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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 West Coast of North America.
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 17,000 surveys in 102 countries and territories. Our initiative is built on over 25 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 Réunion, a chapter of Reef Check France in the south-west Indian Ocean, is very concerned by the most severe bleaching ever encountered in Réunion during the first months…
Since 2022 Reef Check has been participating in the transboundary Kelp Node group based in the Pacific Northwest that brings together kelp practitioners comprised of First Nations stewards, researchers, managers,…
Reef Check Baja has completed its second round of kelp forest monitoring training in Ensenada, Baja California! Reef Check’s staff instructors Jessica Pantoja and Dan Abbott, along with our partners…
Biosphere Expeditions is heading back to the Maldives 4–10 October and 11–17 October 2025 for its twelfth annual expedition, and you're invited to be part of the action! In partnership…
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.