Palau

In January 2015, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation embarked on a research mission to Palau. As part of the Foundation’s Global Reef Expedition, this research mission conducted standardized surveys of coral reefs and reef fish in many locations across Palau, …

Far-Reaching Education

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Today, was our last day conducting coral reef education programs throughout the Solomon Islands. I can’t believe how quickly time has passed here. It just seems like yesterday when we were conducting our first program. Over this past month, I …

Manta Encounter

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Today we were conducting our ground-truthing operations in the beautiful lagoon of the Reef Islands in the Solomon Islands.  The Reef Islands are a collection of remote islands and reefs located in the Santa Cruz group of islands, southeast of …

Tools for Science – On Expedition with the Living Oceans Foundation

National Geographic recently featured an article about the Living Oceans Foundation Global Reef Expedition and the tools used by the science team to collect and analyze their data. The article is written by Jürgen Freund, Fellow at the International League …

Great Barrier Reef Field Report

During the month of September 2014, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation conducted a research mission to the Great Barrier Reef as part of the Global Reef Expedition. In response to the some of the reef’s decline, the Great …

We J.A.M.I.N.!

By Amy Heemsoth In early October we partnered with the University of the West Indies (UWI) Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory to launch a new project as part of our Education program. We called it (J.A.M.I.N.), which stands for Jamaica Awareness …

Who’s up for a Dive on an Active Volcano?

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After our dive earlier in the mission where we could hear the submarine explosions of Kavachi, the underwater volcano (and occasionally nascent island landmass), we were told that we were in for a special treat on the last day of …

A Customary Ceremony

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Today both the education and science teams conducted business as usual; however, the afternoon brought about a special welcome ceremony that few get to experience. In order to work in the Solomon Islands, we obtained both a national and provincial …