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Thriving Alien and Declining Local Invertebrates

The French Polynesian scientists participating on the Society Islands mission took the opportunity to quantify the abundance of a number of French Polynesia invertebrates… species that have, or may have, a commercial and food subsistence role in the near future. In particular, they investigated the abundance of a number of sea cucumbers species,...

Assessment of the Community Structure, Status, Health and Resilience of St. Kitts and Nevis Coral Reefs

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 to assess the resilience of these St. Kitts and Nevis coral reefs. They received a compressed one...

Global Reef Expedition Pedro Bank, Jamaica Field Report March 10‐20, 2012

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 research studies have been conducted on the banks located off the south coast of Jamaica. The first...

Saving the Archipelago's Conch

Each day, as the bulk of the team’s divers head out to the reefs aboard the Calcutta, a group of four divers from Colombia hops in a smaller boat to go looking for queen conch. It’s a continuation of work that’s been underway since 2003 to study conch populations in the archipelago here. Heins Best getting a heading for a survey site That was...

Lionfish: Scourge of the Caribbean

Today was a busy day: three dives and – finally – calm enough seas to launch the Twin V with Steve Schill’s sidescan sonar. The original plan was to do one dive, then stop by Middle Cay and ask the local fishermen for their thoughts on where to find good, protected patches of coral. But the visit was postponed after a fishing boat swung...

Jamaica Final Report

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF), in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, conducted a research mission to Pedro Bank, Jamaica between March 10-20, 2012 as part of the Global Reef Expedition. The research team included scientists from KSLOF, The Nature Conservancy, the National Environment and Planning Agency of Jamaica (NEPA),...

Global Reef Expedition Research Plan

NEARLY 20% OF THE WORLD’S CORAL REEFS HAVE EFFECTIVELY BEEN LOST AND ANOTHER 15% ARE SERIOUSLY THREATENED AND MAY BE LOST WITHIN THE NEXT 10-20 YEARS. Coral reefs provide critical habitat for fish, crustaceans, mollusks and other marine creatures, and approximately 30 million of the world’s poorest people depend entirely on coral reefs for food and...

Living Oceans Foundation Accomplishments

A Decade of Accomplishments In over a decade since the inception of the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation in the year 2000, there have been many notable accomplishments. View the LOF History Timeline The operations and research activities conducted by the Foundation to date may be categorized into three distinct phases: 1998-2005: Scientific...

Thank You for Having Us, St. Kitts and Nevis!

Today, most of the research scientists disembarked the M/Y Golden Shadow at the conclusion of a very successful research project in St. Kitts and Nevis. As they walked down the pier, we welcomed 23 students and 4 chaperones from St. Kitts and Nevis who boarded the ship for an outreach day cruise. The 14 students from St. Kitts attend the Clarence...

Welcome to St. Kitts and Nevis

Today we are embarking on the second leg of the Global Reef Expedition. Destination: the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis (AKA Saint Christopher). The twin islands are part of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean, roughly east of Antigua and Barbuda, north of Montserrat and south Saba. Together, having a total landmass of just 262 km2, St....

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