Jarrah Orphin grew up surfing and building things, so naturally he studied Ocean Engineering followed by a PhD in Maritime Engineering specializing in wave energy technology, at the Australian Maritime College. Since leaving academia he has worked as a lead test and control engineer developing a grid-scale wave energy technology in the UK; run an ocean research and engineering consultancy; founded a venture-backed ocean tech startup in California; and is now at Sofar Ocean helping scientists, engineers, and governments collect ocean data at scale.
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