Artificial Reef Artist and Designer

Our Mission is to Create a World for Coral Reefs to Flourish

We design custom artistic and functional marine habitats and living shore protection.

Our aim is to regenerate devastated reef ecosystems and assist coastal communities in developing blue economies by co-designing solutions to mitigate climate change, pollution, and other environmental threats caused by human activities.

We focus on unique, multi-level mineral accretion coral restoration habitats that evolve into biodiverse, artificial reef ecosystems and breakwaters. They connect natural reefs, support coral nurseries, and give corals an adaptive boost to persist in the face of extinction.

We help transform destructive tourism practices through integrated coral propagation programs locally with far-reaching diffusion and innovative, international collaborative interventions.

These include live streaming underwater video, emerging investigations of CO2 sequestering substrates and reef-building, biopolymer materials made from waste streams, creating VR immersive and digital experiences, testing of biocompatible, fast-acting underwater adhesives for the attachment of coral fragments, and building teams of dedicated practitioners and ocean activists.

We're Passionate Advocates For Coral Reef Restoration

With coral reefs in deep decline from climate change, ocean acidification, development and run-off, pollution, overfishing, and disease, it’s a challenging design problem to meet the needs of these ancient organisms and all the species, including us humans, that depend on them for survival.

Though showing some resilience in areas, coral reefs are in crisis from frequent bleaching events and increasing die-offs. Food, clean water, and coastal communities are in grave danger, not to mention all the wildlife at risk if they disappear.

With our hands-on approach to this global epidemic, we implement the artistic method – sensory vision, playful imagination, and maker intelligence. Working in tandem with science, policy makers, businesses, and the general public, we build deeper connections, communicate, and inspire successful leaps towards real-world projects and actions that heal our oceans and ourselves.

Future success requires building partnerships in regions ready to grow their own coral conservatory, sustainable fish farm, permeable breakwater, or one-of-a-kind Living Sea Sculpture. Do you want to help restore a reef?

Contact Colleen Flanigan if you would like to discuss volunteering or initiating a project.

email: misssnailpail@gmail.com

phone: +1 (503) 887-7650

Empowering originality for life-saving action through the Arts

Check out our latest project livestreaming at zoecoral.com.

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Artificial Reef Artist and Designer

Our Mission is to Create a World for Coral Reefs to Flourish

Living Sea Sculpture's Pioneering Approach

We're Passionate Advocates For Coral Reef Restoration

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