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Reef Check empowers people to save our reefs and oceans. Let’s work together to create a sustainable future through education, research, and conservation. Join us in our mission. We’re a team!
Every year, we train thousands of citizen scientist volunteers to survey the health of tropical coral reefs around the world and kelp forest ecosystems along the entire coast of California.
Learn MoreReef Check has coordinators, teams, and EcoDiver training facilities in countries around the world. Since the first Reef Check coral reef monitoring survey in 1997, our EcoDivers have completed over 15,000 surveys in 102 countries and territories. Our initiative is built on over 20 years of global reef health data.
Learn MoreLingcod are ferocious predators with big mouths and lots of very sharp teeth. Usually seen in Northern California, they can grow to be around five feet long!
Keep up with Reef Check! Get the latest news and information about how we’re contributing to the global effort to save and preserve coral reefs and kelp forests.
Reef Check’s Kelp Forest Monitoring training classes for 2023 are now open for registration, providing nine opportunities in California, Oregon and Washington for divers to get involved as citizen scientists!…
Reef Check is rallying behind the Kelp Forest Alliance who have created a global challenge to restore one million hectares of lost underwater forest by 2040, called the Kelp Forest…
Reef Check is asking for your help! Check out our Experiment.com campaign to help us with restoration monitoring in Northern California. Since 2014, more than 96% of bull kelp in…
Reef Check is honored to be chosen as one of three key partners through 1% for the Planet Member Sway, who creates seaweed-based replacements for single-use plastic packaging. Sway balances…
Reef Check's tropical program is divided into regions such as the Indo-Pacific, Caribbean and the Red Sea. Find out more about our protocol here.
Become a Reef Check member or volunteer your time. You can even join our Adopt-A-Reef program and support our community-based monitoring and conservation of our coral reefs and kelp forests. Like the ocean, our opportunities to get involved are endless.