The secret seagrass beds of BIOT

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Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 23 Seagrass beds are found in many tropical coral reef lagoons around they world. They provide important ecosystem services, including sediment retention, juvenile fish habitat, and coastal protection. Historically, seagrasses have also been used as …

Life and Death on the Reef

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Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 22 The grim reaper comes quickly if you are a coral. Superbly adapted to their life in the shallow ocean and so successful that they can build some of the biggest structures created by living …

First Underwater Atlas of the Bahamas Published

Nassau – The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, along with the Bahamas National Trust (BNT), recently presented a new Bahamas Underwater Atlas to the Right Honourable Perry Christie, Prime Minister of The Bahamas and the Honourable Khaalis Rolle, Minister …

First Underwater Atlas of the Bahamas Published

Nassau – The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, along with the Bahamas National Trust (BNT), recently presented a new Bahamas Underwater Atlas to the Right Honourable Perry Christie, Prime Minister of The Bahamas and the Honourable Khaalis Rolle, Minister …

Bahamas Atlas

The Bahamas Atlas, Atlas of Shallow Marine Habitats of Cay Sal Bank, Great Inagua, Little Inagua and Hogsty Reef, Bahamas, is the result of months of underwater research to survey and map the seafloor. The Atlas combines advanced satellite imagery, …

Solomon Islands Field Report

Between October 26, 2014 and November 24, 2014, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation conducted a coral reef research, outreach and education mission to map and characterize the shallow marine habitats and assess the status of coral reefs and …

Wobbling Coastlines of the Chagos Islands

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Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 18 I’m spending the week walking the coastlines of as many of the islands of Peros Banhos atoll as I can with an accurate global positioning system (GPS). The challenge we face when extracting the …

The Colors of BIOT

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Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 13 On a recent lagoonal dive in the center of Salomon Atoll I felt like I was at a carnival swimming through a pool of rainbow glazed popcorn. Fluorescent lime green, pink, purple, blue and …

Remote Sensing and Modeling of Coral Reef Resilience

This article, published by one of the Living Oceans Foundation Fellows, Gwilym Rowlands, PhD, looks at remote sensing and modeling of coral reef resilience. Remote Sensing and Modeling of Coral Reef Resilience Remote Sensing and Modeling June 17, 2014 By …

Grouper Aggregation

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Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 9 Blacksaddled Groupers (Plectropomus laevis) are aggregating in Chagos. Groupers are usually solitary fish, except when it comes to spawning, when small groups or larger aggregations form to release large quantities of eggs and sperm …