Life below water (GOAL 14)

The Sustainable Development Goals solution delivers a set of capabilities that help governments share progress made on Sustainable Development Goals.

We have less than eight years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Maps can help us better understand them and monitor progress.

Scientists know more about the dark side of the moon than they do about Earth’s ocean depths. Seabed 2030 seeks to change that.

After 25,000 gallons of crude oil spewed into the Pacific Ocean, the Surfrider Foundation leveraged location to streamline data collection.

A quick read on how the integration of video technology, GIS, and custom programming provides marine scientists with the opportunity to observe and analyze the benthic environment in ways that were previously impractical.

Sylvia Earle’s Mission Blue Organization uses Esri technology to bring marine areas called Hope Spots to life in the digital space.

The Argentine Coast Guard uses ArcGIS Enterprise to monitor illegal activity throughout the country’s exclusive economic zone.

Ecological coastal units (ECUs) were created by USGS, Esri, and others for mapping and analyzing the world’s coastal regions.

Learn how the San Francisco Estuary Institute worked with partners to develop an automated workflow for validating trash monitoring methods.

The Pacific Ocean Accounting Portal brings attention to this body of water in ways that decision-makers can quickly understand.

Mapping large amounts of data on the web has always been a challenge. Learn techniques you can use to improve performance with large datasets.

Learn how the Chesapeake Bay Program is leading the effort to do large-scale oyster habitat restoration and revitalize native oyster populations in 10 bay tributaries using ArcGIS.

The GIS user community is key to figuring out which beaches around the world are consistently fouled by plastic and how to clean them up.

Drone technology, citizen science, and location intelligence are being used to study humpback whale feeding behavior off the Australian coast.

In 2022, Dawn Wright became the first person to operate a portable sonar device to map a portion of Challenger Deep. Learn about her mapping adventure.

Explore place-based stories, created with ArcGIS StoryMaps, that highlight the critical role of our oceans, sea, and marine resources and several threats to those waters.

Coastal planner Leah Fulton discusses the extent of lost commercial fishing gear in the ocean pollution crisis.

Esri is contributing to scientific projects that are part of the UN Ocean Decade.

Dr. Rick Spinrad from NOAA explains how technology helps sustain the global ocean economy while also safeguarding the ocean environment.

In collaboration with NOAA, the Presence-Only Prediction tool in ArcGIS Pro was used to predict snow crab habitat under changing climate conditions.

The DNRC’s app allows users to easily examine the state’s surface water locations and get detailed reports about streamflows.