Report what you see
Seen bleaching, disease, or damage on a dive or snorkel? Your report shows us where disease response is needed and helps us choose future restoration sites.
Ways to help
Get involved
Report what you see on the reef, support the work, partner with us, and put our field guides to use.
Ways to help
How you can help
You don’t need to be on our team to make a difference for the reefs of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Support the work
Donations fund the nurseries, the dives, and the monitoring that keep coral restoration running in the USVI.
Partner with us
Dive shops, businesses, and organizations help us reach more reefs and more people. Tell us what you have in mind.
Partners
Dive shop & community partners
Reef Response is a member of the Virgin Islands Coral Reef Advisory Group, which brings together local government, non-profit, and private entities to agree best management practices for the territory’s coral resources — coordinating effort and carrying out priority work across the islands.
Resources
Guides & downloads
The Coral Compass, Volume 2
Our 2025 issue: the 2023 and 2024 bleaching events, a letter from the director, the team behind the work, and the reefs we are rebuilding.
PDF · 17 pages · 10 MB · read online
The Coral Compass, Volume 1
Published as The Coral Chronicles with Lovango Resort and Beach Club: the Rescue to Reef partnership, the corals we work with, and the reefs around Lovango Cay.
PDF · 15 pages · 8 MB · read online
Nursery Maintenance Guidebook
Our 2026 field guide to cleaning an in-water coral nursery: tree anatomy, supplies, step-by-step cleaning, coral health checks, and the critters you’ll meet.
PDF · 12 pages · 1.6 MB
SCTLD & Coral Disease ID Cards
Healthy-versus-diseased photo cards for stony coral tissue loss disease across 13 susceptible species, plus other coral diseases, bleaching stages, overgrowth, and predation.
PDF · 6 pages · 7.9 MB
Sponge ID Guide
Photo guide to the common shallow sponges of St. Thomas, USVI, handy for telling nursery fouling apart from reef sponges.
PDF · 2 pages · 3.4 MB
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Partner with us, support the work, or tell us what you’re seeing on the reef.