Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
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Published in Coral Reefs Abstract Coral reefs are in global decline and anomalously hot temperatures shoulder the blame. Foraminferal bioindicators are important because they record historical reef stress over periods of centuries to millennia, as compared to the few decades …
HRH Princess Hala Signs MoU at Champions for Coral Innovation Accelerator Gala at the Science Museum in London London, UK — The G20 CORDAP and the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF) are proud to announce the signing …
The two organizations will collaborate to advance marine conservation and sustainable marine tourism in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA — Saudi Red Sea Authority (SRSA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Khaled bin Sultan Living …
Published in Geophysical Research Letters Abstract The Red Sea is a maritime rift. Tsunamigenic submarine landslides are common in these deep, steep-sided, and seismically active basins. Because the rift is narrow, tsunami formed on one margin dissipate little before impacting the opposite side. Red …
G20 Riyadh Summit November 19, 2020 A short film featuring the Khaled bin Sultan Living Ocean Foundation’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Sam Purkis, and his research in the Red Sea was shown at the G20 meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. After …
This past year was a very different year for the Foundation’s staff, it was the first year in many that we were not occupied with field work aboard our research vessel in some far-flung corner of the world. Having completed …
This article on the status of Red Sea corals is a direct result of the research conduction by the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation during its missions to the Red Sea, including Farasan Islands (2006), Ras Al-Qasabah (2007), Al …
Highlights: A typology of Saudi Arabian Red Sea coral carbonate systems is developed. Using a GIS, sixteen system end-members are identified, mapped and tallied. Several types of carbonate system are present throughout the length of the Red Sea. Other carbonate …
Coral reefs worldwide, even remote reefs, are impacted by global change – a combined multitude of large-scale and local stressors. COTS impacts and bleaching are key drivers of coral degradation. This scientific article on coral population trajectories looks at increased …
Red Sea Coral Reef Trajectories over 2 Decades Suggest Increasing Community Homogenization and Decline in Coral Size Three independent line intercept transect surveys on northern Red Sea reef slopes conducted in 1988/9 and 1997/8 in Egypt and from 2006–9 in Saudi …