The TerraMar Project, United States The TerraMar Project was founded on 26 September 2012 at the Blue Ocean Film Festival and Conservation Conference in
Monterey, California, and focused on the 64% of the ocean that lies outside any single country's jurisdiction. Their mission was to create a "global ocean community" based around the idea of shared ownership of the
global commons, also known as the high seas or
international waters. In 2014, on behalf of the TerraMar Project, Maxwell gave a lecture at the
University of Texas at Dallas and later that year, a
TEDx talk, about the importance of ocean conservation. Maxwell also spoke at the
United Nations as the founder of the TerraMar Project. Maxwell presented at the
Arctic Circle Assembly in
Reykjavík, Iceland in 2013. Scott Borgerson, listed on TerraMar's board of directors for 2013, appeared with Maxwell at the Arctic Circle conference. Tax documents for US organization the TerraMar Project consistently list Ghislaine Maxwell as the organization's President. The TerraMar Project's address was in New York City for
Form 990 tax filings from 2012 through 2015, with later filings showing a
Woburn, Massachusetts address for 2016 and 2017.
The New York Times reported that TerraMar gave out no money in grants between 2012 and 2017 and that it was described as having unusually high accounting and legal fees for an organization of its size. The maritime executive who made the requests stated that "My impression was that TerraMar as a whole was pretty hollow", and that "It seemed like Brian was the entire organization." During 2018, the organization had spent $5,365 for professional fees, $9,380 for website development, $11,157 for advertising, and $270 of bank fees, but it spent nothing toward program services.
TerraMar (UK) TerraMar (UK) was a separate
private limited company in the United Kingdom. The application for the UK organization to be officially closed was made on 4 September 2019, with the first notice in
The London Gazette made on 17 September 2019. The company was listed as active, with a Salisbury address, until the company was listed as officially dissolved on 3 December 2019. On 29 December 2021, Maxwell was convicted on five of six charges. == Organization ==