by Chrissy Very | Oct 10, 2026 | community, conservation, coral, ocean, oceans
Andrea Calix traded volunteer hours for dive training on Roatán. Now she monitors the reef she hopes her daughter will inherit. A volunteer records data along a transect during a reef survey. Ask Andrea Calix why community members should be the ones collecting...
by Chrissy Very | Oct 9, 2026 | community, conservation, coral, film festival, oceans
A new short film follows the volunteer divers who monitor coral reefs in Bahía de Banderas, on Mexico’s Pacific coast where our Latin American reef network started in 2020. Our new short film follows a coral reef monitoring team in Bahía de Banderas, on the...
by Chrissy Very | Sep 8, 2026 | community, conservation, coral, women
This photograph from Roatán shows a team loading dive tanks onto a boat before a reef monitoring run. Every person in the frame is a woman. It isn’t a staged shot, and in Honduras, it isn’t unusual anymore. Reef monitoring is not a one-time activity. It...
by Chrissy Very | Jul 15, 2026 | coral
With Adventure Scientists, local communities in Latin America are building one of the largest coordinated coral reef monitoring networks in the world. With more than 2,300 reef censuses completed across Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Mexico, this effort is...
by Adventure Scientists | Sep 11, 2025 | Applications, coral
Coral Reef Monitoring and Restoration Coral Reef Monitoring and RestorationDate of BirthWhat country do you live in:Please select...ColombiaCosta RicaHondurasMexicoUnited States of AmericaAfghanistanAland IslandsAlbaniaAlgeriaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntarcticaAntigua and...
by Ricky Jones | Nov 27, 2023 | adventure scientists, biodiversity, climate change, coral, Scuba Diving
Coral reef bleaching is undoubtedly one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time. Reefs are the most biodiverse of all marine ecosystems, harboring an estimated 25% of all marine species despite covering less than 1% of the ocean floor. They are among the...
