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Top 25 Oceanographic research stations worldwide
RevenueBase identified 395 oceanographic research stations worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 18,193 professional contacts across them, including 5,851 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Plouzane the largest hub.
This list covers oceanographic research stations 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 stations 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 stations worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 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 | 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. | |||||
| 3 | 453 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 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. | |||||
| 10 | 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. | |||||
| 11 | 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. | |||||
| 12 | 164 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nuestra Unidad forma parte de un visionario programa para descentralizar y promover el desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Tecnología en nuestro país, coadyuvando al desarrollo regional.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) is the coordination and information platform for marine scientific research in Flanders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ocean Networks Canada monitors the east and west coasts of Canada and the Arctic, collecting real-time, open data that deliver solutions for science, society, and industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The microbial ocean is the largest – yet least explored – natural resource on the planet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OceanX is a mission to explore the unseen ocean, map uncharted areas of the world, observe rare deep-sea creatures, pursue scientific and medical breakthroughs, and then bring all…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sea-Bird Scientific exists to help scientists know the world, and shape policy that changes it for the better.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) pioneers collaborative solutions to global ocean challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has the main objective to contribute to the advancement of academic research in addition to the improvement of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM) est un organisme pluridisciplinaire dans le domaine des sciences de la mer et du littoral dont les activités sont centrées…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR) is a french marine biology and oceanography research and teaching center.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TDI-Brooks is a 27-year-old research and service company specializing in geotechnical and offshore survey projects; multi-disciplinary oceanographic and environmental projects…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mercator Ocean International is a global leader in digital oceanography and ocean forecasting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Schmidt Ocean Institute supports research and exploration projects that help expand the understanding of the world's oceans through technological advancements, data-rich…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) is a multipurpose service centre with novel land-based and sea-based infrastructures to support research, technology…” 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 stations. 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 stations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of oceanographic research stations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name oceanographic research stations. 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 stations 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 stations, 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 stations are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “oceanographic research stations”. 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 stations), 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 stations, 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, 5,851 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 stations by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Oceanographic research stations list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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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 stations, 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 stations are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 395 oceanographic research stations 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 stations?
The United States leads with 94 companies, followed by France (40). Every oceanographic research stations list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most oceanographic research stations?
Plouzane leads with 7 headquartered companies, followed by Seattle (7) and Halifax (4).
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 5,851 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 395 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.