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  This award-winning film tells the story of how Rugby League star, Kevin Iro, turned conservationist and founded the world's largest sanctuary where he used to play as a boy. By using high tech mapping from KSLOF, Iro and his team are able to show the best uses for areas within this pristine ocean park which is good for conservation and the needs of local people.

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  The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation has completed the World Reef Map, an online interactive coral reef atlas that allows users to explore all of the coral reefs and shallow water marine habitats mapped on the Global Reef Expedition.

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Science Without Borders® is the overarching theme of the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation. It guides all of our work as we pursue our mission to preserve, protect and restore the world's oceans and aquatic resources.

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  The application period for the 2021 Science Without Borders® Challenge is now closed. This annual art contest encourages students to be creative while learning about important ocean science and conservation issues. The competition is open to middle and high school students 11-19 years old, with prizes of up to $500 awarded to the winning entries.

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Coral reefs are dying, but scientists are stepping up to try to save them for their children, and for future generations."This is just the first major ecosystem that we feel could collapse," says Joanie Kleypas, a scientist at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, a federally funded research institute. "So we have to do something. The eyes are on us."Read more in @NPR: ... See MoreSee Less

Fearing Their Kids Will Inherit Dead Coral Reefs, Scientists Are Urging Bold Action

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Hotter oceans are putting coral reefs in peril worldwide. Scientists are wa...

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How can you help scientists address the coral reef crisis? Well, one way is to play NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's NeMO-NET game! This interactive game helps scientists map coral reefs while providing you with a fun and educational experience.Learn more in The Guardian: ... See MoreSee Less

Nasa scientists find unlikely tool as rising temperatures bleach corals: a phone app

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Without the app, mapping reefs usually involves high amounts of data and lo...

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Blue Carbon is taking off, can investing in the restoration of mangrove forests and seagrass beds be the secret to combatting climate change while helping to restore coastal marine ecosystems and the communities that depend upon them? ... See MoreSee Less

‘Blue Carbon’ Credits Could Help Restore Ecosystems

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Seagrasses, mangrove forests, and wetlands store tons of carbon. But can a ...

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Scientists at Allen Coral Atlas, powered by ASU have launched a new system to detect #CoralBleaching, almost in real-time. ... See MoreSee Less

Scientists launch tool to detect bleaching of coral reefs in near real time

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The world-first system can allow anyone to check if reefs known to be under...

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NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley is partnering with the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation of Annapolis, Maryland, to use their extensive high-resolution data about reefs and expand NASA’s coral mapping capabilities.The Space Act Agreement with the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation gives NASA access to data from the Foundation’s Global Reef Expedition, one of the largest surveys of corals ever completed. The partnership will use this massive dataset in conjunction with the NeMO-Net neural network and the Pleiades supercomputer at Ames, to map and track the health of the world’s coral reefs to give us the best look beneath the waves we’ve ever had. Learn more:https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/ames/nasa-expands-efforts-to-map-corals ... See MoreSee Less

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