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2 SV Antsiva
Read the full report here: BIOT report_Antsiva filming trip_March 2020 The team on board the SV Antsiva included a film crew of four from ZDF in Germany to make a documentary for their popular series Terra X, provisionally called ‘The undersea garden of the Chagos Archipelago’. Five experts (from ZSL, Oregon State and Stanford Universities) provided the local knowledge and technical information to inform the documentary. We experienced complex lo…
8 Plastics and Turtles
Read the full report here: BIOT plastics and turtles project_July 2019 Expedition Report_BIOT This Darwin Plus-funded project started on 1st April 2019 and aims to reduce the negative impacts of plastic waste in the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), with a focus on sea turtles, globally impacted by plastics. It will undertake a systematic analysis of how plastic arrives in BIOT, and how it is used and managed. This information will enable ta…
1 Seabirds
…d the full report here: BIOT Seabird research expedition report January_February 2020 This scientific expedition to Diego Garcia and remote islands of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) from 14th January to 7th February 2020 was originally a collaboration between the Bertarelli Programme of Marine Science seabird and drone research teams. However, due to delays in getting various seabird and drone team members to Diego Garcia, as a result o…
11 Turtles II
Read the full report here: Turtle expedition report BIOT November-December 2019_final This scientific expedition to Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), in November-December 2019 brought together a research team of sea turtle scientists from Swansea University (United Kingdom) and Deakin University (Australia). The team spent 22 days on Diego Garcia. This research was part of the Bertarelli Programme of Marine Science and is part…
10 Yellowfin Tuna Tagging II
Read the full report here: BPMS – DG Yellowfin Tagging Expedition II Report Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) are currently ‘Overfished and Subject to Overfishing’ in the Indian Ocean with an urgent need to rebuild the stock. As a global conservation and management strategy, large Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been increasing in number and size. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Marine Protected Area provides a unique opportunity to…
9 University of Plymouth
Read the full report here: UoP_BIOTexpedition_Summary for BIOT The University of Plymouth team, comprising 9 scientists with expertise in physical oceanography, mesophotic reefs, fisheries acoustics, manta ecology and seafloor mapping, undertook their first expedition to BIOT between November 11th – December 7th, 2019. The expedition represented the team’s first field effort in BIOT as part of their project co-funded by the Garfield Weston and Be…
7 June Seabirds and Turtles Exped
Read the full report here: BIOT Seabird & Sea Turtle research expedition report June-July 2019 (PDF) This scientific expedition to Diego Garcia and remote islands of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) from 18 June to 16 July 2019 successfully brought together a research team of seabird and sea turtle scientists for the first collaborative expedition to an outer island. A seabird research team of two from The Zoological Society of London, a…
5 VAVA II Exped
Read the full report here: BIOT Vava II March 2019 Expedition (PDF) Between the 13th and 29th of March 2019 the M/Y Vava II supported a total team of 12 scientists from four institutions to successfully deliver the equivalent of 126 days of scientific research in the British Indian Ocean Territory. The trip enabled the team to conduct core activities in support of the Bertarelli Programme in Marine Science such as the annual maintenance of the ac…
4 Reef 1 Exped
Read the full report here: BIOT Expedition Report Reef 1 March 2019 (PDF) The expedition was focused on various components of the reef ecosystem, including fish, invertebrate and coral communities, as well as quantifying hydrodynamic processes at many scales. Altogether, 6 collaborating teams from BPMS projects were represented. The expedition participants came from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Exeter University, Lancaster Universi…
3 CEFAS Water Purity Exped
Read the survey report here: BIOT WQ Survey Report (PDF) The UK’s Overseas Territories are home to over 90% of the UK’s biodiversity and are of fundamental importance to regional and international marine conservation. The Blue Belt Programme supports the delivery of the UK Government’s commitment to enhance marine protection of over four million square kilometres of marine environment across UK Overseas Territories. In March/April 2019 the UK’s C…