By Dan Close · HSU Master's Thesis · Cal Poly Humboldt Marine Sciences

From a single H₂O molecule to a thirty-meter whale.

A four-part field guide to the science of aquatic ecosystems and the people working to put them back together. All offline-friendly. All animated. All single-page.

4 features SVG-only · works offline Narration built in

▶ A 1-minute video walkthrough · narrated by a Microsoft neural voice · assembled by Claude Code

Feature 1 · Overview

🌊 Aquatic Ecology

From a water molecule to a blue whale — eleven orders of magnitude on one screen, plus a depth tour you can scroll, click, and quiz yourself on.

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Feature 2 · Slide tour

🌊 Marine Restoration

A thesis-grade slide deck on coral, mangrove, oyster, seagrass, kelp, salt-marsh, and MPA work. Auto-play, fullscreen, arrow-key driven.

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Feature 3 · Slide tour

🏞 Freshwater Restoration

Rivers, lakes, wetlands, beavers, dam removal, urban green infrastructure — the most threatened ecosystems on Earth, and how to bring them back.

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Feature 4 · Deep-dive story

🤿 Scientific Diving

The hands and eyes of marine restoration. A 13-chapter narrative on how divers actually do the work — transects, outplanting, photogrammetry, lionfish.

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About this project

Four single-file HTML pieces by Dan Close — an HSU master's thesis project at Cal Poly Humboldt Marine Sciences. Every animation is inline SVG, every page works offline, every page reads itself aloud (tap the 🎧 button — bottom-right of any feature page).

For Microsoft natural neural voices, open the pages in Microsoft Edge; on macOS without Edge, the narration falls back to high-quality system voices like Samantha, Ava, or Allison.