Students Explore the Hidden World of Microscopic Marine Life Through Art The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is proud to announce the winners of the 2026 Science Without Borders® Challenge, an international student art contest that promotes ocean science
Navigate with Care: Protect Our Oceans, a global campaign developed jointly by the International Foundation for Aids to Navigation (IFAN) and the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF), comes to a close after a successful launch phase. The campaign
Abstract Introduction: High-resolution imaging of coral reefs is critical for understanding ecosystem dynamics and guiding conservation efforts yet monitoring these changes at ecologically relevant spatial and temporal scales remains challenging. Methods: We present cm-scale benthic habitat maps for over 5
The 2025 Annual Report highlights how the Foundation is building on a 25-year legacy of exploration and discovery while continuing to evolve its approach to ocean conservation. From the Global Reef Expedition to today, our work has generated knowledge that
Abstract Citizen science approaches for monitoring, and even restoring, coral reefs have grown in popularity though tend to be restricted to those who have taken courses that expose them to the relevant methodologies. Now that cheap (~10 USD), waterproof pouches
Abstract Octocorals, a globally distributed class of Cnidaria, inhabit a wide range of environments, from cold to tropical waters and from shallow to deep-sea ecosystems. In the Red Sea, studies on octocoral diversity have mostly been focused on the Gulf
Published in the Journal of Earth Science Abstract Coral reefs are in terminal decline. For conservation to be effective, naturally depauperate reefs must be distinguished from those recently degraded by humans. Traditional reef monitoring is time consuming and lacks
Published in Coral Reefs Abstract Coral reefs are in global decline and anomalously hot temperatures shoulder the blame. Foraminferal bioindicators are important because they record historical reef stress over periods of centuries to millennia, as compared to the few decades
Published in Marine Environmental Research Abstract Healthy Caribbean reefs are coral-dominated. When disturbed, however, they can slide into a degraded state, characterized by few live corals and abundant macroalgae. Timeseries collected by SCUBA divers are valuable in tracking these
Published in Discover Oceans Abstract To restore degraded coral reef habitats, it is critical to ensure that the scleractinian broodstock utilized can withstand future heatwaves. However, reef coral resilience is normally assessed only after catastrophic stress events. By tapping into
