Open resources

Free manuals, courses and open science on reef restoration. These are other organisations’ resources; we link to them and do not claim them.

Practitioner manuals (free)

• Coral Restoration Consortium, Guide to Coral Reef Restoration (in situ nurseries and outplanting, 2025): announcement; Zenodo
• Coral Restoration Consortium, Coral Reef Restoration Monitoring Guide: PDF
• Coral Restoration Consortium, Bleaching Guidance — Prepare, Act, Monitor (2023): PDF
• CRC resource library: crc.world/resources
• Shaver et al. 2020, A Manager’s Guide to Coral Reef Restoration Planning and Design, NOAA CRCP TM 36: PDF; NOAA page
• NOAA, Coral Reef Restoration for Risk Reduction (CR4) guide (Nov 2022): PDF
• Hein et al. 2020, UNEP / ICRI restoration guide: PDF; ICRI restoration page
• Marshall & Schuttenberg 2006, A Reef Manager’s Guide to Coral Bleaching: IUCN library

Courses and program hubs

• Reef Resilience Network, Coral Reef Restoration online course (free, self-paced; enroll via ConservationTraining.org as described on their site): announcement; restoration topic
• Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP) open repository of videos, reports, and publications: gbrrestoration.org; resources; publications
• NOAA Ocean Service, corals tutorial, restoring-corals chapter: oceanservice.noaa.gov

Open science and data

• Boström-Einarsson et al. 2020, systematic review of restoration methods: PLOS ONE
• van Oppen et al. 2015, assisted evolution: PNAS
• National Academies 2019 interventions review: doi:10.17226/25279
• NOAA Coral Reef Watch (bleaching alerts): starting point coralreefwatch.noaa.gov — use the main Coral Reef Watch product pages when building a tools hub
• El Nido Foundation, existing local restoration and education program: elnidofoundation.org