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Coral Ecology

New Study on Great Barrier Reef Published

November 8, 2017

Written by Alison Barrat

By Alison Barrat Recently, there has been a welcome upsurge in the number of marine parks around the world. But, along with their creation comes the question, how well do they function? Scientists have been working to answer this through …

  • coral
  • coral reef
  • fisheries
  • Global Reef Expedition
  • Great Barrier Reef
  • Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
  • management zone
  • no-take zone
  • Pacific Ocean

Counting Corals

August 17, 2017

Written by Guest Author

  Maggie Dillon is a Science and Education Intern for the Khaled bin Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF). She is a senior at St. John’s College in Annapolis Maryland. After graduating, Maggie is interested in pursuing a Master’s Degree in Marine …

  • Cook Islands
  • coral
  • cpce
  • Global Reef Expedition
  • internship
  • marine biology
  • photo transect
  • Porites
  • St. John's College

Local management rescues reefs

August 10, 2017

Written by Stacy Jupiter, PhD

Stacy Jupiter wrote this article for us when we researched in Fiji in 2013. Now with our results in – hand her words still seem apt. Threats to marine resources Across the world, coral reefs and fisheries are in crisis. …

  • coral
  • fiji
  • Global Reef Expedition
  • Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
  • Lau
  • marine protected area
  • MPA

Marine Protected Area (MPA) Success

August 9, 2017

Written by Amy Heemsoth

On our  return to Fiji, government officials receiving our scientific results, discussed the benefits of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). When we collected the data for our research, we saw first hand how an MPA can transform the marine environment. Marine Protected …

  • coral
  • fiji
  • Global Reef Expedition
  • Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
  • Lau
  • marine protected area
  • Mavana
  • MPA

Colorful Coral in Lau, Fiji

August 3, 2017

Written by Amy Heemsoth

When we conducted field research in Lau in 2013 we noticed that the coral reefs seemed to have an unusually large number of fluorescent, brightly colored corals, more than we’d seen in past expeditions. Our full report of research in …

  • coral
  • coral bleaching
  • coral reefs
  • fiji
  • Global Reef Expedition
  • Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
  • Lau

Supermoons and Coral Reefs

August 1, 2017

Written by Amy Heemsoth

As the crew and science team watched from the M/Y Golden Shadow, a bigger, brighter moon filled the night sky rising above the island of Vanuabalavu on June 23, 2013. When the moon is closest to Earth, called perigee, it …

  • coral bleaching
  • coral health
  • coral reef
  • fiji
  • Global Reef Expedition
  • Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
  • research
  • supermoon

Fishing for Sea Cucumbers

July 27, 2017

The overfishing of sea cucumbers is detailed in our Fiji report. Here are some observations on sea cucumber fishing that we made during our research in Fiji in 2013. June 2013 Throughout the Lau Province it’s typical to find sea …

  • fiji
  • Global Reef Expedition
  • Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
  • Lau
  • overfishing
  • pacific blue foundation
  • reef survey
  • sea cucumbers

The Value of Sea Cucumbers

July 25, 2017

Our new Fiji report features detailed information about numbers of Sea cucumbers in Fiji. We also talk about what that means for the health of the reefs. Here’s a look back at our notes on Sea cucumbers during our field …

  • coral health
  • coral reefs
  • cyanobacteria
  • fiji
  • Global Reef Expedition
  • Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
  • Lau
  • research
  • sea cucumbers

Fiji’s Canopies of Coral

July 20, 2017

We recently published our final report from our research in Fiji.  Here’s an article we wrote while we collected all the data, and conducted the underwater research in 2013. From the Field Fiji’s coral reefs house some 333 species of …

  • coral crisis
  • coral diversity
  • coral reefs
  • coral survey
  • fiji
  • Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
  • moala
  • Pacific Ocean

Using Science For Conservation in Fiji

July 18, 2017

Written by Alison Barrat and Alexandra Dempsey

Scientists from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF) surveyed coral reefs in Fiji in 2013. As part of the Foundation’s ambitious Global Reef Expedition the scientists gathered the most detailed data on these reefs ever collected. Now, with the …

  • coral reef crisis
  • coral science
  • fiji
  • fiji final report
  • Fiji Government
  • Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
  • Lau
  • pacific ocea
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