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Top 25 Oceanographic research centers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,397 oceanographic research centers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 41,903 professional contacts across them, including 11,277 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Rio De Janeiro the largest hub.
This list covers oceanographic research centers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for oceanographic research centers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest oceanographic research centers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,031 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shearwater is a global marine geoscience and technology business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 783 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Institute of Marine Research (IMR) is one of the biggest research institute of its kind in Europe, with over employees.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 698 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As the Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, the Alfred Wegener Institute is primarily active in the cold and temperate regions of the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 674 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Ruđer Bošković Institute is regarded as Croatia’s leading scientific institute in the natural and biomedical sciences as well as marine and environmental research, owing to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 638 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In a constantly changing market environment, Kongsberg Discovery is serving the ocean space from the deepest sea to the outer space.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 573 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MARIN is a globally recognised top institute for hydrodynamic and nautical research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 472 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC) is a research centre on climate science and policy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 453 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1955, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium is an independent, nonprofit 501(c)3 research organization based in Sarasota, Fla, with additional field stations in eastern…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 438 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The New England Aquarium is a catalyst for global change through public engagement, commitment to marine animal conservation, leadership in education, innovative scientific…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 423 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 421 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel is one of the world's leading institutions in ocean research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 377 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mission: Knowing the Seas to safeguard our future The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (or NIOZ Sea Research), is the national oceanographic institute and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 371 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La misión del Invemar es realizar investigación básica y aplicada de los recursos naturales renovables y del medio ambiente en los litorales y ecosistemas marinos y oceánicos de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 368 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Missions - Réalisations de diagnostics sur les ressources halieutiques et leurs systèmes d'exploitation- Etude du fonctionnement des écosystèmes marins et littoraux- Surveillance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 309 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), es un Centro Nacional del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), dependiente del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 300 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) is a global organization that develops science and advice to support the sustainable use of the oceans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 298 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SINTEF Ocean conducts research and innovation related to ocean space.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 270 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AZTI is a #science and #technology centre specialising in the #marine environment and #food that develops high-impact transformation projects with organisations aligned with the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 269 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OGS is a public internationally oriented research Institute financed by the Italian Ministry of University and Research - MUR, which performs research studies turned to the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 239 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM, Institute of Marine Sciences in English) is the fourth-largest research institute of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 230 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Genavir est une compagnie maritime opérant les navires de la Flotte Océanographique Française.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 228 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1904 to promote exploration “by all means possible,” The Explorers Club is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of field research…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MBARI is a nonprofit research institution where scientists and engineers work together to explore and study the sea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 201 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA) is an environmental research center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: oceanographic research centers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names oceanographic research centers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of oceanographic research centers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name oceanographic research centers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Oceanographic research centers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among oceanographic research centers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for oceanographic research centers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “oceanographic research centers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names oceanographic research centers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among oceanographic research centers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 11,277 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Oceanographic research centers by location
9 lists · largest firstEvery Oceanographic research centers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Oceanographic research centers based in the United States301
- Oceanographic research centers based in France125
- Oceanographic research centers based in Brazil60
- Oceanographic research centers based in Canada54
- Oceanographic research centers based in the United Kingdom53
- Oceanographic research centers based in Spain50
- Oceanographic research centers based in Australia41
- Oceanographic research centers based in Chile36
- Oceanographic research centers based in Norway30
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names oceanographic research centers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many oceanographic research centers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,397 oceanographic research centers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Shearwater Geoservices, headquartered in Laksevag, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most oceanographic research centers?
The United States leads with 301 companies, followed by France (125) and Brazil (60). Every oceanographic research centers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most oceanographic research centers?
Rio De Janeiro leads with 17 headquartered companies, followed by Paris (14) and Cape Town (11).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 11,277 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,397 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.