Final Reports
These reports are the final reports we create following an ocean research expedition. They include coral reef site descriptions, relevant data and observations, research images, ocean pictures, survey method details, and data analysis. Please download these reports and share them freely.
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2019
Global Reef Expedition: French Polynesia Final Report
Global Reef Expedition: French Polynesia. Final Report. Purkis, S., Dempsey, A., Carlton, R.D., Andréfouët, S., Samaniego, B., Rauer, E.M., and Renaud, P.G. (2017) Khaled Bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Annapolis, MD. Vol 5: 80p. ISBN: 978-0-9975451-1-1
The Global Reef Expedition: French Polynesia Final Report provides a comprehensive summary of the Foundation’s research findings from the Expedition, along with recommendations for preserving French Polynesia’s coral reefs into the future.
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2016
Global Reef Expedition Final Report: Fiji
Global Reef Expedition: Lau Province, Fiji. Final Report. Bruckner, A.W., Dempsey, A.C., Coward, G., Saul, S., Rauer, E.M. & Heemsoth, A. (2016). Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Annapolis, MD. 113p. ISBN: 978-0-9975451-0-4
The Global Reef Expedition Final Report: Lau Province, Fiji is the result of extensive scientific surveys conducted by the Khaled bin Sultan Living Ocean Foundation and local partners. This scientific report contains assessments of the health of coral reefs, surveys of the coral and fish communities, and detailed maps of shallow water marine habitats in Fiji.
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2016
This report on the COTS outbreak in Aitutaki, Cook Islands was prepared for the Government of the Cook Islands and local Stakeholders by the Living Oceans Foundation Chief Scientist who conducted the Cook Islands mission of the Global Reef Expedition in 2013.
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2016
World Heritage High Seas Report
Embodying our motto Science Without Borders®, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation has supported the efforts of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre Marine Programme to identify ways in which World Heritage status could be used to protect outstanding places on the High Seas. This project resulted in the publication of World Heritage in the High Seas: An Idea Whose Time has Come, a report by UNESCO and IUCN that proposes multiple ways in which World Heritage status could be used to protect places on the High Seas.
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2015
The Bahamas Underwater Atlas has gone interactive! The Atlas of Shallow Marine Habitats of Cay Sal Bank, Great Inagua, Little Inagua and Hogsty Reef, Bahamas is the result of months of underwater research to survey and map the seafloor. The Atlas combines advanced satellite imagery, aerial photography, and data from hundreds of research dives into the first-ever high-resolution coral reef ecosystem maps of many of Bahamas reefs.
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2013
Over a four year period, the Living Oceans Foundation has been involved in a massive scale habitat research project in the Red Sea. The results are now published in this first ever atlas of the offshore reefs in the Red Sea. It is available for download in both English and Arabic.
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2013
Galápagos Coral Reef and Coral Community Monitoring Manual
The Galápagos is an isolated archipelago of volcanic islands that straddle the equator, about 1000 km (620 miles) off the coast of Ecuador, in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. There are 14 main islands and over 100 small islets that sit on a deep platform and are surrounded by deep (2000-4000 m) water.
