REEF Trips - Take A Dive Vacation That Counts

REEF offers a variety of trips and projects that provide divers and snorkelers a meaningful way to spend their vacation.

REEF Field Surveys

These week-long trips are a great introduction to fish identification for novice fishwatchers, and a fun way for experienced surveyors to build their life list while interacting with fellow fishwatchers. REEF coordinates Field Surveys to locations throughout our project regions each year. These projects are led by REEF staff and other REEF instructors and feature daily classroom seminars and a full diving schedule. More Information and Schedule

REEF Discovery, Behavior and Cryptic Species Tours

These are specialized Field Surveys led by REEF co-founders and acclaimed marine life authors, Paul Humann and Ned DeLoach. These projects focus on introducing participants to the wide variety and fascinating behaviors of marine life found on coral reefs. While fish identification and REEF surveying is not always the primary goal of these specialized trips, conducting REEF surveys is always encouraged and materials and guidance is provided. Upcoming Special Tours

Special Research Projects

These trips coincide with ongoing conservation research projects that REEF is involved with. Examples include invasive lionfish research in the Bahamas and Nassau grouper spawning aggregation research in the Cayman Islands.Upcoming Projects

Advanced Assessment Team Projects

These projects are exclusively for members of the REEF Advanced Assessment Team (AAT), surveyors who have achieved Level 4 or 5 status. Past AAT projects have included annual monitoring on the Spiegel Grove artificial reef in the Florida Keys, biodiversity assessments in Biscayne National Park, marine reserve monitoring in the Channel Islands in California, and nearshore assessments in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary.