Downloads - ​Papers & Presentations

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• Download the latest Ocean Life Foundation Corporate Presentation

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• ACEF2020 - Presentation at the Asian Development Bank's annual Asia Clean Energy Forum 2020; "Growing Low Cost Engineered Living Breakwaters"

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• White Paper - Accelerated Restoration and Protection of the Great Barrier Reef by Applying Industrial Scale Combined Micro-Fragmentation and Fusion & Electrolytic Reef Restoration. Van Hoeken, Vlaslink, Millison et al, December 2019

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• White Paper -  Commercial Prospects to Combat Ocean Acidification. Dan Millison, Sustainable Energy Technology Consultant / ADB SDCC Energy Sector Group. Developed from a presentation at the Regional Workshop on Blue Economy, Disaster Risk Financing and Ocean Infrastructure, Fiji, 1 May 2019.

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• Presentation - Gigatech Solutions for Gigaton Problems: Monetizing the Value of Coral Reefs for Climate Resilience. Dan Millison, Sustainable Energy Technology Consultant / ADB SDCC Energy Sector Group, presented at Regional Workshop on Blue Economy, Disaster Risk Financing and Ocean Infrastructure, Fiji, 1 May 2019

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• Project Ruvuma - The Ocean Life Foundation is proposing to relocate up to 2,500 hectares of corals prior to being destroyed by two new LNG facilities being built in Northern Mozambique

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• Great Barrier Reef - Outlook Report 2019. The 2019 report is the third comprehensive report in the series, and identifies the Great Barrier Reef Region still faces significant pressures ranging in scale from local to global. The report finds the greatest threat to the Reef is still climate change

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• Carbon Footprint Of Scottish Suspended Mussels And Intertidal Oysters.  The Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum has published a study on Scottish produced suspended mussels and intertidal oysters.  The study considered the cradle-to-gate impacts of the shellfish, from spat collection in the case of mussels, and hatching in the case of oysters, through  growing, harvesting, depuration, and packing ready for dispatch.

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• Article in Nature Communications. The effectiveness of coral reefs for coastal hazard risk reduction and adaptation.  This research paper concludes that coral reefs provide substantial protection against natural hazards by reducing wave energy by an average of 97%. 

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• Article in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. Biorock Electric Reefs Grow Back Severely Eroded Beaches in Months. Severely eroded beaches on low lying islands in Indonesia were grown back in a few months using Mineral Accretion Technology.

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Links

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• Coralive.org - Swiss non-profit organization that is dedicated to the mission of protecting and restoring healthy oceans around the world

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• Biorock™ - Dr. Wolf Hilbertz was the original inventor of Mineral Accretion Technology

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• Reef Ecologic - Australian non-profit organization that specialises in providing expert advice to design and implement innovative solutions to environmental challenges facing tropical marine ecosystems and the people who love and depend upon them

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• Mission Blue - Mission Blue inspires action to explore and protect the ocean

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• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority - all information on the Great Barrier, and weekly reef health updates

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• Coral Reef Alliance - US non-profit, environmental NGO that is on a mission to save the world’s coral reefs

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• United Nations - The 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) to transform our world:

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