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

https://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

Task: Current Atlas Partner

organisation

Planet

Task: Current Atlas Partner

organisation

Coral Reef Alliance

Task: Current Atlas Partner and founding partner

organisation

University of Queensland

Task: Current Atlas Partner and founding partner

organisation

Vulcan Inc

Task: Current Atlas partner and founding partner

organisation

Lyda Hill Philanthropies

Task: Funding partner

organisation

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

Task: Funding partner

organisation

NOAA Coral Reef Watch