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The program page does not prove why individual divers do or do not participate.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"panel\"><h3>Historical participation context<\/h3><p><a style=\"color:#146d6b;text-decoration:underline\" href=\"https:\/\/floridaaquaticpreserves.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/CURRENT%20CONDITIONS%20REPORT%20-%20December%202025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SEAFAN December 2025 Current Conditions Report<\/a> provides training and report totals. Those are program statistics, not campaign results or unique-participant conversion rates.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"panel\"><h3>Community and intermediary examples<\/h3><p><a style=\"color:#146d6b;text-decoration:underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.floridareef.org\/bleachwatch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friends of Our Florida Reefs<\/a> and public dive-operator materials provide context for observer outreach and possible channels; they do not establish new 2027 partnership commitments.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"panel\"><h3>Related science and audience research<\/h3><p><a style=\"color:#146d6b;text-decoration:underline\" href=\"https:\/\/floridakeys.noaa.gov\/coral-bleaching-faqs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NOAA science guidance<\/a> and published marine citizen-science studies can inform careful explanations and hypotheses. Findings from other regions or populations cannot be assumed to apply to Southeast Florida divers.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"section\"><div class=\"wrap\"><h2>Selected decisions and their status<\/h2><ul class=\"point-list\"><li><strong>Approved \u00b7 Audience.<\/strong> Eligible active recreational reef divers are the primary recruitment audience; dive-community businesses are potential intermediaries.<\/li><li><strong>Approved \u00b7 Goal alignment.<\/strong> Historical objective 2.3 citizen science is the campaign&#8217;s primary organizational alignment; 2.1 and 2.2 may support education and appropriate partnerships.<\/li><li><strong>Provisional \u00b7 Numeric objective.<\/strong> 15\u201320 campaign-referred completed observers in the proposed May\u2013July 2027 recruitment period; feasibility and attribution still need real-world verification.<\/li><li><strong>Approved conditional aim.<\/strong> Already-trained observers are a separate activation audience when thermal stress warrants; no reporting-increase target is invented.<\/li><li><strong>Approved scientific caution.<\/strong> Bleaching is not mortality, disease risks must not imply an actual outbreak, and research findings need correct attribution and scope.<\/li><li><strong>Open \u00b7 Operational dependencies.<\/strong> Training availability, partners, press access, scientific approvals, observer route and authorized registration\/completion data remain unknown.<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/section><section class=\"section\"><div class=\"wrap\"><h2>Editorial decisions worth showing<\/h2><div class=\"detail-grid\"><div class=\"panel\"><h3>Reassessing the press-release news angle<\/h3><p>An early hypothetical release proposed a newly announced operator partnership. Further review found that BleachWatch already has dive-community participation and media examples. The existing angle should therefore be revisited rather than presenting routine or previously established collaboration as new.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"work-note\"><strong>Research is not automatic approval<\/strong><p>The campaign has an indexed decision register, but it includes approved decisions, provisional ideas, parked concepts, and earlier technical-system proposals. This page curates substantive campaign reasoning, not every historical entry.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"section\"><div class=\"wrap\"><h2>How research leads to execution<\/h2><div class=\"grid\"><a class=\"tile\" href=\"\/?page_id=910\"><div class=\"index\">01<\/div><h3>Audience and message choices<\/h3><p>View the practical recruitment and stakeholder propositions grounded in this evidence.<\/p><span class=\"link\">Explore \u2197<\/span><\/a><a class=\"tile\" href=\"\/?page_id=911\"><div class=\"index\">02<\/div><h3>Channel and media planning<\/h3><p>See proposed outreach and the limits of claiming real-world actions.<\/p><span class=\"link\">Explore \u2197<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"section\"><div class=\"wrap\"><h2>Working sources and review status<\/h2><div class=\"callout\"><h3>Traceable working material<\/h3><p class=\"compact\">BleachWatch workbook: <strong>1 Situation Audit<\/strong>, <strong>6 Sources Assumptions<\/strong>, <strong>7 Portfolio Package<\/strong>, and <strong>8 Campaign Decision Index<\/strong>. Sources were reviewed in the working research mainly in October 2026; links and current details require rechecking before final use. These are independent practice decisions and research notes, not DEP-approved arrangements or actual 2027 program results. The campaign strategy is substantively complete for this portfolio exercise; the remaining work is final presentation polish and production of selected communications assets.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"section worknotes\" id=\"working-records\"><div class=\"wrap\"><details class=\"worknotes-drawer\"><summary>Selected research and decision notes<\/summary><div class=\"worknotes-inner\"><p>Selected original workbook wording, not edited for portfolio publication. The full evidence log, source details, qualifications and decision history remain in the planning workbook.<\/p><div class=\"notes-group\"><h3>Selected evidence<\/h3><ul><li><strong>E01<\/strong><p>Florida DEP&#8217;s Coral Reef Conservation Program coordinates research, monitoring, management strategies and partnerships along Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Martin counties.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">S01<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>E04<\/strong><p>The completed 2025 season recorded 106 BleachWatch reports, including 99 from the Coral AP, while 127 new observers were trained through 17 classes and 9 new instructors joined the network.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">S04<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>E05<\/strong><p>Friends of Our Florida Reefs describes an existing network of 900+ BleachWatch observers.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">S06<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>E12<\/strong><p>The current DEP BleachWatch page offers a self-paced online eLearning route to become an observer, plus sign-up for in-person and optional in-water training.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">S03<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>E14<\/strong><p>Friends of Our Florida Reefs promotes BleachWatch as a community-science opportunity and also works with local dive shops across Southeast Florida counties on reef activities.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">S06<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>E16<\/strong><p>A peer-reviewed survey of scuba-diver marine citizen-science participants found leading reported motivations included interest in the subject (82%), making a contribution (80%) and science (77%). Potential participants cited time\/distance, limited knowledge of citizen science and lack of promotion; they specifically wanted better direct engagement, access through dive centres and training opportunities.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">S13<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>E18<\/strong><p>DEP&#8217;s BleachWatch Instructor Guide directs instructors arranging in-water training to identify a dive charter company to host the training and includes an advertising step once date\/location are confirmed.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">S15<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>E22<\/strong><p>Southeast Florida long-term monitoring shows SCTLD caused major stony-coral losses earlier in the outbreak, but regional disease prevalence remained below 1% from 2018-2024 and reached 0.2% in 2024; SCTLD was still present but at low prevalence.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">S20<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>E23<\/strong><p>During the 2026 thermal-stress season, Southeast Florida experienced Bleaching Watch conditions and reports ranging from light paling to significant bleaching; some tissue-loss disease was also observed at individual sites.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">S05<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>E24<\/strong><p>In the completed 2025 Southeast Florida BleachWatch season, 99 reports came from the Kristin Jacobs Coral Aquatic Preserve and 87 documented bleaching. At affected sites, thermal stress ranged from 1% to 100% of live coral, although most reports were in the 1%\u201310% range. DEP states that BleachWatch reports aid resource management by helping assess reef status, identify affected areas and provide insight into recovery.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">S04<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>E25<\/strong><p>NOAA states that climate-driven bleaching can increase corals\u2019 susceptibility to disease; bleached corals are stressed and more vulnerable to additional stressors. This supports describing disease as a potential compounding pressure after thermal stress, not as evidence of a current Southeast Florida outbreak.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">S21<\/span><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"notes-group\"><h3>Questions to verify<\/h3><ul><li><strong>Number of currently active trained Southeast Florida BleachWatch observers is unknown.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Number of unique observers who generated the 106 reports in 2025 is unknown.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Training-to-first-report and repeat-report rates are unknown.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Whether trained divers understand why &#8216;no bleaching\/no disease&#8217; reports matter is unknown.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Whether DEP Southeast Florida uses non-bleaching observations to identify candidate heat-tolerant colonies for follow-up is not confirmed.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Program capacity to process substantially more reports is unknown.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>A completed 2026 BleachWatch reporting\/training baseline is not yet available.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"notes-group\"><h3>Primary references<\/h3><ul><li><strong>S01 \u00b7 Florida DEP Coral Reef Conservation Program<\/strong><div class=\"notes-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/floridadep.gov\/rcp\/coral\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reference link \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/li><li><strong>S03 \u00b7 Florida DEP \u2014 SEAFAN BleachWatch<\/strong><div class=\"notes-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/floridadep.gov\/rcp\/coral\/content\/bleachwatch\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reference link \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/li><li><strong>S04 \u00b7 SEAFAN BleachWatch Current Conditions Report \u2014 December 2025<\/strong><div class=\"notes-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/floridaaquaticpreserves.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/CURRENT%20CONDITIONS%20REPORT%20-%20December%202025.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reference link \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/li><li><strong>S08 \u00b7 NOAA Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary \u2014 Marine Heatwave and Coral Bleaching Response FAQs<\/strong><div class=\"notes-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/floridakeys.noaa.gov\/coral-bleaching-faqs.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reference link \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/li><li><strong>S13 \u00b7 Cerrano et al. \/ PLOS ONE \u2014 scuba diving marine citizen science participant survey<\/strong><div class=\"notes-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0202484\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reference link \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/li><li><strong>S15 \u00b7 Florida DEP \u2014 BleachWatch Instructor Guide<\/strong><div class=\"notes-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/floridadep.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/Step-by-Step%20Guide_2023_0.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reference link \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/li><li><strong>S17 \u00b7 Florida DEP Press Office \/ News &amp; Press Releases<\/strong><div class=\"notes-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/floridadep.gov\/news\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reference link \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/li><li><strong>S21 \u00b7 NOAA National Ocean Service \u2014 Can a coral reef recover from bleaching and other stressful events?<\/strong><div class=\"notes-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/facts\/reef-resilience.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reference link \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"notes-group\"><h3>Core campaign decisions<\/h3><ul><li><strong>C03 \u00b7 Target audience<\/strong><p>Recruit eligible, active Southeast Florida recreational reef divers in Martin, Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">APPROVED<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>C04 \u00b7 Primary result<\/strong><p>15\u201320 campaign-referred eligible divers completing BleachWatch observer training between May 1 and July 15, 2027.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">APPROVED PROVISIONAL TARGET<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>C05 \u00b7 Conditional activation<\/strong><p>When elevated thermal stress warrants, encourage already-trained observers to submit relevant condition reports after dives, including reports with no bleaching\/disease.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">APPROVED AIM; NO HARD OUTCOME TARGET<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>C06 \u00b7 Partner communications<\/strong><p>Potential dive shops, instructors, guides, divemasters and charter operators act as intermediaries\/access points and possible partner\/enablers.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">APPROVED STRATEGIC ROUTE<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>C07 \u00b7 Scientific framing<\/strong><p>Use bounded coral heat-stress, bleaching, disease, reef vulnerability and resilience science to explain why observer training\/reporting can be valuable.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">APPROVED DIRECTION<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>C08 \u00b7 Measurement caution<\/strong><p>Campaign referrals can contribute to an observed training completion without proving exclusive causal influence.<\/p><div class=\"notes-tags\"><span class=\"notes-tag\">APPROVED<\/span><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section><div class=\"footnav\"><div class=\"wrap\"><p><a href=\"\/?page_id=874\">\u2190 BleachWatch campaign overview<\/a> &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"\/?page_id=875#bleachwatch-samples\">Work samples \u2197<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OverviewOrganizational strategyOngoing communicationsBleachWatch 2027Work samples Campaign overviewStrategyAudiencesMessagingChannelsMeasurementResearch Home \/ Florida&#8217;s Coral Reef \/ BleachWatch 2027 \/ Research &#038; decisions BleachWatch \/ source transparency Research &#038; decisions The public evidence behind the campaign and selected strategic choices, including what that evidence does not establish. 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