Low-Cost Real-Time Monitoring of Pollutants and Water Quality along the Coral Reefs in Tanzania: Supporting Effective Ocean Management

Low-Cost Real-Time Monitoring of Pollutants and Water Quality along the Coral Reefs in Tanzania: Supporting Effective Ocean Management

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Lead institution:

Aqua Farms Organization – Tanzania

The Reef Protect Project is a project that seeks to deploy water quality monitoring devices in eight coral reef sites along the coast of Tanzania.

The devices will help to measure ocean temperature, dissolved oxygen and pH. The devices will be able to log the collected information in real time and made available publicly through the to be designed portal. This information will be collected for 10 years and used in informing the policy makers on possible actions that can be used to safeguard Tanzania coral reefs and the impact of climate change.

Details of the device development are available here: https://sustainenvironres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42834-019-0009-4

Start Date: 07/06/2021
End Date: 07/06/2030

This Project is being hosted by the Ocean Decade Programme The Coral Reef Sentinels: A Mars Shot for Blue Planetary Health

Lead Contact: Cretus Mtonga (josephcretus@gmail.com)

challenges:

1- Marine pollution

2- Protect and restore ecosystems

3- Sustainable blue food

4- Sustainable ocean economy

5- Ocean-climate nexus

6- Community resilience

7- Ocean observations

8- Digital representation of the ocean

9- Capacity development

host_programme:

The Coral Reef Sentinels: A Mars Shot for Blue Planetary Health

ocean_basins:

Indian Ocean

type_of_action:

Project

Low-Cost Real-Time Monitoring of Pollutants and Water Quality along the Coral Reefs in Tanzania: Supporting Effective Ocean Management