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Tools for Science – On Expedition with the Living Oceans Foundation
  • [2014]
  • National Geographic recently featured an article about the Living Oceans Foundation Global Reef Expedition and the tools used by the science team to collect and analyze their data. The article is written by Jürgen Freund, Fellow at the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP)and science team participant on the Great Barrier Reef mission.

National Geographic recently featured an article about the Living Oceans Foundation Global Reef Expedition and the tools used by the science team to collect and analyze their data. The article is written by Jürgen Freund, Fellow at the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP)and science team participant on the Great Barrier Reef mission.

Tools for Science – On Expedition with the Living Oceans Foundation

National Geographic – Voices
December 11, 2014
By Jürgen Freund

Flying the drone.

“The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is circumnavigating the globe on a five year research mission to study the world’s coral reefs.  Scientific opportunities to do research like this don’t come along everyday but that’s just one of the reasons that their Global Reef Expedition is so special.  Another is that it involves a multidisciplinary team of scientists from many countries and institutions. For about a month at a time the researchers come together to live aboard the M/Y Golden Shadow to collect scientific data from remote corners of the ocean.”

Read full article here.

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