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Restocking the Future – Part 2

June 22, 2013

Written by Amy Heemsoth and Andrew Bruckner, PhD

Restocking giant clams requires patience and lots of nurturing. The overall process can take as long as 3 years to grow a giant clam that is able to be sold to the aquaria trade and even longer for meat production. …

Searching for Sea Snails

June 21, 2013

Written by Andrew Bruckner, PhD

Reef building corals start out from a small larvae (planula) that settles onto the reef, or from a fragment that has broken off another colony. The polyps that make up the coral divide, repeatedly, into two or more daughter polyps, …

Canopies of Coral

June 20, 2013

Written by Andrew Bruckner, PhD

Fiji’s coral reefs house some 333 species of corals of all shapes, sizes and colors, many of which we’ve seen in Lau Province. We’ve examined many reef types, some which fringe the shore (fringing reefs), some in the center of …

Sea Cucumber Craze – Part 2

June 19, 2013

Written by Amy Heemsoth

Throughout the Lau Province it’s typical to find sea cucumbers drying in the sun. The dried sea cucumbers are called beche-de-mer. These sea cucumbers fetch a good price and for some islands it has become their primary source of income. …

Local Management to the ‘Reef’ Rescue

June 14, 2013

Written by Stacy Jupiter, PhD

Across the world, coral reefs and fisheries are in crisis. In Fiji over the past few decades, increased demands for cash income and material goods, coupled with growing populations and access to markets, have led to substantially increased pressure on …

Scuba Diving

June 14, 2013

Almost all of the Living Ocean Foundation’s scientific research is conducted via SCUBA diving. Since the start of the Global Reef Expedition in 2011, the Foundation has worked with 196 different scientists and has safely conducted over 6000 SCUBA dives, …

Scientific Collaboration

June 14, 2013

In order to understand the dynamics of a coral reef ecosystem, we must conduct standardized research techniques, which include scientific surveys and habitat mapping. This data helps our scientists to understand the entire picture for what is happening with coral …

Reef Resilience

June 14, 2013

During our research at sea we take measurements and collect data to help us determine a reef’s resilience What is Reef Resilience? In a nutshell resilience is the ability of an ecosystem, like a coral reef, to both resist change …

Global Reef Expedition

June 12, 2013

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation completed one of the largest coral reef studies in history: the Global Reef Expedition. Over the course of 10 years, the Expedition circumnavigated the globe aboard the M/Y Golden Shadow surveying some of …

Coral Ecology

June 12, 2013

Coral ecology is the study of relationships between living organisms found on coral reefs and their interactions with the natural and human environment. All kinds of sea creatures, corals and other invertebrates, fish, algae and seagrasses, are all integrally linked …