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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, New Caledonia, Rodrigues,
Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Western Australia 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 29 scientific papers were
published, 21 in journals with good or excellent impact
factors, bringing the total number of scientific papers
published by the programme to 149.