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In this online resource section, we've collected links to some of the best coral reef and conservation resources on the web. If you would like to add or update resource information, please contact us.

Maps • Multimedia • Education • Research Data & Assessment • Sustainable LIving

Maps

World Resources Institute: Coral Reefs Classified by Potential Threats

Reef Ball Foundation: Threats to Coral Reefs Worldwide

NOAA: Coral Health and Monitoring Program collection

Reef Base: ReefGIS

Google Ocean: Learn more »

Multimedia

Visualization Theater - The World Ocean Observatory provides links to three-dimensionally rendered and animated presentations of data on the world's oceans, waterways, and water supplies.

ReefVid.org - Database of free coral reef video clips.

Coral Reef Multimedia Project - Video clips illustrate and explain coral reef dynamics and threats.

NOAA Coral Reef Conservation - Multimedia resources, including audio, video, photographs and an educational CD.

Education

NOAA Coral Reef Conservation, Educational Resources - Educational materials such as lesson plans and workbooks for science teachers.

Coral Literature, Education and Outreach (CLEO) Program - Educational modules developed primarily for middle school classes by NOAA.

CoralSee - An interactive, introductory guide to the Acropora or Staghorn corals of the world's coral reefs.

NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program - Provides basic information on coral reef ecosystems and background information on the administration's proposed reauthorization of the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000.

Reef Manager's Guide to Coral Bleaching - A downloadable guide produced by NOAA, the Australian Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, and the IUCN.

Research Data & Assessment

MPA Global - A searchable database of the world's marine protected areas.

Reef Base - Free and easy access to data and information on the location, status, threats, monitoring, and management of coral reef resources in more than 100 countries and territories.

NOAA Coral Reef Watch Program - Remote sensing and in-situ tools for near real-time and long term monitoring, modeling, and reporting of physical environmental conditions of coral reef ecosystems. Coral Reef Watch aims to assist in the management, study, and assessment of impacts of environmental change on coral reef ecosystems.

Online Access to Research in the Environment - Free access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature coordinated by United Nations Environment Programme, Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers.

World Ocean Database & World Ocean Atlas Series - The National Oceanographic Data Center archives and provides public access to global oceanographic and coastal data, products, and information.

Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef: A Vulnerability Assessment - A peer-reviewed publication compiled as a collaboration between the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and more than eighty leading climate and tropical marine experts.

IUCN Conservation Action Tools - Includes monitoring and assessment tools as well as the "Red List of Threatened Species" in English, French and Spanish. Threatened coral species have been listed since 2007.