Palau

The Living Oceans Foundation Global Reef Expedition kicks off 2015 in Palau, visiting many of the country’s reefs including the Rock Islands Southern Lagoon, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The purpose of the research here is to obtain detailed information …

Solomon Islands

The Living Ocean Foundation Global Reef Expedition concludes its 2014 research mission schedule in the Solomon Islands. Research here contains four main components: (1) To collect detailed information about what lives on the reef; (2) To acquire high-resolution 360- degree …

World Web GIS Map Viewer Wins 1st Place at ESRI

The Living Oceans Foundation World Web GIS Map Viewer wins 1st place in the Maps and Apps Gallery for electronic submissions at the 2014 ESRI Ocean Forum, held in Redlands, CA November 5-7, 2014. The submission was for the World …

‘Mapping the Blue’ Wins Film Award at BLUE!

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation and its founder, His Royal Highness Prince Khaled bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, have won the award for Best Film in the Conservation Innovation and Solutions category of the 2014 BLUE Carpet Film …

The Great Barrier Reef

The Living Oceans Foundation Global Reef Expedition visits The Great Barrier Reef, the largest living thing on the planet, and home to one of the best managed marine parks in the world. The Foundation’s research here focuses on identifying differences …

Swimming the Seven Seas

In August 2014, the Foundation teamed up with endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh to complete seven long-distance swims in under a month. He is the United Nation’s Patron of the Ocean, and the goal of the challenge was to highlight the …

Vava’u Island Chain, Tonga

The Living Oceans Foundation Global Reef Expedition returns to Tonga to conduct land-based research, as a follow-up to their earlier visit here in the Fall of 2013, with three main goals in mind: (1) To better understand how the coral …

HRH Khaled bin Sultan wins Peter Benchley Award for Ocean Conservation

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation and its founder, His Royal Highness Prince Khaled bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, have been awarded a Peter Benchley award for Excellence in Ocean Exploration. The award recognizes their work exploring and creating …

HRH Prince Khaled bin Sultan Accepts the 2012 Perseus Award

The 2012 Recipient of the Perseus Award is His Royal Highness Prince Khaled bin Sultan of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the chairman and founder of the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation. The Perseus Award was created in 2010 …

New Caledonia

 The Living Oceans Foundation is conducting research in New Caledonia in November 2013 and will continue to use the reef research methodology that has been used across the South Pacific in 2013.  The research is being conducted in conjunction with …