RLS Annual Report 2014

• 2014 saw 1022 RLS surveys completed across 5 different countries from 54 trained RLS divers
• RLS welcomed 20 newly trained divers, taking the total number of trained divers up to 232
• RLS now has over 7000 surveys from over 2400 sites in 48 different countries
• Over 4000 different species have been recorded during these surveys

• Nature publication – Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features
• Scientific Data publication – Systematic global assessment of reef fish communities by the Reef Life Survey program
• Biological Conservation publication – Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets

Awards:

• Australian Museum Eureka Awards – Eureka Award: NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Eureka Prize for Environmental Research

Media:

• New York Times (The Green Column) – Amid Efforts to Expand Marine Preserves, a Warning to Focus on Quality
• New York Times, the Opinion pages – To Save Fish and Birds
• The Mercury – Researchers map life under the sea