[1][2] The aim of the project is to collect and make available genetic, species and ecosystem information about Southern African marine biodiversity.

[4] The SeaKeys project is managed though the South African National Biodiversity Institute marine programme under Dr Kerry Sink.

[3] The citizen science component is a major input for several new biodiversity atlas projects.

Citizen science input is largely by way of entering observations supported by an identifiable photograph of the observed organism, along with details of date, location, tentative identification and other information on any one of the web-based platforms associated with the project.

SA Jellywatch i-Spot and EchinoMAP (using Google Earth maps or GPS co-ordinates) to create detailed distributions of South African marine species.