History Timelines

We completed a reef habitat survey of remote Cay Sal bank. The research team examined the coral reef community composition in 39 locations for a total of 512 dives.

The team conducted detailed surveys of coral community structure and health, including photo documentation of habitat features and individual corals.

The researchers carried out aerial and SCUBA assessments of coral reef habitats to examine bottom composition and cover, coral population structure and condition, and fish composition, size structure and biomass.

We partnered with The Nature Conservancy to conduct a reef assessment to support the Jamaican government’s decision-making process. This led to the establishment of Jamaica’s first no-take fish sanctuary on Pedro Bank, Jamaica.

We assessed coral health, bottom composition and cover, and conch populations in Bajo Nuevo and Seranilla, some of the most remote reefs in the entire Caribbean.

This mission monitored shallow coral plots established in 2006. Researchers assessed coral health, reef fish populations, bottom structure and species composition of reef habitats, as well as conducting a socioeconomic assessment of reef fish fisheries.

The fourth research expedition to the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia took place at Farasan Banks, an area that had not been scientifically surveyed since Jacques Cousteau visited the area in the 1950s. Our research focused on habitat mapping, …

We have been conducting reef assessments in the Gambier group of islands which are a collection of extinct high volcanic islands more than 1,600 km southeast of Tahiti. For twelve days of this mission, the scientists characterized the complex reef …

We assessed coral communities noting health, diversity and size of fish and benthic species on three distinct zones of the atolls: the reef slope, reef flat, and lagoon. The atolls of the Society Islands comprise complex reef systems typically enclosing …

We partnered with the University of Miami to assess coral communities throughout the Galapagos archipelago. We focused our research on true reef systems round the northern islands of Wolf and Darwin. The Galapagos’ unique natural variation in ocean temperature and …