Time is up for coral reefs.
Their best insurance policy under climate change is effective adaptation and resilience. How we spend our limited resources on them now will determine long-term outcomes for nature and people.
We help you decide what to spend on—where, how and when.
We’re a team of reef ecologists, data scientists, economists, business strategists and communicators.
We draw in social scientists and other disciplines as required.
Our mission is to help prepare our marine environment for severe climate change.
We start by understanding the problem and the system. Structured decision making is the foundation for our approach. Science and modelling delivers quantitative answers. Making sense of complexity is our specialty.
But first, we listen.
“If conservation of natural resources goes wrong, nothing else will go right.”
Coral reefs are the rainforests of the sea.
A quarter of all species in the sea depend on them. They have the highest value per unit area of any ecosystem on earth.
While reefs are vulnerable to climate change, many opportunities for climate adaptation exist. Effective spending on reefs can provide immense benefits for people in a warming world—if done well.
If not, we forgo benefits for future generations.
The importance of coral reefs to people and marine life is clear.
What’s not clear is the best way to help them.
Millions can be spent on initiatives without any real idea of how resources should be focused and timed.
Do you invest in management of water quality or pest control? Gene therapies or cooling technologies? Education programs? All of them or just some of them? What’s the optimal timing and placement?
And what will the end result be in the face of climate change?
As an investor in nature, you want to quantify the impact you’ll have.
Using modelling, we can show you exactly how your investment will affect outcomes.
We can show you which projects to invest in and how they’ll translate into environmental, social, economic, ecological and cultural returns.
Decision Systems Development for the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP), the largest reef restoration project of its kind globally for the Great Barrier Reef.
ADRIA is a decision-support platform for guided reef restoration and adaptation. Informs intervention-deployment decisions in complex settings.
Resilience-based management on the Great Barrier Reef for the Department of Environment for Crown-of-Thorns Starfish control.
Navigating the path to safe and effective climate adaptation to prevent unprecedented loss.
Using customised modelling for waste-free reef monitoring.
They're not impediments to good decision making if the right approach is used.
