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The Ocean Science Foundation (OSF) is committed to research on endangered tropical marine ecosystems, in particular, the ecology of coral reefs.
We work with conservation, academic and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on projects in developing countries.
News: late 2007: The R/V Darwin has been bottom-painted in drydock and is back in the harbor undergoing further refitting.
A view of the rebuilt helm
News: May 2006-May 2007: Collaborating with the Guy Harvey Research Institute on a shark and gamefish tagging study in the USVI
Implanting a tracking transmitter into a barracuda
Mahmood Shivji, director of GHRI, and Benjamin Victor in the USVI
Brad Wetherbee (Univ. Rhode Island) counting the stripes on a tiger shark
making sure it doesn't get away
Taking a pulse....
Implanting the transmitter hanging upside down..
Mahmood releasing the shark after we placed the transmitter..
