Our Partners

We are supporting Coral Watch by sharing information about the health of the corals we sight during our surveys. CoralWatch is a global database designed by The University of Queensland. It allows scientists across the globe to contribute data that will help to increase our understanding of coral reefs and the impact of climate change and bleaching. Did you know that anyone can get involved with this amazing initiative by simply downloading the CoralWatch application on their smartphone or device? You do not need to be a coral expert to provide data! In 2002 CoralWatch designed the Coral Health Chart which standardizes color changes in coral providing an easy way for people to compare the color of the coral they see with those on the chart and share their findings via the CoralWatch app.

“No water, no life. No blue, no green.” It’s one of the famous quotes of Dr. Sylvia Earle, a world-renowned expert on marine biology. She holds the record for deepest walk on the sea floor and she was the first woman to lead the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Sylvia Earle is one of the greatest role models, not only due to her scientific achievements but also because she is a strong advocate for young women in the science fields. You can imagine how proud we are to be one of two hundred organizations that are supporting her organization Mission Blue. Mission Blue has brought together a global network of ocean conservation organizations that are working towards the common goal of restoring our planet’s blue heart. Their vision ‘to achieve 30% ocean protection by 2030’ is one that we don’t just support but hope to inspire many others to share too.

Reef Check is an organization that started in 1996 and is present in 82 countries (!) around the world. Reef Check was established in the USA to raise awareness on the importance of, and threats to, coral reefs. In order to assess the health of the reef, they developed a method called the Reef Check Monitoring Survey. We officially joined the Reef Check Network and all our scholarship candidates are certified as Reef Check Eco-divers by Reef Check Indonesia. This is really amazing as this certification program enables our superwomen to conduct their own Reef Check surveys and take an active role in conserving coral reefs. And as an extra bonus: with the data that our research team collects, we help Reef Check to understand and protect coral reefs around the world.

eOceans was founded by Dr. Ward-Paige’s. She believes that our ocean can be radically more exciting and valuable if we make faster, more informed, and collaborative decisions, and we couldn’t agree more! We share our data with Dr. Ward – Paige’s via the eOceans mobile app and platform. We love using her platform as it makes her expertise available to small businesses, explorers, researchers, and conservation projects like ours. We believe that Ocean science needs to keep up with business, society, and ocean change and eOceans is the platform that makes it happen.

Women in Ocean Science was founded by a fellow Shark Warrior and one of our ambassadors Mads St Clair. She created a global community to connect, celebrate and empower women in marine sciences. Whether you’re a marine biologist, researcher, student, oceanographer, engineer, chemist, or simply a girl who loves ocean science, Woman in Ocean Science is the place for you! Coral Catch and Women in Ocean Science are working together to empower women to have a career in marine science and offer them a platform with like-minded individuals.

One of the projects of Project Aware is Adopt A Dive Site. We adopted the dive site where our coral restoration project is located: Han’s Reef, on the north side of Gili Air. Minimum one time a week our research team does an underwater clean up dive and collects important information about underwater debris. Together we work towards implementing sustainable solutions to remove plastic from our oceans and prevent it from entering it in the first place.

Gili Eco Trust was founded in 2002, by one of our Coral Catch ambassadors Delphine Robbe, to protect coral reefs around the Gili islands from destructive fishing. The Gili Eco Trust has grown a lot since then and expanded its activities from marine conservation to waste management and sustainable eco-tourism. In 2004 Delphine started the Biorock project and nowadays manages more than 150 Biorock reefs around Gili Trawangan. During a masterclass, Delphine teaches our Coral Catch superwomen how to use the Biorock technology to create an artificial coral reef and what the advantages are of using this method. During their scholarship training, Delphine also shows our scholarship candidates several Biorock reefs and teaches them how to check the coral growth.

Reefy’s mission is to develop sustainable artificial reefs, which will not just act as a habitat for countless species of marine life but will also protect coastlines around the world, is extraordinary and gives the science community a great sense of optimism for the future of conservation of the marine environment. Leon Haines (Co-founder Reefy) is one of the scientific advisors of our Coral Catch Superwomen. He loves to share his knowledge on tropical coral reef restoration and artificial reef innovations and he ensures that the best available science is applied to our program. Reefy and Coral Catch will also collaborate in a pilot project where they test and monitor the ecological and hydrodynamical features of their artificial reef designs within the zones of the Gili Matra Marine Recreational reserve in the near future. We believe this collaborative pilot project will help advance knowledge to boost marine biodiversity and protect coastlines for a more sustainable future in the face of global climate change and sea-level rise.