Zoom Webinar: “The Allen Coral Atlas: A new map for coral conservation”

About This Event

The Allen Coral Atlas (http://allencoralatlas.org) partnership uses high-resolution satellite imagery and advanced analytics to map and monitor the world’s coral reefs, creating unprecedented global coverage. As the Atlas develops maps of benthic habitat and reef geomorphology regionally and then globally, the field engagement component of the partnership seeks to identify and enable users of the Atlas to achieve conservation results (e.g., through marine spatial planning or other efforts).

In this webinar, field engagement team members will share the vision behind the Atlas, review the technology being used to create it, introduce the tool’s functionality, and present use cases where the Atlas has created impact.

The speakers are:

• Ms. Brianna Bambic, who manages the Field Engagement team for the Allen Coral Atlas and an expert in coastal and marine management, and outreach with more than 700 dives and a past geographic focus of the Caribbean and Indonesia; and

• Ms. Zoe Lieb, project coordinator on the Field Engagement team for the Allen Coral Atlas. Her expertise includes program development, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and community-supported conservation strategies.