During your stay at Marine Conservation Philippines, you will most likely be involved with conducting some of our reef surveys. We conduct three different types of survey here. These types are substrate (bottom composition), invertebrate life, and fish life. There is a lot to take in, and you no doubt would like to hit the ground running.  If possible, we recommend starting the learning process before you arrive using the provided primers.  It gives you a basic understanding of what you are going to be working with.

In previous years we encouraged volunteer divers to practise before their arrival using a digital flash card system called Anki. it’s a neat little program used to display various decks of flashcards you can use for aiding fast learning of almost anything really. We used it for teaching fish, substrate and invertebrates.  Volunteers frequently encountered technical problems however, and often times got frustrated making the program work on their devices.  As such this is a legacy option, and we offer no technical support, nor do we update the Anki decks anymore.  We instead suggest new volunteers download the survey primers linked above.  If you want to take a look at Anki anyway, you will want to download the latest version of Anki from their webpage. It runs on pretty much anything – OSX, Windows, Linux as well as tablets and smartphones.