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 …

LOF World Web GIS Map Viewer Wins 1st Place

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation World Web GIS Map Viewer wins 1st place at the ESRI in the Maps and Apps Gallery for electronic submissions. This article is written by former LOF GIS Analyst, Amanda Williams, who now …

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 …

Diving with Spectators

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Currently, the Reef Islands has no airport and barely any visitors make their way to this group of islands in the south eastern Solomon Islands. In fact, our ship is one of only four to make it out this year—with …

Partners in Education

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I am really excited to be aboard the M/Y Golden Shadow for the second half of the Living Oceans Foundation’s (LOF) Solomon Islands mission. I have joined the LOF education team and I am representing a partner organization, OceansWatch. OceansWatch …

Traditional Canoes

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Today the education team is headed to Kia Village on Santa Isabel Island to conduct a seminar on coral reefs. Due to rough sea conditions, it took us a long time to get to our location, but when we got …

Solomon Islands Reef Survey Reveals Unexpected Sights Underwater

LANDOVER, MD, November 24, 2014 – The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation has completed a large-scale survey of Solomon Islands reefs, and what they saw was quite unexpected. The team of scientists boarded the M/Y Golden Shadow at the …

Preserving a Forest, Creating Income

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Today, we start working near Marovo Lagoon in the New Georgia Islands. This area is famous because it’s the largest saltwater lagoon in the world encompassing 700 square kilometers; however, this area is also well known for something else—its talented …