Project Portal

GUE Project Portal

Our Dream

Global Underwater Explorers is expanding efforts to conserve the underwater world, by creating a suite of resources for a diverse set of community-led projects. This initiative intends to inspire GUE communities to start and develop a broad range of projects, by using a standardized set of project planning tools. 
We are building dreams one diver at a time, and this is embedded in all GUE Projects.

Our Project Portal is designed to leverage the organization of GUE projects across multiple disciplines, environmental objectives, and global communities using our DREAM initiative. We will help divers to:

  • Define the project objective
  • Research properties that illuminate your objective
  • Explore your environment and record relevant observations
  • Analyze and assemble observations in a publicly accessible manner
  • Motivate divers and laypersons in support of the underwater environment

what is a gue project?

A GUE Project is a goal-oriented scientific, educational, explorational, and/or conservational endeavor. Projects require a team of divers and support personnel who use advanced planning techniques, unique diving skills, and appropriate technology to realize their objectives. These activities may be recreational or focus on technical and/or cave skill sets. GUE Project goals should be defined within one or more of the following categories:

Exploration

Projects related to scouting and searching dives, with outputs such as reports, the discovery of new unexplored areas in underwater systems, and laying the groundwork for future iterations of projects.


Featured project: Dolina Pai João Exploration

Documentation

Projects related to photography, videography and other media, with outputs such as survey materials, photogrammetry models, and mini documentaries as outreach materials.


Featured project: Resurvey and Exploration of Cenote Cocom

Sample Collection

Projects related to scientific surveys, data collection and sample collections under permits, with outputs such as academic publications, reports for marine management, and evidence of species discovery.


Featured project: Measuring brain activity underwater with DAN

Conservation

Projects related to activities to protect the environment such as beach cleanups, ghost net removals, and seagrass planting, with outputs of  ecosystem restoration, and preservation of aquatic areas.


Featured project: Clean the Gulf 

browse OUR PROJECT library

Project Name

Location

Find us

Project Brief

Sketchfab / other media

Clean the Gulf Project Gulf of Orosei, Sardinia  
Resurvey and Exploration of Cenote Cocom Playa del Carmen, Mexico     
Dolina Pai João Exploration Project Nobres, Brazil Model soon!
Measuring Brain Activity Underwater DAN x Deep Dive Dubai, UAE    
Rec/Science Week 2024 Glavotok, Krk, Croatia  
Coral Soul Deep Core La Herradura, Spain   
Baltic Wreck Week 2024 Władysławowo, Hel and Jastarnia    
Biodiversity Mapping in Bue Marino  Bue Marino Cave, Cala Gonone  
Operation Spöknät - Lobster Pots Sweden Report soon!
BauBau, Boeton exploration project Indonesia, Southeast Sulawesi  
Operation Spöknät - Ghost nets Sweden    
Project Baseline - Islas Hormigas / Descadagor Cabo de Palos, Spain    Model soon!
SDSS - summary Sicily, Italy    Report soon!
Phreatic Organisation - summary Sardinia, Italy    Report soon!

2023 compilation

SDSS report

Phreatic report

Annual report Sweden

2020-2021

2019-2020

2018

2017

2016


how to create a GUE project

Before organizing your project in full, it is important to develop the ideas and goals of the projects, conduct a preliminary planning phase (including a budget and permit considerations), and then register your Project with GUE HQ. The resources below will help you to do that.

Step 1: Develop

  • The GOALS of the project
  • The TYPE of project (recreational, technical or mixed)
  • The VALUE it will bring to the community and to GUE
  • Who will be the PROJECT MANAGER

Step 3: Register with HQ

Register my project

request manager Resources

email jenn@gue.com

Step 2: Plan

  • What is your BUDGET (paid or unpaid for participants?)
  • If your project is FUNDED or not (and are you receiving grants)
  • OVERALL TIMELINE (Gantt charts)
  • Any PERMITS needed (including environmental impact assessments)

After step 3: Receive access to the Project Portal manager resources

After you have registered your project on the GUE HQ website, you will receive access to the Project Portal Manager resources: a suite of  templates and guides designed to help you in all facets of project-planning: from logistics and budget ideas, to dive plans and report templates, to outreach and SOPs. 

project portal Manager Resources: Continuing the step-by-step process

  1. Team recruitment

  2. Admin for all (including medical and liability forms)

  3. Health / SOP guidelines (including Crisis Response and Risk Management plans)

  4. Logistics / travel

  5. Project timelines (including examples and templates)

  6. Diving plans / gear

  7. Data management

  8. Media / outreach

  9. Reports / delivery (including templates and checklists)

our commitment to you

  • Proving building tools that makes it easier and less intimidating for divers to develop projects.
  • Helping augment team resources by getting managers in touch with the right people.
  • Using GUE's credibility and the success of our project activities to gain access to otherwise difficult-to-access locations.
  • Writing letters to lend official credibility for approved projects, and provide marketing resources.

faq

Yes - anyone (GUE diver or non-GUE diver), can see and access the different project summaries. We hope that this will encourage aspiring projects divers and citizen scientists to get involved with GUE!
Yes - only GUE divers are able to register a project, and then request the library of resources and information to make a project. If you are not a GUE diver, some of these resources would not make sense otherwise).
GUE Projects come with a set of definition and taxonomic guidelines that have to be met, or to have context-specific variables that allows for deviation. GUE divers can be, and are, involved in numerous projects all over the world, as part of other teams and organisation, so this may not constitute as GUE Projects specifically (as per our Project Guideline document v1). In addition, this Project library includes only a selection of featured projects from Project Baseline but this is not exhaustive – see more here at https://projectbaseline.org/.
Contact GUE's Project Co-ordinator (jenn@gue.com) for more information and questions.

How to join a gue project

Looking to get involved? Look at the Project Briefs above, and get in contact with the project lead directly. Look at the advertised projects already on the Events Calendar and sign up, or joining a citizen science initiative with Project Baseline. Or, why not join the NextGen Legacy Project community for some project and training inspiration?

And speaking of training; consider a GUE course that will give you additional skills before joining a project. For example: UW Cave Survey, Scientific Diver, Documentation Diver, Photogrammetry Diver, Gas Blender and Advanced First Aid.

Join Project Baseline

Grow the NextGen Legacy Project

Sign up to an advertised project