WHAT WE DO

We partnered with the Government of Vanuatu to conduct the largest nationwide assessment of Vanuatu’s coral reefs

This expedition surveyed Tongan waters to evaluate impacts to coral reefs and fisheries following the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai eruption in January 2022.

Led by the Maldives Marine Research Institute, the Waitt Institute, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, this expedition worked to better understand the health of the ocean environment across the archipelago.

We teamed up with a coalition of partners from several countries to study an international high seas zone of special concern.

The Waitt Foundation and National Geographic Pristine Seas conducted a scientific expedition to Chile’s Juan Fernández archipelago, focusing on Alejandro Selkirk Island and making dives at several sites near Robinson Crusoe Islands.

The Waitt Foundation teamed up with the Ocean Azul Foundation to conduct scientific dive surveys in the islands of the Azores.

The Waitt Foundation and the Waitt Institute supported an expedition to a potential new Blue Halo Initiative site, Curaçao, in the Lesser Antilles Islands.

We supported an expedition to collect and provide baseline survey information to the government of Albania in the hopes of advancing the creation of Marine Protected Areas

The Waitt Foundation partnered with the University of Queensland's Global Change Institute and Catlin Seaview Survey to survey areas on the Great Barrier Reef.

This Waitt Expedition with Wildlife Conservation Society’s Dr. Stacy Jupiter was a culmination of several previous expeditions studying the Vatu-i-Ra Seascape.

Led by the Government of Fiji, Blue Prosperity Fiji conducted the largest nationwide assessment of coral reefs.

The Waitt Institute partnered with One Reef and Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s 100 Island Challenge to conduct a scientific expedition to learn about Palau’s reef health and resilience.

Working with the Oceano Azul Foundation, the University of the Azores, National Geographic’s Pristine Seas, we explored the islands of Faial, Pico, Sao Jorge, Flores and Corvo in the Azores.

The challenge for this international team of volunteers was to survey coral reefs at a subset of atolls in the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, and revisit several islands in the Southern Line Islands, Republic of Kiribati.

The Waitt Foundation and National Geographic Pristine Seas carried out a scientific expedition to the Magallanes region to study the marine ecosystems in its fjords and remote islands, and making recommendations to the government of Chile for their conservation and sustainable use.

We continued our Blue Parks expedition, again hosting a team of scientists and photographer Brian Skerry aboard our expedition ship.

The Waitt Foundation and Waitt Institute supported an expedition to a new Blue Halo Initiative site, the Emerald of the Caribbean: Montserrat.

The Waitt Foundation and National Geographic’s Pristine Seas undertook an expedition to Seychelles to investigate, survey and explore these rare island gems.

We partnered with the Solomon Islands Community Conservation partnership to conduct scientific assessments in the Western Province.

The Waitt Foundation joined with Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to conduct BIORAP scientific surveys of the island group of Vava’u in the Kingdom of Tonga.

The Waitt Institute partnered with the Samoa Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment and Conservation International to collect information on the status of Samoa’s coral reefs, fish populations, and water quality.

The second Noo Raajje expedition set out to study the atolls of the Southern Maldives to create the first archipelago-wide assessment.

Working with Mar Viva and scientists from the University of Costa Rica, Equipo Tora Carey, University Vèritas and Misión Tiburón, we conducted scientific surveys in support of filling protection gaps in both land and water based nature preserves.

A team from the 100 Island Challenge joined our surveyors with one of their signature cameras; they will put together 3D datasets of photographic mosaics that will give researchers an unparalleled view into just exactly what life is on the reefs.

The Waitt Institute and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography conducted a rapid scientific assessment of the coral reefs around the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.

Our research ship headed toward Dry Tortugas in the Florida Keys with the goal of documenting the fauna and flora in the region in order to support recommendations for protections.

The Waitt Foundation partnered with National Geographic’s Pristine Seas and their team headed up by explorer Paul Rose, for a 10-day expedition to the Selvagens Islands, south of Madeira in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean.

We teamed up with the Wildlife Conservation Society to work in Myanmar and the Andaman Sea in order to increase local capacity and establish baseline data collection.

This Waitt Expedition's goals were to deploy Research Objective Cameras for insights on local populations and then attach satellite transponders to several sharks.

This expedition was able to accomplish that most difficult of goals for this program, to study a reef free of the impact of man.