Backyard Buoys empowers Indigenous and other coastal communities to collect and use ocean data to support their blue economy: maritime activities, food security, and coastal hazard protection. Innovations include a sustainable process for community-led stewardship of affordable ocean buoys and a web-based application that renders data easy to understand and bridges to Indigenous knowledge.
Backyard Buoys brings together geographically, academically, institutionally, and culturally diverse groups of partners:
• Pacific Northwest: Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS), Quileute Tribe, Quinault Indian Nation, Western Washington University
• Alaska: Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS), Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Dept of Natural Resources, Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program
• Pacific Islands: Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS), Marshall Islands Conservation Society, National Park of American Samoa, Hawai’i Sea Grant, Conservation International Hawai’i
• Sofar Ocean Technologies (Sofar)
Company Details
- Employees
- 1
- Founded
- -
- Address
- Of Fisheries And Aquaculture
- Industry
- Research Services
- NAICS
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Scientific Research and Development ServicesResearch and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life SciencesResearch and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Website
- http://backyardbuoys.org/
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Backyard Buoys's website is http://backyardbuoys.org/
Backyard Buoys's LinkedIn profile is https://www.linkedin.com/company/backyard-buoys
Backyard Buoys has
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employees at Backyard Buoys.
Backyard Buoys's industry is
Research Services
Backyard Buoys's top competitors are
Alaska Ocean Observing System,
Fathom Science,
Saildrone,
Sine Surf,
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (Pacioos),
Trivane Floating Wind,
Hybarge By L'equipage,
Help Nz • Planetary Citizens,
Nereid Biomaterials,
Sofar Ocean.
Backyard Buoys's categories are Research Services
Backyard Buoys's founding year is 2021
