PADI Coral Reefs

Monitoring Survey

Duration: 50 Hours

Location: Marine Eco Expedition & Hurghada

ACADEMIC

The purpose of the PADI Coral Reefs Monitoring Survey Specialty Diver Course is to facilitate the assessment of the status of coral reef communities and their associated flora and fauna in a repeatable and relatively inexpensive manner. Also to help managers of coral reefs select appropriate ecological monitoring programs, protocols, and methods for your coral reef management needs and advice on monitoring, especially: how monitoring can help management; how to choose the best methods to suit your need; and the advantage and disadvantage of monitoring methods.

The goals of Coral Reefs Monitoring Survey training are:

Definitions for coral reefs monitoring and surveys.
Identify threats, and what to monitor on coral reefs.
Understand the importance of monitoring that can help coral reefs.
Determine the suitable type of methods to use for coral reefs monitoring and survey.
Measure the environmental variables in the study site.
Understand how to do a pilot survey for a study site.
Selection of a coral reef site.
Simulate the manta tow survey method around a reef.
Conduct line intercept transect method.
Conduct point intercept transect using reef check.
Simulate video transect method.
Conduct visual quadrate method.
Simulate the photo quadrate method.
Simulate coral recruitment quadrate method.
Conduct coral reef fish visual census method.
Conduct fish roving diver technique.
Coral health general observation.
Coral bleaching general observation.
Coral diseases general observation.
Perform Reef Check protocol for a coral reef site.
Tagging coral colonies.
Aware of how to put monitoring programs together.
Conduct a survey project for a coral reef site project.

FIELDWORK

Minimum 12 dives on the marine eco expedition for a one-week diving safari trip, on in Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt.

MARINE ECO EXPEDITION

PREREQUISITES

Certified as a PADI Advanced Water Diver or have a qualifying certification from another training organization.
Minimum 50 logged dives.
Be at least (15) years.

PADI certificate is INCLUDED.

We are following the methods of the Australian Institute of Marine Science that used for monitoring the Great Barrier Reef. Read more.

KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT

UNITE ONE

Understanding the ecological monitoring of the coral reefs.

What are the 10 terms used when talking about coral reefs monitoring and survey?
What are the main five threats and impacts affecting coral reefs?
What to monitor?
What is monitoring?
How can the monitoring help for effective coral reef management?
What is the difference between ecological monitoring and socio-economic monitoring?
How can choose the suitable type of monitoring program to use?
What information and question do you need to know to monitor a coral reef?
What are the main ecological monitoring categories?
What variables you should measure?
What resources do you have for monitoring coral reef sites?
What scale of monitoring program do you want to collect the information from?
What are the main five environmental variables that need to measure in a coral reef site?
What types of reef habitats do you have in a survey site?
How do you do a pilot study for a coral reef site?
What are the main four classified monitoring methods?

UNITE TWO

Survey methods for the coral reefs.

What is the Manta Tow survey? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
What are the logistics of the Manta Tow survey?
How can select the site and procedures for Manta Tow?
What is Line Intercept Transect (LIT)? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
What are the logistics of LIT?
How can select the site, procedures, and data recording, processing & analysis for line intercept transect?
What is Line Intercept Transect (LIT)? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
What is the video transect? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
What is the visual quadrate method? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
What are the procedures and equipment for visual quadrate?
What is the permanent quadrate method? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
What are the procedures and equipment for permanent quadrate?
What is the coral recruitment quadrate method? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
What are the procedures and equipment for the coral recruitment quadrate?
What is the coral reef fish visual census method? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
What are the procedures and equipment for coral reef fish visual census?
What is the roving diver technique? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
How can conduct coral bleaching general observation?
How can conducting coral bleaching belt transect?
How can tag coral colonies for further monitoring?
What are the procedures and equipment for tagging coral colonies?
What is the methodology of reef check (www.reefcheck.org) to assess the status of the coral reef community?

Training Dives

Dive 1: Manta Tow.
Dive 2: Line Transects.
Dive 3: Quadrate.
Dive 4: Coral Recruitment.
Dive 5: Fish Visual Census
Dive 6: Fish Roving Diver
Dive 7: Coral Bleaching.
Dive 8: Reef Check Protocol.
Dive 9: Survey Project One.
Dive 10: Survey Project Two.
Dive 11: Survey Project Three.
Dive 12: Survey Project Four.

Dr. Ahmed Shawky

Marine Biologist-PhD

PADI Coral Reefs Monitoring Survey Specialty Instructor.

I completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree (2018) in the ecological behaviour of dugong and two masters in ecology and behaviour of spinner dolphins (2007 and 2015) on the Egyptian Red Sea. I worked as Environmental Researcher in the Red Sea Protectorates.

I'm a Diving Master Instructor at PADI #639747 and created four distinctive specialty courses for the marine environment, like PADI dugong conservation, PADI marine biology, PADI marine survey, and PADI Coral Reefs Monitoring Surve specialty diver courses that were approved to teach.

I'm Reef Check Trainer #38 for the coral reef survey.

I'm REEF Conservation Partner in IORS Region No. 61301. Read more.

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