GOES (Global Oceanic Environmental Survey) Foundation

About us

The GOES Foundation (Global Oceanic Environmental Survey) will mobilise its ethical, scientific, economic and political influence to create ecologically sustainable, healthy oceans.
Copepods are marine zooplankton that are used as indicator species to determine the health and status of the marine ecosystem. At Goes Foundation we are taking it one stage further by chemical analysis of the organisms for priority chemicals, the information will be used to raise awareness and hopefully effect change.
Copepod is the research vessel for the Goes Foundation, the purpose of Copepod is to collect samples of marine plankton, including copepods. for priority chemical analysis; We also provide plankton sampling equipment to yachts crossing oceans, there is a lack of information on oceanic micro plastic and priority chemicals.

The aim of GOES is to help collect this information and then evaluate the implication on productivity and stability of the oceanic ecosystem.

GOES is working worldwide to halt the poisoning of the oceans by advocating that we should all take a non-toxic approach to how we live: design out and ban all toxic chemicals, hazardous waste and plastics. By preventing toxic chemicals entering the ecosystem, we can accelerate the recovery of the plankton, health of the oceans and start absorbing more carbon dioxide out from the atmosphere.
Global Oceanic Environmental Survey is our practical and immediate response to the often financially, logistically challenging scientific surveys. By harnessing the ocean-loving enthusiasm of the international sailing community and providing them with plankton sampling kits, GOES will collect thousands of vitally important samples of plankton from remote places all around the globe for toxic chemical analysis.

Our work:
• Education: Through public awareness and easy access educational and learning resources, GOES inspires, mobilises and supports adults and children to change the way they live, and to choose the least toxic products to eat, clean or use in the shower.
• Advocacy: GOES exists to communicate the urgent need for a change in the global procurement and use of ocean toxic chemicals at every level of society. By engaging with key players in industry, government, science, media and education, we equip those who can make industrial and social change with the information they need to make informed decisions.
• Sampling: It is the ocean sailors around the globe who traverse the open seas who make the GOES project utterly unique. They are at the heart of our research community and their contribution to the GOES metadata which will inform us on the presence of specific persistent chemicals.

Howard Dryden is the Chief Scientific Officer of GOES (Global Oceanic Environmental Survey) Foundation.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.