An HSU Master's Thesis project at Cal Poly Humboldt Marine Sciences. Four single-page features on aquatic ecology, restoration ecology, and the scientific divers who actually rebuild reefs underwater. Built end-to-end in Claude Code in one sitting.
▶ 1-minute video walkthrough · narrated by a Microsoft neural voice (Ava) · assembled by Claude Code
Four single-file HTML features. Pure HTML, inline SVG, inline JavaScript — no build step, no npm, no tracking, no API keys. You can email or AirDrop any file and it just works.
"From Molecules to Whales" — eleven orders of magnitude on one screen. Auto-cycling Scale of the Sea hero, vertical depth tour, click-to-learn modals on every layer, end-of-page quiz.
A thesis-quality slide tour: coral fragmentation & microfragmentation, mangrove EMR, oyster reefs, seagrass meadows, kelp forests, salt marshes, and Marine Protected Areas.
Beavers as ecosystem engineers, BDAs, dam removal, riparian zones, floodplain reconnection, eutrophication recovery, urban green infrastructure, constructed treatment wetlands.
A 13-chapter narrative on the credentialed divers (AAUS, NOAA, Smithsonian) who actually rebuild reefs underwater — transects, photogrammetry, microfragmentation, lionfish culling.
Aquatic Ecology walks the ocean's living hierarchy: phytoplankton produce roughly half of Earth's oxygen; copepods are likely the most abundant animal on the planet; apex predators stabilize entire systems via trophic cascade; jellyfish blooms tend to follow forage-fish overharvest.
Marine Restoration covers Acropora coral fragmentation, microfragmentation that gives slow-growing massive corals a 5-25× growth boost, Lewis (2005) Ecological Mangrove Restoration (hydrology-first), Crassostrea oyster reefs in Chesapeake Bay (under 1% of pre-colonial biomass), Zostera seagrass meadows (Virginia Coast Reserve has restored 9,000+ acres), kelp forest recovery via sea otter return, and the 30×30 MPA target by 2030.
Freshwater Restoration covers Castor canadensis as ecosystem engineers, Beaver Dam Analogs as low-tech restoration, dam removal (over 2,000 US dams removed since 1912 and accelerating), stream channel restoration, floodplain reconnection, eutrophication recovery, urban green infrastructure, and constructed treatment wetlands.
Scientific Diving is a 13-chapter long-form on the people who actually do restoration work underwater — AAUS-credentialed divers, transect tape and quadrat protocols, microfragmentation hand-work, photogrammetry rigs, lionfish pole spears, and the rigor (DSO oversight, dive plans, 100 hours of training, paired buddy diving).
~6,000 lines of HTML / CSS / JavaScript across 5 self-contained pages.
edge-tts to call Microsoft's free Edge neural-voice backend (Ava) and serve cached MP3s on demand.git clone awayClone the repo, double-click index.html, you're in.
git clone https://github.com/nicedreamzapp/dan-aquatic-ecology
cd dan-aquatic-ecology
open index.html
Or open the live site hosted on GitHub Pages — no install needed.