Tech Solutions Related To UN SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization, designs and develops advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic by means of ocean cleanup systems and river interception solutions.

Sofar builds accessible ocean sensing and exploration tools. The mission of the company is to connect the world’s oceans to provide insights to science, society, and industry for a more sustainable planet.

We bring the ocean and its data to you, with novel hardware and software that is revolutionizing maritime exploration. Ocean Aero has created the world’s first and only environmentally powered Autonomous Underwater and Surface Vehicle (AUSV), the TRITON, that collects data both above and below the ocean’s surface and relays it to you from anywhere, at anytime.

Ocean Bottle is working to rid the ocean of plastic and improve social mobility at the same time. With the sale of every Ocean Bottle 11.4kg of plastic is collected in impoverished coastal communities. Plastic collectors can exchange plastic waste for money or credit via blockchain technology to spend on tuition, tech goods, health care and micro-finance.

Blue Ocean Gear is start-up company based in Northern CA that provides technology solutions for IoT tracking on the ocean. We create high-tech buoys that can track gear in the marine environment, including detecting and locating lost or entangled fishing gear. These smart devices help fishermen save money while protecting the ocean environment.

We must fix the oceans to survive. The Oxygenator is designed to accomplish this monumental task using natural ocean upwelling and downwelling physical processes, powered entirely by ocean waves.

4ocean is a mission-driven for-profit business, dedicated to removing trash from our oceans and coastlines while inspiring individuals to work together for cleaner oceans. We build an assortment of high quality, sustainably-made products that will help people reduce their dependence on single-use plastic, reuse the materials we collect from the ocean, and fund a worldwide ocean cleanup initiative.

Ocean Motion Tech is blazing a new path to sustainable, scalable and more efficient marine hydrokinetic energy by focusing on small-scale applications. At Ocean Motion, we are fabricating several innovative small-scale generation and storage devices for marine applications. Our devices are plug-and-play independent power and energy storage units that can be installed on most oceanographic buoys.

Bedrock is a vertically-integrated ocean exploration company developing proprietary robotics and software to quickly and cheaply explore the entirety of the Earth’s oceans on a scale not possible with today’s technology. We offer subsea survey services (Hydro, Geo, UXO, etc.) as well as paired cloud & local software to effective store, process and make sense of your organization's subsea data.

NCEI works with NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) to ensure that ocean exploration data collections are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reuseable) to the public through careful stewardship of vital sonar, oceanographic, imagery, video, and collected specimen information that contribute greatly to scientific understanding of the world’s ocean.