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What’s in a Name?

September 5, 2017

When you walk up to the front of William Knibb Memorial High School you see the faces of the past and present looking down at you. Amongst the portraits on the wall are Jamaican National Heroes and other notable individuals …

Closing Time – Wrapping up the Mangrove Education & Restoration Programs

August 31, 2017

Written by Amy Heemsoth

We reached the end of the school year in parts of the Americas. I can’t believe I’m already returning to the Caribbean to wrap up our Mangrove Education & Restoration programs (B.A.M. and J.A.M.I.N.) in this third and final installment. For the past …

Education Inspires Conservation

August 22, 2017

Written by Guest Author

Maggie Dillon is a Science and Education Intern for the Khaled bin Sultan 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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Earth Day Premiere of “An Ocean Mystery: The Missing Catch”

March 29, 2017

Written by Liz Thompson

An Ocean Mystery: The Missing Catch will premiere on Earth Day, April 22! Come watch the film with us at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History at 6pm or watch it at 8pm or 11pm ET/PT on the Smithsonian Channel. An Ocean Mystery: The Missing …