Coralized

Coralized is an app aimed to visualize and access coral bleaching

This project was made for the HorizonHacks 2024 Hackathon. (We won!)

Demo

Project Link

NOTE: The future bleaching pediction does not work as I cannot pay for the API. I was on a free trial during the hackathon

Purpose

• Coralized is made to shine light on the vastly underlooked issue of coral bleaching
• It also aims to provide a method of quantifying the severity and likeliness of future bleaching for a selected reefs
• This is important as we are going through the 4th global bleaching event right now, which started back in 2023
• By 2050, 90% of global coral reefs are projected to experience coral bleaching every year

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Tech Stack and Tools

• JS/HTML/CSS
• ArcGIS
• ReactJS
• Leaflet
• NOAA Public Data
• Mateomatics API

Process

Mapping

• To map the coral reefs and their bleaching level currently we utilized public data given by the NOAA
• We then mapped the data into GeoJSON
• The GeoJSON was fed into Leaflet to be graphed

Future Bleaching Predictions

• To create predictions, we identified two variables that are primary causes of bleaching: UV radiation and temperature
• We used Mateomatics API to see past trends in both factors and made a weighted score
• This score represents whether the area will bleach or heal, and its severity
• Score < 0, it will bleach
• Score > 0, it will heal
• |Score| = severity