CReefs Collaborative Field Efforts
Other CReefs-associated and collaborative efforts include an expedition to the Line Islands led by Scripps Oceanography, an ongoing diversity assessment in Moorea, the Santo Vanuatu Expedition led by Philippe Bouchet, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France, and biennial Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) expeditions led by NOAA.
- The 2005 Line Islands cruise visited four atolls representing a 9500 to 0 gradient in human populations. Thousands of samples were collected, photographed, and preserved for genetic analysis. Read More...Â
- During the summer of 2006, the Moorea Biocode project began collection of all marine invertebrates of Moorea (~10,000 species). Read More...Â
- The 2006 Santo expedition focused on mollusks, one of the most diverse marine groups, to determine if the staggering numbers of species found during earlier efforts (>3000 species per site, New Caledonia) are typical of reefs in the region. Read More...
    *See Feb 05, 2007 interview: "Hundreds of
      shellfish species discovered..."
- NOAA RAMP cruises extensively survey corals, other macro-invertebrates, algae, and fish at 55 island and atoll ecosystems representing broad environmental and anthropogenic gradients around the Pacific. Read More...
