# Ocean Agentics Infrastructure for the ocean's hardest coordination problems Ocean Agentics is building open tools that help marine managers, researchers and policymakers use inaccessible ocean data for governance. ## Challenge and Opportunity The capabilities of governance are falling behind. Building open infrastructure together is how we catch up. ### The challenge AI is empowering industry, while research, management, and governance fall further behind, especially in developing countries. Underresourced, marine stakeholders are reliant upon systems too cumbersome for effective governance. ### The opportunity We believe global ocean governance requires engineering in partnership with delegations, scientists, and institutions across the world to co-develop the systems needed to share the ocean's resources for this and future generations. ## Principles ### Coordination Co-developing the infrastructure necessary for ocean governance. ### Equity Open tools that all ocean stakeholders can equitably access. ### Trust Traceable evidence on biodiversity, productivity, and ocean health. ## Our focus: The UN High Seas Treaty. The UN BBNJ High Seas Treaty creates a pathway to protect two-thirds of the world's ocean, centered on a Clearing-House Mechanism for sharing information and coordinating action. But the infrastructure to make that possible does not yet exist, and we're building open tools to help make it real. ## From treaty to tools What we're building together ### Area Based Management Tools Designating high-seas Area-Based Management Tools under BBNJ requires stitching together biodiversity, fisheries, oceanographic, and policy data that were never built to work together. We're building open marine evidence infrastructure that lets researchers and BBNJ Parties generate reproducible, source-linked evidence packages in hours, with collaborators including Global Fishing Watch, the Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner, the University of Queensland, and NOVA School of Law, and a phased plan from core data integration to case-study workflows and open release. ### Tracking Marine Genetic Research When a marine sample becomes a pharmaceutical, a research dataset, or a published study, its origin needs to travel with it across institutions and decades. We're prototyping the standards and technical implementation for the Standardized Batch Identifier system that make that traceability reliable, in support of the High Seas BBNJ Agreement's commitment to fair benefit sharing. ### Portugal Innovation Workshop on the BBNJ With Júlia Schütz Veiga and collaborators at NOVA School of Law / NOVA OCEAN, we're building a Portugal-based convening and hackathon where legal scholars, technologists, and underrepresented BBNJ partners co-design the agreements and prototype structure needed for marine genetic resources implementation. Ocean Agentics serves as backbone and technical lead, turning that work into shared governance, participation frameworks, and a roadmap for more equitable High Seas Treaty infrastructure. ### Tracking FAD Fishing Effort with GFW Using Global Fishing Watch data, we're tracking drifting Fish Aggregating Device fishing effort in the Western and Central Pacific to study how purse seine behavior changed after the 2024 high seas FAD closure shift and to lay the groundwork for AIS-based FAD detection. The work is in collaboration with Dr. Christopher Noren of SCS Global Services, a Marine Stewardship Council Team Leader specializing in WCPO purse seine tuna fisheries and FAD management. ## Work with us Help build the infrastructure that turns commitments into action. ### Research partnership Co-author papers, integrate datasets, and design tools together. ### Walkthrough See the prototypes we're building, the data systems we're connecting, and where your work could plug in. ### Fund a workstream As a U.S. nonprofit, we're building open infrastructure that outlasts any single grant cycle. Each of our four workstreams welcomes targeted philanthropic support. ### Advisory roles Help guide our technical, scientific, and policy direction.