In 2025, we moved decisively from exposing environmental harm to embedding accountability in policy, enforcement, and decision-making. We reflect on last year’s accomplishments in our 2025 annual report, which shows SkyTruth delivered its strongest year of conservation impact yet. Our technology and insights supported advocates, journalists, governments, and researchers in over 30 countries—reinforcing SkyTruth’s strategic role in global environmental accountability. Take a look: our 2025 annual report is now available on our recently refreshed website.
Join us for the next webinar in our quarterly series!
We'll be highlighting the annual report and taking a look at the current state of our tools and technology with our new CTO. Register for it here—a link to a recording will be sent out to those unable to attend.
Meet Karl Wurster, our new CTO
Karl stepped into the role of SkyTruth’s chief technology officer this spring, bringing 18 years of experience at USAID, where he applied geospatial technologies around the world. In our latest blog post, we spoke with Karl to learn about his vision for the way forward in conservation and how he finds hope through collaboration and collective action.
SkyTruth in Action
Legal Ocean Watch International Seminar
Impact Analyst Bimini Horstmann traveled to Panama City, Panama, to represent SkyTruth at the Legal Ocean Watch International Seminar, a gathering of civil society organizations, government authorities, and ocean governance experts from across Latin America.
The event, organized by ONG FIMA (Chile) and partners in Panama, Mexico, and Peru, focused on the use of satellite monitoring data as evidence in legal actions against illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.
Bimini presented SkyTruth's Cerulean to attendees in a legal enforcement context and led a workshop exploring how tools like Cerulean could expand the program's scope beyond fisheries into oil pollution monitoring.
Global Fishing Watch Board Meeting
Our relationship with Global Fishing Watch remains strong through shared board representation, and we had a productive week at their recent board meeting in Toronto.
Our technical collaborations continue to yield groundbreaking work. Through Global Fishing Watch's Ocean Open Project, we have access to invaluable global AIS datasets—over 50 million broadcast points daily—that enable our Cerulean platform to identify vessels and infrastructure responsible for oil pollution.
From its early days, when we partnered with Google and Oceana to turn technological innovation into meaningful conservation action in fisheries, to a global transparency platform that has revolutionized ocean conservation, Global Fishing Watch demonstrates how innovative partnerships can transform environmental protection.
