The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program gauges the status and trends of coral reef health through long-term measurement of key variables.

A high resolution monitoring product has been developed that maps current ocean acidification in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.

The Atlantic Ocean Acidification Test-bed assesses through monitoring and research the impacts of ocean acidification on Atlantic coral reef ecosystems.

Over the past two centuries, humans have dramatically altered the composition of the earth’s atmosphere through deforestation and the burning of fossil fuel.