Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Providing science-based solutions to protect and restore ocean health
The average person doesn’t get too excited about algae, which most know as seaweed. It smells when it accumulates on the beach and rots, it can outcompete coral when left unchecked, and it’s generally considered bad for reefs, especially when …
Two days of diving and our coral reef research is well underway in Isle de Pins, New Caledonia. Although sea conditions were very murky, we explored three lagoonal patch reefs yesterday and successfully completed our standardized coral, benthic and fish …
Our 17th mission of the Global Reef Expedition is to New Caledonia, a special collectivity (a former territory under special status) of France located in the southwest Pacific about 1200 km from Australia, and home to some of the most …
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation explored the reefs of New Caledonia on the Global Reef Expedition, conducting extensive coral reef surveys and creating detailed maps of the seafloor. From October through November of 2013, KSLOF scientists worked in …
