Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Providing science-based solutions to protect and restore ocean health
Between October 26, 2014 and November 24, 2014, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation conducted a coral reef research, outreach and education mission to map and characterize the shallow marine habitats and assess the status of coral reefs and …
This article, published by two Living Oceans Foundation Research Fellows, Gwilym Rowlands and Jeremy Kerr, and long-time Science Team member, Sam Purkis, seeks to unravel the influence of water depth and wave energy on the facies diversity of shelf carbonates. …
This article, published by one of the Living Oceans Foundation Fellows, Andersen Mayfield, PhD, looks at how rubisco expression in the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp. is influenced by both photoperiod and endosymbiotic lifestyle. Rubisco Expression in the Dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp. Is …
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 …
The Galapagos Islands have been famous for a century and a half, but even Charles Darwin thought the archipelago’s list of living wonders didn’t include coral reefs. It took until the 1970s before scientists realized the islands did in fact …
The fact that you now can explore the ocean through Google Earth isn’t going to make Google much money directly. But the move is nonetheless smart. Why the ocean matters…to Google c|net February 2, 2009 By Stephen Shankland Google generated …
LANDOVER, MD, January 8th, 2015 – Today a massive coral reef research expedition begins in Palau. It is a joint project between the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, the Coral Reef Research Foundation, and Palau International Coral Research Center …
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation conducted a research mission to Pedro Bank, Jamaica in 2012 as part of its Global Reef Expedition. This scientific article on the Status of Coral Reefs of Commercial Importance in Jamaica is a …
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation conducted a research mission to the Galápagos Islands in 2012 as part of its Global Reef Expedition. This scientific article on Galápagos coral reef persistence, written by several science team members, is a …
National Geographic recently featured an article about the Living Oceans Foundation Global Reef Expedition and the tools used by the science team to collect and analyze their data. The article is written by Jürgen Freund, Fellow at the International League …
