SEVEN BROTHERS SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION | TRSC

The Transnational Red Sea Center at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has successfully carried out a new coral mission in the Djiboutian waters of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in close collaboration with two of its regional partners: the Université de Djibouti, the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche de Djibouti (CERD) and the Red Sea University in Port Sudan.

The EPFL team of twelve researchers included six scientists from the Biological Geochemistry Laboratory (Prof Anders Meibom) and the Environmental Computational Science and Earth Observation Laboratory (Prof Devis Tuia).

In the Seven Brothers archipelago, a small chain of islands between Djibouti and Yemen, the mission aimed to characterise the state of the reefs at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, as well as their capacity to adapt to global warming and their level of anthropogenic pollution.

The mission complemented the data collected in the Gulf of Tadjourah in September 2022 during the first expedition to Djibouti.

The mission took part in partnership with the Université de Djibouti, the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche de Djibouti (CERD), the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Djibouti, and the Red Sea University in Port Sudan, and with the participation of six scientists from the Biological Geochemistry Laboratory (Prof Anders Meibom) and the Environmental Computational Science and Earth Observation Laboratory (Prof Devis Tuia) at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.