Our Story

From the oil field to the open ocean.

Ocean Advisor began with a simple idea. The same physics used to find energy beneath the seabed can predict where fish gather above it.

The Founder
Dr. Richard Wright
Founder and CEO

Ocean Advisor was founded by Dr. Richard Wright, a geophysicist with over 20 years in oil and gas exploration, and more than 50 published papers.

For two decades, Rich used physics to map oil and gas miles beneath the seabed. He spent his career reading signals from deep in the earth and turning them into predictions. Over time he saw that the ocean above could be read in much the same way. This research can be applied to understanding ocean structure as well.

The conditions that move fish are physical. Currents and structure shift day to day, and they can be modeled and predicted within a short window. Read those conditions well, and you can predict where the fish will follow.

That idea became Ocean Advisor. The company builds a daily prediction for each fishery, a clear map of where the odds are highest, so captains spend less time searching and more time fishing. Every model is trained on a fleet's own catch history and validated against real results.

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The Team Behind It

The people behind the prediction.

He leads a team drawn from top research institutions and leading technology companies, with backgrounds in geophysics, physics, chemistry, and machine learning. The same science used to find energy miles beneath the seabed, they realized, can predict where fish gather above it. That scientific depth is what sets Ocean Advisor apart. Most tools hand you ocean data. We model the physics behind it.

Where the team trained
University of California, Merced Cal State Stanislaus University of Southern California Johns Hopkins University Brigham Young University University of California, Los Angeles Memorial University of Newfoundland Arizona State University

See what the team built.

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