🌱 Restoration

Global Marine Ecosystem Restoration

Scalable blueprint for underwater mapping, restoration, and conservation impact measurement.

About Marine Ecosystems

Standardized Protocols

Establishing consistent methodologies for marine restoration enables comparison of results and scaling of successful approaches across different regions.

Impact Measurement

Comprehensive metrics and monitoring systems track biodiversity recovery, habitat health, and ecosystem services to quantify conservation success.

Scalable Framework

The model can be adapted to any marine ecosystem type, from coral reefs to kelp forests, enabling global application of proven restoration techniques.

Global Coordination

Connecting restoration projects worldwide facilitates knowledge sharing, best practice dissemination, and coordinated action on ocean conservation.

Problem Statement

Challenge

Marine restoration projects worldwide lack standardized methodologies, making it difficult to compare results, scale successful approaches, or measure true conservation impact across different regions and ecosystems.

Impact

Without standardized approaches, restoration efforts are inefficient, difficult to fund, and cannot be effectively scaled. This limits our ability to address the global marine biodiversity crisis at the pace and scale required.

Solution

Our Global Restoration Model provides a comprehensive, standardized framework that can be adapted to any marine ecosystem, enabling consistent measurement, comparison, and scaling of restoration efforts worldwide.

Project Locations

Global Coordination Center - San Diego

Coordinates: 32.7157°, -117.1611°

Primary research and coordination facility developing and refining the global restoration framework based on data from restoration sites worldwide.

Pilot Implementation Sites

Coordinates: 0°, 0°

Network of 15 pilot sites across different ocean basins and ecosystem types, from coral reefs to kelp forests, testing and validating the restoration model.

Milestones & Datapoints

Project Start

Completed

Global Restoration Framework Project Intention

Comprehensive blueprint outlining scalable methodologies for underwater mapping, restoration implementation, and conservation impact measurement worldwide.

Document Type

Framework Document

File Size

3.7 MB

Status

Available

Download

February 2023

Completed