GORI becomes a member of SeaAhead BlueTech Innovation. SeaAhead is about venture innovation for the ocean. The stresses on the world’s oceans are growing. Global populations are approaching 8 billion people – and 40% of them live near the coast, mostly in cities. At the same time, standards of living globally are rising, bringing many people out of poverty through continued industrialization. This combination of factors presents an acute need, as well as an opportunity, for scalable new technologies and ventures to improve ocean sustainability.