Some of this year's highlights include:
- 2014 saw 1022 RLS surveys completed across 5 different countries from 54 trained RLS divers
- RLS welcomed 20 newly trained divers, taking the total number of trained divers up to 232
- RLS now has over 7000 surveys from over 2400 sites in 48 different countries
- Over 4000 different species have been recorded during these surveys
Key publications:
- Nature publication – Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features
- Scientific Data publication – Systematic global assessment of reef fish communities by the Reef Life Survey program
- Biological Conservation publication – Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets
Awards:
- Australian Museum Eureka Awards – Eureka Award: NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Eureka Prize for Environmental Research
Media:
- New York Times (The Green Column) – Amid Efforts to Expand Marine Preserves, a Warning to Focus on Quality
- New York Times, the Opinion pages – To Save Fish and Birds
- The Mercury – Researchers map life under the sea
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