EarthCheck & CoralWatch
CoralWatch is a non-profit organisation built on a
research project at the University of Queensland in Brisbane,
Australia. They have developed an inexpensive, simple, non-invasive
method for the monitoring of coral bleaching, and assessment of
coral health. CoralWatch's Coral Health Chart is basically a series
of sample colours, with variation in brightness representing
different stages of bleaching/recovery, based on controlled
experiments. It is their aim to both provide a scientific tool and
increase awareness about global warming by demonstrating one of its
devastating effects.
Help by using the CoralWatch Do it Yourself Kit to
monitor your local reefs, or any that you visit. You can
conduct a survey anywhere!
Click here to see a map of existing
CoralWatch surveys.
Languages Available:
English
Spanish
German
French
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Bahasa Indonesia
Contact Us
To
find out more contact the team here at EarthCheck info@earthcheck.org or at
CoralWatch info@coralwatch.org
PADI Speciality
CoralWatch, with the help of PADI instructors Chris
Roelfsema and Diana Kleine, has developed a PADI approved
'CoralWatch Coral Health Chart
Distinctive Specialty' specialty in conjunction with Project AWARE,
so your teams can teach, dive and certify your students/guests in
coral monitoring and data collection.
This Distinctive Specialty course highlights the impact of
coral bleaching and provides students with the knowledge and skills
needed to identify coral health and record data. The specialty is
aimed at snorkelers and divers who like to get recognition for
their gained knowledge and skills, as it is not a requirement to do
the surveys.
