Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Providing science-based solutions to protect and restore ocean health
As part of the Living Oceans Foundation’s efforts to inform local stakeholders on the importance of their coral reefs and the benefits of the proposed marine zoning strategy in conserving these resources, our St. Kitts & Nevis program includes a …
Today we are embarking on the second leg of the Global Reef Expedition. Destination: the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis (AKA Saint Christopher). The twin islands are part of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean, roughly east of …
Throughout the past three weeks, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Bahamian researchers, and other collaborators experienced a unique opportunity to study the shallow marine habitats of Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas. Cay Sal Bank is a submerged platform that …
As the sun sets on Cay Sal Bank in the Bahamas tonight, our home for the last three weeks – the M/Y Golden Shadow – is steaming home toward Freeport. Our research team had one final dive this morning before …
Hi Sonia… what is your background and connection to the Living Oceans Foundation? Hello! I am a Marine Biologist and I work under the supervision of professor Peter Mumby in the Marine Spatial Ecology Lab at the School of Biosciences …
After 15 full days of Cay Sal Bank coral reef research, our expedition team is still going strong. Our survey divers have completed transects and fish counts at 29 separate sites across the bank on nearly 40 dives. You can …
Hi Jeremy… Can you tell us about your involvement in the Living Oceans Foundation Global Reef Expedition? Sure, I’m a research assistant and a Ph.D. student in the National Coral Reef Institute housed at Nova Southeastern University’s Oceanographic Center and …
The weather has been beautiful the last few days. The sea is calm enough we can look over the railings of the Golden Shadow and see the bottom clearly, 20 meters below. We were treated to a gorgeous sunset this …
Throughout the weekend, our Global Reef Expedition research team continued to crank out dives and surveys in the far northeast corner of Cay Sal Bank. Tomorrow afternoon, following our team’s morning dives, the M/Y Golden Shadow will leave its current …
After arriving at our new anchorage point around noon, the expedition team was quickly underway again on the M/Y Golden Osprey for more research dives on Cay Sal Bank. During the transit, I caught up with coral reef scientist Dr. …