Photography
At the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, we strongly believe in the value of a powerful image. Perhaps because it helps make an emotional connection to a creature many of us will never meet, or it illustrates a concealed …
Education and Outreach
Launching Our Coral Reef Curriculum
Written by Liz Rauer & Amy Heemsoth The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is proud to launch our brand new Coral Reef Education Portal! This custom-built online platform contains a comprehensive coral reef curriculum complete with lesson plans, quizzes, educational …
Planting the Seed
Written by Amy Heemsoth I’m back in Jamaica and we are wrapping up the Jamaica Awareness of Mangrove in Nature (J.A.M.I.N.) project. The energy at the schools is electric. As a former secondary school teacher, I can relate to the …
Artwork Inspired by the Reef 2015
Written by Amy Heemsoth Science without Borders® Challenge Winners 2015 The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is proud to announce winners of the 2015 Science Without Borders® Challenge. The Challenge is an international art competition that inspires students to …
New App gives Fishers a Say
Written by Alison Barrat Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge in Honduras seems like an unlikely place to launch a custom-built app that collects fishing data but that’s exactly what a dedicated team from the Center for Marine Studies (CEM) in …
Partner Profile: International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP)
(And some of the best underwater images you’ll ever see) At KSLOF we strongly believe in the value of a powerful image. Perhaps because it helps make an emotional connection to a creature many of us will never meet, …
New Study Reveals Worrying Future for Corals
Written by Alison Barrat A new paper, Galápagos coral reef persistence after ENSO warming across an acidification gradient, gives a more detailed picture than ever of how ocean acidification and increased ocean temperatures combine to spell disaster for the worlds reefs, …
We J.A.M.I.N.!
By Amy Heemsoth In early October we partnered with the University of the West Indies (UWI) Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory to launch a new project as part of our Education program. We called it (J.A.M.I.N.), which stands for Jamaica Awareness …
Swimming the Seven Seas
By Alison Barrat In August this year the Foundation teamed up with endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh to complete seven long-distance swims in under a month. He is the United Nation’s Patron of the Ocean, and the goal of the challenge …
2014 Winners! Science Without Borders® Challenge
Science Without Borders® Challenge Winners The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation announces that Riley Samels from Ohio is this year’s Science Without Borders® Challenge winner. His stunning art work ‘Reef in a Bottle’ beat out the fierce competition to take …