Global Coral Bleaching Network

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The Allen Coral Atlas recently launched the world's first global satellite-based bleaching monitoring system for coral reefs, bringing new hope to conservation efforts, and we need your help building a consistent reporting mechanism and ground-truthing data.

Combined with Atlas reef extent, benthic, and geomorphic maps, the full suite of tools provides a comprehensive and unprecedented baseline map of coral reefs, giving scientists, policymakers, and the reef management community important information urgently needed for rapid response and conservation. Learn more at: https://bit.ly/33TICnT

This new bleaching tool pioneered was by Arizona State University, and the next step is for the Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) to bring together a global network of scientists and practitioners to build consensus around a common mechanism to report bleaching without changing the way monitoring programs operate. This tool provides detailed spatial information on where bleaching is occurring and its severity.

Please take a minute to complete this survey, and inform our efforts to build this new collaborative network. We will use this information to identify which bleaching methodologies are currently employed and to propose a validation metric that will improve the Atlas bleaching detection algorithms.

For more information regarding the bleaching network, please contact Andrea Rivera-Sosa, Project and Outreach Manager, at the Coral Reef Alliance, at arivera-sosa@coral.org.

Thank you for joining this new, innovative effort to save coral reefs

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This effort is part of the global partnership of the Allen Coral Atlas (Atlas), Arizona State University (ASU) Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science (GDCS), the University of Queensland (UQ), The National Geographic Society (NGS), Planet, Vulcan, Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Funding for this project is provided by the Paul Angell Family Foundation.

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Name *

Institution or Organization *

Please select the regions that best represent the locations where you currently monitor coral bleaching? Please use the following link of NOAA's-Coral Reef Watch Virtual Regions as a reference. https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/data.phpEastern Atlantic (Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe) *

Eastern Atlantic (Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe)

Florida (FL Keys and Southeast FL)

Gulf of Mexico (Flower Garden Banks, Veracruz, Yucatan Peninsula)

Northern Caribbean (Bahamas & Turks and Caicos)

Caribbean (Cuba, MAR region, Greater and Lesser Antilles)

Brazil

Eastern Pacific (El Salvador, Clipperton, Costa Rica, Panama, Galapagos)

Polynesia (Hawaiian Islands, NWHI, Line Islands, Samoas, Tonga, Austral Islands, Easter Island)

Micronesia (Northern Mariana, Guam, Palau, Wake, Johnston, Howland and Baker, Marshall)

Melanesia (Papua, Salomon, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Chesterfield islands)

East Asia (Japan, Taiwan, China, Vietnam)

South East Asia (Myanmar, Andaman, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore)

Coral Triangle (Phillipines, Sulawesi, Indonesia)

Great Barrier Reef (Torres Strait, North-Central-South GBR, Coral Sea Islands)

Australia (Christmas Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria, Western coast of Australia, Norfolk and more)

Middle East (Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Gulf of Suez)

South Asia (India, Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Chagos Archipelago, UK)

Western Indian Ocean (Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Seychelles, Comoros, Mozambique, Madagascar, South Africa, Mauritius and more)

Other:

Required

Is there a network response team or a group of stakeholders that you collaborate with to monitor coral bleaching?

Yes

Clear selection

What methods do you use to assess coral bleaching?

Belt transects

Line intercept transects

Point intercept

Photo-quadrats

Coral color health charts

Bardrop method

Visual estimations

Video

Manta Tows

Drones

Aerial Surveys

Fixed transects

Other:

Why do you prefer this method?

It's the method that my institution has been using long-term

Easy and geared towards citizen scientists

We receive funding for this method

Method is scientifically proven and used widely in the literature

Other:

Could you please share the name of the manual, website, DOI, or any other information you use to record coral bleaching?

What years have you conducted monitoring?

Historical/before 1997

1998-2004

2005-2014

2015-2021

Have you heard about the Allen Coral Atlas bleaching detection tool prior to this email?

Yes

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Do you think the Atlas bleaching detection tool can be beneficial to the work or monitoring that you conduct? If so, how?

What is your biggest constraint when monitoring coral bleaching?

Funding

Trained monitoring team

Logistics

Other:

Is there a particular area where you have observed massive bleaching and then observed recovery? Please mention if this is based on observation or if you know of a study conducted in the region.

Would you be interested in collaborating to ground-truth the bleaching alerts in your region?

Yes

Maybe

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