This past summer the 100IC team and OneReef, a local conservation NGO, coordinated a 3-week expedition to the Republic of Palau to conduct coral reef surveys. Palau has a long history of conservation, with a strong commitment to maintaining its healthy reefs throughout the extensive archipelago. For this reason, Palau was targeted for inclusion in the 100 Island Challenge effort. … Read More
The latest publication from the 100 Island Challenge is out today in the journal Coral Reefs
As long as researchers have been diving they have been looking for clues to make sense of what emeritus Scripps Institution of Oceanography professor Jeremy Jackson once called the “ecological anarchy” of the coral reef. Guided by two decades of observations from the remote central Pacific to some of the best-studied areas of the Caribbean, we sought to find pattern … Read More
New Article: Recent Expedition to French Polynesia
One of our partners from the Center for Insular Research and Observatory of the Environment (CRIOBE) in French Polynesia recently published an article outlining the recent 100 Island Challenge expedition to the Tuamotu archipelago and the southern Line Islands. This expedition was successful due to the hard work of our team and collaborators including Charlotte Moritz, CRIOBE research assistant and … Read More
Palmyra Atoll – 2017
Dates: September 13 – October 15, 2018 Divers: Clinton Edwards, Samantha Clements Lead Organization: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Hope for the Future: Tuamotus & Line Islands Expedition 2017
By Brian Zgliczynski Members of the 100 Island Challenge team (Nicole Pedersen, Chris Sullivan, Stuart Sandin, and Brian Zgliczynski) returned from an expedition this past August to survey coral reefs at a subset of atolls in the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, as well as re-visit several islands in the Southern Line Islands, Republic of Kiribati. This expedition was supported by … Read More