Interactive Geolocational and Coral Compositional Visualisation of Great Barrier Reef Heat Stress Data

The Great Barrier Reef is at critical risk of rapid decline, with mass coral bleaching following heatwave conditions constituting the most recent impact on the ecosystem. Here we describe an information-rich integrative visualisation suite of tools, tailored to ecologist users, for exploring a rich data set collected from the 2002 Great Barrier Reef heat stress event. Integration of data from multiple resources demonstrates how this visualisation is easily adaptable to any equivalent data, including data integration and visualisation from coral reef monitoring programs. The toolkit also makes such data accessible to any user for education, exploration and decision-making purposes.