In March 2012, the Global Reef Expedition set out to survey the health and resiliency of coral reefs surrounding Navassa Island, a small uninhabited island situated between Haiti and Jamaica. The island is a United States possession and may be a crucial refuge for endangered coral in the Caribbean. This scientific report summarizes our findings from that mission.
The research summarized in this report was conducted on the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation's Global Reef Expedition, a large-scale scientific research mission which nearly circumnavigated the globe studying the health and resiliency of some of the most remote coral reefs on Earth. The primary goals of the expedition were to map and characterize coral reef ecosystems, identify their current status and major threats, and examine factors that enhance their ability to survive—and recover from—major disturbance events.
