OceanForesters

Feed the World. Fuel the World. Restore Natural CO2 Levels. Cure Climate Change.

Services: 4
Projects: 2
Leaders: 7
Size Estimate: 1-10 employees

Overview

OceanForesters is an international engineering and scientific consulting practice. Operating as a California Benefit Corporation, it coaches, mentors, and supports local coastal communities to design, build, and operate permanent Aquatic Foods Ecosystems. Its 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.

Size Estimate: 1-10 employees

Services

Aquaculture & Ocean Engineering

Engineering and consulting services for ocean-based biomass and food production systems.

Aquatic Foods Ecosystem Design Techno-Economic Analysis Ocean Afforestation & Climate Mitigation Engineering

Industries

Marine Agriculture Natural Resources Carbon Capture

Firm type

Coastal Engineering Environmental Engineering

Projects

SanctuaryReef

Marine

Provides seafood while accomplishing carbon dioxide removal (CDR), retaining a circular nutrient economy and tidal fishing weirs in Science Enables Aquatic Foods (SEAFoods), a proposed programme to the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development.

Aquatic Foods Ecosystem Design

Category 5 Cyclone Resistant SEAFood Structure Analysis

U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) | Marine

A techno-economic analysis for a Science Enables Aquatic Foods (SEAFoods) structure engineered to withstand a direct hit from a Category 5 cyclone, supported by a $500,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E).

Techno-Economic Analysis

Credentials and affiliations

Affiliations

WorldFish University of the South Pacific International Ocean Institute - Southern Africa Zanzibar Seaweed Cluster Initiative Love The Oceans Abundant Ocean Ventures Rescate al Medio Ambiente Visual Teaching Technologies Stingray Sensing Nikia Solutions Alliance BioConversions Company AI Control Technologies Engineers Without Borders USA SANERGY

Leadership

Mark E. Capron

Principal

Jim R. Stewart

Principal

PhD

Mohammed A. Hasan

Principal

Don Piper

Principal

Graham Harris

Principal

Martin Sherman

Principal

Rae Fuhrman

Principal

Publications

Report of North Carolina Demonstration of Oyster Growth Enhancement by Electricity

technical_paper | Don Piper, Mark Capron, Jim Stewart | 2024

Coastal Ecosystem Resilience Districts

article | Mark Capron, Roger Benham | 2025

Dawn of Ocean Forestry

article | Don Piper | 2015

Restoring Pre-Industrial CO2 Levels While Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

technical_paper | Capron, M. E., Stewart, J. R., N'Yeurt, A. de R., Chambers, M. D., Kim, J. K., Yarish, C., Jones, A. T., Blaylock, R. B., James, S. C., Fuhrman, R., Sherman, M. T., Piper, D., Harris, G., Hasan, M. A. | 2020

Negative carbon via Ocean Afforestation

technical_paper | N'Yeurt, A.de R., Chynoweth, D.P., Capron, M.E., Stewart, J.R., Hasan, M.A. | 2012

Ocean Forests: Breakthrough Yields for Seaweed

article | Capron, M. E., Moscicki, Z., Blaylock, R. B., Sullivan, C., Lucas, K., Tsukrov, I., Chambers, M. D., Swift, M. R., Stewart, J. R., James, S. C., DiMarco, S. F., Brooks, M., Whilden, K., Howden, S., Wang, B., Fredericq, S., Krueger-Hadfield, S. A., Webb, C., Piper, D. | 2018

AdjustaDepth Report to US Dept of Energy: Feed the world on the way to abundant biofuels

technical_paper | Lucas, K., Capron, M. E., Blaylock, R., Stewart, J. R., Chambers M. D., et al. | 2019

Offices

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