals include:

Mark E. Capron, Professional Engineer (P.E.)
Jim R. Stewart, PhD
Mohammed A. Hasan, P.E.
Don Piper
Graham Harris
Martin Sherman
Rae Fuhrman

Carbon-negative seafoods

A few hundred thousand tropical coastal communities would grow 400 million tonnes of the healthiest-for-the-first-thousand-days-of-life seafoods (such as anchovies). The communities might export 100 million tonnes of the still-healthy-but-more-valuable seafoods (lobster, oyster, large finfish) to developed countries. Consumers in developed countries would pay a premium for carbon-negative, free-range (wild-caught), fair trade, high-global-equity, certified healthy seafoods. The premium could pay to sequester 2 billion tonnes of CO2 per year, or 200 Gt over a century. (Patent pending.)