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Ocean conditions

Daily sea-temperature estimates across the Coral Triangle.

Coral Triangle focus region and nearby land
5 July · each year202629.0°CMap mean22.9°C–31.5°CMapped rangeObserved Jul 5, 2026Preparing local readings
  • Map mean
  • Mapped range
  • El Niño around July
  • Land
  • Coral Triangle

El Niño markers show years when NOAA’s July-centred index formed part of a sustained event. Its Pacific anomaly is separate from the map mean. NOAA method and record

What the replay adds up to

0.9°C warmerLatest ten-year mean, 2016–2025, compared with the first, 1982–1991.

Trailing ten-year mean1982–199128.2°C2016–202529.0°C

Why it matters here

Warmer background water can make hot periods more likely to reach coral heat-stress conditions. Community-held records add the local timing, place names, language, and stewardship decisions this regional view cannot carry.

For ocean communities

Local knowledge needs tools that last.

Coastal teams work with fragile records, changing ocean conditions, patchy connectivity, and tools that disappear when funding ends. Seascale is seeking support for the field work, training, language access, and maintenance that help communities keep using what they build.

What support makes possible

Fund the work that keeps useful tools in local hands.

Short grants often pay for a first version. Seascale focuses on the work around it: local priorities, field testing, training, translation, repairs, and clear ownership.

See how to fund the work

  1. Community-defined field work

    Small, practical pieces of work shaped around what coastal teams need to record, understand, or coordinate now.

  2. Training and local stewardship

    Time, equipment, and support for the people who operate, review, repair, and care for tools close to the coast.

  3. Language and low-connectivity access

    Translation and field-ready ways of working so information stays useful across languages, devices, and patchy connections.

  4. Maintenance after launch

    Documentation, repairs, hosting, and adaptation after a pilot, when useful work is most at risk of being abandoned.

Why now

Coastlines are changing while the records used to understand them are often fragmented, difficult to share, or tied to short-lived projects.

Seascale is starting in the Coral Triangle, where biodiversity pressure, language access, field distance, and uneven connectivity meet in everyday stewardship decisions.

How work is chosen

A piece of work should begin with a clear local need, a team that can review it, and an honest plan for who will care for it afterward.

Seascale does not present concepts as completed field results. Each project page states that the current portfolio is in development and is looking for the right field and funding partners.

What supporters can expect

  • A clearly scoped use for support before money changes hands
  • Named responsibilities, safeguards, and reporting agreed directly
  • No public payment request until the right giving route is confirmed

Start a conversation

Seascale is speaking with coastal organisations, researchers, practical builders, and funders who can help move a well-defined need into long-term local use.

Tell us what place, problem, or kind of support you have in mind at hello@seascale.foundation.