From the 12-18 of May, we (Annika and Liz) travelled to the KAUST Red Sea Research Center to visit our collaborator Chris Voolstra. In addition to scientific discussion, we also had the chance to participate in coral spawning survey night dives around the full moon in May. Thanks to the enormous help of Postdoctoral Fellow Jess Bouwmeester and MSc Student Remy Gatins in the Berumen lab, we had a great time and learned a a lot about coral spawning. This knowledge will be very helpful for our own field work. Thanks so much, girls!
The impressive KAUST campus
Choosing fish in a restaurant
Sunset
Collecting worms in the mangroves
Liz setting up her dive gear
Remy & Jess on the boat before departure
The trip to our dive site
The dive site: Fasar Reef before sunset (okay, you can´t really see the reef)
The light from the dive torches close to the boat at the end of the dive
Day diving is also fun of course
