Anne Cohen
Digital Reefs
Growing up on South Africa’s Wild Coast, the seaside was Anne Cohen’s playground. Growing up under apartheid, she was also acutely aware of how the disenfranchised majority had no access to the seaside, or to an education.
Now a coral reef scientist at one of the world’s most prestigious oceanographic institutions (watch her work at the Cohen Lab), with a focus on conserving Super Reefs, Anne’s determination to democratize access to scientific information led to the development of Digital Reefs, an interactive, immersive online platform that leverages powerful 21st-century Digital Twin and gaming-engine technologies, to bring coral reef data and decision-making tools to millions of stakeholders all over the world, at their desktops, laptops and cell phones, via a universal visual language. Watch Anne talk about Digital Reefs here.

