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We've lost the majority of the world's oyster reefs and urgent action is needed to assess, conserve, and restore what remains of these ecosystems.
Together, a team of Duke University scientists is working to developing rapid assessments of oyster reef health and biodiversity using bioacoustics, remote sensing, and Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures
We’re collecting soundscape recordings on oyster reefs to develop acoustic indicators of biodiversity and abundance.
We're coupling the deployment of Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures and traditional community surveys to assess reef biodiversity
We’re using drone-based aerial imagery to characterize physical features on oyster reefs.
Our ecosystem monitoring strategies are not limited to oyster reefs. Once we develop rapid assessment metrics for oyster reefs, we can test them in other coastal ecosystems such as coral reefs, salt marshes, seagrass beds, and mangrove forests.
