CoralWatch is the result of the unusual union between world leading vision and colour experts at VTHRC (Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre- www.vthrc.uq.edu.au/ecovis) and world leading coral experts at CMS (Centre for Marine Studies- www.marine.uq.edu.au) at The University of Queensland, Australia. Their main research interests are colour vision and colour perception in marine animals and stress in reef-building corals due to climate change respectively. ;