Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Providing science-based solutions to protect and restore ocean health
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation has completed the World Reef Map, an online interactive coral reef atlas that allows users to explore all of the coral reefs and shallow water marine habitats mapped on the Global Reef Expedition. With over 65,000 square kilometers of shallow water marine ecosystems mapped, this is by far the largest collection of high-resolution coral reef maps ever made.
Published in Diversity, January 2019 By Garrett B. Johnson, Brett M. Taylor, William D. Robbins, Erik C. Franklin, Rob Toonen, Brian Bowen, and J. Howard Choat Abstract The structure and dynamics of coral reef environments vary across a range of spatial scales, with …
Published in Ecology, December 2017 By Brett M. Taylor, Simon J. Brandi, Maia Kapur, William D. Robbins, Garrett Johnson, Charlie Huveneers, Phil Renaud, and John Howard Choat Abstract Ectotherms exhibit considerable plasticity in their life-history traits. This plasticitycan reflect variability in …
Previously, you heard the voice of the students in our B.A.M. program. Now it’s time to hear how the students in Jamaica feel about our J.A.M.I.N. program. Year 1 Program “My favorite part of the J.A.M.I.N. program is when I actually got to …
Throughout the B.A.M. and J.A.M.I.N. programs, we evaluate each program by surveying students in each of the three phases. We use this information to gage how much information the students initially know regarding mangroves and their attitudes towards them before we begin the programs. …
With our partners at FRIENDS of the Environment, we would like to congratulate the students in our 2017-2018 Bahamas Awareness of Mangroves (B.A.M.) program for completing yet another successful year of the program. Our year 1 students from Forest Heights Academy had …
Mangrove Education and Restoration Blog Fungi are all around us. Some of it we can see – mushrooms and molds, while others we cannot – Pestalotiopsis, the disease-causing fungi that our students in the B.A.M. and J.A.M.I.N. programs find present …
Maggie Dillon is a Science and Education Intern for the Khaled bin Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF). She is a senior at St. John’s College in Annapolis Maryland. After graduating, Maggie is interested in pursuing a Master’s Degree in Marine …
On our return to Fiji, government officials receiving our scientific results, discussed the benefits of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). When we collected the data for our research, we saw first hand how an MPA can transform the marine environment. Marine Protected …
This month we released our Fiji final report, titled Global Reef Expedition Final Report: Lau Province, Fiji, it reveals that despite vibrant coral communities, Fiji’s reefs show signs of trouble. The report is the result of extensive scientific surveys we …
