Coral

Walking Corals

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While most of the reefs we have surveyed in the Great Barrier Reef have an emergent reef flat, one of the northern reefs we were studying was fully submerged and quite difficult to locate.  After circling around our GPS coordinates …

Encounter with the Amazing

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Humans have long been in the habit of naming exceptional trees. The General Sherman sequoia, the Methuselah bristlecone pine, and a certain specimen of Ficus religiosa better known as the Bodhi Tree are three such notable individuals. Humans don’t live …

Midshelf Reefs

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After diving our first set of offshore Ribbon reefs we began exploring the Green, Pink and Blue Zones on a set of midshelf reefs.  The depths, water clarity and habitat structure are all vastly different from offshore reefs.  Most of …

Swimming Among Soft Corals of the Great Barrier Reef

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The Indo-West Pacific is known for their rich, diverse soft coral (octocoral) communities, and the Ribbon Reefs were no exception.  They are plant-like, resembling trees or bushes, but they are made up of polyps just like a stony coral.  Distinguished …

Ribbon Reefs

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For our first three days of research, we are comparing the coral and fish community within three Ribbon Reefs.  Ribbon Reefs form a chain of 10 individual reefs beginning to the north of Cairns and stretching close to 120 km …

Macro Coral

Here are some fantastic ocean images of macro coral we have come across during our underwater photography and coral reef research efforts…

New Caledonia Field Report

Between, 26 October, 2013 – 26 November, 2013, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation conducted a research mission to New Caledonia as part of the Global Reef Expedition. The research focused on coral reefs in four locations, Ile des …

Corals Get Sick Too! Coral Disease (with examples)

Corals have many natural and anthropogenic threats. Coral disease is just one of them. Find out more about corals, coral disease, and how coral disease is causing the deterioration of coral reefs around the world.

GoPro Flyover of Fijian Reefs

This GoPro Flyover of Fijian Reefs shows the beautiful coral reefs of the Fiji Islands through the eyes of a GoPro camera aboard the Golden Fleet’s amphibious aircraft, the Golden Eye.

Tonga Field Report

Between September 10, 2013 – October 3, 2013 the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation conducted a research mission to Tonga as part of the Global Reef Expedition, focusing on coral reefs surrounding the islands in the Ha’apai group (Sep 11-21), …