Summary of research interests:

• Biogeography and biodiversity of Indo-Pacific coral reefs, including development of wide scale reef monitoring programmes.
• Marine habitat mapping in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean (e.g. Sri Lanka, Chagos, several British Overseas Territories in Caribbean); Inter-habitat interactions including human interactions with the marine environment. GIS based coastal zone management development for lesser developed countries.

• Research on consequences, recovery or recurrence of the recent episodes of massive reef mortality in the Indian ocean.
• Marine biodiversity research, using remote sensing in tropical marine ecosystems.
• Investigation of community changes along pollution and sedimentation gradients, including the development
  and use of new and powerful non-parametric methods of analysis.
• Research linking climate data to marine environmental changes (especially reef areas).
• Funded to produces series of interactive cd rooms for biodiversity mapping and to serve as taxonomic guides.

 

Sea surface temperature:

Charles Sheppard - Downloadable files:

reef Wave energy model 

UK SST data

Indian Ocean SST data

Arabian SST data

Caribbean SST data

Diego Garcia temp logger