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CoralCT

The new CoralCT app
Read our new paper describing CoralCT here

CoralCT is a computer application for analyzing annual growth rates in computed tomography (CT) scans of coral skeletal cores. Coral cores are the most valuable archive of annually-resolved ocean variability over recent decades to centuries. Additionally, the growth records extracted from these cores provide scientists with crucial information regarding how corals are faring in a rapidly warming and acidifying ocean.

We need your help. Analysis of growth records in these cores requires visual interpretation, and that's where you come in. The CoralCT app is linked to a virtual core repository (currently containing about 650 cores). Yet, not all of them have been analyzed yet, and the more observers analyze each core, the more reliable the data become. We are seeking participation from scientists and the public alike to work together in a community effort aimed at building well-replicated analyses of all of the cores in CoralCT. Please see instructional materials below for how to get started contributing.

Most of the growth rate data are publicly available, with some restricted per researchers' requests for unpublished datasets. We are also seeking additional coral CT scan contributions from scientists (these can be submitted through the app).
Video tutorials​
FAQs
User Guide

Data Submission Template
Direct Submission Template
Slack Channel
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K-12 Lesson Plans


 

Windows
Download CoralCT and then run the .exe

​Mac
First, download and install MATLAB Runtime 2023a (free)
Then, download CoralCT and run the .dmg



latest version: 2.6.9
GitHub repo for public script (full functionality but only a sample core collection)
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