We bring hyperlocal water monitoring, forecasting, and decision-making to your coast.
Armed with a combined 30 years of expertise in oceanography, technology, and science communication, we are revolutionizing the coastal observation ecosystem by developing a truly scalable data network that returns timely, relevant, and usable data. We do it by training our machine-learning software on high-density coastal data crowdsourced from smartwatches. This solution unlocks new statistical approaches to forecasting and the automated return of instrument-agnostic hydrographic insights, built in real-time with data from potentially millions of watches.
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We offer three products: (1) a water weather app, for coastal recreationalists and businesses that need a trusted local forecast; (2) high-resolution coastal water data, for businesses and organizations that need decision-ready data on past, present, and future conditions; and (3) software services, for water monitoring professionals that need platform-agnostic, scalable hydrographic expertise. We target cross-sector customers, from sports to government, and our services apply to freshwater and saltwater coasts - anywhere that people get in the water.
We provide an entirely new approach to coastal intelligence, delivering live data, high-resolution local forecasts, and automated data processing via software built with crowdsourced measurements. Using smartwatches as already-deployed, distributed sensors keeps costs low, bypasses hardware development risk, and underpins truly scalable products.
Meet the team
Chief Executive Officer
Virginia Schutte, PhD
Science Media Specialist
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Virginia is an award-winning storyteller, strategist, and trainer who is unstoppably and loudly enthusiastic about how science makes life better. She decided to save the world in elementary school after she read A ring of Endless Light, with a heroine who saves sick dolphins by talking to them with her mind. While a career in dolphin telepathy ultimately didn’t work out, Virginia channeled her love of the ocean into earning an Ecology PhD in 2014. Since then, she has worked to diversify how people interact with science digitally. Her expertise in storytelling experimentation spans platforms and includes outputs ranging from a science fashion campaign on Instagram to a WhatsApp group that caught Snoop Dogg's attention.
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Virginia received her PhD in Ecology from the University of Georgia. She also holds a BS in Biology and was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Chief Technical Officer
Kim Martini, PhD
Physical Oceanographer
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Fueled by a fascination with new technology and adventure, Kim has been throwing expensive s**t into the ocean for almost 20 years. She is an expert in oceanographic sensor and system design, having worked at the UW Applied Physics Lab, University of Alaska Fairbanks, NOAA PMEL and Sea-Bird Scientific. Her current focus is expanding ocean observations through system design and data delivery, finding practical solutions to challenging problems. She has collaborated with academic, industry and government scientists globally, and is a regularly invited speaker with over a dozen interviews on major news media. Kim is a trusted source of scientific information for scientists and the public.
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Kim received her PhD in Physical Oceanography from the University of Washington. She also holds a MS in Physics, a BS in Physics and a BA in Fine Art from SUNY Albany.
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