Webinar: Transforming Coral Reef Monitoring with MERMAID
Date/Time: Thursday, February 20, 2025 11:00 AM EST
Presented by:
- Dr. Emily Darling, Director of Coral Reef Conservation and Co-Founder of MERMAID, Wildlife Conservation Society
- Dr. Rita Bento, Research Associate, NYU Abu Dhabi
- Dr. Angelique Brathwaite, Science Director, Blue Alliance Marine Protected Areas
Description: Did you know that less than 15% of the world’s coral reefs have been monitored? This data gap makes it difficult to track changes and protect these critical ecosystems. Join us for an engaging webinar to explore MERMAID, a global platform for coral reef monitoring. Launched in 2018, MERMAID is now empowering over 2,000 scientists from 70+ organizations across 46 countries to collect, analyze, and act on coral reef data. By simplifying field data collection and analysis, MERMAID enhances workflow efficiency and enables rapid assessment of reef health. In this webinar, we’ll provide an overview of the MERMAID platform and highlight its application in two unique contexts:
- Centralizing coral reef data from the Arabian/Persian Gulf for global reporting
- Monitoring small-scale Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Philippines.
This webinar will offer valuable insights into how MERMAID is driving impactful coral reef conservation efforts worldwide and how as a manager it can help you improve your monitoring workflow. The webinar will last for one hour and the presentations will be followed by an open question-and-answer session. A recording of the webinar will be available on the Reef Resilience Network website and YouTube channel as well as at www.octogroup.org/webinars.
Hosted by: Reef Resilience Network and OCTO in collaboration with ICRI’s #ForCoral webinar series