Pinned 5 items, carouselMeet the REEF Fest speakers 🎙️ Free seminars at the REEF Ocean Exploration Center, Key Largo, Oct. 16 and…
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Pinned 5 items, carouselMeet the REEF Fest speakers 🎙️ Free seminars at the REEF Ocean Exploration Center, Key Largo, Oct. 16 and…
PinnedVoting is open. 🗳️ The 2026 Discover the Sea Photo Contest is in your hands. Five categories, each with a…
Pinned 8 items, carouselBring your group to the REEF Ocean Exploration Center in Key Largo. 🐠 Discovery Programs are hands-on…
VideoWhat is your fish spirit? 🐠 Tap to stop the reel and meet yours. Then tell us in the comments, because some…
4 items, carouselGot a car, boat or trailer you don't use? 🚗 It could fund fish surveys instead of sitting on your driveway.…

⏰ Last day. Submissions close at NOON EDT today. Discover the Sea Photo Contest 2026. If your shots are…
VideoKnowing which fish are on a reef is one thing. Knowing how big they are is a whole other, and it's one of…
5 items, carouselCongratulations Callie Mack 🐠 Newest member of the Golden Hamlet Club, with over 1,000 REEF surveys. It…
4 items, carouselWhere should I stay for REEF Fest? 🛏️ Two Hospitality Partners with special rates for Oct. 15 to 18. 🌊…
7 items, carouselField Report: Fiji 🇫🇯 Fifteen volunteer surveyors spent April 18 to 28 diving Bligh Water and the Namena…
VideoEvery Goliath Grouper has a pattern that can be recognized. 👁️ Look at the markings on this huge Goliath.…
4 items, carouselIntroducing the REEF Surveyor Rankings 🏆 Every month, a different region and its top three surveyors from…
VideoFree family fun in the Florida Keys 🌊 The REEF Ocean Exploration Center in Key Largo is free to visit, and…
3 items, carouselREEF Fest would not happen without them. 💙 Thank you to everyone backing REEF Fest 2026, Oct. 15 to 18 at…
Video"Us humans. We, of course, are the cause of this." 🦁🐟 Mead Krówka, REEF Education Coordinator, on how…
Video"Two people can be on one dive and see entirely different things." 🐠 Hilary Penner, REEF's Volunteer Fish…

Saturday mornings, sorted. 🐠 Science Saturdays at the Ocean Exploration Center in Key Largo, 11 a.m. every…
Video"A centralized database provides really good estimates of central tendencies." 🎙️ Dr. Brice Semmens on what…

REEF is joining Florida Climate Week. 🌊 Tuesday, Oct. 6 at the Ocean Exploration Center in Key Largo, we…
6 items, carouselNew faces at the Ocean Exploration Center. 🐠 Welcome to our fall interns Ava Tidball, Erin Fraser, Sofia…

Some of us were born with a fish ID book in hand. 🐠 Tag a diver who came out already counting.…

September Tuesdays belong to the ocean. 🐢 Ocean After Hours, 6 p.m. every Tuesday at the Ocean Exploration…
9 items, carouselSubmissions are open. 📸 Discover the Sea Photo Contest 2026. You have until Sept. 20. Swipe for last year's…
4 items, carouselToday is International Whale Shark Day. 🦈 The largest fish on Earth, and it eats plankton. The hard part…
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