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Summary
Bertarelli Foundation
Looking back at our
busiest ever year
2022 was the busiest year for the programme since
its inception in 2017 with researchers spending
more days in field sites across the Indian Ocean
than ever before. Thirteen teams spent a total
of 2,225 days gathering data. These expeditions
included ships at sea deploying diving teams and
oceanographic equipment, seabird researchers
camped out for weeks on remote islands, and
months of work for researchers tracking turtles over
an entire nesting season. Notably the programme
collaborated with Indian Ocean expeditions led by
other philanthropic groups including REV Ocean and
Monaco Explorations. Fieldwork was carried out
in the Chagos Archipelago, La RĂ©union, Maldives,
Mauritius, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, and as far afield as
Tetiaroa in French Polynesia.
The Bertarelli Foundation’s marine science
programme continues to publish high quality
science in peer-reviewed journals. In 2022, a further
28 scientific papers were published, 20 in journals
with good or excellent impact factors, bringing the
total number of scientific papers published by the
programme to 149.
