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“Our mission is to connect the world’s oceans to contribute to a more sustainable future. That’s really important contribute to a more to us in everything we do,” said Janssen. “We are a company sustainable future. That’s that does things at scale, and we are hyper-focused on collect- ing as much data as we can, as quickly as we can, complement- really important to us in ing other organizations, both government and (commercial).” everything we do.”

That said, he knows the job exceeds the bounds of any one company or organization. “There is so much need for more

Tim Janssen, CEO information,” Janssen said. “We can’t do everything ourselves, & Co-Founder, Sofar neither can anybody else. It’s really about helping each other

Ocean, holding one of his and trying to accelerate things forward.”

Spotter Buoys

For its part, Sofar will continue to build scalable networks to gather information premised on its Sofar Spotter buoy. Today,

Sofar Ocean has more than 2,500 sensors deployed world- wide, an array that provides more than 200,000 daily updates on ocean weather globally, helping forecasters to improve their forecasts by up to 40%.

While Janssen admits that weather models do a reason- ably good job, the key to making them even better lies in the amount and the quality of information being put in. “I think step one is acknowledging that models are only as good as the data you put into it,” he said. “Assuming that the model can do that reasonably well, the way to make them better founda- tionally is put more information into them; that’s why we are hyper focused on creating large networks of sensors … [the

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