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10 Jul 2025

Identifying Locations of Climate-Resilient Coral Reefs in Fiji

By Janice Taga - Coral Reef Ecologist, WCS-Fiji | Iain R. Caldwell - Lead Data Analyst, MERMAID

Empower reef planning and find resilient reefs! Use the MERMAID R package to identify Avoidance, Resistance, and Recovery sites.

Automating Insight with ETL Pipeline for Coral Reef Survey Data

By George Stoyle - Director, Technology Solutions, RARE

Understand cutting-edge reef data work! Dive into an automated ETL pipeline for MERMAID reef data.

Benthic PIT

Benthic Photo Quadrat

Madagascar Report Card - Benthic Cover and Fish Biomass

By James P.W. Robinson - Coral Reef Ecologist, Lancaster University | Iain R. Caldwell - Lead Data Analyst, MERMAID

Create custom reef report cards! Learn from Madagascar's data and use R/Quarto to compare benthic cover and fish biomass.

Habitat Complexity Dashboard Visualizations

By Iain R. Caldwell - Lead Data Analyst, MERMAID

Visualize coral reef habitat complexity with R: create bar, histogram, and time series plots.

Fishbelt Dashboard Visualizations

By Iain R. Caldwell - Lead Data Analyst, MERMAID

Understand fish populations better! Code examples simplify visualizing fishbelt biomass trends with histograms, bar plots, and time series.

Bleaching Severity Dashboard Visualizations

By Iain R. Caldwell - Lead Data Analyst, MERMAID

Efficiently analyze bleaching severity data with R code to generate interactive bar plots and time series on coral reef health.

Benthic Cover Dashboard Visualizations

By Iain R. Caldwell - Lead Data Analyst, MERMAID

Explore benthic % cover visuals from MERMAID! Analyze PIT, LIT, Photo Quadrat, & Bleaching data.

Benthic LIT

Benthic Photo Quadrat

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Explore, learn, and contribute to coral reef data analyses with MERMAID. Find examples from others, share your own analyses, and collaborate with a global community of reef data users. Let's advance reef science together.

Featured analyses

Identifying Locations of Climate-Resilient Coral Reefs in Fiji

Automating Insight with ETL Pipeline for Coral Reef Survey Data

Madagascar Report Card - Benthic Cover and Fish Biomass

Habitat Complexity Dashboard Visualizations

Fishbelt Dashboard Visualizations

Bleaching Severity Dashboard Visualizations

Benthic Cover Dashboard Visualizations

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