Summit to Sea Solutions, LLC, is a multidisciplinary advisory practice offering strategic and technical consulting in six climate-related practice areas.
What makes us unique: We combine deep scientific expertise with decades of successful, real-world experience in international climate diplomacy, marine logistics, polar military operations, and the design and management of multi-million-dollar projects focused on both carbon removal and adaptation.
Whether helping a Fortune 500 company or the leaders of a large philanthropy perform due diligence on natural climate solutions or carbon dioxide removal purchases — or co-developing a new, strategic decarbonization initiative with non-for-profit or government executives — we provide clients with direct, actionable, "bottom line up front" guidance that is always informed by scientific expertise and our knowledge of what works in the real world.
S2S is led by company founder and Chief Strategist Jamie Collins. In developing solutions for clients, Jamie draws on an unmatched combination of internationally-recognized expertise as an earth scientist and proven, "boots on the ground" experience as an executive, crisis manager for natural disasters, diplomat, marine operations professional and inspirational leader in government and the U.S. military. Working with clients within highly complex natural, engineered and human systems, Jamie draws on this combination to achieve successful outcomes and rapid, measurable results.
Jamie's academic credentials include a Ph.D. in chemical oceanography and climate science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, a master's degree in environmental science from the Yale School of the Environment and an undergraduate degree from Yale College. While at MIT, he earned an EPA STAR Graduate Fellowship and later served as a Moore/Sloan & Washington Research Foundation Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Science at the University of Washington. Jamie maintains an appointment as a Guest Investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and has authored or co-authored more than 30 scientific publications.
A respected international voice on science, ethics and policy surrounding marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) and other geoengineering technologies, Jamie has served on multiple expert-level panels and committees convened by the World Climate Research Programme, American Geophysical Union, and the U.S. National Science Foundation. He has served as an advisor for Verra, CarbonPlan, Isometric, U.S. Nature4Climate and the Beyond Alliance.
In a career that has spanned climate policy, fundamental oceanographic research, international diplomacy, global maritime operations, and U.S. military service, Jamie has served as a scientist at Environmental Defense Fund, a principal state and Federal official in charge of oil spill and disaster response operations, and, while on active duty with the U.S. Coast Guard, as Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché for the Eastern Caribbean. Jamie has also served as an adjunct professor in environmental science and management at Portland State University.
While at EDF, Jamie anchored a $25M interdisciplinary ocean research portfolio, helped raise more than $5M in independent funding and served as senior scientific and policy advisor to philanthropy, Federal government leaders and Fortune 500 business executives on maritime transportation sector climate initiatives, mCDR and other emerging negative emissions technologies.
As Senior Defense Offcial and Defense Attaché, Jamie served as principal military, maritime sector and climate change policy advisor to two U.S. Ambassadors and to the four-star military officer in charge of all U.S. military operations in the Western Hemisphere. He led a team of 12 personnel in administering a $21.2M defense and climate assistance portfolio for seven Small Island Developing States.
Jamie is a licensed merchant mariner (master, 100 tons, near coastal, with assistance towing endorsement), has spent over 800 days at sea as a U.S. Coast Guard officer and civilian oceanographer, and has been nationally certified as a Type 1 Incident Commander and Liaison Officer for management of the most complex human-caused and natural disasters. Jamie's scientific research as a climate scientist and oceanographer has taken him to Antarctica (three times) and throughout the world's oceans on various research vessels, where he has personally observed and studied the effects of a changing climate on dozens of different marine ecosystems.