Your All-in-One Coral Reef Data Solution

Streamline your coral reef monitoring with MERMAID. Whether working online or offline, MERMAID lets you manage your surveys, teams, and coral data, while visualizing key coral reef health indicators.

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Trusted by leading organizations

MERMAID offers free and open-source solutions built for enhancing coral reef monitoring

Collect data

MERMAID Collect

The MERMAID Collect app allows you to customize your project options and securely store your survey data, giving you the power to track the entire reef ecosystem, including benthic cover, fish populations, and bleaching events, in one place.

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Visualize & explore data

MERMAID Dashboard

Zoom into your reef data with the MERMAID Dashboard. Filter surveys, track key metrics, and identify trends. Share your insights globally. Explore real-time visualizations of coral reef ecosystems worldwide and discover compelling data stories.

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Analyze data

MERMAID R Package

Designed with researchers and analysts in mind, MERMAID streamlines your workflow. Gain valuable insights, create custom visualizations, and drive impactful conservation action.

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A powerful platform for quick, secure and actionable coral reef monitoring

Stay productive, even offline

No internet? No problem. MERMAID empowers you to work offline with real-time insights. Access crucial data like fish abundance, coral cover, and macroalgae even without a connection.

Retain control

Control your data sharing. MERMAID allows you to set data access levels (restricted or open) on the dashboard. Share securely with collaborators via the MERMAID R Package. Your data, your way.

Data in, clean data out

Get clean data with MERMAID. Automated checks ensure quality, regardless of the original format. Easily share your standardized findings globally.

Save time with AI

Introducing AI-powered coral classification with MERMAID and CoralNet. Classify corals in a few clicks, boosting efficiency and accelerating your research.

Connect your data

MERMAID is fully open-source and built to work across multiple platforms. With the cloud-powered MERMAID API, you can connect to other apps or databases, and share your data with the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network.

Upload legacy data

Seamlessly transition to MERMAID. Upload Excel files and integrate CoralNet data easily. Centralize all your reef data in one secure location. View and analyze your survey data across years effortlessly.

How MERMAID is used around the world

Enhancing government collaboration with MERMAID

Blue Alliance

Learn how this innovative platform helps streamline data collection, enhance government collaboration, and drive impactful conservation efforts.

Turning regional data into global reports with MERMAID

Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN)

See how Jérémy Wicquart, PhD and GCRMN uses this powerful platform to collate, standardize, and analyze data, saving time and maximizing impact.

Jeneen Hadj-Hammoud

IIED

Discover how a marine scientist used MERMAID to combine reef data from past and present in the Arabian Gulf, and build future conservation solutions.

Erwan Sola

WCS MOZAMBIQUE

Explore the various ways MERMAID has been developed to support reef restoration in Mozambique, with stories from a local marine biologist and coral conservation expert.

George Stoyle

RARE

Find out how MERMAID helped solve long-standing data management issues on the Fish Forever program, from the Director of Technology Solutions at Rare.