Category: Marine Conservation

Currently our two Marine Interns, Tom and Ella, are working towards completing their Dive Master training! Part of completing this course includes leading a night dive. On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week Both Tom and Ella got the opportunity to...

Re-Homing A Scorpion Fish Towards the end of August our neighbor reached out to our Dive Instructor Kyle about a Scorpion Fish that he had continuously spotted on his beach. Scorpion Fish have enough venom that their stings can be fatal to humans if...

Diving into the Life of Tilo: From Space Science to Marine ConservationIt is always fascinating to find out more about our staff, their backgrounds and essentially what brought them to MRCI. Below, we pay homage to our marine science manager, Tilo...

By Alex Flucke, MRCI SCUBA Instructor “Another Beach Clean…?” A typical day on the Marine Conservation Program here at MRCI consists of scuba diving, snorkeling, entering data we collected while scuba diving and snorkeling, and getting set up to go...

Author: Kirk Stewart 14 February 2018 Evaluating MPA Reef Health The marine program at MRCI has been evaluating, monitoring, and protecting the reefs of Nosy Komba and surrounding islands for several years. Rigorous surveys are conducted every...

Author: Ethan Getz, Marine Science Manager January 2018 Over the past few months, the marine conservation staff have worked to continue long-term reef monitoring projects while developing new methods to measure the health of our home reef and the...

On 13th September 2017, MRCI signed a Data Sharing Agreement with Coastal Oceans Research and Development Indian Ocean (CORIO), East Africa for the purposes of reporting about the impact of the 2016 coral bleaching event in the Western Indian Ocean...