Exploring the Red Sea

Ichthyology curator Luiz Rocha will be taking off this weekend for a collecting trip in Saudi Arabia and Djibouti. This trip is partly funded by National Geographic, and the team of collaborators include researchers from King Abdullah University (Saudi Arabia), James Cook University (Australia) and the University of Hawaii. Updates will be posted often, so keep checking our blog!

The campus of King Abdullah University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Dascyllus marginatus, a damselfish endemic to the Red Sea