Blue forests are fading.
Silently.

Coral reefs, kelp forests, mangroves, and eelgrass meadows are Earth’s blue forests — together supporting the vast majority of marine biodiversity and sequestering carbon at a planetary scale. Yet they’re all disappearing faster than we can measure them. The challenge isn’t just restoration. It’s knowing whether restoration is working.

Sound is a blue
forest’s fingerprint.

Every healthy blue forest hums with a distinct acoustic signature. Coral reefs crackle with snapping shrimp and calling reef fish. Kelp canopies shelter their own chorus of snapping shrimp and vocalizing rockfish. Mangrove channels and eelgrass meadows ring with pistol shrimp and the low-frequency calls of territorial fish. Across all of these ecosystems, larvae and juvenile fish navigate by this biological sound to find suitable habitat.

Playing healthy-habitat recordings near degraded sites dramatically increases settlement — a scalable, non-invasive restoration lever. But there’s a catch: we still can’t reliably verify whether a soundscape’s changes reflect real biological recovery. Do acoustic indices actually track biodiversity? The science remains unsettled. That’s exactly the problem we’re solving.

Introducing
SEASCAPE.

SEASCAPE is the first integrated blue-forest monitoring system that correlates stereo depth perception with passive acoustic data — letting us objectively answer whether a habitat’s soundscape reflects its true biological state, whether that habitat is a coral reef, a kelp forest, a mangrove channel, or an eelgrass meadow.

Built for
long endurance

Stereo depth perception — Three stereo-vision pairs reconstruct 3D fish trajectories, automatically distinguishing swimming larvae from drifting debris — a problem unsolvable with 2D cameras.

SLIP coatings — Organic, non-toxic slippery liquid-infused porous surface coatings prevent biofouling, keeping optics clear across months of deployment rather than weeks.

Lunar-scale deployments — Extended battery life lets us capture multiple lunar cycles — the natural rhythm of larval settlement — closing a fundamental gap in existing monitoring systems.

Science that scales
like software.

Our AI-powered pipeline turns months of raw video and acoustic data into actionable ecological intelligence — automatically, at scale, without requiring researchers in the water or disturbing natural marine behavior.

The goal: give blue-forest managers trustworthy, objective monitoring tools that tell them whether their restoration work is producing a healthier ocean. From coral reefs to kelp forests, mangrove channels to eelgrass meadows — every ecosystem that buzzes with snapping shrimp and singing fish deserves the same rigorous acoustic baseline.

We’re building the infrastructure for blue-forest restoration to finally scale.