Every month for ten years, volunteer divers have surveyed the same 38 reef sites with the same protocol: coral cover, fish counts, water temperature, disease flags. As of this week, the entire dataset is public — every survey, every site, every year.
Researchers at three universities already use the data, and the territory’s coastal zone office cited it in this year’s water quality rules. Opening it fully means a high schooler with a spreadsheet can ask the same questions a marine lab can.
The headline from the decade: reefs inside our restoration sites gained coral cover while unrestored control sites lost it. The full report ships with the dataset.
