Backing open tools for ocean communities

Seascale Foundation

Seascale funds and supports open-source projects that help Coral Triangle communities protect culture, respond to environmental change, and keep useful technology in public hands.

Regional conditions

A current view of the Coral Triangle using public boundary and sea-temperature data. Hover countries and ocean points to explore the geography behind Seascale's work.

Coral Triangle boundary, land layer, country polygons, and sea surface temperature pointsIndonesiaMalaysiaPNGPhilippinesSolomon Is.Timor-Leste
Updated (UTC)
Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 PM
Countries shown
14
Mean sea temp
28.1C
Warmest water
30.5C
Hover a country or sea-temperature point to explore the map.
  1. Land
  2. Country palette below
  3. Sea temperature

Country palette

Why this matters

The Coral Triangle is home to extraordinary marine biodiversity and deeply rooted cultural knowledge.

Seascale exists to help coastal communities use technology on their own terms: openly built, locally legible, and practical in the places where it is needed.

What donations make possible

  • Small grants for community-led software and field tooling
  • Documentation, translation, and maintenance for open public-interest tools
  • Shared data products that help people act on changing ocean conditions

For open-source contributors

  • Help build maps, low-bandwidth interfaces, field tools, and public datasets
  • Contribute engineering, design, documentation, translation, or data work
  • Work on tools that can be reused, audited, and owned beyond a single project

Transparency

This site includes a live regional map because the work should remain visible and inspectable.

We use public data and open-source tooling wherever practical, and we want supporters to see both the place and the technical approach.