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Research

Coastal Habitats

Coral reefs

  • Status, diversity, reproduction, recruitment
  • Coral restoration with standardized protocols
  • Artificial reefs with standardized design for reef recovery
  • Climate change impacts, bleaching and resilience
  • Disease outbreaks, space competition and algal bloom
  • Bio-invasion on corals
  • Coral health status
  • Threats

Seagrasses

  • Status and diversity
  • Associated biodiversity
  • Seagrass restoration with standardized protocols
  • Coastal blue carbon
  • Threats

Mangroves

  • Status and diversity
  • Threats

Environmental monitoring

  • Marine water and sediment quality
  • Plankton and benthos
  • Environmental microbiology
  • Groundwater chemistry

Marine litter and microplastics

  • Marine litter - Assessment and characterization (physical & chemical)
  • ALDFG - shoreline, coast , habitats (coral reefs, seagrass beds, mangroves)
  • Microplastics – Assessment and characterization (physical & chemical), risk assessment

Marine geology

  • Island geo-morphology and micropaleontology
  • Multipurpose artificial reefs for island protection
  • Coastal erosion and ocean dynamics
  • Marine sediments and geo-chemistry
  • Application of Remote sensing and GIS in coastal environment

Seafood processing

  • Post-harvest technologies
  • Value-added products from underutilized seafood resources
  • Food microbiology

Others

  • Fishery landing data
  • Socio-economic survey
  • Marine mollusc studies
  • Offshore coral reef exploration
  • Island vegetation