Regenerate the oceans, rescue the planet

We’re leveraging ocean sensing and AI to unlock the potential of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR)

Climate Crisis

Our greatest opportunity to expand nature’s ability to absorb and sequester carbon lies within the ocean

38,000 Gt

(83%)

of the earth’s carbon stored in the ocean

Other

(11%)

Terrestrial Forest

(4%)

Agricultural Soil

(2%)

Marine CDR (MCDR) Solutions

There are a number of emerging solutions that have massive potential to make an impact...

  • Seagrass Restoration

  • Nutrient Fertilization

  • Kelp Farming

  • Direct Ocean Removal

  • Artificial Upwelling

  • Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement

  • Artificial Downwelling

The Challenge

Technical hurdles in quantifying outcomes of mCDR and carbon credit procurement inefficiencies have led to underinvestment in mCDR

  • Carbon is cycled along multiple interacting pathways with varied degrees of carbon permanence

  • Ocean data are sparse, disjointed, and require a deep expertise to draw practical insights from

  • Manual project monitoring and verification is expensive and rarely translated from one project to another

  • There is variation in the availability and quality of project information and lack of key knowledge from carbon credit buyers to assess credit quality and monitor their credit portfolio

  • Credit buyers struggle to source and assess new mCDR projects that meet their climate strategy

Nekton Labs is building a

Marine carbon

MRV Platform

Our measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) platform will increase accountability of mCDR projects while creating valuable social, ecological, and economic insights

Our technology

Our AI-driven technologies quantify carbon removals and ecological outcomes of ocean carbon projects

Ocean Data Fusion

Curating the world’s largest hub of data focused specifically on carbon removal and ocean health applications

AI-Enabled Models

Quantifying carbon removal and ocean impacts with advanced accuracy, standardized by mCDR pathway

Carbon & Ecosystem Data Products

Bringing next-gen data and insights along with credit portfolio transparency and reporting to our clients

Who we are

Pat Schnettler

Blue Economy

Academic

Career

Margaret Deal, PhD

Marine Science

Academic

Career

Ryan Searcy, PhD

Ocean Data Science

Academic

Career

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CORPORATEs

  • Standardized, centralized, and simple project information to support marine carbon credit sourcing

    Ongoing project monitoring tools to give transparency and insight into portfolio projects

  • Project sourcing tools to connect to a wide range of high-quality mCDR projects

Project developers

  • Project suitability analysis

  • Project monitoring solutions

  • Carbon removal estimation and insights

  • Carbon credit verification protocol alignment