Welcome

O.R.A. sees the ocean as the new frontier, driving a deeper understanding of the ocean’s complex systems in a way that will greatly improve our predictive capabilities and bring vital benefits to people around the world...

Today the ocean observation data being collected is available to just a small population. By making our findings easily available, it could be applied to educational, and perhaps life-saving use in every region of the world.

Without comprehensive, integrated data sets, there are gaps in scientific understanding. Nature does not exist on one island, one sea, or on one beach, and taking the pulse of this ecosystem requires an understanding of the intrinsic links of our water ways, oceans, islands, waterfront and everything between.

O.R.A. is a robust effort dedicated to building a integrated, comprehensive and sustained "single pane of glass" by which to observe this complex and and ever changing ecosystem. O.R.A. is dedicated to Observe, Conserve and Preserve this one planet we all live on.