ALL LIFE ON EARTH IS STRONGLY DEPENDENT UPON HEALTHY OCEANS. FUNCTIONAL AND RESILIENT CORAL REEFS ARE FUNDAMENTAL TO THE OCEAN’S ROLE AS A LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM. MANY OF THE WORLD’S CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS ARE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED AND REQUIRE URGENT CONSERVATION
NEARLY 20% OF THE WORLD’S CORAL REEFS HAVE EFFECTIVELY BEEN LOST AND ANOTHER 15% ARE SERIOUSLY THREATENED AND MAY BE LOST WITHIN THE NEXT 10-20 YEARS. Coral reefs provide critical habitat for fish, crustaceans, mollusks and other marine creatures, and
The following staff members are available for interviews, contact [email protected] for interview requests: Capt. Phil Renaud Captain Renaud is the executive director of the Living Oceans Foundation. Before joining the Living Oceans Foundation, he had a distinguished 25‐year career in
A Decade of Accomplishments In over a decade since the inception of the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation in the year 2000, there have been many notable accomplishments. View the LOF History Timeline The operations and research activities conducted
Between 1 August 2011 and 24 August 2011, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation conducted a coral reef research mission to Great Inagua, Little Inagua, and Hogsty Reef as part of the Global Reef Expedition. The research included two
Lamellodiscus euzeti n. sp. (Monogenea:Diplectanidae) is described from the gills of two sparid fishes, Dentex canariensis (Steindachner) off Senegal and Ivory Coast and D. gibbosus (Rafinesque) off Senegal and Tunisia. The new species belongs to the “ignoratus” group, characterized by
Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation 2011 Coral Reef Assessment Cay Sal Bank Bahamas The Bahamas contains three major shallow (<10 m) carbonate platforms or banks, each separated by deep ocean passages, along with a number of smaller emergent land masses.
An Evaluation of Waveband Pairs for Water Column Correction Using Band Ratio Methods for Seabed Mapping in the Seychelles The differential attenuation of visible light (wavelength 400–700 nm) as it travels through the water column confounds the interpretation of remotely sensed
Estimating Coral Reef Benthic Coverage of Communities from Airborne Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data: Multiple Discriminant Function Analysis and Linear Spectral Unmixing A staged approach for the application of linear spectral unmixing techniques to airborne hyperspectral remote sensing data of reef communities
