Rebirth of a Coral Reef
For our third dive of the day we surveyed a submerged mid shelf reef, adjacent and west of a deep water channel that bisects the Farasan Banks. As I descended to the bottom, something seemed amiss. Unlike the crystal clear, …
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Above the Waterline (Al Lith)
Today we continued exploring the reefs in the northern portion of the Farasan Banks and several team members surveyed the mountainous Abu Latt (Al Lith Island) Island. The islands sandy beaches are important hawksbill nesting grounds, with twelve tracks observed …
Our First Dives (Abu Latt)
Saturday, April 4. Our research team boarded the Golden Shadow on Saturday morning, departing from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia around mid day for a 7 hour (120 mile) journey to the northern end of the Farasan Banks. We reached our first …
Photosynthetic Symbioses in Animals
Photosynthetic Symbioses in Animals Marine animals acquire photosynthetically-fixed carbon by forming symbioses with algae and cyanobacteria. These associations are widespread in the phyla Porifera (sponges) and Cnidaria (corals, sea anemones etc.) but otherwise uncommon or absent from animal phyla. It is suggested that one …
Coral Disease Handbook: Guidelines for Assessment, Monitoring & Management
Coral Disease Handbook: Guidelines for Assessment, Monitoring & Management Our research careers began in Discovery Bay, Jamaica, in the mid 1970s, where we both studied the behavior of coral reef organisms, rather than the corals themselves. At that time, living coral …
Field Manual for Investigating Coral Disease Outbreaks
Field Manual for Investigating Coral Disease Outbreaks. Coral reefs throughout their circumtropical range are declining at an accelerating rate. Recent predictions indicate that 20% of the world’s reefs have been degraded, another 24% are under imminent risk of collapse, and …
Proceedings of the International Cyanide Detection Testing Workshop
Proceedings of the International Cyanide Detection Testing Workshop. The International Cyanide Detection Testing Workshop was conceived to identify possible options for reducing the use of cyanide in the capture of coral reef fi shes for the marine aquarium trade and …
Variation in the Distribution of Supralittoral Vegetation Around an Atoll Cay: Desroches (Amirante Islands, Seychelles)
The shores of the small coral cay on Desroches Atoll (Amirante Islands, Seychelles) span a range of conditions from relatively sheltered (along the atoll lagoonal coast) to very exposed (facing the Indian Ocean). This appears in no way to affect the occurrence of …
The ROVie
This ROV Movie (ROVie) was taken during the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Farasan Bank Expedition.
Indonesia Tsunami Impacts in Aceh Provence and North Sumatra
Indonesia Tsunami Impacts: Aceh Provence and North Sumatra The huge earthquake and resulting tsunami which occurred on December 26, 2004 off the west coast of Sumatra resulted in regionally variable patterns of impact in and around the Indian Ocean basin. The coast …