In June of 2012, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation traveled to the Galápagos to survey and characterize coral reef communities throughout the Islands.
At the request of the Galápagos National Park, we developed a monitoring plan for the Galápagos based on the coral reef survey methods we used on the Global Reef Expedition. This coral reef monitoring manual is intended to serve as a practical guide for scientists, managers, and dive operators to document changes to the condition of coral reefs and coral communities within the Galápagos.
The research summarized in this report is part of 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
