0202410160044

Allen Coral Atlas Description: The Allen Coral Atlas, powered by Arizona State University, maps the world’s coral reefs and monitors their threats to provide actionable data and a shared understanding of coastal ecosystems.

The Allen Coral Atlas is a game-changing coral conservation tool powered by Arizona State University and developed in partnership with coral reef scientists, universities, NGOs, and private entities.

It's objective is to assist stakeholders ranging from local communities to regional and national governments to reach their coral reef conservation goals. With the Atlas, coral conservationists, reef managers, and scientists have access to information that has never before been available at this scale.
STARDIT ID: 0202410160044

Dates

State ongoing
Start 2017-01-01
Form updated 2024-10-17

Report authors

Håkon da Silva Hyldmo (link)
0000-0002-7514-6878
Main report author

Jack Nunn (link)
0000-0003-0316-3254
Checked report as part of project 'Improving Citizen Science to Benefit Society: A Discussion Paper' -https://stardit.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/0202407220511

Location

Global

URL

allencoralatlas.org

Aims

Map the world's coral reefs

Monitor threats to coral reefs

Provide actionable data to stakeholders for coral reef conservation

Keywords

Coral reefs

Mapping

Monitoring

Conservation

Policy

Category

research

Inputs

organisation

Arizona State University’s Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science

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Task: Current Atlas Partner

organisation

Planet

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Task: Current Atlas Partner

organisation

Coral Reef Alliance

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Task: Current Atlas Partner and founding partner

organisation

University of Queensland

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Task: Current Atlas Partner and founding partner

organisation

Vulcan Inc

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Task: Current Atlas partner and founding partner

organisation

Lyda Hill Philanthropies

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Task: Funding partner

organisation

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

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Task: Funding partner

organisation

NOAA Coral Reef Watch

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Task: Collaborating partner

organisation

Great Barrier Reef Foundation

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Task: Collaborating partner

organisation

Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation

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Task: Collaborating partner

organisation

MERMAID

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Task: Collaborating partner

organisation

National Geographic Society

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Task: Collaborating partner

organisation

The Nature Conservancy

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Task: Collaborating partner

organisation

Wildlife Conservation Society

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Task: Collaborating partner

organisation

World Wildlife Fund

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Task: Collaborating partner

organisation

Carnegie Science

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Task: Founding partner

organisation

Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology

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Task: Founding partner

Outputs and impacts

dataset (open)

Interactive map and dataset of coral reefs across the world

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Findability: https://allencoralatlas.org/atlas/#1.00/0.0000/-145.0000
Impact: Provides open data for policy-makers and other stakeholders to improve coral reef governance