About Ocean Digest

The Ocean Society of India (OSI) is a professional society comprises of Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists from various academic institutions, research laboratories, scientific organizations, industries, and other related bodies in the field of Ocean Sciences, Engineering, Technology, and allied fields. The society has life members all over the country with local chapters at Cochin, Goa, Chennai, Pune, Delhi-NCR, Kharagpur, Vizag and Ahmedabad.

The mission of the OSI is to provide a forum for sharing the knowledge and experience of individuals, research institutions, and industrial organizations working in the broad area of Ocean Sciences, Engineering, Technology, and allied fields. The motto of OSI is to inspire working professionals, researchers, students, and to empower the community to conserve and sustainably use the oceans and its resources.

The society promotes knowledge dissemination through educational programmes, awareness campaigns, ocean conservation, success stories, and good practices. The society confers the veterans who have largely contributed to the various fields of ocean sciences and technology with various awards such as the OSI fellow and several awards during every biennial OSI conference OSICON. The society equally encourages the young researchers through the best dissertation, best PhD thesis, and best paper awards.

The registered office of the OSI is at Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology (CMLRE), Kochi.
The contact details of the President and General Secretary of the Society are osipresident2024@gmail.com and osi.secretary@gmail.com