# Revolutionizing Ocean Data: Scaling Climate Solutions with Allan Adams of Aquatic Labs

- Show: [Hardware to Save a Planet](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet)
- Published: 2025-02-13
- Length: 54m
- Episode: 72
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-02-13-revolutionizing-ocean-data-scaling-climate-solutions-with-allan-adams-of-aquatic
- Listen: https://podcasts.fame.so/e/r8km30r8-revolutionizing-ocean-data-allan-adams

## Summary

Allan Adams, founder and CEO of Aquatic Labs, explains how his company is building scalable sensors to measure ocean alkalinity, a critical metric for verifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). He details the transition from traditional, expensive laboratory titration to a handheld device that generates reagents on-chip to perform in-situ titration. Adams discusses the business model of selling verified data streams rather than just hardware, and the strategic challenge of scaling manufacturing before the carbon market matures.

## Chapters

- [0:39](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-02-13-revolutionizing-ocean-data-scaling-climate-solutions-with-allan-adams-of-aquatic#t=39) Introduction: Allan Adams and Aquatic Labs
- [3:03](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-02-13-revolutionizing-ocean-data-scaling-climate-solutions-with-allan-adams-of-aquatic#t=183) From Theoretical Physics to Ocean Tech
- [8:07](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-02-13-revolutionizing-ocean-data-scaling-climate-solutions-with-allan-adams-of-aquatic#t=487) The Problem with Ocean Measurement
- [15:27](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-02-13-revolutionizing-ocean-data-scaling-climate-solutions-with-allan-adams-of-aquatic#t=927) Why Alkalinity Matters for Carbon Sequestration
- [23:58](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-02-13-revolutionizing-ocean-data-scaling-climate-solutions-with-allan-adams-of-aquatic#t=1438) The On-Chip Titration Sensor
- [31:18](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-02-13-revolutionizing-ocean-data-scaling-climate-solutions-with-allan-adams-of-aquatic#t=1878) Scaling and Field Pilots
- [37:31](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-02-13-revolutionizing-ocean-data-scaling-climate-solutions-with-allan-adams-of-aquatic#t=2251) Business Model: Selling Verified Data
- [43:54](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-02-13-revolutionizing-ocean-data-scaling-climate-solutions-with-allan-adams-of-aquatic#t=2634) Market Outlook and Advice

## Topics

- [Materials & manufacturing processes](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/materials-and-processes)
- [Pricing, margins & unit economics](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/pricing-and-unit-economics)
- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)
- [Direct-to-consumer & e-commerce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/direct-to-consumer)
- [Validation & product-market fit](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/validation-and-product-market-fit)
- [Energy & climate tech](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/energy-and-climate-tech)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- Aquatic Labs (company)
- Synapse (company)
- MIT (company)
- Woods Hole (company)
- Frontier (company)
- Stripe (company)
- Microsoft (company)
- Yardstick (company)
- Carbon Run (company)
- Calcaria (company)
- Argo float (product)
- CTD (tool)

## Related episodes from other shows

- [What climatetech can learn from the oceans](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/catalyst/2022-10-13-what-climatetech-can-learn-from-the-oceans) (Catalyst)
- [ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Climeworks: Jan Wurzbacher](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2023-03-30-icymi-hibt-lab-climeworks-jan-wurzbacher) (How I Built This)
- [The challenges of building a carbon removal portfolio](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/catalyst/2024-02-29-the-challenges-of-building-a-carbon-removal-portfolio) (Catalyst)
- [Growing the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) market](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/catalyst/2022-05-05-growing-the-carbon-dioxide-removal-cdr-market) (Catalyst)
- [HIBT Lab! Climeworks: Jan Wurzbacher](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2022-06-30-hibt-lab-climeworks-jan-wurzbacher) (How I Built This)

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