Mission
Ocean Alliance, Inc., a 501(c)3 organization, was founded in 1971 by biologist Roger Payne. Led by Dr. Payne and CEO, Iain Kerr, Ocean Alliance collects a broad spectrum of data on whales and ocean life relating particularly to toxicology, behavior, bioacoustics, and genetics. From that data we work with our scientific partners to advise educators and policy makers on wise stewardship of the oceans to: reduce pollution, prevent the collapse of marine mammal populations, maintain human access to fish and other sea life, and promote ocean and human health.
Ocean Alliance is concerned with the conservation of whales and all sea life, as well as human impacts on the marine environment. Through the Ocean Alliance program the Voyage of the Odyssey, we are able to focus on measuring the concentrations of synthetic contaminants that adversely affect the world's oceans and its marine species. Ocean Alliance is also working to reverse humanity's general apathy about the fundamental importance of the oceans and the degree to which the future of all life on earth is dependent upon it.
Ocean Alliance believes that the oceans and its marine inhabitants are a common, unique and irreplaceable asset of humanity. We believe that conservation should be a 'state of mind'. We try to facilitate this process by linking the frontiers of marine science to educational institutions and homes around the world. We aspire to overcome obstacles to change, by sharing resources at an international level, realizing that a more informed and active society is a precondition to positive change and a necessity for a more responsive and coherent system of ocean governance.
Credentials
* Ocean Alliance has been a global leader in whale research and conservation since 1970 when it was founded as The Long Term Research Institute.
* Ocean Alliance staff and students have been pioneers of many of today's research methodologies that are used worldwide to study live cetaceans.
* Ocean Alliance runs the longest study based on recognized individual whales, the southern right whale--among the most endangered of the great whales.
* Ocean Alliance runs an established network of professional contacts and affiliations, which make possible unique collaborations with the some of the world's leading scientists.
* Ocean Alliance’s has been involved at every level of involvement in award winning films, TV, an IMAX film and other educational, media-related efforts.
* Ocean Alliance has been featured in over forty documentaries and has won numerous awards and honors for such films.
* Ocean Alliance continues to be influential at international conferences and meetings.
* Ocean Alliance founder, Roger Payne, co-discovered in 1967 that humpback whales sing songs.
* Ocean Alliance founder, Roger Payne discovered that blue and fin whales make sounds that can carry across oceans.
* Ocean Alliance is generating innovative, groundbreaking, multi-ocean initiatives such as The Voyage of the Odyssey.
