Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Providing science-based solutions to protect and restore ocean health
Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation completes second French Polynesia coral reef research project Landover, MD. December 11, – From Nov 13th to December 11th 2012 a team of scientists from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, joined by …
Temporal Variation in Nucleic Acid and Protein Ratios in Four Anthozoan-Dinoflagellate Endosymbioses of the Indo-Pacific: Implications for Molecular Diagnostics Given the threat of global climate change towards coral reefs and the endosymbiotic anthozoans that construct them, there is an urgent …
The effects of a variable temperature regime on the physiology of the reef-building corals Seriatopora hystrix: results from a laboratory-based reciprocal transplant To understand the effects of global climate change on reef-building corals, a thorough investigation of their physiological mechanisms of …
Red Sea Coral Reef Trajectories over 2 Decades Suggest Increasing Community Homogenization and Decline in Coral Size Three independent line intercept transect surveys on northern Red Sea reef slopes conducted in 1988/9 and 1997/8 in Egypt and from 2006–9 in Saudi …
Diseases, Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs) and Their Effects on Gulf Coral Populations and Communities Gulf coral populations exist in a harsh environment, which only allows a small subset of the typical Indo-Pacific fauna and flora to persist and/or form viable populations (Sheppard …
Assessment of the Community Structure, Status, Health and Resilience of St. Kitts and Nevis Coral Reefs When we first began this mission in early June, several of the researchers had their first exposure to the rapid assessment protocol we were applying …
Global Reef Expedition Navassa Field Report March 25‐31, 2012 Navassa Island (18◦24’10’’ N, 75◦0’45’’W) is a U.S. possession that is approximately 5 km2 in area. The island lacks permanent human population. The island is comprised of a raised plateau surrounded by steep …
Global Reef Expedition Pedro Bank, Jamaica Field Report March 10‐20, 2012 The coral reefs located off the north coast of the Jamaican mainland are some of the best and most studied reefs in the world (Hughes 1994). In contrast, very few …
Mapping, Characterizing and Assessing the Composition, Health and Resilience of Galápagos Coral Reefs. Between June 1-16, 2012, a multidisciplinary research team from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF), University of Miami, University of the Virgin Islands, Pennsylvania State …
Global Reef Expedition San Andres Archipelago, Colombia Field Report April 9-24, 2012 The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF), in partnership with CORALINA, completed a 15 day research mission (April 9-24) on three remote banks (Bajo Nuevo, Banco Alicia, …
