Pre-2025 activities.

To see 2025 activities, go here.

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2024 field trips completed:

  1. East Timor (Jan.-Feb). General benthic assessments.

  2. Saudi Arabia Red Sea (currently analyzing data).

2023 field trips completed:

  1. Bahrain area coral surveys (Sept.). Check back for details.

  2. Thuwal area (Saudi Arabia) coral bleaching surveys (Sept.-Nov.).

  3. Yanbu area (Saudi Arabia) coral bleaching surveys (Aug.-Oct.).

2023 fun trips:

  1. Buffalo River (Arkansas) multi-day wilderness canoe trip.

  2. Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates (stay tuned for pics).

2022 field trips completed:

1. Dominica (June-July, 2022)-marginal reefs and combatting a disease outbreak.

2. St. Lucia (June 2022)-disease surveys and reef resilience assessments.

3. Turks and Caicos (August 2022)-disease surveys and reef resilience assessments with Explorer Ventures.

4. Bahamas (New Providence; October, 2022)-disease surveys and reef resilience assessments.

2021 field trip completed: Dry Tortugas National Park (FL, USA), an NCRMP-sponsored trip aboard the R/V Angari.

2020 field trip: my lone dives in all of that dumpster fire that was 2020 were two fun dives in Barbados in January.

2019 field trips completed: St. Vincent and Grenadines (high-CO2 vent site) and Flower Garden Banks (Gulf of Mexico).

Future, back-burner field trips: Possible field trip to Nansha Atoll (South China Sea, Taiwan; funding acquired!) and/or Puerto Galera (Philippines).

Happy (or just creepy)? This was NOT Photoshopped!

Happy (or just creepy)? This was NOT Photoshopped!

Banda Islands, Indonesia (one of my favorite dive spots and in my top-five reef photos of all time….maybe even my favorite)

Banda Islands, Indonesia (one of my favorite dive spots & in my top-five photos of all time)

Photo credit: Pei-Ciao Tang

Happy to have lended this photo to the International Coral Reef Initiative.