Sensors
Instruments in the water recording the conditions corals actually live in.
Data & Intelligence
To protect the reef,
you first have to
understand it.
Restoration needs evidence. We gather information, imagery and data so that what happens underwater becomes visible to the people who can act on it.
What we gather
The reef leaves a record. Most of it goes unread.
Temperature, water quality, coral condition, the slow change of a nursery over months — the reef is constantly producing information. Collecting it carefully is what turns restoration from intuition into practice.
Imagery
Photographic and video records that document how a site changes over time.
Observation
Field notes from divers and biologists, kept consistently enough to compare.
Data Coral
Observation
Reading the water itself
Conditions at the surface and in the water column shape everything that happens on the reef below. Recording them consistently is the first step towards understanding what a site is going through.
Imagery
Seeing what a site becomes
Repeat imagery of the same reef turns a single visit into a record. Over seasons and years, those images show recovery, loss and everything in between.
Fieldwork
Measurement where the coral grows
Instruments and observation placed directly among the colonies, so the data describes the reef as it is, not as a model assumes it to be.
Why it matters
Evidence is what makes restoration credible.
Reef restoration asks people to trust that work underwater is making a difference. Data is how that trust is earned — by partners funding the work, by institutions assessing it, and by the communities who depend on the reef.
It also makes the work better. What is measured can be questioned, compared and improved.
Help make
the reef legible.
Support the work of gathering evidence, or talk to us about monitoring a site.
