Saya de Malha Expedition, March 2002
| Author | SUN & SEA e.V. and Global Coral Reef Alliance (Wolf Hilbertz, Thomas Goreau, et al.) |
|---|---|
| Published | August 2002 |
| Format | Report |
TL;DR — The report of a March 2002 expedition to the Saya de Malha Bank in the Indian Ocean: travel log, a mineral-accretion ‘coral ark’, and surveys of geology and marine life.
Published in Hamburg in August 2002 by SUN & SEA e.V. (Wolf Hilbertz, Frank Gutzeit) and the Global Coral Reef Alliance (Thomas Goreau), with funding from the Lighthouse Foundation. The expedition ran from March 11 to 28, 2002, to a little-studied submerged bank between the Seychelles and Mauritius, and was disrupted by two cyclones.
The report covers the participants and vessels, a day-by-day travel log, the building of the “Saya Star” coral ark — a solar-powered mineral-accretion structure — and a scientific section on mapping and bathymetry, geology and radiocarbon dating of a core, a biodiversity inventory (seagrasses, corals, fishes, turtles and marine mammals), water quality, future work and conservation recommendations. It ends with pictures and poems by Peter Goreau.
What it is: a self-published expedition report by a small research NGO; first-hand field data, not peer-reviewed.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
107 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.