In the News
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2019
The Global Reef Expedition: A mission to assess the health of coral reefs around the world
They set out to survey the health of remote coral reefs. As Liz Thompson writes, the team returned with the largest collection of high-resolution coral reef maps on Earth.
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2019
With the storytelling tools in ArcGIS, the ocean community is telling powerful stories about ocean science, conservation, exploration, and field work. The Story Maps in this collection by Esri were chosen for the outstanding ways that they are informing, educating, and inspiring scientists, conservationists, decision-makers, and the general public, on a wide variety of ocean issues. They include two that feature our work with the iLCP in Palau and on the Great Barrier Reef.
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2019
Building the most accurate, most comprehensive, coral reef maps
How the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation used Maxar satellite imagery to create the largest high-resolution maps of coral reefs on Earth.
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2019
Big data and the race to save coral reefs
With climate change fast eliciting coral bleaching on a global scale, marine biologists with the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation are using predictive modeling to identify resilient reefs and help prioritize conservation efforts.
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2019
Science Magazine | Atlas shows remote coral reefs
Scientists have produced a global atlas of coral reefs with unprecedented breadth and detail, providing a new baseline to track the health of these living structures threatened by climate change. The atlas focuses on remote, understudied reefs and maps more than 65,000 square kilometers of them, about 25% of the estimated total area of all reefs worldwide.
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2019
Scientists create largest collection of coral reef maps ever made
A study from scientists at the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation and the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science offers a new way to accurately map coral reefs using a combination of Earth-orbiting satellites and field observations.
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2019
Scientists Create Giant Atlas of World's Most Remote Reefs
Gizmodo Australia interviews Living Ocean Foundation's Interim Chief Scientist, Dr. Sam Purkis, about mapping some of the most remote coral reefs on Earth.
