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Wetstone Exploration

We partner across the value chain to bring talent and capability to offshore minerals.

From planning campaign objectives to meet regulatory, resource, and environmentally driven goals through mission execution and post-campaign analysis

The Exploration Partner for
Governments & License Holders

01
Resource characterization
Mapping, modeling, and geotechnical assessment
02
Environmental baselining & monitoring
Physical, chemical, and biological ocean analysis
03
Permitting & Compliance
Combining best in class in techniques from offshore industries with new technology
SCIENCE

Cutting-edge technology to increase certainty, pull in timelines, and lower costs

Real-time AI

Cuts analysis from months to hours

Offshore Autonomy

Lower costs, scaled operations

Advanced Remote Sensing & Environmental Monitoring

Custom Exploration Equipment

Build for fast, low-cost exploration

Technology Partnerships

State-of-the-art capabilities

Predictive Resource Modelling

Speed up discovery with machine learning

16+
Years of
Experience
Wetstone Exploration has 16 years experience as Seafloor Investigations, whose customers include Lockheed Martin, Allseas, Temasek, and WHOI.

A proven track record with decades of experience delivering complex marine mineral exploration campaigns reliably at scale

Previous
Customers

Neptune
Mosaic Hydro Ltd
Ocean Floor Geophysical Ltd
TerraSond Ltd
AllSeas Ltd
Maersk
Ocean Infinity Inc
Blue Minerals Jamaica
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
Deep Submergence Lab
McGregor GeoScience Ltd
UNOLS - University Research Fleet
IIC Technologies Inc
Geomatics Data Solutions Inc
Lockheed Martin Corp
Seabed Resources Development Ltd
Ocean Minerals Singapore
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin (NOAA)
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
University of Washington
University of Tromsø / CAGE
University of Hawai'i / SOEST
Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST)
Nautilus
Fugro Inc
EGS Americas Inc
OUR TEAM

Exploration Leadership Team

Josh Broussard is the Head of Exploration at Wetstone. Josh is a technologist with a 20+ year track record delivering innovations in offshore exploration. As CTO of Ocean Infinity, Josh helped grow the company from fewer than 10 employees to over 600. Josh is an expert in unmanned systems, AI-based data processing, and remote communications for high-complexity, offshore environments.

Josh Broussard

Head of Exploration

Greg Kurras brings over 30 years of offshore exploration and seabed mapping experience to his role as Wetstone's Head of Exploration Services. As the founder of Seafloor Investigations, he spent his career pioneering technical approaches to ocean data acquisition and processing, producing resource assessments and environmental datasets for a broad range of academic, commercial, and government partners.

Greg Kurras

Head of Exploration Services

Jesse Baldwin leads Exploration Delivery at Wetstone. With over 25 years of experience at the forefront of offshore wind development and marine infrastructure, Jesse has contributed to some of the industry’s most significant milestones in the U.S. Most recently, Jesse was US Site Investigation Portfolio and Strategy Manager at Ørsted.

Jesse Baldwin

Head of Exploration Delivery

Dag Helland Hansen is a Senior Exploration Geologist at Wetstone. Dag has been working in natural resources exploration for the past 30 years, with a focus on Norwegian oil and gas both onshore and offshore. Dag has been working on electromagnetic exploration methods for seafloor massive sulfides for over a decade.

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Dag Helland-Hansen

Senior Exploration Geologist

Dr. Daniel Babin is an Exploration Geologist at Wetstone. Daniel received his PhD in geochemistry from Columbia University in 2023. His dissertation focused on modeling the presence of polymetallic nodules in the abyssal plains. Prior to Wetstone, Dan was the Head of Science at Sinkco Labs, a marine sediment carbon storage company.

Daniel Babin

Exploration Geologist

Dr. Caroline Gini is an Exploration Geologist at Wetstone. Caroline completed her PhD in Marine Geology at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador, where she focused on marine acoustics, using synthetic aperature sonar to study seafloor massive sulfide geochemistry. Previously, Caroline was a Sonar Data Scientist at Kraken Robotics.

Caroline Gini

Exploration Geologist

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