As part of its efforts to help the environment, Google Arts & Culture recently partnered with marine biologists and ecologists to start the Calling in Our Corals project, which taps into the power of artificial intelligence to help monitor coral reefs.

This initiative makes use of both AI and hydrophones scientists placed on coral reefs around the world to create a bioacoustic model that can help scientists monitor and track marine ecosystems, as well as accelerate their capacity for research in a way never done before. 

What makes this project engaging is that people can help train the AI Google has developed. by lending their ears and identifying various sounds of marine life taken from 10 reefs from countries such as the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, the US, Panama, and Sweden. By doing so, they help the AI build valuable data on the health of these reefs.

These recordings are worth months of work and participants can become part of a listening collective of citizen scientists helping to identify all the fish sounds in the audio recordings.

The main goal of the project is to have the AI model identify different species’ sounds automatically so that experts can better understand the diversity of the ocean and protect the rich natural resources all around us.

Those interested can visit the Google Arts & Culture site to know more about the project.