Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
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This article, published by one of the Living Oceans Foundation Fellows, Andersen Mayfield, PhD, looks at how rubisco expression in the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp. is influenced by both photoperiod and endosymbiotic lifestyle. Rubisco Expression in the Dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp. Is …
This article, published by one of the Living Oceans Foundation Fellows, Andersen Mayfield, PhD, looks at protein analysis in large benthic foraminifera. Protein Analysis in Large Benthic Foraminifera Approaches to Study Living Foraminifera, Environmental Science and Engineering December 11, 2013 …
This article, published by one of the Living Oceans Foundation Fellows, Andersen Mayfield, PhD, looks at compartment-specific transcriptonimics in a reef-building coral exposed to elevated temperatures. Compartment-specific transcriptomics in a reef-building coral exposed to elevated temperatures Molecular Ecology November 27, …
This article, published by one of the Living Oceans Foundation Fellows, Andersen Mayfield, PhD, delivers insight acquired from aquarium studies in Southern Taiwan into the effects of temperature on gene expression in the Indo-Pacific reef-building coral Seriatopora hystrix. The effects …
Highlights A recommended minimum harvest size of 80 mm was not adopted. Corallium rubrum resources above 50 m, instead of 80 m, are protected but enforcement is inadequate. Deep C. rubrum resources are being exploited without prior stock assessments. Inshore …
Highlights: A typology of Saudi Arabian Red Sea coral carbonate systems is developed. Using a GIS, sixteen system end-members are identified, mapped and tallied. Several types of carbonate system are present throughout the length of the Red Sea. Other carbonate …
The Galapagos Islands have been famous for a century and a half, but even Charles Darwin thought the archipelago’s list of living wonders didn’t include coral reefs. It took until the 1970s before scientists realized the islands did in fact …
Energy behavior in virgin coral reef communities taught seven Bahamian researchers with the team of Living Oceans Foundation’s scientists how natural law operates in the isolated marine environment of Cay Sal Bank. They spent 20 days at sea with 18 …
Alison Barrat’s film “Mapping the Blue” follows the story of the world’s largest marine park. The film is one of the entries in this year’s American Conservation Film Festival. Barrat lives in Maryland, near the Chesapeake Bay, and works for …
Prince Khaled bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia had a dream: to fund research expeditions focused on the health of the ocean. The dream became reality when the Living Oceans Foundation was founded in California. Global Reef Expeditions Assess Coral Reef …
