Global Reef Expeditions Assess Coral Reef Health

Prince Khaled bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia had a dream: to fund research expeditions focused on the health of the ocean. The dream became reality when the Living Oceans Foundation was founded in California. Global Reef Expeditions Assess Coral Reef …

The Global Reef Expedition

The Foundation is conducting one of the largest coral reef studies in history. Called the Global Reef Expedition it will circumnavigate the globe surveying some of the most remote reefs on the planet. It will take five years to complete …

St. Kitts and Nevis

The Living Oceans Foundation conducts coral reef research on the reefs around St. Kitts and Nevis, a small two-island nation in the Eastern Caribbean. The land masses are volcanic with steep mountainous slopes, and the ocean shelf is relatively small. …

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

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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. …

Best Wishes for Reef Fishes

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Over the last ten days we were fortunate to have excellent weather and a hard working research team.  We completed surveys of representative reefs around both islands, hitting nearly every location we had planned.  Throughout this series of blogs, I …