Web Resources I Recommend

A few coral-reef websites, maps, and courses I think are worth your time.

Reef maps & data

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation has a great website featuring scientific data and educational tools. They produced detailed maps for many of the never-before-seen reefs we had the good fortune to dive during the “Global Reef Expedition,” and they keep adding data layers to those maps here: maps.lof.org/lof/.

Basic coral-reef knowledge

Educational tools on marine biology, with a focus on coral reefs
Thriving Corals — basic coral-reef ecology
UQ / WWF coral-reef ecology course on edX

Restoration & advanced topics

The Reef Resilience Network has created instructional videos on coral-reef restoration.

Reef map

COral Taxonomy

I cross-referenced presence-absence data from Corals of the World with records from Coral Traits, WoRld register of marine species (WORMS), the primary literature (a 37,000-PDF LLM), and my own data. Note that, since much of the taxonomy is in a state of flux, the species descriptions contain notes that indicate when a species name has been updated in recent years.