VOICEST e OECD produced a report in 2016 that fore-cast the ocean economy would grow from $1.5 trillion a year to $3 trillion a year by 2030a lot of really big changes that are happening across the globe, I started off like many oceanographers: in a completely whether that be the change in variability in our weather and different discipline. I’m an applied mathematician and that’s climate, right through to there is a major loss of biodiversity how I started. I was always interested in the sea since I was happening across the planet, both on land and in the ocean. brought up by the sea when I was a kid. I became interested in If we want to make sense of any of this global change,