THE OCEAN COMMUNICATIONS CERTIFICATION PROGRAM - COMING FALL 2026
The first certification built for ocean communications.
Training that makes your ocean work impossible to ignore.
Research that changes a policy. A funding bid that wins on an undeniable case. A technology a coastal community actually adopts. A comms role that's a career, not a stopgap. And an ocean better off for all of it.
That's rarer than it should be, and not for lack of trying. What's missing is a standard for how ocean work gets communicated, and how the people doing it are trained. We're building that standard, and we want you to be part of it.
Ocean communications is held together by duct tape.
Most ocean communication is stitched together from whatever the person doing it happened to learn somewhere else. A dash of marketing here. A pinch of science communications there. No shared method, no standard, no way to tell what actually works.
So the same failures repeat. Research stalls at publication instead of reaching the people who can act on it. Funding bids lose to weaker projects with better stories. Comms roles go to whoever is available, not to whoever is skilled. And the work that could move the ocean forward gets treated as a cost to cut.
You've felt this. You do the work for the ocean, you do it well, and it still gets ignored. But it's not your fault or your failure; it's the absence of a standard.
Built for the people doing the communicating, and the organizations that depend on them.
Communications Professionals who want a real career in oceans
Researchers who want their work to be understood
Ocean Innovators who need to sell big ideas
Organizations that need their communication to drive real-world impact
Not-for-profits that need to generate support with limited resources
Why ocean communications needs a standard
> A shared method
A single method anyone working in oceans can learn and follow, so what one team figures out doesn't get reinvented by the next.
> Science that gets used
Research reaches the people who can act on it, in a form they can act on, instead of stalling at publication.
> A benchmark for skill
Ocean organizations know what to look for, comms people know what to demonstrate, and roles stop going to whoever happens to be available.
> Results you can defend
You can tell what worked and why, which means communications gets treated as a capability worth investing in rather than a cost to cut.
Science. Strategy. Story.
Ocean communication carries two jobs at once: moving your organization's goals and ocean impact forward together. Traditional marketing teaches strategy and story. Science communication teaches science and story. Neither is enough on its own.
Hitting your goals while furthering ocean impact needs all three, in every communication, every time. That is the standard we build into the program.
Science gives you truth. What's real, what matters, and the proof behind it.
Strategy gives you purpose. Who can act, what has to change and what success looks like.
Story gives you meaning. Why someone should care, and how they'll connect.
How it works
Step 1: Join the waitlist.
Get founding-cohort details and first access to the program before public launch.
Step 2: Enroll in the beta
When the program is ready, secure your place in the beta at you founding-cohort rate.
Step 3: Learn the method
Work through Science, Strategy, and Story with the people who built it.
The team behind the standard
We are Pisces Oceans, a women-led ocean consultancy working across science, strategy, and story with researchers, innovators, and conservation organizations around the world.
We built this method the hard way: on our own mistakes, lessons learned, and practices tested in real ocean projects, for the ocean industry, by the ocean industry.
Over 40 years experience in oceans and communications
