COAST Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies
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The Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies (COAST) showcases the people, ideas, businesses and communities driving innovation in Pacific Canada's sustainable blue economy. Brought to you by the South Island Prosperity Partnership network.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes ocean innovation concrete by tracing engineering ideas through regulation, venture building, field deployment and public communication.
COAST Talks Podcast follows ocean technology from the workshop to the water, using interviews to connect engineering with the work of building a viable venture.
An underwater drone inspects a ship's hull; you get the fuel-use estimate along with the pictures.
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A practical look at how offshore wind gets built, and why BC's blue economy should care.
Coast Talks treats the conversation as a practical look at the machinery behind marine renewables installation, using the Netherlands and other European hubs to show how offshore wind took shape through contractors, shipyards, ports, and universities.
A calm founder story about commercialization, patents, and the less glamorous mechanics of building something real.
Paige Whitehead's Luxbio story takes a measured look at what it means to commercialize luminescence while still building the company around it.
A practical look at hull-cleaning robots as fuel, emissions, and biosecurity infrastructure.
COAST Talks focuses on the practical side of ocean innovation: ship hull cleaning as a fuel, emissions, and invasive-species issue all at once.
A grounded look at a broad, learning-by-doing career that connects ocean science with science communication and mixed-sector work.
COAST Talks presents Maranke Harris as an award-winning deep sea scientist with a path that runs through climate engineering and intergovernmental multivessel research expedition planning.
Accounting practice, policy, and software in context.
Research-backed context for business technology leaders.
Odd questions, followed patiently down to the incentives.
Jason Goldsworthy interviews Joost Remmer from TWD about engineering innovations for marine renewables.
Jason Goldsworthy opens by placing COAST inside BC's blue economy.
Maranke Harris, a deep-sea scientist and founder of The Imaginative Scientist, discusses her research on hydrothermal vents, drug discovery from deep-sea microbes, and her journey into science communication.
Wojtek Klaptuc, CEO of Offshore Designs, discusses how robotic ship hull cleaning improves fuel efficiency, reduces emissions, and prevents invasive species spread.
COAST turns the microphone inward here.
COAST Talks features Rana Chavoshi, co-founder of FICO Technologies, on replacing petroleum-based agricultural plastics with seaweed-derived biomaterials.
Martin Stewart says autonomous ferries could replace fixed schedules with frequent service across Vancouver's underused waterways.
More than 70% of macro plastic in the ocean is ghost fishing gear, and it kills 5 to 30% of harvestable fish globally.